various artists - The World Needs Changing: Street Funk & Jazz Grooves 1967-1976

The late 60s were a time of incredible change in black American Music. The World Needs Changing reflects the growing confidence of black music in a decade of change. Soul, jazz and funk was a mirror onto the black urban world, and represented a growing confidence and sophistication. Records like Lonnie Liston Smith's 'Expansions' (presented here in it's rare 7 inch version) or Leon Thomas' 'Just in Time to See the Sun' show Jazz musicians reaching for the discos without losing their spiritual self. Gil Scott Heron, Esther Marrow, Darrow Fletcher and our super rare title track show the political struggle continued to bubble away. The majority of the music made at the time was still aimed firmly at the feet, and there are rare collectors items by the Original Soul Patrol, Ceaser 830, club classics by the Willard Posey Reunion and Little Eva Harris whose medley of 'Get Ready/ Uptight' has been massive in London for a couple of years now.

    1 Head Start - Bob Thiele's Emergency
    2 All Power to the People PT 1 - Joe Savage & the Soul People
    3 The World Needs Changing - Hank Jacobs & Don Malone
    4 Just in Time to See the Sun - Leon Thomas
    5 See-Saw Affair - Cesar 830
    6 Now Is the Time for Love - Darrow Fletcher
    7 Free Will (Alt Take 1) - Gil Scott-Heron
    8 Walk Tall - Esther Marrow
    9 Medley: Get Ready / Uptight - Little Eva Harris
    10 American Woman / Sissy Strut - Willard Posey Reunion
    11 Soul Patrol - the Original Soul Patrol
    12 Do It (Inst) - Johnny Griffith Acc By Billy Sha-Rae's Band
    13 Love Hijacker (Inst) - George Jackson
    14 Expansions (7 Inch Edit) - Lonnie Liston Smith
    15 This Is the Me Me (Not the You You) - Richard Groove Holmes & Brenda Jones
    16 Mr Perfect - Tina Bryant
    17 That's the Way It Goes - Elaine Armstrong
    18 Mama Soul - Harold Alexander
    19 Rudypoot - Huck & the Soul Patrol
    20 Love Tones - Melvin Sparks