"HIGHER GROUND - 70ts SOUL, FUNK & JAZZ FUSION" - Your Guide To Exceptional CD Reissues & Remasters - 316 In-depth Reviews by AMAZON Hall Of Fame Reviewer MARK BARRY...

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HIGHER GROUND 
70ts Soul, R'n'B, Funk, Jazz Fusion
Exceptional CD Reissues and Remasters  

Also Includes Northern Soul, Mod, Disco, Jazz Funk...

 

A Huge 316 reviews and over 2,120 e-Pages
Just Click Below To Purchase for £6.95 (January 2022 Update)
Thousands of E-Pages - All Details and In-Depth Reviews From Discs 
(No Cut and Paste Crap)

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HIGHER GROUND

70ts Soul, Funk & Jazz Fusion

Your Guide To The Best 

CD Reissues and Remasters

Classic Albums, Compilations, Rare 45s...

Included are CD Compilations from US & UK Reissue Labels like Ace Records, Bear Family, Beat Goes On (BGO), Beat Goes Public (BGP), Big Break Records (BBR), Brunswick, Concord Music, Inc. (Stax), Edsel, Hip-O Select, Kent Soul and Kent Dance, Real Gone, Repertoire, Rhino, Robinsongs, RPM, Sony BMG, Sony Legacy, Soul Brother, SoulMusic Records, Universal Music Group, WEA etc.... 

70s Classic Labels like ABC, A&M/Ode, Atlantic, 

Blue Note, Blue Thumb, Brunswick, Cadet, Capitol, Chess, Columbia, Curtom, CTI, Dakar, Decca, Dial, Elektra, Enterprise, Epic, Fame, Hi, Hot Wax, Imperial, Invictus, King, Ko Ko, London, Mercury, Milestone, Minit, Gordy, Motown, Soul and Tamla Motown, Philadelphia International, Polydor, Pye, RCA Victor, Stax, Sussex, T-Neck, Volt, United Arts, Warners & Associated, Westbound, and more...

PREFACE

It doesn’t have to cost the earth to sound good – you just need to know which CD is the right issue to buy – and in today’s marketplace of multiple issues that can be a bit of a minefield to navigate. I worked as the Principal Rarities Buyer in Reckless Records in Soho’s Berwick Street for nearly 20 years (one of the best secondhand record shops in London) – so as you can imagine I came across hundreds of CD reissues – some better than others. 

Many entries in this large and unique book cost less than £10 while others are under a fiver. And even if certain Box Sets and Deletions have acquired a bit of an unsavoury price tag since release - because they’re the best – I’ve included them for your (audio) culinary delight. 

I’ve also made a point of including Artists and Titles you probably don’t know but deserve your attention…music that’s worth getting into your life. There are 316 entries in this huge book beginning in the 1990s and continuing right through to end of 2021 – all with tracks lists and wads of important collector details. All info is taken from the discs themselves – so no cut and paste crap. In fact there’s in excess of 2,120 E-Pages...so plenty to read...and for a good price too. 

HIGHER GROUND – 70ts SOUL, FUNK & JAZZ FUSION... features CD Reissues and Remasters of 1970s Soul, Northern Soul, Funk, Rare Groove, Disco, Fusion, (some) Jazz, Jazz Fusion and Jazz Funk on labels like Atlantic – Chess – Motown - Stax – Warner Brothers and so on. With a natural extension, many artists progressed into the Eighties and many of those titles are featured also.

Each entry focuses on decent remasters with indepth info that helps a purchase decision. You get catalogue numbers, barcodes to identify correct issues, track lists including info on original issues like album and 7” single catalogue numbers, total playing times, packaging and liner notes descriptions, what important guests played on what, cover versions are highlighted, remaster engineers named and a lot of info on the original album. And because it’s a digital book - you can access or look for anything in the text via the search box – particularly handy for collectors looking for connections, labels, songs, favourite labels etc.

I provide a Discography for Box Sets and these lists also include Imports, some Audiophile Titles and Japanese SHM-CDs too where relevant or exclusive. 

Enjoy the reads – Mark Barry (2022)