Various Artists/Soul Jazz Records - Soul Jamaica (black 2LP)

Soul Jazz Records" new Soul Jamaica brings together a wicked selection of reggae funk and soul tracks from the legendary Studio One stable, featuring a stellar line-up of artists including Jackie Mittoo, The Heptones, The Gladiators, Sim Smith, Peter Tosh and The Wailers, Cedric "Im" Brooks and many more. For a short period of time at the end of the 1960s and early 1970s, nestled between the end of rocksteady and the arrival of roots reggae, Studio One released a small stream of superb soul and funk reggae tunes - covering everyone from Sly and The Family Stone, Diana Ross and The Supremes, Nina Simone, Gene Chandler, Tyrone Davis and more. Most of the tracks featured on Soul Jamaica were only ever released on Studio One's UK-subsidiary label Bamboo in small-run pressings and are now consequently extremely hard to find.

Tracklist
LP1
01 Alton Ellis - Tumbling Tears
02 Winston Francis - Turn Back The Hands Of Time
03 Sound Dimension - Sing A Simple Song
04 The Gladiators - Fling It Gimme
0.5 Jackie Mittoo - Soul Finger
06 Winston Francis - Groovy Situation
07 Calvin Marshall - La La 69
08 Soul Defenders - Way Back Home
09 The Heptones - Young, Gifted and Black

LP2
01 Im and David - Up Fully
02 Slim Smith - Keep That Light
03 Sound Dimension - Give It Away
04 Zoot Simms - Real Gone Loser
05 Sound Dimension - Soul Bowl
06 Peter Tosh - Can't You See
07 Joy Roberts - Someday We'll Be Together
08 The Freedom Singers - Give Peace A Chance