Billy Hawks - Heavy Soul!As part of Ace 50 BGP has hooked up with our old friends at Concord Music to reissue one of the most important albums in our story. In 1987 as the dance jazz scene morphed into acid jazz Billy Hawks Oh Baby (I Believe Im Losing You) was filling the dance floors where either Gilles Peterson or Baz Fe Jazz were playing. The Prestige Records album, Heavy Soul!, that featured the track, was impossible to find, and frustrated DJs were desperately trying to

Aswad has proven to be one of Britain's most influential and enduring reggae acts

a former signature

he took me on a postal round with him

Strut followed this with a second edition

or even sitting down with a guitar or at a piano

and the mellow

Afro-Harping is filled front-to-back with sumptuous and hypnotic grooves

10 years after their previous studio album - a 32 track opus of tangible bliss

Pete Townshend

An epic collection of melancholic songs with extended instrumental sections that at times seem to explore the paths of free-jazz and

while recording new songs as the unpronounceable "Love Symbol"

it echoes his attitude towards music