SOUL JAZZ RECORDS presents: NEW ORLEANS FUNK Vol. 4 – Voodoo Fire In New Orleans 1951-77 (2016)

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SOUL JAZZ RECORDS presents: NEW ORLEANS FUNK VOL. 3 – Two-Way-Pocky-Way, Gumbo Ya Ya and the Mardi Gras Mambo (2013)

Well here’s a somewhat unexpected addition to the Soul Jazz label’s benchmark-setting funk and soul New Orleans Funk compilation series. That’s ‘benchmark’, by the way, because for selection and sound quality it is peerless and ‘unexpected’ because frankly after two previous volumes (or three if you count 2001′s Soul Jazz comp. Saturday Night Fish Fry subtitled New Orleans Funk – and you most certainly should count it) you begin to wonder how much else there is that’s worth compiling from the Big Easy’s funk …READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM