Following are additional albums released during February 2016—some will be reviewed in future issues of Black Grooves.
Blues, Folk, Country
Albert Collins: Live At Rockpalast CD/DVD (Made in Germany Music)
Birds of Chicago: Real Midnight (Five Head Ent.)
Buddy Guy: I’ll Play the Blues for You – Live (1992) (Klondike)
Jimmy Rogers: Chicago Bound: Complete Solo Chess Records As & Bs (Jasmine)
Johnny Rawls: Tiger In A Cage (Catfood Records)
Junior Crudup: Sure Love (CD Baby)
Robert Cray Band ft. Stevie Ray Vaughan: Old Jam, New Blood: Redux Club, Dallas 1987 (All Access)
Toronzo Cannon: The Chicago Way (Alligator)
Classical
Various: Piano Works by Zenobia Powell Perry (Cambria)
Funk, Rock, Pop, Electronic
Shirlette Ammons: Language Barrier (Churchkey/SugarQube )
Moodymann: DJ-Kicks (K7)
Rasputin Stash: Devil Made Me Do It (vinyl reissue) ( BBE)
Santigold: 99 Cent (Atlantic)
Soul Inscribed: Soul Inscribed
Space Captain: In Memory EP (Tru Thoughts )
Gospel, Gospel Rap, CCM
Bishop Larry D. Trotter and Sweet Holy Spirit Choir : How Far Back Can You Go?-Church Unplugged Vol 2 (Utopia Music Group )
Lecrae: Church Clothes 3 (Reach)
Newsboys: God’s Not Dead – The Greatest Hits of the Newsboys (Inpop)
Pastor Tim Rogers: Churchin’ (Sag Music Group)
T.J. Hooker Taylor: Going Back to Church (Music Access Inc.)
Talley Boyz: Home (Ecko)
The Showers: The Showers (MRI)
Thi’sl: Against All Odds
Virtue: Fearless (Mixed Bag Music Grp.)
Jazz
Donald Edwards: Prelude To Real Life (Criss Cross)
Ed Cherry: Soul Tree (Posi-Tone)
EMPIRICAL: Connection (Cuneiform)
Freddie Hendrix: Jersey Cat (Sunnyside Communication)
Heliocentrics: Quatermass Sessions: From The Deep (Now-Again)
Herbie Hancock: Live in Chicago 1977 (Hi Hat)
Herlin Riley: New Direction (Mack Ave.)
Laurence Hobgood Trio: Honor Thy Father (Circumstantial)
Logan Richardson: Shift (Blue Note)
Omar Sosa and Joo Kraus: Jog
Raphael Imbert & Co.: Music Is My Home (Jazz Village)
Red Garland: Albums Collection Part One: 1956-1959 (Enlightenment)
Red Garland: Albums Collection Part Three: 1961-1962 (Enlightenment)
Red Garland: Albums Collection Part Two: 1959-1961 (Enlightenment)
Snarky Puppy: Family Dinner Vol. 2 (CD/DVD) (Ground Up)
Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Orchestra: All My Yesterdays: The Debut 1966 Village Vanguard Recordings (Resonance)
The Stryker / Slagle Band: Routes (Strikezone)
Thelonious Monk: The Complete 1947-1956 Trios (Essential Jazz Classics)
United Vibrations: Myth of the Golden Ratio (Ubiquity)
United Vibrations: The Myth Of the Golden Ratio (Ubiquity)
Various: Jazz Vocalists Sing Cole Porter (3 CD) (W52st Records)
Various: Jazz Vocalists Sing George Gershwin (W52st Records)
Wynton Kelly: Nine Complete Albums: 1951-1961 (Enlightenment)
R&B, Soul
Al Green: The Essential Album Collection (box set) (Fat Possum / Hi Records)
Amos Milburn: Best Of The Aladdin Years 1946-57 (Acrobat)
Ashford & Simpson: I Wanna Be Selfish: Expanded Ed. (BBR)
BJ The Chicago Kid: In My Mind (Motown)
Blowfly: 77 Rusty Trombones (Saustex Media)
Brian McKnight: Better (Kobalt)
Chaka Khan: What Cha Gonna Do for Me: Expanded Ed. (BBR)
Charles Bradley & Menahan Street Band: Live From The House Of Soul (DVD) (Daptone)
Charles Wilson: Southern Soul Juke Joint (Music Access)
Clarence Carter: This Is Clarence Carter / The Dynamic Clarence Carter (Kent)
Clarence Carter : This Is Clarence Carter/The Dynamic Clarence Carter (Kent)
Fred Wesley and The JB’s: Damn Right I Am Somebody (limited Ed. vinyl) (Get on Down)
Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes: To Be True: Expanded Ed (BBR)
Jerome Brooks: Better
Larry Williams: The Very Best of Larry Williams (One Day)
Mavis Staples: Livin’ on a High Note (Anti/Epitaph)
Michael Jackson: Off the Wall/Spike Lee Documentary (Legacy)
Nigel Hall: Ladies & Gentleman (Feel Records)
Patti Austin: Street of Dreams (compilation) (Water Music)
Rhianna: Anti (Roc Nation)
Sister Sledge: Circle of Love: Special 40th Anniversary Ed. (BBR)
SWV: Still (Mass Appeal Ent./eOne)
Teddy Pendergrass: Joy (expanded ed.) (BBR)
The Suffers: The Suffers (Rhyme And Reason)
Tweet: Charlene (eOne)
Various: Aloha Got Soul (Strut)
Various: The Other Side Of The Trax – Stax-Volt 45rpm Rarities 1964-1968 (Kent)
Killer B3: A Documentary About the Hammond Organ (DVD) (Crooked Soul Productions)
Rap, Hip Hop
Dizzy Wright: Wisdom & Good Vibes EP (Funk Volume)
Amiri: The New Negative ( HiPNOTT Records)
Beneficence: Basement Chemistry ( Ill Adrenaline)
Billionaire Buck: The Black Jew (B&B Ent.)
C-bo: Blocc Movement / Tales From the Crypt (2 CD set) (RBC)
David Banner: The God Box (A Banner Vision)
French Montana: Wave Gods (self-released)
G-Scott: Another Weekend in Los Vegas (3B Entertainment LLC)
J Alvarez: Desde Puerto Rico Live (Sony U.S. Latin)
Kahlil: The Tale of Wod Higgins (Pocket Fixed Mob LLC)
Kanye West: The Life of Pablo (Def Jam/G.O.O.D. Music)
Last Poets: This is Madness (expanded ed.) (Snapper)
Lefa: Monsieur Fall ( Jive Epic)
Lil C: H-Town Chronicle 18 (Oarfin)
Lushlife: Ritualize (Western Vinyl)
Mr. Green: The Project ( Live From The Streets )
Nature: Target Practice (Vodka & Milk)
Philly Fate: #Onelife (Real Life Music)
Rick Rubin: Star Wars Headspace
Statik Selectah & KXNG Crooked: Static KXNG (Penalty Ent.)
The Bad Boy Young Me$$ (aka Messy Marv): The Money in the Bitch Purse, DLK Collabs Vol. 4 (Dlk Enterprise)
T-Nutty: Blue Venom (Nutt Factor)
Trae tha Truth: Tha Thruth Part 2 (Empire)
Truth: From Ashes to Kingdom Come (Ill Adrenaline)
Vic Spencer & Chris Crack: Who the Fuck Is Chris Spencer?? (Perpetual Rebel)
Yo Gotti: Art of Hustle (Epic)
Young Thug: I’m Up (Atlantic / 300 Ent)
Reggae, Dancehall
Glen Brown: Boat to Progess (VP)
Horace Andy: In the Light (VP)
Jago: Microphones And Sofas (Tru Thoughts )
John Holt: 1000 Volts of Holt (expanded ed.) (Trojan)
Skin, Flesh & Bones: Dub in Blood (reissue) (Pressure Sounds)
World
Rokia Traoré: Ne So (Nonesuch)
Adama Yalomba: Waati Sera
Count Ossie & The Mystic Revelation Of Rastafari: Tales Of Mozambique (Soul Jazz)
DJ Katapila: Trotro (Awesome Tapes From Africa)
RAM: RAM 6: Manman m se Ginen
Stanley and the Ten Sleepless Knights: Quelbe! Music of the U.S. Virgin Islands (Smithsonian Folkways)