Following are additional albums released during January 2020 across multiple genres—some will be reviewed in future issues of Black Grooves.
Blues, Folk, Country
Frank Bey: All My Dues Are Paid (Nola Blue)
Jimmy Johnson: Every Day of Your Life (Delmark)
Lightnin’ Slim: Complete Singles As & Bs 1954-62 (Acrobat)
Martha Wash: Love & Conflict (Purple Rose)
William Calhoun: Walk the Walk (Aviara Music)
Funk, Rock, Pop, House, Electronic
Charles Wright & Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band: Express Yourself (reissue) (Real Gone)
Morcheeba: Part of the Process: The Collection (BMG)
Neneh Cherry: Raw Like Sushi [3 CD Deluxe] (Virgin/UMe)
Various: Gut Funky: The Best of C.R.S. Records (Tramp)
Gospel, Spirituals, CCM
Darnell Moore: Hosanna EP (dig)
Elizabeth King: Testify (vinyl) (Bible and Tire)
Oral Moses: Sankofa: A Spiritual Reflection (Albany)
Tauren Wells: Citizen of Heaven (Essential Records)
Jazz
Byron Pope: Music For Earthdwellers and Starseekers (reissue) (Tidal Waves Music)
Eric Reed & Ralph Moore: Prism (Storyville)
Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis: Sherman Irby’s Inferno (Blue Engine)
Jeff Parker: Suite For Max Brown (Nonesuch)
Knoxville Jazz Orchestra: The Road Less Traveled (Blue Canoe)
Mike Phillips: Pulling Off the Covers (SoNo Recording Group)
Robert Glasper: Fuck Yo Feelings (Loma Vista/Concord)
Terri Lyne Carrington/John Patitucci: Excursions and Adventures (Whaling City Sound)
Theo Croker: Understand Yourself EP (dig)
R&B, Soul
Akie Bermiss: #basedonatruestory EP (dig)
ALA.NI: ACCA (A+Lso)
Avail Hollywood: Black Locomotive (dig)
Free Nationals: S/T (Obe)
J. Brown: Forever Yours EP (MoCha Music)
James Reese & The Progressions: Wait For Me: Complete Works 1967-72 (Now Again)
K. Michelle: All Monsters Are Human (eOne)
Kevin Ross: Audacity Vol. 1 (Art Society Music Group)
Omar: The Anthology (2 CD) (Freestyle Records)
Please Wait: Black & White (vinyl) (823 Records)
Ruby Turner: Love Was Here (Rtr Productions)
Sam Cooke: Complete Keen Years (1957-1960) (Abko)
Son Little: Aloha (Anti)
Soul Motivators: Do the Damn Thing (Do Right)
Syleena Johnson: Woman (eOne)
Rap, Hip Hop
Black Moon: Rise of Da Moon (Duck Down Music)
Blueface: Find the Beat (dig) (Cash Money)
CIA (Shogun Assason & Kinetic): Criminals in the Army (Black Stone of Mecca)
Dreamville`& J. Cole: Revenge of the Dreamers III Director’s Cut (dig) (Dreamville/Interscope)
Freddie Gibbs & Madlib: Half Manne Half Cocaine (vinyl) (Madlib Medicine Show)
Hit-Boy: The Chauncey Hollis Project (dig) (HS87)
Hmg Biggy: You Know the Vibe (ZoneOut)
J Hus: Big Conspiracy (dig) (Black Butter)
Joey Trap: Wild West (Young Rich Squad)
Johnny Cinco: Hood Drake (dig) (SakReligious)
Key Glock: Yellow Tape (dig) (Paper Route Empire)
Kota The Friend: Lyrics to Go Vol. 1 (dig)
Lil Wayne: Funeral (Young Money/Republic)
ManMan Savage: No Cosign (dig) (Skrong)
Mick Jenkins: The Circus (Cinematic Music Group)
Moneybagg Yo: Time Served (dig) (Interscope)
OG Maco: Maco Got That Flame (dig) (Desperado)
Quando Rondo: Qpac (dig) (Atlantic)
Rob Stone: Stone Cold (dig) (Grove Town)
Royce Da 5’9: The Allogory (eOne)
Sada Baby: Brolik (dig)
Shad the God: In God We Trust (dig) (Hoodrich Ent.)
Stunna 4 Vegas: Rich Youngin (dig) (Interscope)
Sy Ari Da Kid: It Was Unwritten (dig)
The Professionals: S/T (dig) (Madlib Invazion)
Theophilus London: Bebey (independently popular.)
Uncle Murda: Don’t Come Outside, Vol. 2 (dig) (Empire)
Yo Gatti: Untrapped (dig)
Reggae, International, Latin
Aggrolites: Dirty Reggae (reissue) (Pirate Press)
Akin & the Afrobeat Brothers: Boomerang (Vinilos Enlace Funk)
Artists for Peace and Justice: Let the Rhythm Lead: Haiti Song Summit, Vol. 1 (Arts Music)
Erik Aliana: Ancestors (Buda)
Owen Gray: Jamaica’s First Home Grown Star (Burning Sounds)
Various: Eze-Nri Royal Drummers Vol. 1 (BBE)
Various: Léve Léve: Sao Tomé & Principe Sounds 70s-80s (Bongo Joe)