Following are additional albums released during March 2018—some will be reviewed in future issues of Black Grooves.
Blues, Folk, Country
Ben Harper & Charlie Musselwhite: No Mercy In This Land (Anti/Epitaph)
Cary Bell: Harpslinger: The 1988 Album Remastered (JSP)
Coffey Anderson: Cowboy Style (digital)
Leadbelly: Masterworks Volumes 1 & 2 (Sunset Blvd.)
Little Freddie King: Fried Rice & Chicken (Orleans)
Muddy Waters: Live At Rockpalast (Made in Germany)
Roosevelt Collie: Exit 16 (GroundUp)
Funk, Rock, Pop, Electronic
Detroit Rising: A Cosmic Jazz Funk Adventure (Downjazz)
Elaquent: Celebrate Life!
Lexsoul Dancemachine: Sunny Holiday In Lexico (Funk Embassy)
Matt Palmer: Get Lost (digital)
NoMBe: They Might’ve Even Loved Me (TH3RD BRAIN)
Oceans of Slumber: The Banished Heart (Century Media)
On High: Never Die
Young Fathers: Cocoa Sugar (Ninja Tune)
Zig Zag Power Trio: Woodstock Sessions Volume 9 (Woodstock Sessions)
Gospel, Christian Rap, CCM
Brian Courtney Wilson: A Great Work (Motown Gospel)
Jonathan McReynolds: Make Room (eOne)
Snoop Dog: Presents Bible of Love (RCA Inspiration)
Tamesha Pruett-Ray: Beautiful Savior (TPR Music Group)
Jazz
Adam Hawley: Double Vision (Kalimba Music)
Blue Lab Beats: Xover (All Points)
David Garfield: Jazz outside the Box (Creatchy)
David Liebman & John Stowell: Petite Fleur: The Music Of Sidney Bechet (Origin)
Greg Spero+Spirit Fingers: Spirit Fingers (Shanachie)
Hank Jones: in Copenhagen – Live at Jazzhaus Slukefter 1983 (Storyville)
Ivo Perelman & Matthew Shipp: Oneness (Leo)
Kurt Elling: The Questions (Okeh)
Lao Tizer Band: Songs from the Swinghouse (Lao Tizer Music)
Miles Davis & John Coltrane: The Final Tour: The Bootleg Series, Vol. 6 (Columbia)
Pendletons: Funk Forever (Bastard Jazz)
Salim Washington: Dogon Revisited (Passin’ Thru)
Spirit Fingers: S/T (Shanachie)
Sun Ra: Of Abstract Dreams (Strut)
Terry Pollard: A Detroit Jazz Legend (Fresh Sound)
Victor Gould: Earthlings (Criss Cross)
R&B, Soul
Adrian Daniel: Flawd (digital)
Ady Suleiman: Memories (Pemba)
Alexandra Burke: Truth Is (Decca)
August Greene (Common, Robert Glasper, Karriem Riggins): S/T (digital)
Barrence Whitfield & The Savages: Dig Everything! – The Early Rounder Albums (Ace)
Barrence Whitfield & the Savages: Soul Flowers of Titan (Bloodshot)
Best of the Charles Wright & The Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band (Varese Sarabande)
Bettye LaVette: Things Have Changed (Verve)
Bobby V: Electrik (Independent Label Services)
Deva Mahal: Run Deep (Motema)
En Vogue: Electric Café (eOne)
Gizelle Smith: Ruthless Day (Jalapeno)
Jayme Shaye: Detoxic
Larry Crockett & The Funky Cherokees: Drum Love (Chaos)
Leon’s Creation: This Is the Beginning (reissue) (Acid Jazz)
Phyllis Dillon: One Life to Live (Real Gone Music)
PJ Morton: Gumbo Unplugged (Live)
R.LUM.R: Alterimage (PRMD)
Robert Lee Coleman: What’s Left (Music Makers)
Ronnie Wright: a.k.a. Bespeak (digital)
Ruben Studdard: Ruben Sings Luther (Seg Music)
Sister Sledge: An Introduction (Atlantic)
The Vogs: A Change Is Coming (Qsounds Recording)
Various: Eccentric Soul: The Saru Label (Numero Group)
Wilson Meadows: The Facts of Life
Xscape: Here For It (RedZone Ent.)
Z. Hill: That’s It! – The Complete Kent Recordings 1964-1968 (Kent)
Rap, Hip Hop
Apollo Brown & Ghostface Killah: The Brown Tape (Mello Music)
Awate: Happiness (Quite Defiant)
Ball Greezy: Bae Day 2 (digital)
Bishop Nehru: Elevators: Act I & II (digital)
Black Milk: Fever (Mass Appeal)
Brian Fresco: Love Scars (Empire)
Camp Lo: On The Way Uptown & The Get Down Brothers (Vodka & Milk)
Chuck Strangers: Consumers Park (Nature Sounds)
Creek Boyz: 1-11 Mixtape
Don Trip: Christopher (digital)
First Degree The D. E.: Black Bane II, Underestimated Villain (Fahrenheit)
Flipp Dinero: GuaLa See GuaLa (digital)
Fredro Starr: Firestarr 2 (Mad Money)
Herbaliser: Bring Out the Sound (BBE)
Stalin: Avatar (Livewire)
Larry June: You’re Doing Good (digital) (Warner Bros.)
Lil Yachty: Lil Boat 2 (digital)
Lojii: Lofeye (Youngbloods)
Luniz: No Pressure (X-Ray)
Mozzy: Spiritual Conversations – EP (digital) (Empire)
Murs: A Strange Journey Into The Unimaginable (Strange Music)
Nessly: Wildflower (digital) (Republic)
Nym Lo: The Big Horse (digital)
Phonte: No New Is Good News (digital)
Prhyme (Royce 5 9+DJ Premier): PRhyme2 (digital)
Rich Homie Quan: Rich As In Spirit (digital) (Motown)
Rich the Kid: The World is Yours (digital) (Interscope)
Robb Bank$: Molly World (digital) (Empire)
Saint Jhn: Collection 1
Saweetie: High Maintenance (digital) (Warner Bros.)
Showbiz: A-Room Therapy (Ditc)
Sob X Rbe: Gangin (digital)
Sts & Khari Mateen: Better on a Sunday (Steel Wool /Obe)
Tech N9ne: Planet (Strange Music)
Thundercat: Drank (Brainfeeder)
Tory Lanez: Memories Don’t Die (Interscope)
Tra the Truth: Hometown Hero
Tyga: Kyoto (Last Kings Music)
U-God: Venom (Babygrande)
Various: Death Row Chronicles OST (Death Row)
Wale: It’s Complicated EP (MMG/Every Blue Moon)
Wiley: Godfather II
Wu-Lu: N.A.I.S. (Not As It Seems) (digital)
XXXTentacion: ? (Bad Vibes Forever)
YFN Lucci: Ray Ray from Summerhill (Warner Bros.)
Young Hu$tle: Bag Talk (X-Ray)
Yung Bans: Vol. 4 (digital)
Reggae
Army Gideon: Forsake Not (Uhuru Boys)
Etana: Reggae Forever (Tad’s Record Inc.)
I-Octane: Love & Life (Conquer the Globe)
Romain Virgo: Lovesick (VP)
World, Latin
Baloji: 137 Avenue Kaniama (Bella Union)
Busy Twist: Sunny Side EP (Busy Life)
Hailu Mergia: Lala Belu (Awesome Tapes From Africa)
Seun Kuti & Egypt 80: Black Times (Strut)
Sidi Toure: Toubalbero (Thrill Jockey)
Tanga: Reencarnacion (TrebleFive)
Various: Gumba Fire: Bubblegum Soul & Synth-Boogie in 1980s South Africa (Soundway)
Various: Death In Haiti: Funeral Brass Bands & Sounds from Port Au Prince (Discrepant)