Following are additional albums released during March 2020 across multiple genres—some will be reviewed in future issues of Black Grooves.
Blues, Folk, Country
Alex Dixon: The Real McCoy (Dixon Landing Music)
Archie Edwards & Dr. Ross: Piedmont Blues Meets Mississippi Delta Blues (Wolf)
Big Joe Turner: The Complete Boss Of The Blues (2-CD) (Bear Family)
King Solomon Hicks: Harlem (Provogue)
Tré Burt: Caught It From The Rye (Oh Boy)
Classical
Alexis French: Dreamland (Sony Masterworks)
Gregg August: Dialogues on Race, Vol. 1 (ft. poetry by Maya Angelou, Langston Hughes) (Iacuessa)
Stewart Goodyear: Beethoven Piano Concertos (Orchid Classics)
Will Liverman: Whither Must I Wander (Odradek)
Funk, Rock, Pop, House, Electronic
Body Count: Carnivore (Century Media)
Brownout: Berline Sessions (Fat Beats)
Chassol: Ludi (Tricatel)
Harrison Kennedy: Hypnotic Music (vinyl reissue) (Demon)
Jamie 3:26: A Taste of Chicago (BBE)
Jimi Hendrix: Band of Gypsys 50th Anniv. Edition (Capitol/UMe)
Lisa Ramey: Surrender (Elimar Music)
Tower of Power ft. Marcus Scott: Step Up (Artistry Music/Mack Ave.)
Various: BLACK RIOT: Early Jungle, Rave and Hardcore (Soul Jazz)
Various: 5 Years of Modern Funk (Austin Boogie Crew)
Gospel, Spirituals, CCM
Canton Jones: Kingdom Business 5 (Cajo)
Deitrick Haddon: TIME (Truth Is My Energy) (eOne)
Sister Gertrude Morgan: Let’s Make a Record (reissue) (Ropeadope)
The Legendary Ingramettes: Take A Look In The Book (Hearth Music)
Various: Healing Songs [2020] (Tyscot)
Jazz
Adrian Younge & Ali Shaheed Muhammad: Jazz Is Dead 001 (Jazz is Dead)
Art Blakey & Jazz Messengers: Best of the Columbia & RCA/Vik Years (1956-1959) (Real Gone Music)
Aruán Ortiz: Inside Rhythmic Falls (Intakt)
Benjamin Boone & Ghana Jazz Collective: Joy (Origin)
Bunk Johnson: The King of the Blues (American Music)
Butcher Brown: Tidal Wave (Concord)
Clark Sommers’ Ba(SH): Peninsula (Outside In Music)
Day Dream: Originals (Corner Store Jazz)
Ella Fitzgerald: The Complete Piano Duets (Verve)
Gerald Cleaver: Signs (577)
Geri Allen: Some Aspects of Water (Storyville)
Harold Mabern: Mabern Plays Mabern (Smoke Sessions)
Irreversible Entanglements: Who Sent You? (International Anthem/Dist. RedEye)
Jason Miles & Kind of New: Black Magic (Ropeadope)
Jason Palmer: The Concert: 12 Musings For Isabella (Giant Steps Arts)
Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis: Black, Brown & Beige (Blue Engine)
Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis: Rock Chalk Suite (Blue Engine)
Keith Oxman & Houston Person: Two Cigarettes in the Dark (Capri)
Laila Biali: Out of Dust (Chronograph)
Pharoah Sanders: Live in Paris: Lost Ortf Recordings (Transversales Disques)
Raul Midón: The Mirror (Artistry Music)
Roscoe Mitchell w/Ostravaska Banda: Distant Radio Transmission (Wide Hive)
Rufus Reid w/Sullivan Fortner: Always in the Moment (Newvelle)
Skinny Hightower: Blue Moon (TRIPPIN & RHYTHM)
Shabaka And The Ancestors: We Are Sent Here By History (Impulse)
Tony Allen & Hugh Masekela: Rejoice (World Circuit)
Wolfgang Muthspiel & Scott Colley & Brian Blade: Angular Blues (ECM)
R&B, Soul
Ben l’Oncle Soul: Addicted to You (Decca France)
Chaka Khan: Homecoming (CD + DVD) (BMG)
Childish Gambino: 3.15.20 (dig) (RCA)
Cleveland P. Jones: Let’s Make Love (dig) (P3P Music Group)
Giveon: Take Time (dig) (Epic/Not So Fast)
Jhené Aiko: Chilombo (Def Jam)
Ju Evans: All About Soul (Ecko)
Madison McFerrin: You+I (vinyl) (Diggers Factory)
Orion Sun: Hold Space For Me (Mom+Pop)
Partynextdoor: Party Mobile (dig) (OVO Sound/Warner)
Ricky White: Southern Soul Nation (CDS)Sister Sledge: Thinking Of You: Atco / Cotillion / Atlantic Recordings 1973-1985 (SoulMusic)
Swamp Dogg: Sorry You Couldn’t Make It (Joyful Noise)
Tank: While You Wait EP (Empire)
Terrace Martin: Soul Juice (dig) (Sounds of Crenshaw/Empire)
The Weeknd: After Hours (XO/Republic)
Tiombé Lockhart: The Aquarius Years (dig) (Mother Tongue)
Tomar and the FCs: Rise Above (Splice)
Vedo: For You (dig) (Empire)
Rap, Hip Hop
$NOT: TRAGEDY+ (300 Ent.)
Afu-Ra: Urban Chemistry (X-Ray Productions)
Bankroll Fresh: In Bank We Trust (dig) (Street Money Worldwide)
Big Freedia: Louder EP (East West)
Blacc Zacc: Carolina Narco (Interscope)
Black Geez & Eto: Flour City Street Bible (T.C.F. Music Group)
Capolow: Room 304 (dig)
Chicka: Industry Games The EP (dig) (Warner)
CJ Fly: Rudebwoy (dig) (ProEra)
Clear Soul Forces: ForcesWithYou (Fat Beats)
Comethazine: Pandemic (dig) (Alamo)
Curren$y & Fendi P: Smokin’ Potnas (dig) (Jet Life)
Dax: I’ll Say It For You EP (dig) (Living legends)
Denzel Curry: Unlocked (Loma Vista)
DJ Kay Slay: Living Legend (Empire)Don Toliver: Heaven or Hell (Cactus Jack/Atlantic)
Ebenezer: Bad Romantic 2 (dig) (12 Tone Music)
Estee Nack & Superior: Baladas (Below System)
Flash Gottii: 20/20 Vision EP (dig) (eOne)
Fred the Godson: Payback (T.C.F. Music Group)
Giallo Point, Da Buze Buvaz: Adebesi Hat Recut (Grilchy Party)
Jadakiss: Ignatius (Def Jam)
Jay Electronica: A Written Testimony (Roc Nation)
Jay Whiss: Peace of Mind (Universal)
Jeezy: Twenty/20 Pyrex Vision (dig) (Agency 99)
Joey Trap: Champ! (dig) (Young Rich Squad)
Joyner Lucas: ADHD (Twenty Nine Music)
Kanye West: Jesus Is King (CD ed.) (Def Jam)
King ISO: World War Me (Strange Music)
Knxwledge: 1988 (Stones Throw)
Krizz Kaliko: Eternal (Strange Music)
Lil Uzi Vert: Eternal Atake (Atlantic)
Mac Miller: Circles (Deluxe) (Warner Bros.)
Megan Thee Stallion: Suga EP (300 Ent.)
Money Man: State of Emergency (dig) (Empire)
Nef The Pharaoh: ChangeSzn EP (dig) (Empire)
Only One Felipe: Thank You for Not Believing (dig) (Only One)
Otis Houston Jr.: America (dig) (Post Present Medium)
Rich The Kid: Boss Man (Republic)
Sada Baby: Skuba Sada 2 (dig) (Asylum)
Stormzy: Heavy is the Head (Atlantic)
Stove God Cooks & Roc Marciano: Reasonable Drought (dig) (Conglomerate Ent.)
Suigeneris: Demons N Angels (Devil Gear/Empire)
Tricky: 20,20 (False Idols)
Yung Mal: 6 Rings (dig) (Alamo)
Zebra Katz: Less is Moor (ZFK)
Reggae, International, Latin
Béla Fleck & Toumani Diabaté: Throw Down Your Heart: The Complete Africa Sessions (CD + DVD) (Craft)
Felipe Salles: The New Immigrant Experience CD/DVD set (Tapestry / Capri)
Jah9: Note To Self (VP)
Nazar: Guerrilla (Hyperdub)
Orchestra Baobab: Mouhamadou Bamba (vinyl reissue) (Sterns Africa)
Siaosi: 5:55 (Wash House Music)
Tamikrest: Tamotait (Glitterbeat)