Following are additional albums released during October 2019 across multiple genres—some will be reviewed in future issues of Black Grooves.
Blues, Folk, Country
Bukka White: Aberdeen, Mississippi Blues (Sunset Blvd)
Jimmy “Duck” Holmes: Cypress Grove (Easy Eye Sound)
Johnny Guitar Watson: Music Hall In Concert DVD (Last Man)
Lucky Peterson: 50 – Just warming up! (Jazz Village)
Trigger Hippy: Full Circle and Then Some (Turkey Grass)
Classical, Soundtracks
David Shifrin, Dover & Harlem String Quartets: Clarinet Quintets for Our Time (Delos)
Comedy, Spoken Word
Rudy Ray Moore: 50 Years of Cussing Vol. 2 (Warrior Records)
Funk, Rock, Pop, House, Electronic
Afriqua (Adam Longman Parker): Colored (R&S)
Blacker Face: Distinctive Juju (Sooper)
Delores Galore: New Growth (dig)
Funkproof: The Revival (Tidal Waves Music/Fat Beats)
HR: Give Thanks (Hardline Ent.)
Imani Coppola: The Protagonist (Ipecac Recordings)
Son Little: Invisible EP (dig) (Anti)
The Pendletons: 2 Steps Away (Bastard Jazz)
Gospel, CCM
Anthony Brown & Group Therapy: 2econd Wind (Tyscot)
David John: John 3:16 (David John Ministries)
Eric Waddell: Presents Hour of Power Experience (New Day)
Kanye West: Jesus Is King (GOOD/Def Jam)
Various: Put The Whole Armour On: Female Black Gospel 1940s-50s (Gospel Friend)
Holiday
Dionne Warwick: The Voices of Christmas (S-Curve)
Gerald Albright: Not So Silent Night (dig) (Bright Music)
Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis: Big Band Holidays (Blue Engine)
Jonathan Butler: Christmas Together (Mack Ave.)
Keb’ Mo’: Moonlight, Mistletoe, And You (Concord)
Ne-Yo: Another Kind of Christmas (Motown)
Jazz
Bonerama: Empty World: Tribute to Allen Toussaint (Basin Street)
Byron Asher: Skrontch Music (Sinking City)
Carmen Lundy: Modern Ancestors (Afrasia Prod.)
Carmen Souza: The Silver Messengers (Galileo Music)
Down to the Bone: Funkin Around: Collection of Remixes and Reworks (Dome UK)
FKA Jazz: Beautifully Awkward (NIA Music Dist)
Fred Hersch Trio: 10 Years / 6 Discs (Box set) (Palmetto)
Jackiem Joyner: Touch (CD Baby)
Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis: Jazz for Kids (Blue Engine)
Jeff Denson: Between Two Worlds (Ridgeway)
John Beasley: Presents MONK’estra (Mack Ave)
Joshua Redman & Brooklyn Rider: Sun on Sand (Nonesuch)
London Afrobeat Collective: Humans (London Afrobeat)
Magic Malik: Jazz Association (Jazz & People)
Marquis Hill: Love Tape (Black Unlimited Music Group)
Nicholas Payton: Relaxin’ With Nick (Smoke Sessions)
Ray Blue: Work (Jazzheads)
Robert Glasper: Fuck Yo Feelings (vinyl) (Loma Vista/Concord)
Rodney Whitaker: All Too Soon: The Music of Duke Ellington (Origin)
Spyro Gyra: Vinyl Tap (Amherst)
Tenor Triage: S/T (Ropeadope)
The Bad Plus: Activate Infinity (Edition)
The Justus Brothers: S/T (Memphis International Records/Select-O-Hits)
Tomeka Reid Quartet: Old New (Cuneiform)
Various: This is … New Orleans Jazz (3 CD box set) (Not Now UK)
Wild Bill Davis & Johnny Hodges: Blue Pyramid (reissue) (Squatty Roo)
R&B, Soul
Asa: Lucid (Wagram Music / Chapter Two)
Blood Orange: Angel’s Pulse (Domino)
Booker T & the M.G.’s: The Complete Stax Singles Vol. 1 (1962-1967) (Real Gone)
Brik.Liam: What’s the Matter, Brik? (dig) (Morton)
Cook County: Released (Everland Ent.)
Cornell “CC” Carter: Absolutely (Izipho Soul)
Dante’: Mint (Chill Beat Ent.)
Fantasia: Sketchbook (BMG)
Fats Domino: I’ve Been Around: Imperial & ABC Paramount Recordings (Bear Family)
Gallant: Sweet Insomnia (Warner)
Hoard: Follow Me (Thru the Past) (Ropeadope)
James Brown: Live At Home With His Bad Self (new) (Republic/Ume)
Leon Ware: Rainbow Deux (vinyl) (Be With)
Marcus Scott: Back 2 Da Soul (eOne)
Marvin Gaye: What’s Going On Live (Expanded Ed.) (Motown)
Shenna: Blue Memories (dig)
Sonny Emory’s Cachet: Love Is The Greatest (Universal)
Tank: Elevation (Atlantic)
The Soul Rebels: Poetry in Motion (Artistry Music)
Various: Jazzy Ladies Of Society Hill Records, Volume 2 (Essential Media Group)
Rap, Hip Hop
1K Phew: What’s Understood 2 (dig) (Reach)
9lokknine: Mind of Destruction (dig) (Cash Money)
Aaron Rose: Rozart (dig) (Pro Era)
Big Shug: The Diamond Report (Brick)
Black Cesar: Knowledge the Pirate (Tuff Kong)
Black Milk: Dive (Mass Appeal)
Black Moon: Rise of Da Moon (dig) (Duck Down)
Casanova: Behind These Scars (dig) (Roc Nation)
clipping: There Existed an Addiction to Blood (Sub Pop)
Curren$y, Trademark Da Skydiver & Young Roddy: Plan of Attack (dig) (Baby Grande)
Deno: Eye 2 Eye (Columbia)
DJ Chase: The Gospel Beats (dig) (Worldwide Soundz)
DJ Gramatik: RE:Coil, PT.II (dig) (Lowtemp)
Elaquent: After Midnight (Urbnet)
Guapdad 4000: Dior Deposits (TWNSHP)
Gucci Mane: Woptober II (Atlantic)
Homeboy Sandman: Dusty (Mello Music Group)
Jae Stephens: f**k it i’ll do it myself (dig)
Jay Loud: Nap Town (Empire)
JayDaYoungan: Misunderstood (dig) (Atlantic)
Jungle Brown: Full House (Mr. Bongo)
Kash Doll: Stacked (Republic)
Kembe X: I Was Depressed Until I Made This (dig) (Empire)
Lil’ Kim: 9 (eOne)
Lil Tjay: True 2 Myself (Columbia)
Lil Zay Osama: Hood Bible (dig) (Warner)
L’Orange & Jeremiah Jae: Complicate Your Life With Violence (Mello Music Group)
Lucki: Days B4 III (Empire)
Lyric Jones & Nameless: Ga$ Money (Tuff Kong)
Mad Professor: Massive Attack v Mad Professor Part II (vinyl) (Virgin)
Michael Christmas: Baggy Eyes 2 (dig)
Mooch & Raticus: New York State: The Renaissance (Tenement Music)
Notorious B.I.G.: Ready to Die: 25th Anniversary (7″ Box Set) (Get On Down)
Paul Gee: Beyondr (digital)
Trippie Redd: ! (TenThousand Projects)
Wale: Wow… That’s Crazy (Warner)
Y.K. Osiris: Golden Child (dig) (Def Jam)
Yalee: 1v1 You Vs The World (dig)
Youngboy Never Broke Again: Al Youngboy 2 (dig) (Interscope)
Reggae, International, Latin
Akon: El Negreeto (Akonik)
Alhaji Sidiku Buari: Disco Soccer (BBE)
Bro David: Modern Music From Belize (Cultures of Soul)
Bukky Leo & Black Egypt: Tribute to Fela Kuti -Live At Jazz Café Vol. 2 (Drift)
Busy Signal: Parts of the Puzzle (VP)
Cheikh Tidiane Seck: Timbuktu – The Music of Randy Weston (Komos/Light in the Attic)
Eric Kol: Today (BBE)
Jidenna: 85 to Africa (vinyl) (Epic)
Lee Scratch Perry: Life of the Plants (Stones Throw)
Lumingu Puati: Mosese (BBE Africa)
Mamman Sani: La Musique Electronique Du Niger (Sahel Sounds)
Melt Yourself Down: 100% Yes (Decca)
Pat Thomas & Kwashibu Area Band: Obiaa! (Strut)
Prince Fatty: In the Viper’s Shadow (Evergreen)
Samthing Soweto: Isphithiphithi (Platoon)
Various: Body Beat: Soca-Dub and Electronic Calypso (1979-98) (Soundway)
Various: Congo Revolution 1955-62 (Soul Jazz)
Various: Down In Jamaica – 40 Years of VP Records (box set) (VP)
Various: Pour Me A Grog: The Funana Revolt in 1990s Cabo Verde (Ostinato)