Phil Upchurch - Sitar Soul

Phil Upchurch - Sitar Soul

Upchurch fills a hole with super noodles smothered in clattering percussion.

Dennis Coffey 'Back Home' (Edit)

Dennis Coffey 'Back Home' (Edit)

Earnest low-note piano riffs and dancing flute lines exchange pleasantries, as Dennis Coffey goes under the scalpel in an operating theatre decked out in tan leather and fake palm trees.

Billy Cobham 'Stratus'

Billy Cobham 'Stratus'

A restless, surging bassline paves the way for an artillery of instruments on this 7 minute trip to the statosphere, whilst Billy knocks seven shades of shit out of a drum kit the size of a holiday cottage.

Oil Tasters 'Emma'

Oil Tasters 'Emma'

The Oil Tasters were three blokes from Wisconsin on drums, saxaphone and bass guitar who ramped out a brand of jumpy, jazz-flecked, humorous and danceable music unlike any of their peers in the early 80's. This cover of Hot Chocolate's 'Emma' transforms the ponderous and mournful original into a kind of celebration of dreams that inevitably go south. Their self-titled album is crammed with great records like 'That's When The Brick Goes Through The Window' and 'I Don't Want To Be (An Encyclopedia Salesman)'. Click here for more background on the band.

O'Donel Levy 'Bad, Bad Simba'

O'Donel Levy 'Bad, Bad Simba'

'Bad, Bad Simba' kicks pretty much every other jazz-funk/fusion record in to the proverbial 'row z' in a blur of pummeling guitar work.