Brand new release this week from Kent, The latest volume in their acclaimed Masterpieces Of
Modern Soul series is as strong as ever and drips with brand new, old
recordings. An amazing 12 tracks are previously unheard and a further
two are very different versions of already popular numbers. Some rare-soul
household names have new material featured on here. Ronnie McNeir hits a
wicked dance groove with ‘Let’s Make A Move’ and Dee Ervin offers a
superbly soulful ‘You Make Me Happy’ – sure to become a modern classic.
The lesser known Joe Graham’s ‘Higher Than High’ is already halfway
there, thanks to advance plays in Europe from UK DJ Dave Thorley. It’s from
an Atlanta session around 1976, in between his Chant and later Hotlanta
releases. Jean Shy is a highly thought of artist who recorded firstly
in Chicago and later in L A. ‘What Tomorrow Brings’ was cut in the
latter city, under the auspices of Kent Harris, it’s a very classy
midtempo jazz infused number. Ramona King had her best-known records in
the 60s but ‘Happy Times’ was recorded in the Bay Area’s GSR studios in
the 70s and is a laid-back gem. Kent drifted
into the late 70s / early 80s disco sound with numbers found on tape
that were just crying out to be heard. Joe Simon cut the unknown group
Cynic on ‘I Want You’ at Spring early in 1982. Detroit’s Exportations
very catchy ‘Second Time Around’ and the equally fast, funky and
fantastic ‘Have A Good Time’ by Atlanta’s Maggabrain were laid down in
the late 70s as was Fox Fire’s ‘Don’t Play Me Cheap’. The early 80s is
the likely era for Melanie Burke’s ‘I Can’t Turn You Down’ which, like
the McNeir and Hodges James & Smith offerings, were Mickey
Stevenson productions made in L A. Kent have
lifted three great LP only tracks from 1975 Fantasy albums by Janice,
Betty Everett and Three Pieces that fit so well into this album.
Margie Joseph singing a Willie Tee song called ‘Nobody’ is virtually
guaranteed to be great music. It is still for sale at a reasonable price, as opposed to the arm and a leg you’ll need to offer for ‘You Done
Let The Daylight Catch You’ by Second Ressurection. Kent even found a quite different vocal take for Phillip Mitchell’s ‘I’ll See You
In Hell First’ and a much longer version of Dave Hamilton’s ‘Who’ as
recorded by the unknown Jackie Dee, it was remixed from the master
tape. Another Dave Hamilton song ‘Must Have Had Company’ by Elayne Starr
has only appeared on one of the later Dave Hamilton CDs & is well worthy
of a rewind for modern soul movers. The highly talented west coast
producer George Semper gives us ‘Doo Doop Dee Deep Doot Doo’ which owes a
lot to the Sly Stone sound of the time and is similarly enthralling.
There’s some moody Bay Area jazz-soul from the Karen Sanders Group;
recorded in the 70s but only ever available on a 2011 US LP. Finally, we
have yet another top quality, unheard 70s soul recording from Joe
Hinton who had many tracks abandoned and left in the vault when
Atlanta’s GRC records crashed due to the nefarious behaviour of its
owner. More info in the booklet for you to read and enjoy!...Not many tasters to choose from as most tracks unreleased.
AMM
The Tasters!
36 comments:
Thanks for another Kent review
Great Tracklist AMM Thank you
Come in all movers and shakers for this set it just gets better thanks for the in depth review AMM
Cheers Pedro
Goodie goodness, another superior Kent-Review, thanks for that ;) :) ☮️✌🏻🌞
As usual an excellent review. Look forward to checking this Kent Comp. Thanks AMM
Great great great! Many thanks AMM.
many thanks for this new one looks so many unissued gems in their vaults
Cheers for this review, Modern soul is always an education for me
Love this series. Thanks for reviewing the latest edition.
Thank you AMM for another great Kent comp, looking forward to taking a listen
Reb
Thanks for the new one
Thanks for the review. Another high class release from Kent.
Thanks for sharing the new Kent release with us AMM!!
It's great to see this series being continued. Please and thank you.
An excellent series from Kent. Very nice review. Thanks.
Thanks for another great Kent compile AMM looking at the back cover I have noted that the majority of the tracks were previously not issued, appreciated
Here is another excellent novelty in these famous Kents so loved by collectors.
Yves
Excellent review MM, thank you.
cheers,ELtel
Some big names on here, many thanks for keeping my Kent collection up tp date AMM
Happy times! 😎 Thanks, AMM!
EXCELLENT!!I`m a BIG fan of the Kent label and this one is new to me. GREAT review!!
Oops I was late to see and thank you for this Kent cd amm!
Thanks AMM. Another fine Kent compilation!
Wow, This Is Something Else,Thanks For Sharing!
Rare gems, love 'em!
Many thanks for this review AMM
BigD
Great review of a welcome addition to 70s soul.
Wonderful! Thanks a lot for reviewing this!!!
/Jumpstart
Here's another one missing from my Kent Records collection. Thanks Collins.
Thanks for the review of another great Kent comp.
A big thank you, AMM.
Excellent review. Thanks
Sounds like another killer Kent Kompilation
Thanks for the review of another great Kent release!
A masterpiece among the Kent masterpieces! Thanks for review, P.
Judging by the others volumes and your review, this must be a excellent record.
Hello AMM,
If could please, thank you yet another brilliant review
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