Plastic Little

Maybe it's all the coffee and marshmallows I've been eating, but, I like

One more Rose

This is the best yet description of the things the Board of Overseers at Brandeis did not think about. I'm sure the Related Use Rule of the 2006 Pension Protection Act did not come into their Overseeing.

Mulatu Astatke and Heliocentrics?

Digging suggestions

I love 1970, 1972, and 1974. Why?

1970-

• Hubert Laws- Afro Classic
• Grant Green- Alive
• Curtis Mayfield- Curtis
• Maceo and All the King's Men- Doing Their Own Thing
• Donald Byrd- Electric Byrd
• Quincy Jones- Gula Matari
• King Hebert- King Hebert and the Knights with Jack Harden
• Miles Davis- Live Evil
• Mandrill- Mandrill
• Airto Moreira- Natural Feelings
• Dizzy Gillespie- The Real Thing
• Freddie Hubbard- Red Clay
• Freddie Hubbard- Straight Life
• Galt MacDermot- Two Gentlemen of Verona
• Brothers Unlimited- Who's for the Young?

1972-

• Black Heat- Black Heat
• Esther Phillips- Alone Again Naturally
• Eumir Deodato- Prelude
• Fred Wesley & the J.B.'s- Food for Thought
• Freddie Hubbard- Sky Dive
• Funk Inc. Chicken Lickin'
• The Jimmy Castor Band- It's Just Begun
  
• The Jimmy Castor Band- Phase Two
• Jimmy Smith- Root Down
• The Lafayette Afro Rock Band- Malik
• Les McCann- Layers
• Mandrill- Mandrill Is
• Osibisa- Heads
• The Politicians- Psycha-Soula-Funkadelic
• Randy Weston- Blue Moses

1974

• Airto Moreira- Virgin Land
• Bill Withers- +'Justments
• Eddie Russ- Fresh Out
• Grover Washington- Mister Magic
• Herbie Hancock- Dedication
• Herbie Hancock- Thrust
• Idris Muhammad- Power of Soul
• Joe Farrell- Upon this Rock
• O'Donel Levy- Dawn of a New Day

And that's the obvious stuff that I feel like mentioning. Pete Moore, Tom Scott, The Three Degrees, The Whatnauts, Lou Donaldson, The Meters, Manu Dibango? How could you not love those years?