Various Artists - Soul Jazz Records Presents: Soul Jamaica [2xLP]

Release Date: October 10, 2025
Label: Soul Jazz

Soul Jamaica - Soul Jazz Records' new Soul Jamaica brings together a wicked selection of reggae funk and soul tracks from the legendary Studio One stable, featuring a stellar line-up of artists including Jackie Mittoo, The Heptones, The Gladiators, Sim Smith, Peter Tosh and The Wailers, Cedric 'I'm' Brooks and many more. For a short period of time at the end of the 1960s and early 1970s, nestled between the end of rocksteady and the arrival of roots reggae, Studio One released a small stream of superb soul and funk reggae tunes - covering everyone from Sly and The Family Stone, Diana Ross and The Supremes, Nina Simone, Gene Chandler, Tyrone Davis and more. Most of the tracks featured on Soul Jamaica were only ever released on Studio One's UK-subsidiary label Bamboo in small-run pressings and are now consequently extremely hard to find.

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Tracklist

1. Tumbling Tears
2. Turn Back The Hands Of Time
3. Sing A Simple Song
4. Fling It Gimme
5. Soul Finger
6. Groovy Situation
7. La La 69
8. Way Back Home
9. Young, Gifted And Black
10. Up Fully
11. Keep That Light
12. Give It Away
13. Real Gone Loser
14. Soul Bowl
15. Can't You See
16. Someday We'll Be Together
17. Give Peace A Chance