Various Artists

Rameses II Temple

Rameses II - The great African ancestor ruled ancient Egypt during the 19th Dynasty. Rameses II was a powerful and renowned Black ruler. He ruled Egypt for nearly seventy years is the son of Seti I and grandson of Rameses I.

CMZ Black Love Music I

Last Poets

1st Album

$13

Pharoah Sanders

Thembi

$16

Parliament

Chocolate City

$12

Reggae Sunsplash

$13

Public Enemy

Fear of a Black Planet

$12

Jimi Hendrix

Band Of Gypsys

$15

X-CLAN

To The East Blackwards

$14

Me'shel Ndegeocello

Plantation Lullabies

$12

Wynton Marsalis

Black Codes

$12

Black Power

Music Of A Revolution

$25

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Trouble Funk

Drop The Bomb!

$15

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Once one of the most visible and winning jazz vibraphonists of the 1960s, then an R&B bandleader in the 1970s and '80s, Roy Ayers' reputation s now that of one of the prophets of acid jazz, a man decades ahead of his time. A tune like 1972's "Move to Groove" by the Roy Ayers Ubiquity has a crackling backbeat that serves as the prototype for the shuffling hip-hop groove that became, shall we say, ubiquitous on acid jazz records; and his relaxed 1976 song "Everybody Loves the Sunshine" has been frequently sampled. Yet Ayers' own playing has always been rooted in hard bop: crisp, lyrical, rhythmically resilient. His own reaction to being canonized by the hip-hop crowd as the "Icon Man" is tempered with the detachment of a survivor in a rough business. "I'm having fun laughing with it," he has said. "I don't mind what they call me, that's what people do in this industry."

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In his brief four-year reign as a superstar, Jimi Hendrix expanded the vocabulary of the electric rock guitar more than anyone before or since. Hendrix was a master at coaxing all manner of unforeseen sonics from his instrument, often with innovative amplification experiments that produced astral-quality feedback and roaring distortion. His frequent hurricane blasts of noise and dazzling showmanship -- he could and would play behind his back and with his teeth and set his guitar on fire -- has sometimes obscured his considerable gifts as a songwriter, singer, and master of a gamut of blues, R&B, and rock styles.

When Hendrix became an international superstar in 1967, it seemed as if he'd dropped out of a Martian spaceship, but in fact he'd served his apprenticeship the long, mundane way in numerous R&B acts on the chitlin circuit. During the early and mid-'60s, he worked with such R&B/soul greats as Little Richard, the Isley Brothers, and King Curtis as a backup guitarist. Occasionally he recorded as a session man (the Isley Brothers' 1964 single "Testify" is the only one of these early tracks that offers even a glimpse of his future genius).

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