SOUL JAZZ RECORDS PRESENTS
MIAMI SOUND 2 - MORE FUNK & SOUL FROM MIAMI 1967-74 - LP

UPC: 5026328005416
Label: SOUL JAZZ
Format: LP
Release Date: September 27, 2024
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Soul Jazz Records’ new Miami Sound 2 is a superlative collection of 70s soul, funk, disco and boogie featuring tracks from legendary artists such as Betty Wright, Timmy Thomas, Gwen McRae, Milton Wright, T-Connection and many more, all released on the mighty TK Records musical empire based in Miami, Florida.

Throughout the 1970s founder Henry Stone’s TK Records rose up to be one of the most important forces in black music, successfully pioneering the evolution in musical fashions from the early gritty funk and soul at the start of the decade to the arrival of disco in the mid-70s.

This album is a rollercoaster journey across soul, funk, disco and boogie, a party-rocking dancefloor-filling collection of monster tracks that includes million-selling hits such as Betty Wright’s classic ‘Clean Up Woman’, Timmy Thomas’s ‘Why Can’t We Live Together’, T-Connection’s ‘Do What You Wanna Do’, anthemic rare groove club hits including Gwen McCrae’s massive ‘All This Love I’m Giving’ and Milton Wright’s ‘Keep It Up’, plus a host of hard-to-find gems and rarities from the likes of Raw Soul Express, Chocolate Clay, Beginning of the End, Robert Moore, Clarence Reid, Little Beaver and Paulette Reeves.

TK Records functioned more like a close-knit family than a typical record company. Based in the industrial Hialeah district of Miami, music man Henry Stone surrounded himself with a host of creative artists, musicians, songwriters and producers who created an immediately identifiable TK sound as well as making musical stars out of many of its artists.

Miami Sound 2 comes with extensive sleevenotes, an exclusive interview with Steve Alaimo, co-founder with Henry Stone, and photography by TK in-house photographer Larry Warmoth, whose rarely seen striking and unique images of Gwen McRae, Betty Wright, Clarence Reid and others offer a fascinating window into the pioneering record company.

TRACK LIST:

1. Betty Wright – Clean Up Woman
2. Miami – Party Freaks
3. Gwen McRae – All This Love That I'm Givin'
4. Beginning Of The End – Monkey Tamarind
5. Latimore – I Get Lifted
6. Raw Soul Express – Burn The Candle
7. Chocolateclay – Free (I'll Always Be)
8. Betty Wright – I Love The Way You Love
9. Little Beaver – Concrete Jungle
10. Jimmy 'Bo' Horne – Clean Up Man
11. Timmy Thomas – Africano
12. Charles Allen – Winterman
13. T Connection – Do What You Wanna Do
14. Robert Moore – Jimmie Bo Charlie
15. Milton Wright – Keep It Up
16. Clarence Reid – Ten Tons Of Dynamite
17. Timmy Thomas – Why Can't We Live Together
18. Little Beaver – We Three
19. Paulette Reaves – Do It Again
20. Lynn Williams – Kisses, Kisses, Kisses