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HAROLD LAND: ‘Choma (Burn)’ (WeWantSounds)

Born in Texas and raised in San Diego, tenor saxophonist Harold Land began his musical journey in Los Angeles during the late 1940s as a devout disciple of bebop. His rise to fame began...

VARIOUS ARTISTS: ‘Mainstream Funk’ (We Want Sounds)

Founded in 1964 by a pioneering New York record producer called Bob Shad, whose main claim to fame was establishing the jazz-oriented EmArcy imprint at Chicago’s Mercury Records, Mainstream was home in the late-’60s...