Various – Soul Jamaica (2xLP)

Soul Jazz Records' new Soul Jamaica brings together a crazy selection of reggae funk and soul tracks from the legendary Studio One stable, with a stellar line-up of artists including Jackie Mittoo, The Heptones, The Gladiators, Sim Smith, Peter Tosh and The Wailers, Cedric "Im" Brooks and many more.

For a brief period in the late 1960s and early 1970s, between the end of rocksteady and the rise of roots reggae, Studio One released a small stream of excellent soul and funk reggae songs - by Sly and The Family Stone, Diana Ross and The Supremes, Nina Simone, Gene Chandler, Tyrone Davis and many others. Most of the tracks contained on Soul Jamaica were only released on the British Studio One subsidiary.