Ruth Copeland - Self PortraitLimited 180gm vinyl LP pressing with printed inner sleeve. 1970 debut album by Durham born singer who signed to Detroit Invictus Record label, in print of Holland Dozier Holland, under former Motown powerhouse producers. The album is a collaboration between Copeland, George Clinton and various members of Funkadelic. Features the in demand 'The Music Box', 'The Silent Boatman' and 'I Got A Think For You Daddy'.

This CD features the pariing of two hot trumpeters

Righteous meets riotous at the corner of Vernon and Haven

Norman Granz was an American jazz record producer and concert promoter who constantly faced down the authorities across the USA by insisting on staging racially integrated shows

That evening Billy is shot at

with wit and wisdom

Amsterdam Jazz Quintet/ Claassen - Playground

II combines dark

The present release is an amiable

and Giuseppe Capolupo [drums] - refuse to be hemmed in by boundaries

The Grail is both legendary and mystical

Companion and Cub labels during this era

This also includes the use of the Latin language and the decision to dispense with folkloristic local colour