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This is an early collection that gathers the group's hits up to 1975. While they continued to make the charts (albeit sporadically) for another decade, the Stylistics' golden years had drawn to a close by the time this record hit the stands, so almost all of their key tracks are here. Best of the Stylistics Vol. 2 and All-Time Classics cover different bases, while Greatest Love Hits is a theme compilation with some overlap. Yet another compilation, Very Best of the Stylistics, largely has the same material as the Best of... package. For an exhaustive selection of the group's best work, you'll have to go to the original albums. Top picks: The Stylistics, Round 2, and Let's Put It All Together. --Gavin McNett

Release Date: 1999-04-20, Audio CD, Blue Note Records

Herbie Hancock's fourth Blue Note album with Freddie Hubbard, Ron Carter and Tony Williams defined the sound that his jazz work would carry to this day: funk, delicate harmonies and experimental improvisation all somehow working together. "One Finger Snap" and, of course, "Cantaloupe Island" have become jazz classics. Includes two bonus tracks.

Ace UK's The Very Best of Jackie Wilson is true to its title, from the swinging, post-doo wop exuberance of 1957's Reet Petite (The Finest Girl You Ever Want to Meet) to the orchestrated deep soul of 1971's Love is Funny That Way. All of Wilson's best-known cuts are here, including the string-sweetened ballad Night, the driving, dance floor summons Baby Workout, and Wilson's excellent 1967 version of Gary Jackson's Your Love Keeps Lifting Me Higher and Higher. Here too, of course, is Wilson's signature song Lonely Teardrops, an impassioned, yearning slice of pop perfection. Wilson's particular skill was blending an R&B edge with pop accessibility, and his supple, soaring tenor was well suited to ballads, mid-tempo shuffles, and sweaty, high-octane rave-ups alike. At 24 tracks, Ace's compilation gives fine samples of each, and differs from other sets in its inclusion of more cuts from Wilson's later career. It makes a convincing case for Wilson as one of the most dynamic, talented, and memorable performers of the era.

The legendary soulman's first classic 1966 Goldwax album makes its worldwide CD debut. 2002 reissue features the album in it's original running order (and largely in true stereo for the first time) followed by a generous 12 originally unissued bonus tracks, several of which have never been issued anywhere prior to this release, 'These Arms Of Mine', 'You Don't Want Me' (Second Version), 'There Goes My Used To Be', 'A Lucky Loser', 'Dixie Belle', 'Search Your Heart', 'Sock It To Me - Baby', 'My Adorable One', 'Love Is A Beautiful Thing', 'Life Turned Her That Way' (Alternate Vocal), 'A Losing Game' (Alternate Vocal) & 'What Can I Call My Own'.

Audio CD, Collectables

Momentary Setback takes a trip into the realm of Urban Soul!

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Genre: Soul/R&B
Media Format: Compact Disk
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Release Date: 9-OCT-2001

Release Date: 1998-08-11, Audio CD, Collectables

Release Date: 1996-10-22, Audio CD, Miss Butch Records