(LP) Soul Jazz Records presents - Miami Sound 2: More Funk & Soul From Miami, Florida 1967-74

September 27th, 2024

Standard Vinyl 2LP Edition

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, Paulette Reeves and many more.

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 as well as an exclusive interview with Steve Alaimo, co-founder with Henry Stone of this musical empire. The album also features the photography of 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.

TRACKLIST:

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