CONTENTS INCLUDE:

LEROY "SUGARFOOT" BONNER bares the pleasures and pains of the OHIO PLAYERS
Motown co-founder and hitmaker SMOKEY ROBINSON ascended soul's limitations
Detroit collective TRIBE employed jazz to empower the people
JOE CUBA and his Sextet reinvented Latin music many times over
The auspicious apprenticeship of Atlantic Records engineer, GENE PAUL
Jazz vibist JOHNNY LYTLE relentlessly went the distance

PLUS:

Tortoise
Record Rundown with Miles Tacket of Breakestra
Javelin
Gilles Peterson in Havana
Teddy Pendergrass & Willie Mitchell Remembered