Soulful, seething, poetic and powerful, Gil's early masterpiece from '71 is the one that unleashed the immortal The Revolution Will Not Be Televised plus his classics Lady Day and John Coltrane and... more

Not only was "Los Conquistadores Chocolates" adopted by the early disco movement as a favorite cut, but that tune and this whole album went from being club classics to sample sources for countless... more

Free jazz and Latin rhythms collide (as only Gato could smash them together) on Barbieri's 1969 Flying Dutchman debut. That's Lonnie Liston Smith on the piano, and this is a bold and breathtaking... more

Gil paired soulful songs with extended, impassioned raps (about everything from police tactics to John Coltrane) on this soul-jazz classic from 1972. Hubert Laws and Bernard "Pretty" Purdie are in... more