ADDERLEY, CANNONBALL - Soul Zodiac (Sealed) (CD)

The Nat Adderley Sextet's Soul Zodiac could easily have been buried in a time capsule as an example to future generations of the ideas that were in the air in late 60s/ early 70s popular culture. A concept album based on the signs of the Zodiac, a hip narration, psychedelic guitars and some fatback drums. Paradoxically it was this level of vogueishness, that for many years consigned it to the parts of the jazz catalogue that time had forgotten. However in the early 90s the acid jazz scene discovered it's funk filled grooves and hip hop producers used those very grooves as the building blocks of their own records, turning the album into a sought after collector's item.