Acid Jazz, Vol. 3

Various Artists

Beat Goes Public

Includes a Boogaloo Joe Jones track with Butch Cornell on organ, a Maynard Parker track, a Pucho & His Latin Soul Brothers track, a Johnny "Hammond" Smith track with Wally Richardson on guitar and Rusty Bryant on saxophone, a Melvin Sparks track with Leon Spencer on organ, and a Charles Kynard track with Melvin Sparks on guitar and Rusty Bryant on saxophone. The CD version includes a Bernard Purdie track with Lloyd Davis on guitar.

Tracks / Performers

• I Want You Back - Harold Mabern
• What It Is - Ivan Boogaloo Jones
• Psychedelic Pucho - Pucho & His Latin Soul Brothers
• Bad Montana - Maynard Parker
• Zebra Walk - Charles Kynard
• Dig on It - Johnny Smith
• Akilah - Melvin Sparks
• Bowlegs - Inc. Funk
• Theme from Shaft - Bernard Purdie *
• Life Is Funky - Round Robin Monopoly *

Related releases

What It Is was originally released on;

• What It Is, Boogaloo Joe Jones, 1971

• Akilah!, Melvin Sparks, 1973

• Heat!, Pucho and His Latin Soul Brothers, 1968

• Wa-Tu-Wa-Zui (Beautiful People), Charles Kynard, 1970

• Midnight Rider, Maynard Parker, 1973

• Black Feeling!, Johnny "Hammond" Smith, 1969

• Shaft, Bernard Purdie, 1973