Soul Jazz Records are issuing this album as a one-off pressing special coloured vinyl edition, fully remastered and with exact reproduction artwork especially for Black Friday 2024. Superb rare independent funk and soul album originally released in the USA in 1977 issued for the first time ever on Soul Jazz Records. This lost album is a classic, packed full of spaced-out funk, soul, boogie, jazz-funk and more. In similar vein to groups such as Mandrill, Jimmy Castor Bunch, The Blackbyrds, Pleasure and Kool and the Gang, Tribe blends together elements of funk, jazz, rock, latin and soul music into a unique sound (their first album was aptly named ‘Ethnic Stew’). Tribe was the brainchild of multi-instrumentalist Earl J Foster, who put together the band along with producer Big Dee Ervin in 1974. Aside from Earl Foster the band features Clyde Jardine Powell on bass, Billy Soto on guitar, Jimmie A. Clapper on sax, Benjamin Taylor and Harold Clayton on vocals and Harold Davis on drums. The group made three albums, but ‘Dedication’ remains their tour de force, a fantastic slice of spaced out funk, jazz and soul.