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Review: Grammy nominee and the 'godfather of acid jazz', Brian Auger is a legendary musician and jazz keys player who has signed a back catalogue deal with Soul Blank Music. Auger Incorporated is a new album that packs in classics and rarities from the man's ground-breaking, genre busting career from the early 60s and on through ensuring decades. He was someone loved by artists as diverse as Mose Allison and The Brand New Heavies and was famously sampled by the likes of Mos Def, Common, Air and Kid Loco, and this collection shows why.

Review: Commonly referred to as a "Hammond pioneer", jazz legend Brian Auger is an endlessly surprising artist. He's been revolutionising the jazz scene since the late 1970's, and it is indeed his technical skills and visionary use of the organ which stand him apart. This is loud and clear throughout the entire length of this second chapter of Anthology by the Freestyle label but, in fact, you get a bit of everything Auger-related. The schizophrenic organ playing is definitely there, but tunes like "MG Blues" or "Misty" also portray a deep musicality around all the other instruments within the arrangement, and it's his layering of grooves which is also constantly fascinating. Put it this way, if you want a jazz album that wanders a little further out into the ether, then this is what you need.