This week's CD purchases

have included Jackie McLean - Capuchin Swing. RIP Jackie. A Tom Moulton Mix, the latest double CD from Soul Jazz is extended disco bliss - Love is the Message by MFSB has been a big track since the mid-1970's, played by Nicky Siano and David Mancuso amongst others, and can be seen as the anthem of the original disco scene. Strangely enough, Mr Moulton seemingly also has a huge number of incredibly rare Studio One tracks, some of which he may have remixed. Now, if a record company can get their hands one these mixes, reggae collectors (including myself, of course)will be queueing up around the block to get their sweaty hands on them. This crossover between the seemingly disparate world of disco/early dance music and classic reggae intrigues me. I know that punks/soul boys/lover's rock fans in the UK enjoyed a great deal of crossover in the late 70's/early 80's, and I know that David Mancuso was not averse to the odd dub track, and that disco, as with most Afro-American music exterted both a direct (in the form of cover versions) and indirect (Sly Dunbar's 'flying cymbals' sounds was influenced by the drumming on Philadelphia International Records tracks), but quite how Mr Dodd met up with Tom Moulton at Coxsone's Music City and entrusted him with these tapes is a mystery to me.