An issue of Wax Poetics steeped even more than usual in Heart & Soul – with a great vintage shot of Earth, Wind & Fire on the front cover and an equally great one of Ramsey Lewis on the back! They're digging into the diverse soul & funk of the 70s here as brilliantly as usual – with items on Bobby Womack, Lamont Dozier, Roy C, Solomon Burke, the Record Rundown with the great Dennis Coffey and Billy Ocean (a cat who was for too long lumped into an 80s cultural junkbin – it's about time he's gotten some deserved props for his best Caribbean-flavored UK R&B). All that and the vital regular features like Re:Discovery, a farewell to Melvin Sparks, Magazine