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Highlights of the latest issue include : Leroy 'Sugarfoot' Bonner bares the pleasures and pains of the Ohio Players; Motown co-founder and hitmaker Smokey Robinson ascended soul’s limitations; Detroit collective Tribe employed jazz to empower the people; Joe Cuba and his Sextet reinvented Latin music many times over; the auspicious apprenticeship of Atlantic Records engineer Gene Paul; Jazz vibist Johnny Lytle relentlessly went the distance. Plus: Tortoise record rundown with Miles Tacket of Breakestra; Javelin; Gilles Peterson in Havana; Teddy Pendergrass and Willie Mitchell remembered.