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All at Ace were deeply saddened today to hear that upper echelon Memphis musician Marvell Thomas has died at the age of 75. Marvell’s work as a musician has long been a feature of the catalogues of almost every label in the Ace family. He’s probably on more of our Stax-derived releases than almost any other musician who ever set foot in the label’s McLemore Avenue studios, given that he was there almost from the day Stax opened for business until the day that bankruptcy forced its closure fifteen years later.

It was 40 years ago this September, give or take, that the team behind Ace Records first made a record. We have been going in and out of style ever since and hopefully over the years have contributed in some measure to the business of human happiness.

By Tony Rounce (with acknowledgements to Heikki Suosalo)

All at Ace were sorry to hear, earlier this week, of the passing of a great soul man and a mainstay of Kent’s catalogue since the 1990s. Whether as a solo singer or co-lead for one of the most important groups of the 70s and 80s, the recordings of the late John Edwards are and always will be cherished by  true soul fans as being among the finest of their kind.