Lady Blackbird finally releases her debut album 'Black Acid Soul', albeit on limited edition Lp and Cd for the moment. . Her distinctive voice is steeped in the history of Jazz and Soul, with hints of her influences: Billie Holiday, Tina Turner, Amy Winehouse and Chaka Khan. The album was recorded in Studio B (Princes room) at Sunset Sound .L.A., and is produced by Chris Seefried mastered by Bernie Grundman. The eleven mainly down tempo tracks include the Jazz standard 'Blackbird', and Voices of East Harlem/Hypnotics 'Beware The Stranger', culminating with the dramatic evocative string laden choral 'Black Acid Soul'....
German Keyboardist and producer Thomas Motter returns with another strong album, a mixture of Soul and Jazz, and as always featuring some great singers. Le Nora Jaye's powerful soulful voice fronts the funky strutting 'Closer', which has some nice horn riffs. Karl Frierson sings on the equally funky up-tempo soul 'Eternity' , and Princess Freesia fronts the bright upper mid tempo 'In Time'. Ty Causey smooth soulful tones graces the down tempo 'New Morning'. Menoosha Susung sings and speaks on the melodic funky jazz tinged 'Time' , Vanessa Holmes and Shawn Faye Stevenson combine for the excellent mid tempo 'Nite Shift' and Fatma...
The prolific Carmichael Musiclover returns with his 11th independently produced album 'Slow Motion'. 'You Know Better' is an uptempo stepper that will work on the contemporary modern soul scene. 'You Only Live Once' is a mid tempo beat ballad, and 'Celebrate Life' an 80s style boogie dancer. 'Slow Motion' and 'Happy' have slow jam grooves, whilst most of the other tracks are down tempo ballads illustrating Carmichael's soulful voice. Buy the CD HERE Check out the album tracks below Carmichael Music Lover - Speak To Your Obstacles Carmichael Music Lover - Keep Going Carmichael Music Lover - Time For The Sunshine Carmichael...
Deluxe reissue of Frank Foster's The Loud Minority LP for RSD. Released on Bob Shad's Mainstream Records in 1972, it's a landmark album and one of the key political works of the 70s. Featuring an all-star cast of superb musicians including Elvin Jones, Stanley Clarke, Airto, Cecil Bridgewater and Marvin 'Hannibal' Peterson, it is also Dee Dee Bridgewater's earliest full recordings. This special edition includes a 20-page booklet featuring amazing unseen session photos recently unearthed, an introduction by Judd and Mia Apatow (Shad's grandchildren), an essay by British journalist Kevin Le Gendre and an exclusive interview of Cecil and Dee Dee Bridgewater...
1981 Linval Thompson production, featuring the gold-standard combo of the Roots Radics band and engineer Scientist. This first-time vinyl reissue is expanded in a gatefold sleeve for 40th anniversary with rare and unpublished Adrian Boot photos, extensive liner notes from Michael Veal and Carter Van Pelt, included on printed inner sleeves with remastered, deep groove 12-inch mixes from the same period, Take We Back and Take A Taste. Pressed on white translucent vinyl and VP's period specific Jah Guidance labels. Check out some of our previous Roots Reggae Collections here - ALL of these records are in mint minus condition, the majority of...
The Bue Note Classic Vinyl Series is back with two stunning releases in the way of Grant Green's seminal Idle Moments and Kenny Burrell's Latin-tinged Midnight Blue, both remastered from the original master tapes by Kevin Gray at Coherent Audio, the man responsible for the Blue Note Tone Poet series. As far as sound quality is concerned, these are without question some of the highest quality Blue Note reissues on the market, cheaper Tone Poets if you will. Have a scroll through some of the other titles on offer in the series incase you have missed any Grant Green -...
Outta Sight score heavily again with volume 12 of their great Soul on the Real Side series. 20 superb tracks of 70's Modern Soul dancers and floaters, many on CD for the first time. It includes Daybreak 'I Need Love' , Roscoe Thomas 'American Girl' , Spice 'Sweet Norma Jones' , Falcons 'You Got The Power' , Ruby Winters 'If This Was our Last time', Gloria Walker 'Gift Of Love', Billy Harner 'Got it From Heaven', Crystal Motion' You're my main Squeeze' , Sarah Vaughan 'I Need You More (Than Ever Now)' plus Ellerine Harding beautiful mid tempo 'I Ain't...
Durand Jones and The Indications sprung onto the scene with their classic retro 70's soul album 'American Love Call' in 2019. They return with 'Private Space' another strong album which has both 70's and early 80's Soul influences. 'Love Will Work It' , a mid tempo floater that has that 70's Sweet soul sound and also a nod to EWF 'Head to The Sky. 'Private Space', 'Reach out', 'I Can See' are also nice mid tempo ballads, whilst 'Ride or Die' has that good time later 70's feel. The up tempo cuts 'Witchoo' and 'The Way That I Do' and the mid tempo 'More Than Ever' have a...
Garcia Walker & Durrell are Writer and Producer Vince Garcia (Drizabone), Bassist, Drummer and Keyboardist Mark Walker and US Soul vocalist Vince Durrell, who they discovered busking in Leeds. Together with our friend guitarist Mark Vandergucht (Marlena Shaw UK band), and other guests they have made what is likely to be one of the biggest new soul albums of 2021.'Prayin For The Rain', 'Bluewater' 'Darlin' and 'Gita Have You' are nice mid tempo tracks ,'Stars' is more up beat, and there is a good cover of Beloyd's modern soul classic 'Get Into Your life'. Possibly best of all are the...
THE AWAKENING - MIRAGE The only 'group' on the Black Jazz roster, The Awakening today should be heralded as one of the great bands in early '70s jazz. That they're not is the result of the Black Jazz label's distribution woes; witness the fact that original copies of both of their records for the imprint command prices in the hundreds of dollars if you can find them at all. Mirage is their second (1973) album, the last one they made together; it boasts the same Chicago-based, AACM-centric line-up as the first, with the notable addition of bassist Rufus Reid on...
