Feature Group: Album of the day

PYJÆN are delighted to announce the release of their second album ‘Feast’, planned for September 2021 on DeepMatter Records. The five-piece outfit reaches inside the deep, multidimensional well of what is broadly called Jazz, bringing together all its diverse components in a singular, emotional sound. After setting a blueprint for their multifaceted artistry, combining cross-genre sensibilities with ferocious talent on their first two releases, PYJÆN has been busy writing and recording music for their second album, their most accomplished offering yet. ‘Feast’ was recorded at Peter Gabriel’s legendary Real World Studios in Bath over a full week in November 2020....

SOUL ON THE REAL SIDE #14 OUTTA SIGHT presents Soul On The Real Side #14 The architects of soul are back with a stunning new 20-track Spring 2022 collection and, incredibly, almost half of them are NEW-TO-CD! Our show opens with the Grammy Award winning "Color Him Father" by The Winstons. Released in 1969, it scored a #2 R&B and #7 Hot 100 hit for the band and has been covered multiple times including Linda Martell's soulful-country reading produced by Shelby Singleton; O. C. Smith; The Naturals and Bobby Womack. The Continental Showstoppers finally make it to our CD series...

This Superlative set was taped for FM broadcast soon after the release of Herbie Hancock's groundbreaking Man-Child album and finds the great keyboardist backed by the wickedly tight combination of DeWayne 'Blackbird' McKnight (guitar), Bennie Maupin (reeds), Paul Jackson (bass), Bill Summers (percussion) and Michael Clarke (drums) on a selection of his finest tracks from Hancock's classic Watermelon Man right up to the present. Certainly something that all fans of Herbie and the Headhunters can dig... Buy the LP HERE Check out the album HERE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2O-HhaxKonQ&list=OLAK5uy_kA7iU3XJYEp-l_VS9-QxH683t9IYydjk0&ab_channel=HerbieHancock-Topic  

BBE Music presents a brand new album celebrating one of Philadelphia soul music’s most iconic figures, Teddy Pendergrass, remixed by pioneering producer and engineer, John Morales. This exploration of 1970s Philly soul at its apex focuses on one of the era’s defining voices, Theodore DeReese Pendergrass. Born in Philadelphia in 1950, Pendergrass sang church music at age two, and was ordained a minister at ten years old. Having learned drums and played in local bands during his teens, at 20 he was hired as a drummer for the Blue Notes by group leader Harold Melvin. After being spotted singing along...

Wewantsounds continues its collaboration with Bob Shad's formidable label Mainstream Records, to present a selection of 12 turntable-friendly tracks recorded between 1971 and 1975 and showcasing the label's superb blend of Spiritual Jazz, Funk and Soul by the likes of Buddy Terry, Sarah Vaughan, LaMont Johnson and Johnny Coles. Most of the tracks are released on vinyl for the first time since their original release in the early 70s. The comp starts of with a jazzed out reinterpretation of the Marvin Gaye classic Inner City Blues (Makes You Wanna Holler) featuring the vocal stylings of Sarah Vaughan in the latter...

Drummer Alphonse Mouzon recorded this classic Jazz-Funk album in 1981 with Herbie Hancock, Freddie Hubbard, Lee Ritenour, Paul Jackson Jr, the Seawind Horns and others. ‘By All Means’ is a 13 minute dance floor Jazz-Funk magnum opus with some great solos from the main players, especially Hancock. ‘Do I Have To’ and ‘The next Time We Love’ are nice shuffling mid tempo grooves, whilst ‘The Jogger’ is a funkier number. ‘Space Invaders’ features an intense and legendary drum workout from Mouzon. Buy the CD HERE Buy the LP HERE Check out the tracks below; Alphonse Mouzon - Do I Have...

Canonical UK Jazz DJ Colin Curtis returns to Z records with the third release in the Jazz Dance Fusion series, after having released number two in late 2020. Overall, it’s an entertaining and upbeat collection of contemporary and older Jazz-Dance and Fusion tracks, many of which have never previously been released physically. The LP is split into two bodies of work, a quadruple vinyl release comprised of two double albums (V1 &V2) or a double CD. Curtis gathers momentum and pace from the get-go, certainly one of his more Latin accented releases, featuring percussive and frenetic batacudas, sambas, drumlines, bombas...

Wants List 5 celebrates 30 years of Soul Brother Records with 18 Rare Groove classics and rarities, hand picked by Laurence. Barry White ‘Playin Your Game Baby’ is here in its magnificent full 7 minute version. Sweet Charles ‘Yes Its You’ , Edwin Starr ‘There You Go’ , Willie Hutch ‘Ain’t That Mellow Mellow’ , Ronnie McNeir ‘ I’m Your Lover’, Reflections ‘She’s My Summer Breeze’, Four Tops ‘Strung Out For Your Love’ and Jeannie Reynolds ‘Don’t want to be second best’ are among the 2 step classics included. The Mighty Ryeders, Sisters Love and The Voices Of East Harlem...

A reissue of Lonnie Liston Smith’s only live album, recorded in 1977 at Smucker’s Cabaret in Brooklyn and produced by Bob Thiele It features Lonnie alongside his brother Donald in the wake of the success of ‘Expansions’, with a line-up completed by Dave Hubbard, Al Anderson, Ronald Dean Miller, Hollywood Barker and Michael Carvin. The album shows an intense sense of musicianship which mixes up a few tracks from previous records, including a cooking version of ‘Expansions’ and a beautiful take on both Phases of ‘Visions Of A New World’, as well as three numbers exclusive to this recording. Released...