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...
Check out the newest 45s that we have from Outta Sight, both full centre DJ copies and standard dinked copies available in store and online. Some other great releases in recently on Deptford Northern Soul Club, Ace / BGP and Dynamite Cuts. Have a scroll through and check out the titles that we have on offer. Check out our previous Focus on 45's feature by clicking through HERE Happy Diggin', Laurence
A curious happenstance in 1966 triggered the partnership between MPS head Hans Georg Brunner-Schwer and George Duke. Brunner-Schwer was in San Francisco to record the Art van Damme Quintet. After finishing the recording session one evening, he and his team strolled over to a club called the Jazz Workshop. Les McCann was supposed to be playing, but this particular day was his day off. Instead, a 20 year old pianist, still involved in his studies, was performing with his quartet. The music’s freshness so enthralled the German that he set up a recording session on the spot. This encounter between George Duke and Hans Georg Brunner-Schwer in sunny California was both accidental...
Myele Manzanza Crisis & Opportunity Volume 2 - A Uniquely Rhythmical and Genre-Defying Experience Soul Brother Records' Will Fox surveys the latest Myele Manzanza Album on Deepmatter Records Myele Manzanza, New Zealand born drummer and son of Congolese percussion master Sam Manzanza, returns with another thrilling edition of the Crisis and Opportunity series on Deepmatter Records, volume two out of five. Featuring a predominantly New-Zealand / Antipodean cast of players—Manzanza on drums and percussion, Ashton Sellers on guitar, Aron Ottignon on piano, synths and vocoder, Matt Dal Din on bass and Lewis Moody on synthesisers—the album was...
London saxophonist Sean Khan has recorded possibly his finest album to date, a tribute to his mentor and inspiration John Coltrane. 'Supreme Love' really is a journey through Coltrane, featuring tracks from each of his different periods complemented by some original Khan compositions in a coherent manner. Sean is accompanied by some stalwarts of the UK Jazz scene Jim Mullen and the late saxophonist Peter King who passed during the making of the album plus friends from the Broken Beat scene Kaidi Tatham and Daz I Kue and regular band members drummer Laurie Lowe, keyboardist Andy Noble and the incredible...
Lee Morgan - Caramba! In May 1968 when he entered Van Gelder Studio in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey to record his album ¡Caramba!, trumpeter Lee Morgan was still two months shy of his 30th birthday, which makes the fact that this was his 23rd Blue Note recording all the more astounding. Having cut his first Blue Note date as a precocious 18-year-old hot shot, Morgan was by now a full-fledged master, his technical prowess on his horn matched equally by the expressiveness and emotional depth of his playing. He had also continued to grow as a composer who could conjure myriad different moods and styles...
