Congratulations To Gil Scott Heron on being posthumously inducted into the Rock n Roll Hall of Fame. Gil is a one of the most significant black music artists and deserves to be considered in the same esteem as Marvin Gaye, Curtis Mayfield, Stevie Wonder, Bob Marley and Bill Withers. We have been privileged to released many of his albums on Soul Brother Records and compiled an anthology called Messages, pulling together some of his greatest ever recordings. Have a look at our current stock of Gil Scott Heron albums on both Vinyl and CD formats.
Trumpeter Theo Croker returns with another interesting album which combines Futuristic Jazz with the tradition, Soul and Rap featuring many guest musicians and vocalists. ‘Soul Call || Vibrate’ follows the path of his previous albums, a nice mid tempo instrumental. ‘Every Part Of Me’ was co-written by Ego Ella May who performs background vocals, Ari Lennox taking lead vocals on this atmospheric Neo Soul tune. Charlotte Dos Santos sings on ‘Lucid Dream’ a multi paced song, and Malaya on the more upbeat bouncy ‘Happy Feet (For Dancers)’. Gary Bartz joins on Alto and Soprano Saxes on the mellow spiritual floater...
Belgium might not be a country that you might not associate with Jazz music. However there was some really good Progressive Jazz recorded there especially between 1968-1979, the subject of this compilation. Keyboardist Marc Moulin is the most well known Belgian Jazz musician of this time and he has two tracks featured, 'S.U.S' a nice mid paced fusion track by his band Placebo and the break beat synth led 'Tohubohu'. Solis Lacus contribute the title track 'Utopic Cities' a nice and moody seven minute atmospheric groove. Open Sky Unit 'Open Sky' is an off beat vocal track that found favour...
Lonnie Liston Smith's last album for the Flying Dutchman label 'Renaissance' was actually released on RCA in 1976. It is the bridge between his jazzier Flying Dutchman recordings and slightly more commercial Columbia albums that followed. 'Space Lady' and the slightly slower 'Mongotee' are typical Lonnie Liston instrumental Jazz- Funk grooves, with supple rhodes cascading over taught, funky and swollen basslins. 'Mardi Gras (Carnival) ' has a Brazilian flavour and a relentless groove which has made it a Jazz- Dance classic, an uptempo samba with percussive frills and an inate danceability laden with hand percussion and agogo/cowbells. 'Renaissance' is a...
World-renowned drummer Myele Manzanza has made a musical splash over the past few years since landing in London from his native New Zealand. The percussive ripples of his musical arrival have fanned out across the capital and beyond, hitting the right pairs of eardrums successively and accruing him somewhat of reputation as one of the brightest lights on the British Jazz scene, certainly one of its most skilled players. Manzanza, son of the Congolese percussionist Sam Manzanza, is a powerful presence on the international Jazz stage, an inventive and dynamic drummer who brings a particular sense of time and shuffling,...
Cornell CC Carter has understandably built up a good following after a string of strong contemporary Soul albums. Carter possesses a nice soulful voice, and his music is current whilst always having a link to the past. ‘Next Life’ builds on his previous albums and contains a mixture of modern soul dancers, steppers and slow jams. ‘Upside Down’, ‘Tonight’ and ‘Not Possible’ are 80’s influenced Modern soul dancers and ‘I’m Here’ a nice stepper. ‘The Moment’ has a funky groove, and ‘Experience’ a nice mid tempo song. ‘Don’t You Love it’ is a beat ballad/Slow Jam, ‘Sho Nuiff’ and ‘Real’ are old school sweet...
Debut album by the influential gaucho musician Gelson Oliveira, in partnership with the drummer Luiz Ewerling, released independently in 1983, with minimal resources. In spite of all this, they made a unique and very album, with a spectacular musicality, a mix of sounds, ranging from jazz, funk and fusion. Check out some of our other Mad About Records stock, ranging from superb Mexican Jazz Fusion, Las Vegas based private press Funk and Soul rarities, West Coast Jazz and possibly the best Brazilian Boogie / Disco Compilation to have ever graced UK shelves. Their output continues to impress and thankfully we...
Walter Bishop Jr - Keeper Of My Soul Keyboardist Walter Bishop, Jr. recorded the second album released by the Black Jazz label, Coral Keys, a masterpiece of Blue Note-style atmospherics infused with '70s soul-jazz. But a mere two years later, Bishop, Jr. brought a whole new sound and a whole new band into the studio for 1973"s Keeper of My Soul. Contrary to the album title, the name of the band was not The 4th Cycle; instead, as the liner notes put it, the name reflected 'Bishop's composition and improvisational techniques based on the Cycle of 4ths and his various...
Paprika soul—comprised of a collaboration of musicians from the UK, US and Europe—release their first CD of 2021, “Soul On Jazz”. As the title suggests, the album is made up of some mellow, groovy Soul and Jazz cuts with some interesting covers—an interesting take on the Lonnie Liston Smith Columbia classic Journey Into Love stands out as one of the album highlights, a mid-tempo groover with female vocals substituting for Donald Smith's dulcit tones. The leading track of the album Standing Right Here is a bright and upbeat track, peppered with playful bouts of percussion and soulful keys, with Jackie...
Can I Be A Witness - Stax Southern Groove is a great new CD compilation from Kent Records introducing no less than 11 previously unreleased tracks from the Stax vaults plus a further 9 rare or obscure upper tempo tracks. Highlights include eddie Floyd funky soul 'Can We talk This Over', the funky tracks Nightingales 'Burning Both Ends' and Jean Knight 'Helping Man' plus the modern Soul dancers Mel & Tim 'Forever And A Day' , Jeanne & The Darlings 'Changes' and Major Lance 'I Wanna Make Up (Before We Break Up)'. Frederick Knight 'Passin Thru/World KeepsTurning' is an unissued extended 11...
