There are some great reissues this week, not many but high quality. Blue Note classics series includes two great titles from Horace Silver and Lou Donaldson. Teruo Nakamura's brilliant 'Unicorn' has a high quality remaster on Three Blind Mice from Japan, Alice Coltrane with strings and The Undisputed Truth's first album on Kent. There are some nice 45 reissues from Leon Thomas, Hodges James Smith and Crawford and Terry Callier. Make sure you head to the Latest Original Vinyl page to view all our recent uploads and the same for the full list of titles from the pre-owned CD collection. There was also a...
The Diplomats Of Soul great double A sider 'I Love you/'Teacherman' is now finally in stock with correct pressings, watch out for their debut LP on record store day. Quincy Jones is celebrated with 5 of his classic 70's albums available on high resolution SHM CD from Japan at reasonable prices. Art Pepper has an unreleased 2CD set recorded in Geneva 1980. Hank Mobley has a nice Tone Poet release. We have discovered a small quantity of each (ones and twos) of many long out of print Soul Brother label CDs still sealed, many of these are now in demand...
Firstly we are very sad to learn of the passing of many great Soul and Jazz artists in the past couple of weeks. Gwen McCrae made many great albums and singles and possessed an incredibly powerful voice and will be remembered for crucial tracks like '90% Of me Is You' and 'Keep The Fire Burning' . Angie Stone was one of the queens of Neo Soul and gave us some great albums and will be best remembered for 'Wish i Didn't Miss You' . Randy Brown made some great albums in the late 70s especially 'Midnight Desire' and his modern soul classic 45...
There are some great reissues and restocks this week.Ray Barretto classic Latin Fania Album 'Acid' gets an analogue 180gm reissue on vinyl me please. Coldwater Stone rare GSF soul album from 73 a clear vinyl reissue and a couple of Quincy Jones early 70's albums welcome reissues. There are more Blue Note UHQ Japanese CDs this week, some great titles, plus an unreleased live Ella Fitzgerald album. There are many restocks on vinyl and CD including some we haven't seen for a while. This week we listed some amazing pre-loved soul and jazz compilation CDs from the recent collection of...
Please accept our apologies for the lateness of the new releases mailer and if you have had problems accessing the site in the last few days, we had a server issue which has now been resolved. We are sorry to hear of the passing of Jerry Butler at the age of 85, one of the original Impressions and a great Soul singer for many decades. He made many memorable albums and singles especially his cuts on the Mercury label, recently highlighted in an excellent 4 albums 2cd set on BGO, and later 70s recordings on Motown and Philadelphia International. There are...
There are some good new releases, reissues and restocks this week. Tuxedo return with Tuxedo IV, a nice retro 80s Soul/Boogie album available in limited quantity on Cd and LP. Charly have two very good compilations highlighting the GSF label (70's modern soul tracks including Connie Laverne, Skull Snaps, Anderson Brothers etc) and the 80's Boogie label Scorpgemi (including Shades Of Love, Jean Jones, Royalle Delite etc) There are some good restocks of classic reissue LPs and 45s including many of Studio 16 Reggae/Dub comps, A special price Aretha Amazing grace, Rare pleasure and lots of goodies from music on...
There are some interesting new releases, reissues and restocks this week. Kendrick Lamar has a new album on CD black nd coloured vinyl, Marvin's classic 'Whats Going On' has a limited edition green vinyl release and there are nice Blue Note Tone Poet releases from Horace Parlan and Dizzy Reece. There are 3 limited edition picture sleeve 45s on Athens Of The North. We are back in stock of some great albums from Johnny Hammond, Alice Clark, Donna McGhee, Cymande, Marvin Gaye, Patrice Rushen, Mulatu, Takuya Kuroda and Bill Evans amongst others. A lot of you will have seen the recent...
It's a bumper week for new releases and reissues this week. Expansion release Paradise Projex's album 'I Am You', a nice retro 80's sounding album. Roy Hargrove's magnificent latin jazz album 'Grand Terre' is finally available on CD as well as LP. Cymande return with a new album 'Renascence' on CD and LP. We have very limited stock on Ritenour/Grusin 'Brasil' CD. There are some great reissues on LP including Leon Ware 'Musical Massage' and Eramus Hall 'Your Love Is My Desire', Brides Of Funkenstein, Temptations, Marvin and Tammi, 4 titles from Pharoah Sanders, Roland Kirk, Marcos Valle, Astrid Gilberto...
Jazzman releases the latest installment of Spiritual Jazz volume 17 focusing on the Saba and MPS catalogue with some unusual and interesting tracks. The Montclairs only album from 1972 'Dreaming Out Of Season' ft Phil Perry gets a welcome reissue, and there is a nice compilation of Gene Chandler's Constellation recordings and there is an unreleased Brothers Johnson live album from 1980 (I saw them in London around this time, they were great live). Blue Note tone poet series issue Andrew Hill 'Grass Roots' and Jazz Crusaders ' Freedom Sound' plus Freddie Hubbard 'Here To Stay' in the classic series. There are quite...
There are some great reissues this week on music on vinyl from Bobby Wilson (classic rare 70s Soul), Dexter Wansel (incl The Sweetest Pain) and Freddie Hubbard (Funky early 70s jazz). We have a few albums from the London soul group Sault ft Cleo Sol on Cd in limited supply and a good War greatest hits LP. There are many great albums back in stock as we replenish from the Christmas/New Year rush including some that we haven't seen for a while. Pre-order for Spiritual Jazz 17 MPS/Saba for next week and Paradise Projex CD on Expansion and loads of great...
