There are some nice new releases and reissues this week. Tenderlonious 'Africa/Brass' is a worthy tribute to Coltrane, and saxophonist Euge Groove has a new album on CD 'The Phoenix'. Must-haves for jazz-heads. Georgie B 'My Time To Shine' gets a limited vinyl release, Masterpiece is up to its 38th installment and Reel People 'Can't we pretend' gets a 7" release. Roy Ayers' classic 'Vibrations' gets a reissue, as well as titles from Musiq Soulchild, Teddy Pendergrass and Big John Patton. As usual we have plenty of restocks, some recent and some we haven't seen for a while. We recently...
There are some good reissue LPs this week from BobJames, Norman Connors and Fela Kuti with Ginger Baker., plus a couple of nice 45s from Kent from Rosie Lopez and The Family Brick b/w Ray Gant. Wendell Harrison 'Tribute To Pharoah Sanders' is now available on CD. There are many good recent and some much older restocks on LP, 12", 7" and CD., some we havent seen for a while. This week we listed some nice Original Vinyl Soul and Funk LPs, Jazz and Jazz-Funk Lps and a focus on 45s featuring some really nice titles here. Watch out for...
Down To The Bone released their first album in 12 years and it's a really good set featuring Hil St Soul, Natasha Watts and Guida De Palma on vocals and some nice Jazz funk instrumentals. Oliver James has a nice retro soul 45 on Colemine and Roy Ayers 'Change Up The Groove' is reissued on LP. MFSB have a good 4 album on 2 CD set and Quincy Jones classic 'I Heard That' album is issued on CD with bonus tracks. The first Soul Jazz label comp 'London Jazz Classics' gets a welcome reissue on LP and CD. We are back...
There are some great new albums, reissues and restocks this week. Jalen Ngonda follows up his incredible debut with another great contemporary retro soul album 'Doctrine Of Love'. Mica Millar also has a strong second album ' A Little Bit Of Me'. BBE releases the fifth volume of their highly popular J-Jazz series highlighting obscure Japanese Jazz from the 70s and 80s. Roy Ayers' classic and brilliant album 'Red Black and Green' gets a welcome reissue. Bobby Hutcherson superb 'Components' is the latest in the Blue Note Tone Poet series. Maxwell's epic debut album 'Urban Hang Suite' also gets a...
There are some great new releases, reissues and restocks this week. Brian Jackson has re-recorded many of the great songs that he recorded with Gil Scott Heron in the 70s, with contemporary singers and musicians to create what I am sure will be one of the albums of the year 'Now More Than Ever'. Haggis Horns sax man Malcolm Strachan has another strong Jazz-Dance album 'Look On The Bright Side'. Rita Satch is an Australian soul singer and she has recorded a very nice contemporary Soul LP. There is a high quality reissue of the obscure but very good 70s...
Doug Carn recorded four great albums for the Black Jazz label in the early 70s. The best tracks are featured on this fabulous compilation featuring 14 great slices of funky spiritual jazz. Then wife Jean Carn was the featured vocalist on three of the albums and can be heard on their version of Bobby Hutcherson’s ‘Little B’s Poem’ John Coltrane unsurpassable ‘Acknowledgement’ from Love Supreme and ‘Naima’ , ‘Revelation’ and ‘Power and Glory’ illustrating what a great Jazz singer she was before she joined Philly International and went ultra soulful. ‘Trance Dance’ is an incredibly intense jazzy shifter. There are many...
Jill Scott 'To Whom This May Concern' finally arrives on vinyl , and the Booker Newberry & Mike Stevens 45 'Just Cant Give You Up/I Cant Forget About You' is back in stock and we have a very few full centre DJ Copies available. We are back in stock of many good titles on LP, 45, 12" and Cd this week. Pre-order for next week the fantastic Brian Jackson album, Malcolm Strachan and a couple of nice Philly 4 albums on 2 cd from Teddy Pendergrass and MFSB, see all pre-order titles here Next Tuesday 26th May marks the centenary...
There are some good new releases and reissues this week. Brooklyn Funk Essentials have a new album 'Black Butterfly' and At Jazz a fabulous 3lp set 'Starbase 17' which features many good vocalists including Omar. Soul Jazz reissue their great 'Best bof Black Jazz Records' compilation, an essential collection. Dansers Inferno jazz-dance classic 'Sombre Guitar' gets a welcome 45 release and Stanley Turrentine soul-jazz 'Easy Walker' is the latest in the Blue Note classics series. Etta James soul/blues classic 'Tell Mama' gets an analogue reissue on Craft, plus we finally have received the delayed and much asked for RSD LP...
There are some great new releases and reissues this week. Hil St Soul returns with another good contemporary Soul album 'Thank You', and labelmate Nornan Brown has a good smooth jazz album 'Authentically Norman' , Zed Soul also has a unique album 'These Words' and we are finally back in stock of Lindsey Webster CD. There are some great live Jazz albums out on Cd this week from Roy Hargrove outstanding 'Bern' , Yusef Lateef, Joe Henderson, Ahmad Jamal and Mal Waldron (all having been RSD vinyl releases most of which we still have available) . Booker Newberry cut cover...
There are some great new releases and reissues this week. Jarrod Lawson returns with his third studio album 'Just Let It' on Cd and LP. Many of the RSD Jazz titles from Resonance and Elemental are now available on CD (pre-order for Roy Hargrove next week). There are some good vinyl reissues from Gap Mangione, Rhythm Machine , marlena shaw and lots of good restocks including the Incognito Cd. We still have stock on most of the soul and jazz, reggae and world and many of the rock and pop RSD titles , including a few back in stock but in limited...
