Georgie B has a new Groove Association Cd 'Reflections' which will appeal to his many fans. Another contemporary Uk Soul artist the lovely Natasha Watts has a nice new album available only on a memory stick in the design of a cassette (No CD release) containing music and video material, exclusively available from Soul Brother for retail. There are some great reissue 45's this week on the Soul Brother, Expansion and Outta sight labels. On Soul Brother we are delighted to release Vanesese & Carolyn mega rare 2-stepper 'Goodbye Song' and Salena Jones' great take of 'Am I The Same...
There are some great new releases and reissues this week on Cd. Lp and 7" singles. Will Downing returns with a great new 7 track Ep/Cd 'Pieces' (arriving on monday). Reel People also return after a 10 Year gap with 'Love 2' featuring many guest vocalists including Eric Roberson, Raheem DeVaughn and Chantae Cann. Bob Thiele's son has recreated the Flying Dutchman label and the first album is Billy Valentine & the Universal Truth a great album covering classic tracks from the early 70's by CurtisMayfield, Gil Scott Heron, Leon Thomas and more. The Jack Moves also have a new...
There are some really good new albums and reissues on Cd and LP this week. Saxophonist Lakecia Benjamin has a new album 'Pheonix' , and Jose James a tribute to Erykah Bafu 'on and On'. There is a Cd reissue of the early 70's Soul 'With Love From The Lovelites' (LP coming in the next month) plus a great 3CD Set of Randy Crawford complete Warner brother albums. There is a nice batch of very rare Soul and Funk albums issued on the Japanese P-Vine label from Lemuria, Touch of Class, Tomorrow People and Ron Henderson and Choice Of Color, available...
There are some good new releases and reissues this week. Firstly the second 45 on Will's Motherlode label, a good rare blue eyed soul track from 1977 is reissued for the first time. Come and grab a copy off Will tomorrow morning where we will be officially launching it in the shop, and check out the tracks and a write up here Carmen Lundy is one of the greatest living Jazz vocalists and her new album 'Fade To Black' is another great album to add to her brilliant catalogue, we still have most of her previous Cds in stock, viewable...
There are some good new releases and reissues this week. Nat Birchall returns with another good spiritual jazz album 'The Infinite'. There are also new Jazz albums from Christine McBride's New Jawn and Cecil Alexander. The complete Dionne Warwick Warner brothers albums 1972-77 are collected on a 6cd set, and Raul De Souza's 3 Capitol albums are collected on a 2CD set. There are some nice Soul and Funk reissue LPs from Syl Johnson and Funkadelic plus a hip hop classic from De La Soul. Sadar Bahar and Marc Davis have a good soulful gospel house 12" 'Ghetto Gospel', and...
Art Pepper Meets The Rhythm Section is one of the classic 50's jazz albums and it is now presented in Stereo on a limited edition 180gm Analogue pressing from Craft. Joanne Brackeen and Ryo Kawasaki recorded the original version of 'Trinkets & Things' in 1978 on Timeless now reissued on coloured vinyl. To celebrate the 60th anniversary 'Wattstax' is reissued as the original Double Lp and also for the first time a complete concert 6CD box set. Also on Stax William Bell 'Man on The Street- Complete Yellow Stax solo singles' are issued on a great CD companion to the 'Complete Blue Stax...
Detroit Tribe label Jazz legends Phil Ranelin and Wendell Harrison are the latest artists to be featured in the Jazz is Dead series with Adrian Younge and Ali Shaheed Muhammad which reaches volume 16 !. Blue Note have a new album 'Transmissions From The Total Refreshment Centre' featuring contemporary mainly london based artists. There are also two more in the Blue Note classic series of analogue 180gm masters from Jackie McLean and Horace Parlan plus we have a Rat Pack/Blue note issue of Hank Mobley's classic 'Workout'. We are finally back in stock of Carmichael Musiclover 'Black Elvis' CDs and some nice...
There are some great vinyl reissues this week and plenty of great restocks of titles that we haven't seen for a while. Roy Ayers Ubiquity fantastic second album 'He's Coming' is reissued on a high quality 180gm vinyl with a gatefold sleeve by Elemental/Polydor. It includes the anthemic 'We Live In Brooklyn Baby' original version of 'Sweet Tears', 'Ain't Got Time' and many other great tracks. The same label has also reissued The Temptations classic 'All Directions' and Quincy Jones 'Gula Matari'. Warner has some clear vinyl issues of a couple of classic 60's Soul Atlantic albums from Otis Redding...
There are some great new releases this week, especially reissues. There is a new album, on Blue Note from veteran drummer Joe Chambers. Kent have put together a superb compilation of Loma Northern soul and revelations featuring many unreleased tracks on Cd and a limited edition 7 x 7" Box set. There is a high quality vinyl reissue of Gil Scott Heron's debut album 'A new Black Poet' and a new album from Bootsy Collins on Lp from Japan. There are also a few copies of some great Japanese reissues of rare soul albums from Smoke, The Topics, The Ultimates and more. The latest Blue Note Tone Poet album from...
Firstly, please accept our apologies for any difficulties or delays you have experienced with us this week. Due to two seperate faults we suffered a complete loss of Internet connectivity which also knocked out our phones until late yesterday. This has prevented us from processing orders, emails etc but all is now fixed and all Uk orders for the week will be shipped by today and overseas orders and queries replied to by monday. There are some great reissues and new albums this week, mainly on the jazz side. There are two reissues of superb Spiritual and Jazz dance albums from Carter Jefferson and Tom...
