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...
There are two great albums in the Blue Note Classic 180gm analogue masters series this week from Bobby Hutcherson 'San Francisco' and Grant Green 'Green Is Beautiful' check out his version of James Brown's 'Ain't It Funky Now' . Both of these albums are worthy additions to any jazz collection. David Janeway made a superb Jazz groove album ft Marcus Belgrave and Bob Berg 'Entry Point' in the early to mid 80's now available on a limited edition CD. There are two early albums from the Bethlehem label from Charles Mingus and Art Blakey reissued on vinyl, plus an unreleased Ella Fitzgerald Live...
The Webster Lewis Epic Anthology LP compiled by Will Fox and Ralph Tee has finally arrived on vinyl and we are shipping pre-orders today. A great compilation of music showcasing the very best of Webster's Epic years works on a double LP. Grab a copy while we've got them, we've waited a long time to get them in stock It is a great compilation featuring his best recordings from that time plus some previously unissued (on vinyl) tracks. There are other strong reissues this week from Cymande (Orange vinyl), Fela Kuti, James Brown and Mel Brown plus we are back in...
Welcome to our January Vinyl LP Sale. There are 230 quality new or reissue Soul ,Funk Jazz, Hip Hop or Reggae albums and compilations on sale from today until 1st March 2023, whilst existing stocks last. You can combine with items from the January Demon LP sale or our CD sale to optimise postage costs. You can order on-line, over the phone on 020 875 1018 or collect from our shop in Putney open Mon-Sat 11-6. Happy Diggin Laurence
