The Luxury Soul 2023 CD Box set is now in and shipping today. It is a great value 3CD set featuring the best contemporary soul cuts of the last year , many on CD for the first time. There are vinyl reissues of two classic British Jazz albums from John Surmen and Harry Beckett, plus two previously unreleased live albums from Ahmad Jamal. Plus we are back in stock of a few classic albums from Justo Almerio and Leo's Sunship and some warehouse find of earlier Soul Togetherness LPs There are lots of great titles coming out in January. See the pre-order section here. The...
P.J.Morton's excellent album 'Watch The Sun' is now available on Lp as well as CD. Henry Franklin Jazz is Dead 14 is also now released on LP. There are some great new reissues this week Pharoah Sanders 'Karma' is the latest in the Impulse Acoustic Sounds high quality vinyl pressings along with Benny Carter 'Jazz Giant'. The Art Pepper and Chet Baker Blue Note Tone Poet Lp is also now in along with the latest two in the BN classic series from Tehlonious Monk and J J Johnson. There are soul reissues on Lp from the Whatnauts and Bettye Lavette. Myele Manzanaza was in...
Myele Manzanza delivers the third volume of his Crisis & Opportunity series, another gem, this album features Omar, Rosie Frater -Taylor and China Moses on vocals. Myele will be in store tomorrow Sat 10th December from 1pm signing copies, i hope that you can join us to meet him. Takuya Kuroda's excellent Funky Jazz 'Midnight Crisp' is now available on LP as well as CD. Shirley Davis & the Silverbacks Funky Soul 'Keep On Keepin On' gets a limited ed coloured vinyl issue. Donald Byrd previously unreleased 'Cookin with blue note at montreux' was recorded in 1973 with The Blackbyrds and is...
Hil St Soul returns after 10 years with a strong new album of contemporary modern soul, which includes a great cover of The Ohio Players 'Heaven Must be Like This'. Matthew Halsall has another new EP of Modal Jazz, and Lady Blackbird a deluxe 2CD/2LP version of her great album 'Black Acid Soul' with extra tracks. There are some good reissues this week from Roy Brooks, Fela Kuti, Ahmad Jamal and Miles Davis and more, plus we are back in stock of classics from Stevie Wonder, Bill Evans, Buena Vista Social Club and Billie Holiday. Pre-order for next week for the...
Today is Black Friday RSD and we have many exclusive vinyl titles available in store , and if stock is left these will be available on line from 8am tomorrow morning. You can see the list of titles that we have here. There are also a lot of interesting new releases out today. Joyce with Mauricio Maestro superb unreleased album is finally available on CD ,the Lp is now due in December. Nicholas Payton and Courtney Pine have good new Jazz CDs. There are some good reissues and compilations on CD and LP this week. Yusef Lateef classic modal Jazz 'Eastern Sounds' is...
Black Friday Releases - Opening hours 10:00 AM - 18:00 PM. Whatever is left over on the site will go up for sale online at 08:00 AM on Saturday 26th
There are some great new reissues this week. Joe Bataan's classic Latin/Funk album 'Salsoul' including Latin Strut' and 'Aftershower Funk' is reissued on clear blue vinyl. The Flirtations seminal British 60's Soul album is also reissued on an analogue 180gm vinyl with a tip on sleeve. Elvin Jones has a previously unissued live album from 1967 issued on a 2CD or 3LP set.Bill Evans at the town hall is the latest in the Acoustic Sounds analogue series, Andrew Hill and Grachan Moncur 111 have releases in the Blue Note Classic Album series. Bill Summers 'Come into my life'/'Don't Fade away' is finally here with the correct...
Bluey and Gilles Peterson brit funk renaissance band Str4ta return with a second installment 'Str4tasfear' available on Cd, Lp and limited white vinyl. Robert Glasper Experiment classic first Black Radio album is repackaged as a deluxe edition 3LP or 2D set with extra tracks and remixes. Smooth jazz saxophonist Kim Waters returns with his 25th album 'That Special Touch', and Bill Frisell reaches 'Four' on Blue Note. Alice Coltrane's spiritual jazz masterpiece 'Ptah The El Daoud' is finally reissued on 180gm vinyl on Impulse !, and Charlie Hunter's 'Bing Bing Bing is the latest in the Blue Note Analogue Classic series. There are some...
It's a bumper week for new releases and reissues , with some great new albums from Ezra Collective, Lee Fields and Bunn Debrett Quintet. There are also two more releases in the Blue Note Tone Poet series from Bobby Hutcherson and Harold Vick. There are two compilations of note, John Sinclair Presents Detroit Artists Workshop which has some great late 60's and early 70's Jazz from the Motorcity, and Theo Parrish Dj Kicks featuring soulful house and some up and coming Detroit artists. The highlight of the week though are the new batch of 45's on Soul Brother and Expansion, with killer cuts from Betty...
Gil Scott Heron 'Pieces Of A Man' is one of the all time great albums of our music. It is now reissued with an all analogue sound on a 2LP set from BGP to give possibly the best sound experience to date of this essential album (we still have the regular HQ Lp and CD as well). There are two great reissues on our own Soul Brother label this week. Johnny Hammond 'Gamblers Life' is an amazing Jazz-Funk album from 1974 produced by the Mizell Brothers that includes the dancefloor classic 'Starborne' and title track sampled by Erykah Badu, but is a...
