Will Downing returns with a really nice album on his own label 'Song Garden' great to hear his voice again. The Colemine label have introduced many good new Soul artists and their new compilation Brighter Day Ahead highlights many of them, available on CD, Lp and limited Coloured vinyl. Curtis Mayfield's brilliant 'Roots' 1971 album gets a welcome vinyl reissue as part of Rhino' s Black history month series of limited Coloured Vinyl releases, watch out for more next week in the pre-order section. The long lost New York Disco Orchestra 'Reverie' album from 1978 is reissued on CD and...
There are some really good New and Reissue Jazz albums this week. Pride of place goes to Nick Walters from the excellent London band Ruby Rushton, his third solo album 'Implicate order' . Work Money Death have an album with the longest title that i can ever remember , thankfully the two track titles are more economical with words 'Dawn' and 'Dusk' and the music is really good influenced by Pharoah Sanders or Alice Coltrane. Another London outfit Lokkhi Terra have an album with some interesting Latin grooves. There are two reissues on the Black Jazz label from Rudulph Johnson...
Soulutions return with Anthology a CD covering many of their best tracks with new versions of many, we also have back in stock copies of their Fate and Thankful cds. Sharon Jones excellent 'I Just Dropped in' album is now out on CD and Black vinyl as well as the splatter LP. Aaron Fraser is part of Durand Jones and the Indications and he has a nice retro soul album on CD. Emma Donovan & the Putbacks is now in stock on limited LP. Finally we have Jazz is Dead 1 & 2 Lps back in stock but in limited...
There are quite a few interesting new albums this week, plus some great reissues. Arlo Parks has been creating a buzz and her album 'Collapsed in Sunbeams' fits into the Lianne La Havas/Jorja Smith terrority. Delvon Lamaar Organ Trio have a funky album on Colemine, and the Deborah Jordan and Georgie Sweet albums on Futuristica are now available on LP in limited quantities. Justin Thurgur album is new London Jazz with an afro feel and Giles Peterson's new compilation 'Idaba' features South african Jazz recorded in lockdown Cd out now Lp in March. William Stuckey's rare album 'Love of Mine'...
Jazzman continue their excellent Spiritual Jazz series with volume 13 concentrating on music from the 21st Century split over two volumes on both CD and Double LP. BBE continue their rare Japanese Jazz reissue series with Shintaro Quintet and there is a very limited edition compilation of German Jazz saxophonist Fitz Gore with a bonus 45. Lon Moshe excellent 'Love where the Spirit Lies' from the Black Fire vaults gets its first vinyl issue, pre-order Cd for next week. Sharon Jones has a great uptempo Northern Soul influenced 45 on Daptone and there is a new Menahan Street band 45....
It's a great week for new releases and reissues to help you get through lockdown. Doug Carn is the latest classic artist featured in the Jazz is Dead series and the album is now available on black or purple vinyl in limited quantities. Menagerie impressed with their debut 'Arrow of time' a couple of years ago and they return with another good Spiritual Jazz album 'New Worlds' .The Vision is a good soulful house album and is now available on CD. Emma Donovan & the Putbacks also return with a good raw Funky soul album. Plenty of great reissues this...
Happy new year to everyone for our first weekly mailer of 2021. Ledisi's excellent return to form 'The Wild Card' album is now available on Double Lp albeit in limited quantity. Georgie B and groove Association serve up another album of good time songs 'been so long' and Butcher Brown King Butch is also finally available on vinyl .Ramon Valle excellent 'Inner state' is now available on a limited edition signed audiophile vinyl .There are two Blue Note Tone Poet albums from Donald Byrd and McCoy Tyner and an acoustic sounds version of Sarah Vaughan with Clifford Brown all in limited quantities. PRE-ORDER...
Welcome to the last weekly mailer of the year from Soul Brother. Amazingly there are still some new releases out on Christmas day plus some nice long out of stock titles back in stock this week. Today is our last posting day before Christmas, Royal mail have said they will try their best to deliver anything sent by special delivery today before Christmas, order deadline 3.45. You can order by click and collect for collection today 11-6 Christmas Eve 11- 5. Here are some ideas T-shirts, albums of the year summary, best sellers etc - see here Check out our...
The final week before Christmas and there are still loads of quality releases arriving. Luxury Soul Family (2021) CD is arriving today earlier than expected, be amongst the first to receive it and order by 4pm and we will ship today.Thee is a great compilation from the Stax subsidiary Gospel truth out ion Cd today LP set on 8th Jan. There is a very limited Alicia Keys Lp , we have a few more of the Gold vinyl Kamasi washington Lp and back in stock Taruya Kuroda Lp, plus new singles from Allysha Joy and Andrew Ashong & Kaidi Tatham....
It's another good week for releases. Kamasi Washington has a beautiful album 'Becoming' the soundtrack to the Michele Obama Netflix documentary. Gorden Campbell has produced a great album of soul and Jazz 'Conversations' featuring a stellar cast of musicians and vocalists. Doug Carn is the latest artist in the Jazz is Dead series produced by Adrian Young and Ali Shaheed Mohammad and its one of the best so far in the series, Cd is in now, pre-order for delayed vinyl formats. Dezron Douglas teams up with Soul Brother favourite Brandee Younger for 'Force Majeure' recorded during lockdown. Matthew halsall 'salute...
