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Album Of The Day | The Best Of Doug Carn

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...
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New Releases, Reissues and Restocks | Friday 22nd May

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...
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New Releases, Reissues and Restocks | Friday 15th May

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...
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New Releases, Reissues and Restocks | Friday 8th May

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...
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New Releases, Reissues and Restocks | Friday 1st May

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...
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New Releases, Reissues and Restocks | Tuesday 28th April

Sorry for the lateness of the weekly email, last week and until today, we have been very busy with processing RSD online orders. There are many good new releases, reissues and restocks including Mamas Gun Cd, Spring Originals compilation, Smokey Robinson songbook, Doug Carn compilation, reissue of rare The Equatics soul/funk album, and some nice Motown albums. We are back in stock of the superb Bobby Hamilton album. There are some nice outta Sight long out of print 45s and other singles back in stock. Pre-order for Jarrod Lawson and some nice Jazz Cds from the Resonance label out this friday, and Hil...