Bruno Mars teams up with Anderson Paak for an evening with Silk Sonic, which musically has its roots in 70's Harmony Soul. The ever consistent Ty Causey returns with 'U Turn' which sounds like one of his better albums with some more uptempo grooves. Former Nicola Conte vocalist Melaine Charles finally makes a full album It's a tribute to female Jazz vocalists 'Y'all Don't Really Care About Black women' covering some classic songs from the Verve catalogue, a few of them mixed with the original vocals and rather good !. Elaine Elias has a new album on CD, pre-order the delayed LP. Bad...
Pieces Of A Dream return with a new smooth jazz album 'Fired Up' celebrating over 40 years of music. Curtis Harding sits at the edge of raw soul and blues and his new album 'If Words Were Flowers' should please his fans and maybe gain him some new ones. Tenderlonious has a new album 'Still Flute' and Tony Allen & Hugh Masekela 'Rejoice' has a special edition with additional tracks. There are some good vinyl reissues from Ian Carr's Nucleus, Charles Mingus on Impulse Acoustic Sounds Analogue, Fela Kuti on splatter vinyl plus we have found some old Ace titles...
Theo Croker's album 'BLK2Life - A Future Past' is now out on LP as well as CD, it is an amazing album blending futuristic jazz with tradition. Lonnie liston Smith's superb final Flying Dutchman studio album 'Renaissance' is reissued and remastered on CD. 'Utopic Cities' is a fine compilation of progressive Belgian Jazz from 1968-79 featuring Marc Moulin's Placebo, Open Sky Unit, Clarke-Boland Big band and many others. The fantastic songs of Curtis Mayfield recorded by other artists are featured on a new Kent compilation 'People Get ready'. One of Pharoah Sanders late 80's albums 'Africa' is issued on CD, LP to follow. There is...
We are delighted to present Wants List 5 , a Soul Brother 30th anniversary edition on CD , (LP to follow, most likely in 2022) A compilation of Rare Groove classics and rarities. As a few of you have asked, Laurence will sign copies (please order the signed copy option). Nubya Garcia has a remix of The Source album : Source We Move on Cd and limited LP. There is a major discovery of John Coltrane A Love Supreme - Live in Seattle an unreleased live version of his seminal album, and the latest in the Blue Note Classic series of analogue...
Cornell CC Carter returns with another strong independent Soul album 'Next Life' . The fabulous Daptone Super Soul revue album is now out on CD, Bad bad Not Good have a good new album ft Brandee Younger, Terrance martin and many others, and there are new albums from Herb Alpert and Jam & lewis. Norah Jones has a Christmas album and there is another classic James Brown album 'Hot Pants' released on CD. There are some good Jazz Vinyl reissues this week two Horace Tapscott Nimbus albums on Pure Pleasure, Yusef Lateef great 'Blue Lateef' is back on stock, Freddie Hubbard...
The amazing Daptone Super Soul Revue concert is captured on a 5LP set, Cd to follow , I was privileged to witness the entire 3 hour continuous show at Shepherds Bush Empire, this album was recorded at the famous Apollo Theatre NY in December 2014, possibly the last time that Sharon Jones and Charles Bradley played together with all these great artists and musicians. Kool And The Gang return with their first new album in 14 years. There are two great reissues on the Black Jazz label on both CD and LP from Walter Bishop and Rudolph Johnson and we are back in stock...
Adrian Younge and Ali Shaheed Muhammad bring us Jazz Is Dead 9 - The Instrumentals , seeming completing their series. Wayne Shorter 'All Seeing Eye' is the latest album in the Blue Note Tone Poet Series. Full Flava have a remix Double CD and Paprika Soul reappear with a nice album with takes on classic Soul and Jazz tracks along with remixes. The Steely Dan and Donald Fagan Live albums are now also out on vinyl and we are back in stock of Lady Blackbird 'Black Acid Soul' on Cd and LP - see her on Later with Jools Holland...
One of the finest contemporary Soul male vocalists Anthony Hamilton returns with his first album in a few years, we have missed his rich tones. Trumpeter Theo Croker has a new album, which like the Hamilton set, reflects on our music's great history. Web Web & Max Here have a very nice contemporary spiritual Jazz album and Al Green's hits are given an orchestral backing. Kent have a superb new compilation 'Can I Be A Witness' featuring many previously unreleased and rare tracks from the Stax vaults. There are two new Audiophile quality Blue Note reissues from Herbie Hancock and Eric Dolphy in...
Lady Blackbird's long awaited debut album 'Black Acid Soul' is finally here in limited quantities, grab this while you can. Vincent Ingala keeps the Smooth Jazz flame alive and there is a good Sweet inspirations 3cd Atlantic recordings set. James Brown's second best album (after The Payback) 'There It Is' gets a welcome CD release, and there is a good Belgium Jazz retrospective 'Utopic Cities'. Two of The Isley Brothers early 70's T neck albums get a limited edition coloured vinyl release '3+3' and 'Givin it Back' .There are four albums on the superb Mad about records label his week,...
Carmichael Musiclover returns with another strong album 'Slow Motion' and we are back in stock of his 'Lifeline' and 'The Best Thing Yet' CDs. Thomas Motter has created another good contemporary Soul/Jazz album 'Time' featuring many great vocalists inc Le Nora Jaye, Princess Freesia, Karl Freeson, Ty Causey and many more. Aretha Franklin has her first ever career wide compilation including some unreleased tracks, available on CD, 4CD box set and 2LP set. Art Blakey 'Moanin' in the Blue Note classic LP series is finally available, and a rare 60's British Jazz album from The New Jazz Orchestra is reissued on vinyl. Al-Dos...
