Sorry for the delay in sending this week's new releases and for not being open on Thursday, Will unfortunately is ill with Covid we wish him better soon, so I am running the shop on my own. It's another big week for releases , especially on vinyl. Alex Malheiros from Azymuth has a new solo album 'Tempo Futuros' on LP , pre-order the cd for next week. Common has pt 2 of A Beautiful Revolution and Matthew Halsall has a live version of Salute To The Sun Live At Halle St Peter's. There are great reissues from Sly and the family stone 50th anniversary red vinyl...
The Jazz is Dead series reaches no 10 with a remix album featuring mixes of one track from each of the featured artists remixed by Kaidi Tatham, DJ Spinna and Georgia Anne Muldrow amongst others. Kahil El Zabar has another good new Spiritual Jazz album and there are also new Jazz albums from Theon Cross, The Cookers, Nicolas Payton, Kenny G and Jonathan Blake, most only on CD at the moment with vinyl to come later once pressed. Floating Points album gets a limited coloured vinyl pressing, Matata 'Independence' classic afro -funk album gets a welcome vinyl reissue and there are two...
Gregory Porter's 'Still Rising' is now available on vinyl, Low Rider Soul 2 CD compilation highlights some great mid tempo Soul ballads. There are some good vinyl reissues this week from Charles Mingus (Acoustic sounds), Pharoah Sanders, The Meters plus a couple of great Christmas albums from Vince Guaraldi and Jackson 5. Singles reissues from The Whatnauts and New Orleans Funk 45s from Soul Jazz. Check out our best sellers here, there have been some great albums out recently See our pre-order items here Our albums of the day features highlight some great Contemporary and Classic albums. Don't miss out on some great albums in our...
Black Friday RSD releases are available in store from 10am Friday 26th November and any remaining stock will be available on line from 8am Saturday November 27th November.
Makaya McCraven has recorded an album covering classic Blue Note tracks 'Deciphering The Message' making them more accessible to a new audience. Ill Considered are a long standing London new jazz band who make their first distributed album 'Liminal space' Cd out now Lp to follow in 2022. Kaidi Tatham 'Kaidi's 5ive get a limited Lp run, and Incognito have a great 106 track, 8cd retroprospective 'Always There 1981-202' including unreleased tracks and remixes. 'Satisfaction Guaranteed' is the second volume of the Philadelphia international 50th anniversary CD box sets. West Coast Revival, an almost impossible to find rare groove album, gets a welcome...
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...
