Durand Jones and the Indications have made a really good retro soul album in the style of Daptone or DeRobert, we have copies of the limited edition coloured vinyl now with CDs in early next week (probably Monday). Makaya McCraven has another soon to be rarity New Jazz album recorded in Chicago and London on Cd and limited LP. Norman Brown and Keiko Matsui have good Smooth Jazz albums out on Shanachie, and there is a new Brandford Marsalis Quartet album. On the reissue side there is a super rare Spiritual Jazz album out on Jazzman Infinite Spirit Music , the...
We are delighted to introduce many of you to Nadine Lee whose excellent debut CD EP 'Finally Nadine' available from us today. Nadine comes from a musical family (her cousin is Theon Cross whose CD is also available today) and is a mixture of Neo-Soul and Nu Jazz. Check the video here. Also out this week is a new album from Soul Basement ft Jay Nemor, Daptone introduce Cochemea and an LP from Nicole Willis. Back in stock We are back in limited stock of Makaya McCraven ' Universal Beings LP grab it while you can. There are loads of...
There are new albums from Chaka Khan and India Arie this week providing us pretty much with the first new Soul albums of the year, plus Anderson Paak is now out on Vinyl. The Fabulous Split Decision band album is now in on CD and back in on LP, don't miss this unreleased gem. The other three Bubbha Thomas and The Lightmen albums are also in on CD, great rare jazz from the early 70's. Elvin Jones and Jimmy Garrison Impulse album 'Illuminations' gets a welcome 180gm re-issue and check the other vinyl issues including a great soul comp 'Loving...
There are some great new jazz albums this week. The Seed Ensemble are the latest London band to record on Jazz Refreshed and their double album 'Driftglass' will be another future in demand record. Rymden features Bugge Wesseltoft and have an interesting Scandinavian album 'Reflections and Odysseys' and Azymuth drummer Ivan Conti treats us to some 'Poison Fruit' on Far out. Ruby Rushton's in demand Trudi's Songbook Vol 1 & 2 are coupled for a nice double album. Jazz Funk Soul provide us with some quality Smooth Jazz, and Nu Era give us some classic Broken beat with 'The Third...
We are delighted to introduce many of you to the music of Brandee Younger. Brandee is a very talented Jazz Harpist who has made two excellent albums and an EP, the latest 'Wax & Wane' produced by Casey Benjamin. Her music draws inspiration from Dorothy Ashby and Alice Coltrane, is amazingly relaxing but also very contemporary. We are enchanted by and love her at Soul Brother and thoroughly recommend you check her music out. Our long awaited reissue of The Sisters Love 'Give Me Your Love' 45 has arrived this morning and is available as a standard Dinked version or...
It is a bumper week for great releases this week ! Pride of place goes to another great album coming from the London Jazz scene from Ruby Rushton keyboardist Nick Walters and the Paradox Ensemble 'Awakening' ft Tenderlonious and many other great musicians. These guys are on fire at the moment making music to a higher level than ever ! This is essential Spiritual Jazz. Lance Ferguson 'Rare Groove Spectrum' is another great album from the Australian featuring really good cover dance floor friendly versions of classic underground tracks. Reel People's cover version album 'Retroflections' is now out on LP....
There are some really good New Jazz albums this week from Marcus Strickland, Orrin Evans, Antonio Sanchez and we have Detente's debut album on CD. Strong Soul reissue Albums from Ruby Andrews, Street Feet and Clyde King (cd to follow in feb), plus Strata East Spiritual jazz reissues from Stanley Cowell and Music Inc. We also have a limited number of Citrus Coloured Vinyl copies of our classic Gil Scott Heron and Brian Jackson Anthology double LP. Plus there is Aretha Gold , and great Blues albums from Howlin Wolf and Muddy Waters. Pre-orders Check the pre-order section for some...
The next album in the Jazz refreshed series is out this week featuring five tracks from British Trombone player Rosie Turton 'Rosie's 5ive', check her unusual arrangement of Herbie Hancock's 'Butterfly' . Night time lovers 29 cd is now in stock and the Will Sessions and Amp Fiddler 'The One' CD is now back in stock, if you haven't already invested in this great album , grab yours now whilst we still have them. There is an interesting 45 on Do right with covers of 80's soul classics, plus a rare Miles Davis album on vinyl and a wonderful Sun-Ra...
Happy New year to all of our customers, and thanks once again for all your support throughout 2018. December was an incredibly busy month at Soul Brother, our busiest Christmas for 10 years! Just in We have two highly anticipated compilations in store today, Luxury Soul 2019 and Solar Soul, ready for immediate shipping. Canadian Jen Kearney has a good new independent Soul album and Marcus Strickland a good new jazz album. There is a very special limited edition Blue note reissue this week an expanded and totally Analogue superbly mastered Double LP edition of Duke Pearson 'I Don't Care Who Knows...
Not surprisingly there are no new releases this week, however we do have some new Original Vinyl arrivals. We have had approx 150 Soul LP's and 200 45's arrive including many classics and all in great condition. You can see a list of 30 of the LP titles here which are available to order on-line or over the phone on 020 8875 1018, the remainder can be viewed in our store from today. There is a short video going through the records here. Back in stock Makaya McCraven Universal Beings LP is now back in stock in limited qty and...
