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Recommended releases of the week: 15th May 2015

New releases Its a great week for new releases with many fantastic albums this week. Saun and Starr have made an incredible old school Soul album, one of the best of its genre in recent years. Cool Million return with possibly their best album, Conya Doss makes her best in a long while and Diane Shaw's long awaited superb debut is here, great Soul backed by strings etc. Kamazi Washington incredible 'The Epic' 3CD is one of the best Spiritual Jazz sets in a long time. Canadian Jazz group The Cookers make a really good  volume two and singer Iain...
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Recommended releases of the week: 8th May 2015

There are some really good albums this week. Boney James returns with a really nice quality smooth jazz album that features the voice of Stokely on a good soul cut. Ty Causey is Mr Consistent and his Cause and effect album will delight his fans , nice quality mid tempo soul. Confunkshun and Orgone have good funky soul albums and Tortured Soul a good soulful house set. 80's Boogie man J W McGee makes his first album in nearly 30 years. Joyce Elaine Yuille excellent welcome to my world album gets a vinyl release, and on the same Schema label...
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Recommended new releases and pre-orders: 1st May 2015

There are some good albums this week including an amazing live Cd/DVD and Vinyl set from the incredible Snarky Puppy. The Mighty Mocambos serve us up with a good slice of Funk, Reel People music give us some Soul Love 2015 and there is a good double CD featuring the house master Frankie Knuckles. Good reissues include a best of Zulema and Lee Moses classic album on CD. There is some nice Vinyl reissue albums including Ned Doheny's classic Prone and some nice Blue Note reissues. 45's are coming in rapidly at the moment check out Nicole Willis new offering,...
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Recommended releases 24-04-15

New Releases There are some really good new releases and reissues this week. At long last Dawn Pemberton 's Say something album has arrived on vinyl, its a great album so grab a copy while you can. Schema records have two very strong Italian Jazz albums from Yoyce Elaine Yuille - check her version of Penny Goodwin's classic 'Too soon your old' and Alessandro Scala. Greg Hestor and friends have a nice tribute to James Brown album.Shelia Ford has a soulful house album and there are good Jazz sets from Frank Catalano and Sax Pack. New Vinyl  Vinyl reissues include...
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Recommended releases 17th April 2015

There are some good new releases and reissues this week. Farnell Newton teams up with Jarrod Lawson to produce a really strong album. Bluey steps up with his second solo set. The reissues are amazing with Sandra Wright classic 70's soul set remastered CD, Leon Ware's two Elektra albums on one CD, Tyrone Davis, and extended Manhattans, Phyllis Hyman and james brown cds' . Gwen McCrae's funky classic 90% of me is you is on a reissue 45. Big thanks to everyone who came to Soul Brother last Sunday to meet Jarrod Lawson you can see the pictures here. We...
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Recommended new releases – 10th April 2015

New releases Will Downing has produced another strong album of mid tempo tracks, Kenny Lattimore makes a welcome return. Jeff Bradshaw has made amazing album recorded live with numerous vocalists in the style of the Snarky Puppy Family Dinner album. Check out Kim Burrell who is incredible on 'Love'. Lindsey Webster is a new name to us but has made a really nice Soul album. David Sanborn reunites with Marcus Miller to make his best album for some time. Reissues There are some good reissues and comps from classic artists including Main Ingredient, Jackie Wilson and Garnet Mimms plus some...
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Recommended new releases – 2nd April 2015

New releases There are some good new releases for the bank holiday weekend. Ropeadope have three very interesting albums. Snarky Puppy vocalist Shayna Steel has a very nice folky jazzy soul album, Lars Bartkuhn has an esoteric jazz album in the style of Pat Metheny and Ajoyo have a really good jazzy afro funk record.   Cassandra Wilson has a nice Billie Holiday covers album and BBE have an different take on Neo Soul with their on deck 3 compilation. Reissues Reid Inc 's rare TK (Bold) album has a welcome Vinyl reissue. There are also some great new 45...
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Recommended new releases – 27th March 2015

Jarrod Lawson Vinyl arriving today The Jarrod Lawson at the BBC Limited edition Mini LP will be arriving later today, orders will be shipped on Monday. If you haven't already pre-ordered your copy yet please order it soon as they are going fast, and you won't want to miss out on this essential limited edition release. Jarrod will be in store on Sunday 12th April between 12.30-2pm signing copies, i hope that you can come and meet the man. If you cant make it but would like a signed copy you can pre-order a copy here. New releases There are...
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Recommended new releases – 20th march 2015

New Releases and reissues We are delighted to announce that the Rhonda Thomas CD Vinyl Daze has finally arrived, and what an album it is, definitely the best new Soul album of the year so far, and it will be a strong contender for album of the year. The album will be available exclusively from Soul Brother for the UK. The Bill Dickens and Fresh Cut orchestra  Cds have also just arrived. All orders will be despatched today. Apologies for the delay due to the courier losing the original parcel. There are strong jazz albums from Marcus Miller, Kirk Whalum...
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Recommended new releases – 13th March 2015

New Releases Expansion records have made some really good compilations of new material over the past 15+ years, but few if any have achieved the consistently high standard that the Soul Togetherness presents Soul Life CD has. This essential album is almost certainly the best comp of new songs that you will hear this year. Raheem DeVaughn creates a more  R&b and the UK's premier Jazz Warrior Courtney Pine returns with an acoustic album of classic songs. CD delivery delay Please accept our apologies for the delay in shipping orders for Rhonda Thomas, Bill Dickens and Fresh cut orchestra.Our shipment...