I'd like to thank you all of our customers for your continued support throughout 2015, and wish you all a very happy New Year for 2016. 2015 was a great year for our music, with many great New Soul and Jazz releases. Tahirah Memory, Diane Shaw, Kamasi Washington, Matthew Halsall and Joyce Elaine Yuille were amongst those who gave us albums that we will be playing for years to come. There were also some amazing reissues and great 45's, many on Vinyl for the first time. You can see our pick of the best albums and singles of the year...
New releases just in Just two days until Christmas and we have a huge amount of new titles just arrived. DeRobert has a new mini album,'Got the goods' - what a great voice he has. Nigel Hall's album is available on a very limited Vinyl release, Cd to follow in 2016. We are taking pre-orders for two hot albums coming in January 'Luxury soul 2016' and Peo 'Swede Soul music'. Funky Planet vinyl reissues finally land! The long awaited Funky Planet releases have arrived on Vinyl but not all the titles. We have limited stock on the 7 titles shown,...
New Releases Lyle Divinski has made a brilliantly produced lovely Blue-Eyed Soul album which is easily our album of the week. Sharon Jones has made a fantastic essential Funky Soul Christmas Party album. We haven't heard much from UK Soul/R&B artist Everis for 20 years and he follows the path of Don-E in creating new songs from Rare Groove classics. We have a few copies of the new Babyface album which is hard to find in the UK due to an export ban. Reissues and comps There a couple of good Jazz retrospectives from Jack Costanzo and Oscar Pettiford, plus...
New releases Bobby Caldwell makes a welcome return as Uncle Cool, R Kelly's new album was due in January but has arrived early. Mimika won best newcomer award at the Love Supreme concert and make their interesting and at times challenging debut album which has Sun Ra and Art Ensemble of Chicago influences. Reissues There are some great reissue CDs this week from three of the greatest male harmony groups of all time The Dramatics, The Dells and The Spinners. King Curtis has a 3CD singles anthology including 27 tracks previously unavailable on CD, and there is a 4CD career...
New Releases Soul Junction records have turned up trumps again with a superb unissued album from Elbowed Out featuring recordings made in the late 70's to late 80's. Undisputed Truth's two Whitfield albums make a welcome return on a 2 on 1 CD. OddJob give us some Scandinavian Jazz, and Gregory Porter's Liquid Spirit has a another repackage with extra tracks. Back In stock Vic Lavender's excellent 'Architect' CD our Soulful and Jazzy house album of the year is now back in stock as is Diane Shaw's excellent 'Love Life and Strings CD. New 45s arrivals There are a couple...
BLACK FRIDAY AND SOUL BROTHER DEALS NOW ENDED New releases It's a great week for releases. Sean Khan has made a fantastic New Jazz album 'Muriel' featuring Omar, Heidi Vogel, Sabrina Malheiros and of course his superb Sax playing ,another great jazz album in 2015. Terisa Griffin, Brooklyn Funk Essentials, Nia Simmons and Funmilayo Ngozi have good soul albums. Reissues Gloria Ann Taylor has a good collection of rarities and unissued sides on Luv N Haight on CD and Double LP which is likely to sell out fast. There are good reissues from Tavares, Sylvers , Pharoah Sanders and Ronnie...
New releases Moonchild have made a really good album, that fully deserves to be our album of the week. If you enjoyed the recent Mad Satta and Haitus Kaiyote albums, check out the band who influenced them. Brooklyn Funk Essentials return after 20 years with a strong album. Toni Redd has made probably her best to date 'Her Reddness', Kashif's 90's album 'Who loves you' is reissued with some bonus cuts and Groove Odyssey have compiled a good Soulful house double set of Basement Boys recordings. Koute Jazz is an amazing collection of French West Indian jazz recordings in stock...
New releases Joey Negro has compiled a nice collection of tracks that were inspired by Chic. Mad Satta follow up their superb Comfort album with a 4 track Break me free ep. There is also an interesting early to mid 60's R&B compilation LP and some more reissue 45's from Outta Sight. Pre-orders Pre-order for next week good albums from Moonchild, Brooklyn Funk Essentials, Toni Redd, and a new Soulful house comp from Groove Odyssey plus a great new jazz album from Sean Khan due 27th Nov, Sean will be my special guest on the show on Sunday 29th. Soul and Jazz...
New Releases Angie Stone returns with a strong album 'Dream' , the reliable Pieces of a dream celebrate 29 years together with 'All in', Floating Points have made a very interesting Ambient Jazz record 'Eleana' and rising star Leron Thomas has his debut album. Reissues There are some good reissues from Salsoul Orchestra (40th anniversary) , Cheryl Lynn, a great 2CD compilation of Sun Ra by Gilles Peterson, and a very interesting Anthology of Australian vibraphonist Alan Lee. Rim and Kasa African disco/funk coupling is well worth checking out. Vinyl It's a big week for Vinyl, with the Soulutions 45,and...
New releases Malted Milk and Toni Green have recorded a superb Southern Soul album , which is released today on Cd and LP. Toni's deep vocals and the grooves recall the era from when she made her first recordings in Memphis on Hi in the 70's. Lalah Hathaway continues her fathers legacy with a live album recorded in the same location as his famous 'Live' album. Don-E makes a second volume of Future rare grooves based on original rare groove tracks. 45s and 12s There are some fantastic singles this week, the previously unissued Dee Dee Warwick 'You tore my...
