Peo have made a really nice new soul album appropriately titled 'Swede Soul Music' and Karl Hector has a good Afro-Funk album. Anglo Saxon brown great Philly Soul album from 1975 'Songs for evolution' is finally released on CD, and there is a good value 3 albums on 2 CD from Jimmy Castor Bunch. Betty Boo 'My Man Flint' is an unissued 60's Northern Soul floor filler backed with the instrumental. There are two great classic Blue Note 180gm reissue LP's from Joe Henderson and Lee Morgan. There are some great new releases coming in over the next three weeks....
Happy new year to all of our customers. Luxury Soul 2016 has arrived and is a great 3CD compilation featuring 35 great new tracks many appearing on CD for the first time. Maze two Warner brothers albums are on a great 2 on 1 cd. The missing Funky Planet title Ron Everett - Glitter of the City is here but likely to sell fast, we still have a few copies of some of the batch that arrived on 23rd Dec. Pre-order the brilliant and much talked about PEO album Sundae soul music arriving shortly, and also check out our albums of...
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...
