There are some good new releases, reissues and restocks this week. Tuxedo return with Tuxedo IV, a nice retro 80s Soul/Boogie album available in limited quantity on Cd and LP. Charly have two very good compilations highlighting the GSF label (70's modern soul tracks including Connie Laverne, Skull Snaps, Anderson Brothers etc) and the 80's Boogie label Scorpgemi (including Shades Of Love, Jean Jones, Royalle Delite etc) There are some good restocks of classic reissue LPs and 45s including many of Studio 16 Reggae/Dub comps, A special price Aretha Amazing grace, Rare pleasure and lots of goodies from music on...
There are some interesting new releases, reissues and restocks this week. Kendrick Lamar has a new album on CD black nd coloured vinyl, Marvin's classic 'Whats Going On' has a limited edition green vinyl release and there are nice Blue Note Tone Poet releases from Horace Parlan and Dizzy Reece. There are 3 limited edition picture sleeve 45s on Athens Of The North. We are back in stock of some great albums from Johnny Hammond, Alice Clark, Donna McGhee, Cymande, Marvin Gaye, Patrice Rushen, Mulatu, Takuya Kuroda and Bill Evans amongst others. A lot of you will have seen the recent...
It's a bumper week for new releases and reissues this week. Expansion release Paradise Projex's album 'I Am You', a nice retro 80's sounding album. Roy Hargrove's magnificent latin jazz album 'Grand Terre' is finally available on CD as well as LP. Cymande return with a new album 'Renascence' on CD and LP. We have very limited stock on Ritenour/Grusin 'Brasil' CD. There are some great reissues on LP including Leon Ware 'Musical Massage' and Eramus Hall 'Your Love Is My Desire', Brides Of Funkenstein, Temptations, Marvin and Tammi, 4 titles from Pharoah Sanders, Roland Kirk, Marcos Valle, Astrid Gilberto...
Jazzman releases the latest installment of Spiritual Jazz volume 17 focusing on the Saba and MPS catalogue with some unusual and interesting tracks. The Montclairs only album from 1972 'Dreaming Out Of Season' ft Phil Perry gets a welcome reissue, and there is a nice compilation of Gene Chandler's Constellation recordings and there is an unreleased Brothers Johnson live album from 1980 (I saw them in London around this time, they were great live). Blue Note tone poet series issue Andrew Hill 'Grass Roots' and Jazz Crusaders ' Freedom Sound' plus Freddie Hubbard 'Here To Stay' in the classic series. There are quite...
There are some great reissues this week on music on vinyl from Bobby Wilson (classic rare 70s Soul), Dexter Wansel (incl The Sweetest Pain) and Freddie Hubbard (Funky early 70s jazz). We have a few albums from the London soul group Sault ft Cleo Sol on Cd in limited supply and a good War greatest hits LP. There are many great albums back in stock as we replenish from the Christmas/New Year rush including some that we haven't seen for a while. Pre-order for Spiritual Jazz 17 MPS/Saba for next week and Paradise Projex CD on Expansion and loads of great...
Bobby Wilson recorded his only album 'I'll Be Your Rainbow' on Buddah in 1975 , in three studios across America. The first four tracks were cut at United in Detroit, arranged by Paul Riser and include the killer two stepper 'Deeper and Deeper' , Northern/Modern dancer 'Let Me Put Love Back' , nice ballads 'Hey Girl' and title track. There are two orchestrated mid tempo ballads including 'You Make Me Feel Good All Over' recorded at Sigma Sound in Philly featuring The Jones Girls on backing vocals The remaining tracks were recorded at T.K.Studios Miami including the standout Modern...
What an amazing start we have had to 2025 for new soul music, last week we had Luxury Soul 2025 and this week we have two excellent long awaited new soul albums from October London and Raquel Rodriquez, both have a strong nod to past greats, yet both are very contemporary. These are both likely to sell out fast. We are also in stock of all the superb Cleo Sol albums on LP and CD and all the Sault LPs which have been very hard to find and are also likely to disappear again quite quickly. We are back in...
The first weekend of the year heralds the Luxury Soul weekender and the 3CD Luxury Soul 2025 box set which has arrived this morning. Expansion also has two new 45s from Jean Carne and Paradise Project, available as regular dinked or limited edition full centre DJ copies. Luther Vandross has a new compilation including the four newly discovered unreleased tracks. We are finally back in stock of Cleo Sol's superb 'Gold' and 'Heaven' LPs , her other two albums are due next week. We have also managed to source a few more copies of Larry Saunders' 'The Stranger' Black Friday...
There are some good new releases and reissues this week and loads of great restocks. Myles Sanko has made another great album available as a limited edition Cd and LP, don't sleep on this as we are unlikely to get more once this batch sells out. Soulutions have 3 very limited edition 7" singles and Lynn Davis 'Beautiful You' gets a limited 45 release in a picture sleeve. Jazz Dispensary have released Pleasure 'Joyous' , a brilliant album, available in small quantities, plus Gary Bartz 'Another Earth' on a high quality reissue. We are back in stock of many great titles...
This week for new releases we have a great new album from London soul singer Lynda Dawn called 11th hour, a fantastic album with a brilliant retro soul feel that is in very high demand and very low in supply so make sure you act quick! There is a wicked 7 inch from Eugene Smiley, courtesy of Miles Away Records, a very rare in demand 45 in the collectors scene with a big dancer on the A side and nice stepper on the B. There is also a lovely Christmas album from jazz harpist Amanda Whiting and finally a new...
