It's an amazing week for releases with a sack full of great reissues and many top new albums coming back into stock again plus some great vinyl issues. Bahama Soul club is now in on a very limited vinyl pressing, Marc Staggers, Quenton Moore, Snarky Puppy and Dapaul are now available again. The unreleased Sounds of the City album on Jazzman is really good, and there are quality reissues from Harold Melvin, Chocolate Milk , Norman Connors, Pleasure , Gladys Knight, George Jackson and more. Vinyl issues include some great 180gm Blue Note albums, a very late Black Friday limited...
The Outta Sight label follows up their popular No Boundaries compilation with another great Modern soul comp 'Without Limits' . The Joey Negro 'Remixed with love' Cd is back in stock along with 2 double LP's. Harmless records are offering us a 'Soulful Christmas' a great double CD of seasonal tracks. The 2nd batch of Motown Japanese CDs have arrived and there is an interesting Double CD with 144 page book documenting the development of the Minneapolis sound with 'Purple Snow'. Also there's good reissues from JP Robinson, Donald Byrd and more. Plenty of Vinyl releases this week with many...
The James Day Seasons and Reasons CD has arrived at last. James has assembled a great line up of singers including Audrey Wheeler, Gavin Christopher, Donnie and Mikelyn Roderick and written some really good feel good songs, making perfect Soul music for the season and much more. This is a must have album, available exclusively in Europe from Soul Brother Records and we have a few signed copies available. Ty Causey is Mister Consistent and he returns with another solid album, great soul music. There is also a Christmas album from Mary J Blige. The fifth Roy Ayers reissue CD on...
Sulpacio Jones is a new name to us, but upon hearing her Debut Ep , she is definitely someone to watch, its one of the best sets of new soul tracks that we have heard this year. The liberators serve up a good Afro funk album and Craig Charles is back the second volume of his funk and soul club CD. Randy Brecker delves back into fusion for the Brecker Brothers band reunion. Joe Bataan and Brainstorm are amongst a good batch of CD reissues. For vinyl collectors Omar's Album is back in stock on vinyl and there are good...
Uk singer Tyrone lee has made a very good new Soul album, the best we have had for a while. Bahama Soul club have their own distinctive style of dancefloor jazz and the very infectious Cuban Tapes is a great example of it, try sitting still listening to this.Tracy Hamlin has a remix album that puts her music right on the dancefloor. The Motown 7" box set is a great addition to any Soul vinyl collection or DJ Box, featuring many tracks on Vinyl for the first time including Tammi Terrell 'All I Do', These are very limited and likely...
Donny Hathaway is now recognised as one of the all time great Soul singers and songwriters. The discovery of two full CD's of previously unreleased material is one of the highlights of 2013 in our music. They are included within the 'Never my Love-the anthology' 4cd set along with all his duets with Roberta Flack and a disc of his classic recordings remastered for the set. An Essential Purchase. There is also a fantastic 34 CD Box Set featuring every album that Herbie Hancock recorded for Columbia between 1972-88 individually sleeved. Tony Momrelle is one of the leading Uk Soul...
This week there are some good new releases from Quinten moore, Noel McKoy and Los Charly's orchestra. The Love vibes 2 compilation is here at last and there's a good best of Full Flava. The Coalitions is a strong unissued Philly album from 1980 and the Al Green classic album remasters and 180gm vinyl's are superb. For Modern soul vinyl players check the superb re-edit of Loverman Ronnie Stokes 45, which you will want in your collection: highly limited press and nearly sold out. You can now pre-order for many of November's big new albums and reissues. The James Day...
It's a good week for Jazzy Soul New releases with strong albums from Robert Glasper, Monday Michiru, Dianne Reeves, Jason Rebello, and Giovanca. Smooth Jazz fans will be delighted by the Fourplay DVD, those guys are fantastic Live. The Complete Columbia albums from Earth Wind and Fire set has their 15 albums for the label plus a CD of non album material, solo projects and unreleased live material. The Motown Japanese CD titles are now in stock and are joined by good reissues of in demand albums from the Brunswick label, plus there is a good batch of reissues from the...
This weeks album of the week from Guida De Palma with Jazzinho will bring a ray of sunshine into your lives. It is a beautiful Brazilian Jazz/Soul album and the duet with Leon Ware is a timeless future classic. There are also good Smooth Jazz sets from Najee and Oli Silk and Soulful House from At Jazz. The reissues are quite special this week with an unreleased album from 80's icons Aurra, and 3 great albums comprising of unreleased Funky Jazz and Soul recorded in the Bay Area in the 70's under the title of HE3 Project which feature Linda...
There are some really good new releases and many fantastic reissues this week. Rajdulari is a new name to me but she has made a very nice soul/jazz album that reminds me of early Dianne Reeves or Rachelle Ferrell. Carmichael and UK soul singers Charlene and Harleighblu also have good albums and finally the Soul Togetherness 2013 is in stock on Vinyl. There are superb CD reissues from The Dramatics, DJ Rogers, Gladys Knight and Thelma Houston with Jerry Butler plus 5 different sets from Norman Connors. On the jazz side Walt Dickerson's 4 New jazz titles are on a...
