There are some great new releases this week (the best for many weeks) and an amazing quantity of high quality Blue Note Japanese Cds. Don Glori has made two previous excellent albums but really steps up a gear for 'Paper Can't Wrap Fire' his most sophisticated to date, a great album. Tanika Charles also makes a great new album 'Reasons To Stay' mixed by Kelly Finnegan and Jose James '1978 Revenge Of The Dragon' continues his legacy and Brandon Woody makes his debut on Blue Note. Alfredo De La Fe superb 'Alfredo' including his classic 'Too Hot To Trot' and...
This week for new reissues there is a brilliant rare jazz album from the John Cameron Quintet. Elsewhere we are back in stock of some classic Blue Note titles, D'angelo, Stevie Wonder and so on. Pre-order for the next few weeks includes some brilliant titles. We have a new album from Jose James, Don Glori, and the new edition of Nighttime Lovers vol 36. There is also some brilliant reissued 45s on Expansion and Outta Sight and Bobby Lyle's amazing album The Genie is reissued on the one an only Soul Brother Records. See all Pre-order titles HERE. Yesterday we...
There are some good reissues and restocks this week. We have a small batch of Japanese LP reissues of rare soul and jazz albums in limited quantities. These include super rarities like A Taste of Ricardo Marrero and Tomorrow's People 'Open Soul', and Copeland Davis group check the superb modern soul cut 'Morning Spring'. Ace have the second volume of Isaac Hayes Hot Buttered Soul singles collection and two good comps This is Northern Soul and This is Funky Jazz, plus five new 45s including an unreleased Valarie Simpson single. Loads of great restocks including some nice titles on Pure...
This week is a good week for new releases, we have in Chicago Gangsters' album Gangster Love, their second album originally released in 1976 this is the first time it is available on vinyl. CD copies also available. There is also Charlies Rouse's brilliant album 'Two Is One' a funky jazz album from Strata East. Pharoah Sanders' Izipho Zam is now out on CD, we also have a nice Marlena Shaw EP and a live album at The Five Spot from Kenny Burrell and Art Blakey. Childish Gambino's album from 2024 is also gets a vinyl release. Elsewhere in the...
There are some good new releases, reissues and restocks this week. The Diplomats of Soul have released many good singles now collected together for the first time on an LP on Expansion. Lynda Dawn's great album 11th Hour is now available again in small quantities, it sold out in a day last time, so grab your copy now if you missed it. Harold Melvin's classic album 'Wake Up Everybody' is now issued on limited edition Green vinyl and Don Julian funky soundtrack 'Savage' gets a welcome reissue. Some of the RSD titles from Gil Scott Heron, Bill Evans , Freddie...
As you will have noticed this feature is coming to you a day early, this is because this Saturday is Record Store Day 2025! There will be plenty of information on that tomorrow including staff picks, opening times etc. If you haven't looked at the full list make sure you check it out before coming. We are looking forward to seeing as many of you here as possible on the day to celebrate so do drop in to say hi. FULL RSD 2025 LIST In terms of new releases this week we have a great debut album from The Altons...
There are some great new releases, reissues and restocks this week. Windy Karigianes has made one of the best retro early 80's grooves that we have heard in a while sound like something Teena Marie may have recorded and the Georgie B remix has it to a tee, available as a regular dinked or limited edition full centre DJ Copy 45. There are new albums on vinyl and CD from Butcher Brown, Joe Armon Jones,The Sure Fire Soul Ensemble and Kaidi Tatham. There are high quality analogue remasters of some classic albums from Donny Hathaway on Speakers Corner and Lonnie Liston Smith...
There are some great reissues this week, not many but high quality. Blue Note classics series includes two great titles from Horace Silver and Lou Donaldson. Teruo Nakamura's brilliant 'Unicorn' has a high quality remaster on Three Blind Mice from Japan, Alice Coltrane with strings and The Undisputed Truth's first album on Kent. There are some nice 45 reissues from Leon Thomas, Hodges James Smith and Crawford and Terry Callier. Make sure you head to the Latest Original Vinyl page to view all our recent uploads and the same for the full list of titles from the pre-owned CD collection. There was also a...
The Diplomats Of Soul great double A sider 'I Love you/'Teacherman' is now finally in stock with correct pressings, watch out for their debut LP on record store day. Quincy Jones is celebrated with 5 of his classic 70's albums available on high resolution SHM CD from Japan at reasonable prices. Art Pepper has an unreleased 2CD set recorded in Geneva 1980. Hank Mobley has a nice Tone Poet release. We have discovered a small quantity of each (ones and twos) of many long out of print Soul Brother label CDs still sealed, many of these are now in demand...
Firstly we are very sad to learn of the passing of many great Soul and Jazz artists in the past couple of weeks. Gwen McCrae made many great albums and singles and possessed an incredibly powerful voice and will be remembered for crucial tracks like '90% Of me Is You' and 'Keep The Fire Burning' . Angie Stone was one of the queens of Neo Soul and gave us some great albums and will be best remembered for 'Wish i Didn't Miss You' . Randy Brown made some great albums in the late 70s especially 'Midnight Desire' and his modern soul classic 45...
