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New Releases and Pre-Orders, Friday 24th February 23

Art Pepper Meets The Rhythm Section is one of the classic 50’s jazz albums and it is now presented in Stereo on a limited edition 180gm Analogue pressing from Craft. Joanne Brackeen and Ryo Kawasaki recorded the original version of ‘Trinkets & Things’ in 1978 on Timeless now reissued on coloured vinyl. To celebrate the 60th anniversary ‘Wattstax’ is reissued as the original Double Lp and also for the first time a complete concert 6CD box set. Also on Stax William Bell ‘Man on The Street- Complete Yellow Stax solo singles’ are issued on a great CD companion to the ‘Complete Blue Stax singles’ issued last year.
There are some great 45 reissues this week Dynamite Cuts present Lightin Rod ft Kool and The Gang ‘Sport’ and we are back in stock of some of their back catalogue titles including James Mason, Stone Alliance and The Moments. Kent has a good batch of 45’s from Classic Example, Jackie Dee, The Hytones, Ty Karim and The San Francisco TKO’s.
Pre-order for early March the next 45 on Will’s Motherlode label, a rare blue-eyed soul single from Stratus
Record store day is 22rd April and the list of products has just been released which you can see below. We will be listing the titles that we will be stocking nearer the time, but if you are planning on joining us on the day and there are specific titles that you would like us to stock please let us know in the next two weeks so we can order them (bearing in mind that we cannot reserve product)  View list HERE
There have been some quite large price increases from many labels including Music On Vinyl, Ace and universal group of labels. We still have a large selection of titles available at the old prices whilst stocks last , but restocks will be between £3 to £10 (a few are more than that) more expensive when we reorder, so take your chance to buy these great albums at the old prices whilst they last. View here
The Soul Brother January CD sale is now on until 1st March with 110 CDs reduced in price whilst stocks last. There are some great Soul Funk and Jazz albums and compilations on the Soul Brother, Expansion and Outta Sight labels reduced to £9.99. Also included are some great contemporary Soul and Jazz CDs including many of the Jazz is Dead series. see the Sale CDs here
The first part of our Lp sale includes 13 great reissues and compilations on the demon label reduced to £14.99 here whilst stocks last. The main Vinyl Lp sale is now live with 230 titles reduced whilst stocks last . All sales last until 1st March 2023. View the LP Sale HERE
The new reissues on Soul Brother from FBI LP and Johnny Hammond Gamblers Life’ LP and CD sound great and have been flying out. as has the Webster Lewis Anthology CD and LP compiled by Will Fox and Ralph Tee LP grab your copies now if you haven’t already purchased
The new 45’s on Soul Brother and Expansion have also been very well received. We still have regular dinked and limited edition full centre Dj Copies of the excellent in demand 45s from China Burton and Betty Everett on Soul Brother and classics from Pleasure and The Blackbyrds on Expansion, see the feature here. Watch out for details of our next 45 soon, it’s a bit special.
See our albums of the day features for some great new and classic albums
We have loaded some nice original 45s this week, see Soul & Funk 45s, 60’s/70’s/80’s Soul , Soul 45’sand Funk 45s. We also highlighted large selections of original albums from Motown stars The Temptations and The Supremes.
Check out the latest Original Vinyl Soul & Funk LpsJazz and Jazz-Funk LPs,  12″ singles and 45s from a recent collection that we purchased. These have been selling fast but there are still some great titles available
You can see all the Soul Brother label LpsCds and singles in these features.
Also all the many great 45’s on the Outta Sight label here.
Laurence