It’s a bumper week for new albums , reissues and singles this week.
Thundercat returns with another zany new album ”It is what it is’ that will please his many fans, available on Cd, Cream vinyl Lp and Deluxe edition Lp on Clear Vinyl in a gatefold sleeve.
James Taylor Quartet’s excellent album ‘People Get Ready’ is now back in stock on CD and LP.
DW3 are a smooth Jazz Trio but there are some good soul tracks on their self titled album.
Tenderlonious has a nice 4 track Ep on 22a and we now have up for pre-order his brilliant tribute to Tubby Hayes Ep out on Cd and Lp on 29th May.
Kurt Elling is now in stock on LP as well as CD.
BBE have dug up a nice unknown Jazz-Funk album from Larry Rose Band from 1978 on CD and LP. The Masterpiece series of 80’s tunes reaches volume 30 !
There are some good vinyl reissues from Eloise Laws, Herbie Hancock (BN Tone Poet), Dexter Gordon and Jackie McLean and an unissued (Oneness of) Juju live album from 1973. We also have back in stock Herbie Hancock Direct step LP.
There are some good 45’s reissues, check out Darrow Fletcher, Jack Ashford, Vernon Burch and Sonya Spence amongst the others.
PRE-ORDER
Pre-order for next week for Tom Misch and Yussef Dawes album, three Blue Note Tone Poet albums and Lonnie Liston Smith’s classic ‘Expansions’ album on LP.
We have also loaded the next couple of months Blue Note albums. The Donald Byrd and Blackbyrds CD due today has been put back to the 15th May.
See all the pre-order titles here.
ALBUM OF DAY
Thanks for the great response you have given to us for our album of the day feature that we have created to help you through lockdown. There have been some great new and classic albums featured.
You can view them and hear them all here. We had an incredible amount of orders for both Sandra Wright and Lou Courtney which are both back in stock today and all outstanding orders will be shipping today. Watch out for some more great albums next week.
BEST SELLERS
See the best sellers this week at this link
#RSDFillTheGap
We were looking forward to seeing many of you tomorrow 18th April which should have been Record Store Day (but is still my 65th Birthday !). As you know this has been postponed until 20th June and we look forward to seeing you then if that is possible.
RSD is a major event and the lifeblood for all independent record stores including Soul Brother Records where it (with the Online RSD the weekend after) represents approx 10% of our total annual turnover.
The good people at RSD have come up with the idea of ‘Fill the gap’
where you can help support RSD shops like ourselves by buying an album on the day that you always intended to buy and fill the gap in your collection.
See their idea in full here. We have published many lists of classic albums and below are a few ideas for you below.
An introduction to Blue Note – 10 albums you MUST hear
Blue Note is the most famous Jazz label of all time and Malcolm has selected 10 classic Blue Note albums that you should hear. See the selection here
We also have published a list of all the Blue Note albums we currently have on reissue vinyl here.
We have temporarily reduced the price of many classic albums on Vinyl to £14.99 until 1st June, see the list here. There are some essential albums included
We have extended the selection in our popular 5 for £25 CD sale to include a great Chaka Khan 2cd collection, many classic Al Green albums and Brownswood’s recent Australian jazz collection ‘sunnyside Up’ . There are many great albums and compilations from the Soul Brother, Expansion and Outta Sight labels included at only £6.99 each or 5 for £25 in a deal. See the deal here
We have also reduced in price to £9.99 many great Soul brother CD titles and recent albums including many of last year’s best. See the deal here
Over the past 23 years we have issued many great albums and singles on the Soul Brother label which you can see here.
Bill Withers was one of the greatest songwriters and artists of our music and Malcolm has written a great tribute to him here. We are now back in stock of all the LP titles (except +Justments which is being repressed) and all outstanding orders have now been shipped earlier in the week.
Collector’s Vinyl
Recent original Vinyl Soul and Jazz LP arrivals can be seen here, there are some great collectors items still available.
Recent Original vinyl 12″ singles and Original vinyl 45’s can be seen here.
The massive range of Outta Sight Modern and Northern Soul 45’s can be seen here.
Radio Show
Our usual spot on Solar will be suspended for the time being as we practise responsible social distancing by not putting ourselves or others at risk, both by travelling to the studio and also being in the studio. We think that the health of ourselves and others while also protecting the NHS is important at this time.
We are however going to continue to bring you the best weekly releases and collector’s pieces with a weekly two-hour mix that you can find on our Mixcloud. At present we don’t have the facility to record voiceovers, but hopefully you can still enjoy the music. Find the latest show here.
Thank you to everyone for the continued support.
Laurence and Jason.
