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New releases and pre-orders 21st August 2020

It’s a great week for New London Jazz with the full debut album from Nubya Garcia on Concord available on CD, DLP and very limited Coloured vinyl.
Tenderlonius has recorded an album during lockdown ‘Quarantena’ which is limited as well and likely to sell out fast, so grab both of those now if you want them.
Adrian Younge and Shaheed mohameed ink up with Roy Ayers for Jazz is Dead 2 , probably Roy’s best work in 35 years now available on LP and CD. Hiatus Kaiyote’s modern classic is now available on limited coloured vinyl, and Seun Kuti has a Night dreamer direct to disc session with Egypt 80.


PRE-ORDER

Pre-order for next week for Gregory Porter, Brit Funk Association, and the next four Blue Note Tone Poet albums with more to be added during the week. See all the pre-order titles here.


RECORD STORE DAY – 29TH AUGUST 

Next Saturday 29th august is Records Store Day Drop 1. There are some great soul, funk ,jazz and reggae titles including two on our own label Gaston -My Queen the ultimate holy grail soul & funk album and Bobby Moore ‘Call me your anything man the first commercial release of the first ever 12″ single created by Tom Moulton. (see video below)
We will be open from 8am to 6pm and operating a socially distanced queue. This year all remaining titles will be available on-line and on the phone from 6pm.
See the list of titles that we are expecting here


Shop now open

The shop at 1 Keswick Road, SW15 2HL is now open from 11am – 6pm Monday – Saturday. We can only allow 2 people in the store at a time so please be prepared to wait if needs be.

Please note, face coverings are mandatory unless you have a validated exemption.


Stunning vinyl collection just in

Don’t miss out on the amazing Original Vinyl Soul and Jazz LPs and 12″ singles as well as 45s from the incredible collection that we are buying. The rare trophy collectors albums are selling out fast, so if you want to secure any of these please order soon to avoid disappointment.  Watch out for some more being loaded next week or you can view them in the store on Saturday.

See  all newly arrived vinyl here


We are delighted present Earl White Jr’s 1977 modern soul rarity ‘Very Special Girl’ out on a 45. Buy yours here
LIMITED AMOUNT OF DJ COPIES JUST FOUND.
Check the video here


‘Fill the Gap’ – classic albums on vinyl…

In the meantime you can see our ‘fill the gap’ feature here

We are now back in stock of the majority of Bill Withers Lps and CDs which you can see in our feature here. Also the fantastic 9cd set of his complete albums is now in stock.


An introduction to Blue Note – 10 albums you must hear

Arguably Blue Note is the greatest Jazz label ever and was responsible for releasing so many classic albums over its 80+ year history. Its halcyon era was 1950’s/ 1960’s, when it pioneered Hard Bop. At various times, its roster included the likes of Art Blakey, Hank Mobley, Lee Morgan and Horace Silver plus geniuses such as Miles Davis. The label recorded the first albums by a host of legends – for example, Jimmy Smith, Herbie Hancock and Freddie Hubbard to name just a few. The label remained active in the Jazz Funk era and Donald Byrd’s 1973 album ‘Black Byrd’ was not only ground-breaking but was Blue Note’s biggest selling LP at that time.

Selecting 10 classic albums (100 would be hard enough) is a challenge, but this introductory selection is just a taster. See the list here


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 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.

We timestamp the playlists and provide a download link so you can listen any time, anywhere.

Find the latest show here.

See all radio mix playlists here 

Have a great weekend.

Laurence and Jason