Brian Jackson recorded some of the greatest music ever recorded with Gil Scott Heron in the 1970’s and he returns with a new solo album ‘This Is Brian Jackson’ on CD now Lp to follow.
Jean Carn is another legend of our music who has a new album, the latest in the Jazz Is Dead series, showcasing her as a Jazz vocalist again only on CD at the moment. P.J.Morton (you may remember him from our This Is Soul 2006 cd from 16 years ago !) also returns with a nice album ‘Watch The Sun’. Justin Thurgur has a nice album fusing Afro-Cuban, Afro and New London Jazz , Najee a good smooth Jazz album and Daniel Casimir a very limited Vinyl issue on Jazz Refreshed. Alfa Mist ‘rare and great album ‘Antiphon’ gets a welcome vinyl reissue.
There are two Blue Note Classic album LP reissues this week from Brother Jack McDuff and Ronnie Foster, there are also reissues of rare Jazz albums from Bobby Cole and Tony Lavorgna.
Chi-Lites have a welcome 2CD overview of their best tracks from their Brunswick recordings, and the latest edition of the Masterpiece Disco Funk series Volume 33 ! has arrived.
and The Fritners have a new album on Daptone.
Check the pre-order section for some great new 45 reissues on Soul Brother and Expansion arriving in June and July including the very rare Barbara Lynn ‘Mellow Feeling’ which will also be available as a numbered limited edition of 100 DJ Copy version, available exclusively from Soul Brother.
We have been able to restock in limited quantities some of the best RSD drop 1 titles which you can view in the categories
We will be loading the Drop 2 titles in the next couple of weeks, put the date 18th June in your diary.
Later today we have James Larter in store at 4-6pm signing copies of his new album Polarity
we look forward to seeing you. Check out the album here
Check out our latest Original Vinyl Soul and Funk and Jazz arrivals. Watch out for some 12″ singles next week.
Sad to hear about the passing of Bernard Wright who passed away at the age of 58. He was a masterful pianist and a member of the original Jamaica Katz, who alongside the likes of Tom Browne, Marcus Miller, Lenny White and Don Blackman—even under the tutelege of Weldon Irvine—would record some game changing albums on Arista GRP. Produced by Dave Grusin and Larry Rosen, “Nard” was his finest outing, a mixture of raw Jazz-Funk and pulsating grooves—Spinnin notably becoming a low-key anthem after being rediscovered and sampled by Skee-Lo on I Wish—an album that he recorded at 17 years of age. We have stock of a 2 in 1 CD of Nard and Funky Beat available for a limited period – don’t miss out.
We will be closed next Thursday 2nd and Friday 3rd for the Jubilee bank holiday but open on Saturday 4th June.
Have a great weekend
Laurence
