There are many good releases, reissues and restocks this week. Firstly we have the amazing Bobby Lyle ‘The Genie’ reissue Lp on our own Soul Brother label , a great classic Jazz-Funk Lp produced by Wayne Henderson , which looks and sounds amazing. There are new albums from Dee Dee Bridgewater, Brandee Younger, Gerardo Frisina and Joe Armon Jones. Reissues include Becky Bell rare disco/boogie album from 1980 , Ice (Lafayette Afro Rock Band), and there a couple of great comps of Northern soul , UK street Soul and Reggae. Jay D Martin rare Northern soul 45 is available on outta sight as regular dinked or Full Centre Dj Copy, there is a good unreleased low rider soul 45 by Thirty Two Soul band and a nice remix 12″ from The Joneses and Street People on Acid jazz.
We are sad to learn that Sly Stone passed away this week, one of our music’s most influential artists, who has left a musical legacy forever, fuller tribute to follow.
Pre-order for next week Gina Sedman who will be in store on Saturday 21st June signing copies of her new album ‘1972’ we will also have a very limited allocation of LPs on the day. Also pre-order for Durand Jones and Takuya Kuroda for later in the month
See all pre-order titles here.
This Sunday 15th June is FATHER’S DAY! If you haven’t already seen it then make sure you check out our feature from earlier on in the week with a list of Classic Albums on Vinyl. This is the ideal list if you need inspiration for gifts.
This week we published a great feature of Original Compilations which includes a great selection of jazz, soul, R&B and funk compilations.
Don’t forget the great range of 85 Blue note HQCD releases from Japan which sound amazing. We have had a couple of nice Original vinyl collections in the last week, see the list of Soul and Funk LPs here and Jazz and Jazz-Funk LPs here. Watch out for more next week!
Last week we uploaded another addition to the South West Connection, this time with 50 soul and funk 45s part 2. These records, as with everything in the collection, are in amazing condition so be sure to have a look at everything else in the series. View South West Connection Records here.
We also did a brilliant round up of all brilliant reissued jazz funk 12″ singles featuring quite a few out of print titles here along with many classics.
We still have many of the limited edition RSD titles including Gloria Jones and Japanese Jean Plum 45s, Pharaoh Sanders and Kitty Winter albums and the super rare reggae LP from Sister Nancy. See all our RSD titles HERE.
We had a great batch of out of print Harmless CDs from warehouse find see the list here and also make sure you check out the recent upload of Out Of Print Backbeat CDs uploaded earlier this week.
We have had some brilliant albums in recently that have all been featured in our Album Of The Day. This includes the recent Diplomats Of Soul,Bennie Maupin, Kitty Winter, WillDowning, Gina Sedman, Roy Ayers, Benny Golson, James Brown, Don Blackman, Ashley Henry, Kelly Finnigan and the new Ezra Collective and many more. See all the features HERE.
We published a fantastic selection of Jazz-Funk and Soul LPs a few months ago, which is part of a larger collection from earlier in the year titled Collection Of The North so make sure you check that out if you missed it!
Elsewhere, we have fantastic selection of original vinyl across the site. Click HERE to see a recent collection of jazz and jazz-funk LPs. A couple of weeks ago we put up a good batch 70s and 80s soul 45s which you can view here. This adds to the list of 60s soul 45s which you can see here if you missed, and we also added to our series of 12″ singles with part 15. We featured the first batch of 25 Original Vinyl Soul LPs from a large new collection that we will be purchasing over the next year, there are some great hard to find albums; quite a few sold out immediately and we have added a few where there were second copies to the list.
As always we have a brilliant selection of original LPs and 12s that have been added to the site in recent weeks. This week we added some brilliant original soul LPs in addition to the batches of Philly Soul and Classic Soul we put up recently, plus two new batches of 12″ singles for funk, disco and house fans check them out here and here. This is part of a larger group of 12″ singles from a recent collection into one group which you can view here. There’s also two great selections of jazz-fusion albums all at £10 each, see them here and here. There is another great feature on soul and funk LPs which you can see here, in addition to a new batch of 12″ singles plus a cracking list of Jazz-Funk LPs here. Check out the most recent original 45s in pt 1, pt 2, pt 3, pt 4, pt 5, pt 6 and pt 7 more to come next week. We still have many of the incredible original 12″ singles from the amazing collection in here. There are also some great original Soul & Funk LPs here and here.
We have also compiled our selection of classic Blue Note Jazz titles here.
We still have many of the exclusive vinyl RSD titles and we have sourced back in a few titles, see the lists by music genres here.
The six new 45’s on the Soul Brother label sound amazing and have been very well received. There is some great rare soul music on these, available as regular dinked or full centre DJ Copies, check them out here.
See our albums of the day features for some great new and classic albums.
See our best new soul albums of 2023 and best new jazz albums of 2023. Also check the listings of classics albums by genre here and boxsets here.
We’ve also previously released a good batch of Soul Funk and disco LPs and previously Female Soul LPs to add to the various other features all containing cracking original vinyl. Click the links below for more info.
Male Vocal Soul LPs pt 1, Groups and Bands Soul LPs pt 1, Male Vocal Soul LPs pt 2, Groups and Bands Soul LPs pt 2 there is also a nice batch of Brazilian LP’s, plus a nice batch of original Reggae LPs and some 12″ from the vaults including some 90s and 00s Soul Promos.
Check out our series of features of soul 45s:
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Have a good weekend,
Laurence
