8CD box • Remastered albums • 50th anniversary • United Souls and Sony Music continue to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Philadelphia International Records with Volume 2 in their Philly reissue programme: The Sound of Philadelphia International Records Vol 2: Satisfaction Guaranteed. Following on from the first volume Get on Board the Soul Train, the second volume in this limited edition series covers eight albums released by the label during 1973. This 8CD deluxe set features albums from Billy Paul, Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes, The Three Degrees, The Intruders, Spiritual Concept as well as one of the most successful O’Jays’ titles, Ship Ahoy. The series maps the history of Philadelphia International Records...
Donald Byrd - Places and Spaces The Mizell brothers produced some great jazz funk albums in the early to mid 70’s and were most associated with Donald Byrd and this classic 1975 album in particular. Their joyful heavily orchestrated backing tracks framed the lead instrument to create a total sound. Trumpetter Donald had recorded many great albums for Blue Note in the previous 10 years this one was probably his most accessible.The supporting cast of musicians incl Harvey Mason, Chuck Rainey, Skip Scarborough and King Erricson play note perfect. The uptempo ‘Change’ sets the tone, the beautiful mid tempo ‘Wind...
Ty Causey from Indiana has become one of the most consistent and regularly recorded independent Soul artists over the past 15 years. He seems to manage to release an album each year and maintain his style and quality. 'U Turn' is slightly more upbeat than some of his recent albums. The title track 'U Turn' is a lovely slinky upper mid tempo groover featuring Monet Cherise on flute. 'Contagious' is an upper tempo funky groover ft Nigel Lowis and definitely on the one, as is the equally funky 'Soul Train' . 'Let Your Love Rain Down' is a nice mid tempo stepper'as,is the hypnotic 'Too...
Tom Moulton has gained access to the vaults of the Spring and Event labels and compiled a remix album featuring some known and lesser known club tracks from the labels. Fatback Band 'Spanish Hustle' is extended to nearly 10 minutes, Millie Jackson 'Breakaway' and 'Don't Send Nobody Else' to 9 and 7 mins, Ronnie Walker's 'No One Else Will Do' and 'You've Got To Try Harder 'to 7 mins each and Street People 'Baby You Got It All' to 5.5 mins. .There are also two tracks each from Joe Simon and Act One. All the tracks were great uptempo Soul at the time in the...
Bruno Mars teams up with Anderson Paak for an evening with Silk Sonic, which musically has its roots in 70's Harmony Soul. The ever consistent Ty Causey returns with 'U Turn' which sounds like one of his better albums with some more uptempo grooves. Former Nicola Conte vocalist Melaine Charles finally makes a full album It's a tribute to female Jazz vocalists 'Y'all Don't Really Care About Black women' covering some classic songs from the Verve catalogue, a few of them mixed with the original vocals and rather good !. Elaine Elias has a new album on CD, pre-order the delayed LP. Bad...
Congratulations To Gil Scott Heron on being posthumously inducted into the Rock n Roll Hall of Fame. Gil is a one of the most significant black music artists and deserves to be considered in the same esteem as Marvin Gaye, Curtis Mayfield, Stevie Wonder, Bob Marley and Bill Withers. We have been privileged to released many of his albums on Soul Brother Records and compiled an anthology called Messages, pulling together some of his greatest ever recordings. Have a look at our current stock of Gil Scott Heron albums on both Vinyl and CD formats.
Trumpeter Theo Croker returns with another interesting album which combines Futuristic Jazz with the tradition, Soul and Rap featuring many guest musicians and vocalists. ‘Soul Call || Vibrate’ follows the path of his previous albums, a nice mid tempo instrumental. ‘Every Part Of Me’ was co-written by Ego Ella May who performs background vocals, Ari Lennox taking lead vocals on this atmospheric Neo Soul tune. Charlotte Dos Santos sings on ‘Lucid Dream’ a multi paced song, and Malaya on the more upbeat bouncy ‘Happy Feet (For Dancers)’. Gary Bartz joins on Alto and Soprano Saxes on the mellow spiritual floater...
Pieces Of A Dream return with a new smooth jazz album 'Fired Up' celebrating over 40 years of music. Curtis Harding sits at the edge of raw soul and blues and his new album 'If Words Were Flowers' should please his fans and maybe gain him some new ones. Tenderlonious has a new album 'Still Flute' and Tony Allen & Hugh Masekela 'Rejoice' has a special edition with additional tracks. There are some good vinyl reissues from Ian Carr's Nucleus, Charles Mingus on Impulse Acoustic Sounds Analogue, Fela Kuti on splatter vinyl plus we have found some old Ace titles...
Welcome to the Soul Brother Autumn/Winter CD Sale. We have temporarily reduced the price to just £9.99 on 100 great Soul , Funk and Jazz CD titles until 5th January 2022 and whilst existing stocks last. The list includes many titles that we have not offered on sale before. There are many classic Soul Reissues including albums from JR Bailey, Garland Green, Willie Hutch, Barbara Mason, The Emotions, Rhetta Young, Aquarian Dream and Dazzle. Funk is represented by Brass Construction, Cameo, The Eliminators, Hank Ballard, Hot Chocolate, Madcliff, Beginning Of The End, Oneness of Juju and more. There are some great Jazz...
Belgium might not be a country that you might not associate with Jazz music. However there was some really good Progressive Jazz recorded there especially between 1968-1979, the subject of this compilation. Keyboardist Marc Moulin is the most well known Belgian Jazz musician of this time and he has two tracks featured, 'S.U.S' a nice mid paced fusion track by his band Placebo and the break beat synth led 'Tohubohu'. Solis Lacus contribute the title track 'Utopic Cities' a nice and moody seven minute atmospheric groove. Open Sky Unit 'Open Sky' is an off beat vocal track that found favour...
