Gregory Porter's 'Still Rising' is now available on vinyl, Low Rider Soul 2 CD compilation highlights some great mid tempo Soul ballads. There are some good vinyl reissues this week from Charles Mingus (Acoustic sounds), Pharoah Sanders, The Meters plus a couple of great Christmas albums from Vince Guaraldi and Jackson 5. Singles reissues from The Whatnauts and New Orleans Funk 45s from Soul Jazz. Check out our best sellers here, there have been some great albums out recently See our pre-order items here Our albums of the day features highlight some great Contemporary and Classic albums. Don't miss out on some great albums in our...
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Seaquence - Visions Of My Love Sequence are from San Diego, California a reel to reel tape of ten songs were placed up for auction by Carolina Soul, included on the tape were 5 previously unreleased songs and 5 songs that were included on ‘Mix Faze,’ with 3 of the songs being slightly different versions. We decided that we would enter into the bidding because we liked the songs and thought that they deserved a wider platform. We also believed that we could locate Ron and hopefully do a deal if successful. Amazingly we won the auction and the tape was...
Drummer, producer & beat scientist Makaya McCraven digs into the Blue Note vaults with this new remix project that puts a modern bounce on jazz classics by Art Blakey, Horace Silver, Hank Mobley, Kenny Burrell, Kenny Dorham & more. McCraven’s mastery of the loop is akin to hip-hop’s most celebrated beatmakers like J Dilla & Madlib, both of whom have also remixed Blue Note classics, but McCraven’s unique approach also incorporates newly recorded elements including his own drums, Joel Ross’ vibraphone, Jeff Parker’s guitar, Marquis Hill’s trumpet & more. Expect jerky and unquantised riffs, heavy drumming and swaggering, low end arrangements that connect the dots between Hip-Hop and Jazz in a...
Makaya McCraven has recorded an album covering classic Blue Note tracks 'Deciphering The Message' making them more accessible to a new audience. Ill Considered are a long standing London new jazz band who make their first distributed album 'Liminal space' Cd out now Lp to follow in 2022. Kaidi Tatham 'Kaidi's 5ive get a limited Lp run, and Incognito have a great 106 track, 8cd retroprospective 'Always There 1981-202' including unreleased tracks and remixes. 'Satisfaction Guaranteed' is the second volume of the Philadelphia international 50th anniversary CD box sets. West Coast Revival, an almost impossible to find rare groove album, gets a welcome...
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...
