Check out this latest batch of great Soul and Funk albums from the large collection that we are processing. This batch includes I think the complete albums of David Ruffin, Edwin Starr and Undisputed Truth. As always the records are in fantastic condition, many hardly played as individually graded. Most records are one off's (although there are few duplicates) so please order early to avoid disappointment. You can view other records from the same collection here. Records can be ordered on-line, over the phone on 020 8875 1018 for delivery or you can use our click and collect service from...
Good, varied compilation that pulls together the 17 seven inch singles on the gospel division of Stax Records, both A and B sides. Highlights are many on a set that shows the broad sweep of styles from out and out gospel to soulful numbers and funkier moments. The Rance Allen Group feature heavily with cuts like 'Just My Salvation' (based on the Temptations hit) the thumping funky dancer 'Gonna Be A Showdown', the sublime 'I Know A Man Who', and the energetic 'I Gotta Be Myself' among their best, Joshie Jo Armstead's in demand modern soul 'I Got The Vibes'...
Australian 9-piece Spiritual Jazz group Menagerie return with their highly anticipated third album ‘Many Worlds’. Lead by the superbly talented Lance Ferguson ‘Many Worlds’ features some of Australia’s finest musicians, including pianist Mark Fitzgibbon (a regular performer at Gilles Peterson and Patrick Forge’s original Dingwalls sessions), drummer Daniel Farrugia and renowned saxophonist Phil Noy (The Bamboos). Inspired by both the post-Coltrane generation of the 70’s, labels like Strata-East, Impulse! and Tribe, Menagerie also sit within the current ‘New Wave of Jazz’ and will appeal to fans of Kamasi Wrshington, Shabaka Hutchings and Nubya Garcia among others. The punchy ‘Hope’ is...
It's a great week for new releases and reissues to help you get through lockdown. Doug Carn is the latest classic artist featured in the Jazz is Dead series and the album is now available on black or purple vinyl in limited quantities. Menagerie impressed with their debut 'Arrow of time' a couple of years ago and they return with another good Spiritual Jazz album 'New Worlds' .The Vision is a good soulful house album and is now available on CD. Emma Donovan & the Putbacks also return with a good raw Funky soul album. Plenty of great reissues this...
Organist Doug Carn teams up with Adrian Younge and Ali Shaheed Muhammad for the fifth installment of their Jazz is Dead series. Carn plays Hammond B3 on the eleven tracks written for the album ‘Lions Walk’ is a hard hitting uptempo groove featuring great drumming from Malachi Morehead and Alto Sax from Gary Bartz. The Latin-esq ‘Nunca Um Malandro’ shifts along nicely. ‘Desires’ is a hypnotic slow burner that builds with intensity as it grooves along. ‘Desert Rain’ is another mid tempo funky organ groove with nice horn backing. ‘Processions’, ‘Dimensions’ and ‘Freedom at Sunset’ are slightly complicated hard hitting...
The 1970 debut album from Kool and the Gang scored a couple of hits with 'The Gangs Back Again' and the title cut, but more importantly, it heralded the arrival of what was to become a juggernaut on the R&B scene. This all-instrumental record is years away from the commercial successes of 'Jungle Boogie' and 'Celebration,' and a few light years away stylistically, too. But that unique mixture of jazz, funk, and R&B punctuated by those tremendous horn arrangements (and some great drum breaks) that characterizes Kool and the Gang at its best is here in full force. Tracks like...
***Warehouse find - last copies*** 16 Great 70’s Modern soul classics heavily featured on Sean Robbins Sunday morning shows. Inc the dancers Dells ‘Don’t trick Me Treat me’, Grace Jones ‘Sorry’, Caroline Crawford ‘Nice Feeling’ , Leon Thomas ‘Love Each Other’, Pulse ‘Sunshine’, Mac Davies ‘I’m Just In love’, Anthony White ‘Yes You Need Love’, Dramatics ‘No Rebate On Love’, Mary Mundy ‘You’re Putting a Hurt on me’ , Drifters ‘Put Your Little Heart Out’ , Tobi Kang ‘I Just Want To Love You’ , Major Lance ‘Don’t you Know I Love You’ and Presidents ‘Its All Over’, plus the...
Happy new year to everyone for our first weekly mailer of 2021. Ledisi's excellent return to form 'The Wild Card' album is now available on Double Lp albeit in limited quantity. Georgie B and groove Association serve up another album of good time songs 'been so long' and Butcher Brown King Butch is also finally available on vinyl .Ramon Valle excellent 'Inner state' is now available on a limited edition signed audiophile vinyl .There are two Blue Note Tone Poet albums from Donald Byrd and McCoy Tyner and an acoustic sounds version of Sarah Vaughan with Clifford Brown all in limited quantities. PRE-ORDER...
