Donny Hathaway made this his second album in 1971, it followed his sensational highly acclaimed debut 'Everything Is Everthing'. The album is superbly produced by Jerry Wexler and Arif Mardin and features nine songs that really focus on Donny's so soulful voice and his keyboard playing. The tight rhythm section features Donny along with Chuck Rainey bass Cornell Dupree guitar and Al Jackson drums and percussion. 'Giving Up' is an amazing soulful piece of music, full of emotion and immaculate performances topped by King Curtis sax solo. Donny's versions of Leon Russell 'A Song For You' , Billy Preston 'Little...
There are some great reissues this week, not many but high quality. Blue Note classics series includes two great titles from Horace Silver and Lou Donaldson. Teruo Nakamura's brilliant 'Unicorn' has a high quality remaster on Three Blind Mice from Japan, Alice Coltrane with strings and The Undisputed Truth's first album on Kent. There are some nice 45 reissues from Leon Thomas, Hodges James Smith and Crawford and Terry Callier. Make sure you head to the Latest Original Vinyl page to view all our recent uploads and the same for the full list of titles from the pre-owned CD collection. There was also a...
Check out this great batch of 50 Jazz and Jazz-Funk CDs from the collection that recently arrived. There are many classic titles here along with a few obscurities. All CDs are in great condition, many are still sealed as individually graded and noted. All titles are one off's , so please order early to avoid disappointment. You can combine with other titles from the same collection here to optimise postage costs. CDS can be ordered online, over the phone on 020 8875 1018 or collected from our shop in Putney open Mon-Sat 11-6. Happy Diggin, Laurence
Check out this great batch of 50 Original Vinyl Soul, Funk and Jazz-Funk 45s from the Soul Brother vaults. There are some in demand titles here along with many classics and obscurities. All records are in great condition, most are near mint or excellent (a few graded Vg+ have minor scuffs) all as individually graded. All records are one off's, so please order early to avoid disappointment. You can combine with other records from the vaults here, recent soul and funk collection here or South West Connection here to optimise postage costs Records can be ordered online, over the phone on...
Check out this great batch of 50 Collectable Soul and Funk CDs from the large collection that recently arrived. There are many hard to find out of print titles here including a few box sets, all are in great condition many are still sealed, most others are near mint or excellent as individually graded. All titles are one offs so please order early to avoid disappointment. You can combine with other items from the same collection here to optimise postage costs. Watch out for a batches of Jazz and Jazz funk and Neo Soul later in the week or next...
The Diplomats Of Soul great double A sider 'I Love you/'Teacherman' is now finally in stock with correct pressings, watch out for their debut LP on record store day. Quincy Jones is celebrated with 5 of his classic 70's albums available on high resolution SHM CD from Japan at reasonable prices. Art Pepper has an unreleased 2CD set recorded in Geneva 1980. Hank Mobley has a nice Tone Poet release. We have discovered a small quantity of each (ones and twos) of many long out of print Soul Brother label CDs still sealed, many of these are now in demand...
Rest in Peace Roy Ayers ️ Roy Ayers has left us all with many memories and an incredible catalogue of recorded music and productions that we have enjoyed over the past 50 years + and will continue to do so for many more. For me he was one of the pioneers of the Jazz-Funk genre, from the very early 70s and forward. I bought into Roy around the time of his ‘Mystic Voyage’ album (I remember Dave Godin recommending it in his Blues & Soul column) and every album after that until the mid 80s, then discovering his earlier Polydor...
Check out this batch of 50 Original Vinyl Soul and Jazz-Funk 12" Singles from the collection that recently arrived. There are some hard to find titles here along with many classics. Most of the records are in Excellent or Near Mint Condition (a few have minor scuffs VG+) most have the original printed disco bags or sleeves all as individually graded and noted. All titles are one off's, so please order early to avoid disappointment. You can combine with other records from the same collection here or South West Connection here or the great 12" collection here to optimise postage...
Firstly we are very sad to learn of the passing of many great Soul and Jazz artists in the past couple of weeks. Gwen McCrae made many great albums and singles and possessed an incredibly powerful voice and will be remembered for crucial tracks like '90% Of me Is You' and 'Keep The Fire Burning' . Angie Stone was one of the queens of Neo Soul and gave us some great albums and will be best remembered for 'Wish i Didn't Miss You' . Randy Brown made some great albums in the late 70s especially 'Midnight Desire' and his modern soul classic 45...
Joe Henderson recorded ‘Multiple’ in 1973 for the Milestone label, one of a string of great albums he made for the label. Right from the opening notes of the 10 minute opener ‘Tress-Cun-Deo-La’ you know this is going to be special. The band lay down an incredibly intense funky groove over which Henderson blows hard using Tenor and Soprano saxes, flutes plus percussion and voices to create a very full sound that you can really immerse yourself in. Larry Willis on electric piano, Jack DeJonette on drums, Dave Holland on bass and James ‘Blood’ Ulmer on guitar are really going...
