The Sure Fire Soul Ensemble is a 9 piece Soul Jazz band from San Diego California. 'Gemini' is their fifth studio album for the Colemine label and comprises of eleven self written tracks, or between 3 and 5 minutes each. Their sound is like a modern day The Crusaders meets The Meters with a touch of Mulatu Atstatke, along with other influences. All the tracks blend together to make a strong album with great horns, rhythm and percussion. Highlights are 'Gemini' which has a very strong Crusaders influence, the funkier ' Making Moves' the flute led 'Freddie' and more laid back...
Check out this great batch of rare Original Soul and Funk 12"s from the great collection now offered at special lower prices for a limited period. There are some very rare records here and many bargains at these prices. All records are in great condition as individually graded. All records are one off's so please order early to avoid disappointment. Records 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
Japanese bassist Teruo Nakamura recorded this superb heavy fusion Jazz album, his debut in New York in the summer of 1973. He is joined by some of thecream of upcoming musicians including Alphonse Mouzon and Lenny White on drums, Hubert Eaves and George Cables on keyboards, Steve Grossman on sax and Charles Sullivan on trumpet. Stylistically ‘Unicorn’ could easily have been recorded for the NY Strata East label but was actually commissioned by the acclaimed Japanese label Three Blind Mice. The album is best known for the Groovy jazz dancer ‘Umma Be Me’ which like the ethereal ‘Understanding’ features Sandi Hewitt...
There are some great new releases, reissues and restocks this week. Windy Karigianes has made one of the best retro early 80's grooves that we have heard in a while sound like something Teena Marie may have recorded and the Georgie B remix has it to a tee, available as a regular dinked or limited edition full centre DJ Copy 45. There are new albums on vinyl and CD from Butcher Brown, Joe Armon Jones,The Sure Fire Soul Ensemble and Kaidi Tatham. There are high quality analogue remasters of some classic albums from Donny Hathaway on Speakers Corner and Lonnie Liston Smith...
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...
