Citrus Sun is Bluey's Jazzier group and 'Anaconga' their fifth album is a mixture of covers and original material featuring some great musicians as you would expect. The album has a real feel good vibe throughout. 'Mister Mellow' is a nice laid back cover of a Maynard Ferguson track featuring Kevin Robinson on trumpet. Erykah Badu's 'Honey' is given a jazzier groove and features Natalie Duncan on vocals. Ronnie Foster's much sampled mid tempo jazz funk groove 'Mystic Brew' is given a slightly lusher treatment ft Graham Harvey on keyboards, then the tempo rises midway as Charlie Allen on guitar...
Multi instrumentalist Don Glori (Gordon Li) hails from Melbourne Australia but is now based in London. His second album 'Don't Forget To Have Fun' released on the Deep Matter label is a great follow up to his excellent debut 'Welcome' and recorded with some of Melbourne's finest Jazz musicians. Don plays keyboards, piano, basses and percussion. 'Emerald' is a lovely 9 minute multi paced track that starts out slow and moody then builds into a Jazz Funk groove then changes pace again. It features some nice sax playing from Lachlan Thompson and tight horn riffs over Glori's keys and a...
Sy Smith has been making her own style of independent Soul since 1999, having been featured on our Organic Soul vol 3 comp over 20 years ago. Her 6th album 'Until We Meet Again' is possibly her best to date, and certainly one of the best Soul albums you are likely to hear in 2024. It contains 10 well crafted songs, highlighting her lovely unique voice. One of the standouts is her self produced mid tempo song 'Why Do You Keep Calling Me' which brings back memories of Minnie Riperton or Deniece Williams from the 70s. 'Photograph' is another lovely...
There are some really good new albums, reissues and restocks this week. Zan is one of the best retro 80's boogie style new soul albums for sometime really strong throughout, available as a limited edition LP on BDQ records. On the same label Chris Bangs produced Nova Vida 'Ritmo Davida' has some nice latin-esq grooves including the singles 'My Only' and 'Empty Faces'. Luther's 1977 album 'This Close To You' gets a very long overdue reissue on LP and first time CD release. The Soul Searchers excellent 'Salt Of The Earth' album gets a coke clear vinyl reissue. There are a...
‘This Close To You’ was the second album that Luther released on the Cotillion label dating from 1977. As you would expect from the time the arrangement by Paul Riser and the production are lush with strings and many great musicians but the highlight is of course Luther’s voice which even this early in his career is highly distinctive. The highlight is the modern soul dancer ‘Don’t Wanna Be A Fool’ a wonderful slice of upper mid tempo 70s Soul. ‘Follow My Love’ is a nice mid tempo floater, and ‘Come Back To Love’ and ‘Don't Take The Time’ are...
Zan is a brand new 80's style boogie album from Australian singer Zan Abeyratne and husband, and Mother Earth bassist, Neil Corcoran. This record could easily have been recorded in 1983, it has such an authentic feel. It consists of eight new tracks, mainly uptempo groovers. 'Follow My Heart' is a great soulful boogie dancer. 'Free (Boogie mix) ' is a bass heavy driving dancer. 'No Secret' is a bouncy floorfiller and 'Nightfall' is another highlight, but this album is good throughout. Don't miss out on this limited edition vinyl album.
Check out this great batch of 40 Original Vinyl Jazz and Jazz-Funk LPs. There are many in demand, hard to find albums here. Most of the records are in hardly-played, near mint or excellent condition, a couple are still sealed (except a couple of the very early pressings which have minor scuffs), all as individually graded and detailed. All records are one off's so please order early to avoid disappointment. You can combine with recently arrived Original Rare Soul LPs here to optimise postage costs. Records can be ordered online, over the phone on 020 8875 1018 or collected from...
There are some great new 45s this week. Kelly Finnigan has a superb new single 'Leave You Alone' on Colemine available in either black or pink marbled vinyl. D.C Lee's version of 'Be There in The Morning' is really good and there are two full length classic jazz dance tracks 7" singles from BGP from Patrice Rushen and Charles Earland which play at 33 1/3 with a new printed sleeve, they look and sound great. Kent has produced a very limited edition 7 x 7" box set featuring singles from the rarest soul label Shrine. Mo Kolours has a very...
Check out this great batch of 25 rare original Soul LPs from the great new collection that we are processing. All of these albums are in demand and it's amazing to be able to offer so many rare albums together. All records are in great condition, most are hardly played near mint or excellent vinyl with nice covers, many are in shrink wrap and a couple are still sealed as individually graded. All titles are one off's apart from a couple with doubles, so please order early to avoid disappointment. You can combine with other recently listed Classic Soul or...
Our good friend and excellent saxophonist Sean Khan presents the Modern Jazz and Folk Ensemble on Acid Jazz records. The Spinners return celebrating 70 years with 10 new tracks on 'Full Circle' featuring original member Henry Famborough. The Sextones excellent 'Love Cant Be Borrowed' album gets a clear vinyl LP release. Offline have a really nice funky cinematic instrumental Soul release 'La Couleur De La Mer', and we are back in stock of the brilliant Circling Sun album 'Spirits'. There are some strong reissues with Lonnie Smith 'Funk Reaction' the standout, but Fania All Stars ' Latin Soul Rock' and the Harvey...
