Kent's excellent Masterpieces of Modern Soul series reaches volume 6. It includes 22 mainly uptempo dancers recorded between 1969 and 1982 and 14 previously unreleased tracks from the golden era of Soul music. Janice 'Keep On Smiling' from '75 is a storming string laden dancer. From the same year Three Pieces 'If Only I Could Prove To You' is a lovely mid tempo floater. Elayne Starr 'Must Have Had Company' is a nice '79 mid tempo song written and produced by Dave Hamilton. Margie Joseph excellent brassy crossover Soul dancer 'Nobody' from '69 is the earliest recording here. Jean Shy...
As we move into August, the month of the Notting Hill carnival, we are featuring many of the Original Vinyl Reggae LPs that arrived in the large collection that we purchased a while back. Here are 60 great titles, the vinyl is in near mint condition on most titles and sleeves have average wear for their age (as individually graded). It is rare to find these Reggae LPs in such great condition. Most titles are one-offs but there are a few doubles, so please order early to avoid disappointment. Records can be ordered on-line, over the phone on 020 8875 1018...
Max Roach – Members Don’t Git Weary (Real Gone Music) Max Roach’s 1968 post-bop classic sees a reissue on Real Gone Music. Featuring Gary Bartz on saxophone, Andy Bey on vocals, Stanley Cowell on keys, Charles Tolliver on trumpet and Jymie Merrit on electric bass, the album is an experimental and emancipating experience and a particularly exciting moment for Jazz, a civil rights era howl and an expressive, dazzling performance that turns your expectations upside down. The instrumentation, for example, is progressively electric, Stanley Cowell opting to play part electric and part acoustic piano Merrit on electric rather than upright...
The Soul Messengers have been performing in the North East of England for decades but have only recently recorded their first album. The brainchild of Steve Lee (of Soulutions whose albums are also back in stock) , it is a very nice contemporary harmony soul album with some good up and mid tempo songs. Smooth Jazz stalwart Paul Brown returns with another strong album and pianist Cyrus Chestnut has a good contemporary Jazz album. Ace impress again with the latest volume of Masterpieces of Modern Soul Volume 6 with some good overlooked 70's Soul. Sonny clark's rare Blue Note album 'Sonny...
Aguabella – Desire / Case Fuerte (Dynamite Cuts) Dynamite cuts have accrued themselves a sterling reputation as a label that releases quality music on seven inch without compromise. Straddling Soul, Jazz, Rare-Groove and Latin, Malachi Trout has been hard at work licensing album cuts from the likes of James Mason, The Mighty Ryeders, Weldon Irvine and many more. The label generally reissues rare and inaccessible titles, solely on seven inch, a DJs delight and good news for the thrifty collector. The sevens always come in sealed picture sleeves with hi resolution scans of the original album artwork on and...
Another great rare soul album from Cleveland Ohio made in 1977. The beautiful modern soul mid tempo title track has great lyrics, and the modern/northern dancers ‘Since You Said You’d Be Mine’ and ‘What Should I Do’ are solid floor fillers. The ballad ‘Its Got To Change’ and the ‘Hi’ sounding ‘What Happened to The Feeling’ and ‘Just Being For You’ are well worth checking. This album was quoted by BBC Financial News website recently as being ‘The Best soul album you’ve never heard’ Buy the LP HERE Check out the tracks below Lou Ragland - Understand Eachother Lou Ragland...
There are five great 45's on the Soul Brother and Expansion labels that have just arrived. All titles are available as both regular dinked or limited edition full centre DJ Copy versions. There are 100 hand numbered Barbara Lynn DJ Copies which will surely be very collectable in future times. It has been discovered that the Bill Summers Singles have a mispressed B side featuring 'Dream Of Love' instead of 'Don't fade away' as advertised on the label. We understand that the record will be repressed with the correct music later which we will offer for preorder later in the week. Tania...
You’re feeling that you might be missing a certain glide in your stride and a dip in your hip during these uncertain times, then perhaps you might benefit from some funk on your record player. Well, cometh the hour, cometh the men. Boston’s Lettuce may have been in the game for some thirty years, but their latest (double) album Unify, suggests that they’re still running with a finely tuned engine, which shows no sign of grinding to a halt. In fact, they’ve even managed to get the great Bootsy Collins on board to bring some primetime P-Funk to the very fine...
Organist Ronnie Foster celebrates the 50th anniversary of his debut album and returns to the Blue Note label with his first new album in decades 'Reboot'. The label also has two more albums in the classic analogue series from Don Wilerson and George Braith. Carlos Nino is joined by many great contemporary musicians for his album 'Extra Presence' on the International Anthem label. Two of our previous reissues are issued again on the Numero label in coloured vinyl from Lou Ragland and his band Hot Chocolate, classic Cleveland Ohio Soul and Funk from the 70's. Minnie Riperton's in demand debut album...
Check out this batch of Original Vinyl and older new and reissue LPs which have just arrived. There are some great and hard to find titles here along with some classics and hard to find out of print reissues and more recent releases. All records are in at least VG+ condition ,many are Ex or near mint as individually graded. All titles are one off's so please order early to avoid disappointment. Records can be ordered on-line, over the phone on 020 8875 1018 or collected from our shop in Putney open Mon-Sat 11-6. You can combine with other recent Original...
