Check out this collection of original Four Tops and Stevie Wonder records from a soul collection that we've been working through. The records are all in great condition and the covers have average wear for their age, as individually graded. All are one off’s so please order early to avoid disappointment. You can combine titles from the same collection last week HERE to optimize postage costs. Records can be ordered on-line, over the phone on 020 8875 1018 or collect from our shop in Putney Open Mon-Sat 11-6. Happy Diggin, Laurence
Canonical UK Jazz DJ Colin Curtis returns to Z records with the third release in the Jazz Dance Fusion series, after having released number two in late 2020. Overall, it’s an entertaining and upbeat collection of contemporary and older Jazz-Dance and Fusion tracks, many of which have never previously been released physically. The LP is split into two bodies of work, a quadruple vinyl release comprised of two double albums (V1 &V2) or a double CD. Curtis gathers momentum and pace from the get-go, certainly one of his more Latin accented releases, featuring percussive and frenetic batacudas, sambas, drumlines, bombas...
Wants List 5 celebrates 30 years of Soul Brother Records with 18 Rare Groove classics and rarities, hand picked by Laurence. Barry White ‘Playin Your Game Baby’ is here in its magnificent full 7 minute version. Sweet Charles ‘Yes Its You’ , Edwin Starr ‘There You Go’ , Willie Hutch ‘Ain’t That Mellow Mellow’ , Ronnie McNeir ‘ I’m Your Lover’, Reflections ‘She’s My Summer Breeze’, Four Tops ‘Strung Out For Your Love’ and Jeannie Reynolds ‘Don’t want to be second best’ are among the 2 step classics included. The Mighty Ryeders, Sisters Love and The Voices Of East Harlem...
It's a massive week for releases this week, with loads of great new albums, reissues on vinyl and CD and 45 reissues. Robert Glasper 'Black Radio 111' is the latest in his series highlighting vocalists, Blue Lab Beats album is finally released on Blue Note and there is a good retro soul album from J.P.Bimini on Cd, Lp to follow. MS1 has a new independent R&B/Soul album, The Lady Wray album is out on regular and coloured vinyl. Binker & Moses have a new album as does vocalist Gretchen Parlato and Amanda Whiting has a good 10" EP. Kent have a good soul comp...
A reissue of Lonnie Liston Smith’s only live album, recorded in 1977 at Smucker’s Cabaret in Brooklyn and produced by Bob Thiele It features Lonnie alongside his brother Donald in the wake of the success of ‘Expansions’, with a line-up completed by Dave Hubbard, Al Anderson, Ronald Dean Miller, Hollywood Barker and Michael Carvin. The album shows an intense sense of musicianship which mixes up a few tracks from previous records, including a cooking version of ‘Expansions’ and a beautiful take on both Phases of ‘Visions Of A New World’, as well as three numbers exclusive to this recording. Released...
Check out the newest 45s that we have from Outta Sight, both full centre DJ copies and standard dinked copies available in store and online. Some other great releases in recently on Deptford Northern Soul Club, Ace / BGP and Dynamite Cuts. Have a scroll through and check out the titles that we have on offer. Check out our previous Focus on 45's feature by clicking through HERE Happy Diggin', Laurence
A curious happenstance in 1966 triggered the partnership between MPS head Hans Georg Brunner-Schwer and George Duke. Brunner-Schwer was in San Francisco to record the Art van Damme Quintet. After finishing the recording session one evening, he and his team strolled over to a club called the Jazz Workshop. Les McCann was supposed to be playing, but this particular day was his day off. Instead, a 20 year old pianist, still involved in his studies, was performing with his quartet. The music’s freshness so enthralled the German that he set up a recording session on the spot. This encounter between George Duke and Hans Georg Brunner-Schwer in sunny California was both accidental...
Read a longer appraisal and some critical analysis of Crisis and Opportunity Volume 2 on our website. Click HERE for the full-length article written by Will Fox (LONG READ) We’re delighted to announce our first instore since the start of the pandemic – things are slowly getting back to normal and we’ve got some great stuff in store for you! Myele Manzanza will be joining us on Saturday, 26th February for an instore signing of his latest offering Crisis & Opportunity Volume 2 from 13:00 on the day. Myele Manzanza, New Zealand born drummer and bandleader, took us by surprise...
Myele Manzanza Crisis & Opportunity Volume 2 - A Uniquely Rhythmical and Genre-Defying Experience Soul Brother Records' Will Fox surveys the latest Myele Manzanza Album on Deepmatter Records Myele Manzanza, New Zealand born drummer and son of Congolese percussion master Sam Manzanza, returns with another thrilling edition of the Crisis and Opportunity series on Deepmatter Records, volume two out of five. Featuring a predominantly New-Zealand / Antipodean cast of players—Manzanza on drums and percussion, Ashton Sellers on guitar, Aron Ottignon on piano, synths and vocoder, Matt Dal Din on bass and Lewis Moody on synthesisers—the album was...
It's another great week for releases this week with some great new and reissue albums and 45's. Sean Khan has made a fantastic album 'Supreme Love' a tribute to John Coltrane, available as a CD or 3LP Set. Myele Manzanza delivers another great set 'Crisis and Opportunity 2' and you can meet Myele at Soul Brother next Saturday 26th at 1pm when he will be signing copies of the LP and talking to you about his album. Importantly, this is our first in-store event since the start of the pandemic, an occasion that we are very exited about! We emplore...
