Recommended Soul, Jazz and Funk CDs and vinyl

Browse this section to see our latest recommendations, classic albums, tributes and and label showcases.

Below is just a selection:

New Releases and Back In Stock Rarities

Lady Blackbird’s long awaited debut album ‘Black Acid Soul’ is finally here in limited quantities, grab this while you can.  Vincent Ingala keeps the Smooth Jazz flame alive and there is a good Sweet inspirations 3cd Atlantic recordings set. James Brown’s second best album (after The Payback) ‘There It Is’ gets a welcome CD release, […]

Top Albums and Singles: Autumn 2019

Best albums and singles of March/April 2019

Albums and singles of The Month – December 2018

Albums and singles of the month – October 2018

Albums and singles of the month August 2018

Compilation albums of the year 2019

Jazz reissues of the year 2019

Soul Reissues of the year 2019

Albums of the year | New jazz and reissues on vinyl

Albums and Singles of the year 2019

Welcome to our extensive review of the best releases from 2019. You can browse by genre by clicking on the header images or section titles below.  

Classic Albums on vinyl – ideal Christmas gift ideas

   

Classic albums on Vinyl

To mark National Album Day we spotlighted a range of classic albums across a multitude of styles on Vinyl. You can see the titles at the links below

All time classic albums

Classic Rock and Pop albums on vinyl

50 shades of soul and jazz!

We are delighted to offer 50 Recently released or Reissued CD albums at a special price of £9.99 each while stocks last, until midnight 15th February 2015. There are many great albums in the offer including our album of 2014 Jarrod Lawson, Soul Togetherness 2014, 3 albums from Gregory Porter and many more seductive Soul […]

An introduction to Blue Note – 10 albums you must hear

Arguably Blue Note is the greatest Jazz label ever and was responsible for releasing so many classic albums over its 80+ year history. Its halcyon era was 1950’s/ 1960’s, when it pioneered Hard Bop. At various times, its roster included the likes of Art Blakey, Hank Mobley, Lee Morgan and Horace Silver plus geniuses such […]

Focus on…Soul Brother Records’ label!

We have been privileged to release records by some of the all time great Soul and Jazz artists over the last 23 years since we have been running the Soul brother label , and in fact meet many of them. We have released approx 150 albums and 50 singles in that time. Here is a […]

Classic Blue note on vinyl

Check out our amazing range of classic Blue Note albums on reissue vinyl that we have in stock in our store and available for shipping now. There are nearly 100 titles to select from the greatest jazz label of all time. Most are 180gm and it includes many of the very high quality Tone Poet […]

Can you feel The Voices Of East Harlem?

Voices of East Harlem | Can You Feel It These two fantastic Voices of East Harlem albums were produced by Leroy Hutson. Voices of East Harlem from 1973 includes the iconic Modern Soul dancer ‘Cashing in’ and the massive Rare groove classic ‘Wanted Dead or Alive’. ‘Little People’, the up tempo floater ‘New Vibrations’ and […]

Inner City Records Special

Inner City Records was a jazz record company and label founded by Irv Kratka in 1976 in New York City. The company was a division of Music Minus One and also owned the label Classic Jazz. It started with reissues, then moved on to new recordings covering various types of jazz. Inner City Records released […]