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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 pre-orders | RSD 18 from 8am tomorrow!

There’s quite a few good new albums and singles this week. The New Mastersounds have a strong Funky Jazz album , Far out Monster Disco orchestra a strong modern disco album, Dave Liebman and Martti Vesela have good jazz set. There are also some good albums on vinyl from WVR Bvby, Bunky Leo and classic […]

Albums of the Month March/April 2018

Albums of the Month December 2017/January 2018

Top releases of The Month October 2017

   

Albums of The Month – July 2017

Albums of The Month June 2017

Reissue Vinyl Albums of The Year 2017

Jazz Reissues of The Year 2017

Soul Reissues of The Year 2017

Compilations Of The Year 2017

Albums and Singles of the Year 2017

  2017 saw relatively few new Soul albums of real quality, however there were some real gems. Leela James possess one of the best voices in contemporary Soul and her ‘Did it for Love’ is our Soul album of the year. Tom Glide made his best album by far with ‘Divas got soul’ featuring many […]

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 […]

The Story of Funk – classic albums

I hope that you saw the superb programme about the Story of Funk-One nation under a groove on BBC4 on Friday night. If you missed it you should be able to catch it on the I Player this week. There was some great footage of James Brown , Sly and the Family Stone , Earth […]

The genius of Nimbus, the legend of Black Jazz

These beautifully crafted deep Spiritual Jazz albums display a music which has a serene quality to touch and uplift your spirits.  The Black Jazz and Strata labels from the 70’s and Nimbus West from the early 80’s released Jazz records of an incredible standard which have been remastered and reissued on CD. As many of […]

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 […]

New from Ropeadope | Just in

We have just had a new shipment from Ropeadope arrived today with 3 great new titles from Khari Simmons and Jiva, RC and the Gritz and Richard Sears, plus we are back in stock of Edgewood Agents, Southwes terminal, Christian Scott, Terrace Martin, Chantae Cann and Snarky puppy Cd’s. All existing and backorders will be […]

Limited time sale off on selected 30 WaxTime LPs

These 30 Waxtime 180 gm Jazz and Blues vinyl LP’s are on offer at the reduced price of £14.99 until 30th April 2016. There are some great classic 50’s and early 60’s titles included, there are even a few vocal albums inc Frank Sinatra which may be handy for mothers day in March. To see […]

Focus on – Nimbus

Kamasi Washington ‘The Epic’ was a revelation last year and one of the best new jazz albums we have heard in many years. Kamasi is based in L.A. and his music has parallels with the music on the great Nimbus label run by Tom Albach in L.A in the 70’s and 80’s and still run […]