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New arrivals, pre-orders and Record Store Day updates

New releases

There are some great new albums this week, particularly on the jazz side. Snarky Puppy member Corey Henry makes a great Hammond Organ album ‘Revival’. Nomade Orquestra have a very inventive album that fuses Jazz, Latin ,Chicano Funk and Rock to great effect. Greg Foat Group CD comprises of the two RSD 10″ mini albums on one CD, beautiful Spiritual jazz. BWB and Nick Collione have good Smooth Jazz albums. Mayer Hawthorne, Musiqsoulchild and Robin McKelle have new soul albums, and there is a very good album from Al Castellana available only on LP.

Reissues and Comps

Gilles Peterson scores again with a superb compilation from the MPS label vaults ‘Magic Peterson Sunshine’ , lovely modal jazz. From the same MPS label there is an excellent unissued Bill Evans album ‘Some other time’ which came out on LP for RSD and is now available on CD.
Chuck Brown and the Soul Searchers ‘Bustin Loose’ album gets a first CD issue and Brick’s first two albums are on a great value 2 on 1 CD.

Vinyl Reissues

There are some good Vinyl Reissues with the in demand Johnnie Taylor’s ‘Wanted One Soul Singer’ and Baby Huey Story’ both getting 180gm editions, and there is a nice R&B/Soul comp from Outta sight ‘Give em soul vol 3’.

Singles

45’s include a new one on Soul Junction from Scott Three , a superb rediscovered Johnny Moore 45 on Grapevine and two really good new tracks from McCrei and Marc Staggers. Cloud One’ Disco Juice’ is the latest P&P reissue 12″.

Back in stock on Monday

By Monday we will be back in stock of Peo ‘Swede Soul Music’, Tahirah Memory ‘Pride’ and Collective Peace ‘Introducing Collective Peace’ CDs  and all held orders will be shipped. Also Natasha Watts self titled CD

Record Store day Lookback

A big thank you to everybody who came to the Soul Brother store on Record Store Day last Saturday, it was a great and fun day and most people left with their want lists fulfilled.

You can see the pictures here.
A big thank you to Natasha Watts and Tony Momrelle for giving up their time to sign CDs and Tony’s RSD 10″.
We still have a  few signed cds by Natasha Watts and Tony Momrelle available.

We still have most of the Soul, Funk, Jazz, Blues and Reggae titles in stock and whatever is still available will go on sale on line tomorrow morning for RSD ON-LINE around 8.30 -9am. our phone lines will be open at 8.30 to take telephone orders.

You can see the list of RSD products here, sold out items will be removed later today once we have checked all the stock.

Pre-orders

Pre-order for Snarky puppy’s first studio album ‘Culcha Vulcha due next week and Gregory Porter ‘Take Me to the alley’ due the week after which will be available on CD, Deluxe Cd with DVD and Double LP. I will preview these on the show on Sunday. There is also a nice unissued Mighty Fire 45 coming in next week.

Jazz FM Awards

Congratulations to the nominees for the Jazz Fm awards which are on Tuesday 26th , there are some great albums and artists up for awards, which you can check here

Radio Show

I hope that you enjoyed the show last week if you missed it you can catch it again on the Podcast here. I hope that you can join me this Sunday on Solar /sky0129 and on DAB in London at 10am for another Soul Brother Selection.

R.I.P Prince

We are sad to learn of the passing of Prince , some of his material may not have been to every soul fans taste, but was he was undoubtedly one of the most creative and influential Black music artists of his generation.

Have a great weekend
laurence