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Recommended releases of the week and pre-orders

New releases

It’s a good week for New Jazz Cd’s this week. Pride of place goes to Gerardo Frisina whose Movement album is a real killer, great Italian Jazz in a Latin Groove, top drawer Dancefloor Jazz.

Also check new albums from Mark Murphy, The Cookers ft Eddie Henderson, Billy Harper, George Cables, Cecil McBee and Billy Hart amongst others the the more Electronic Jazz of Chancha via Circuito.

Reissues

Cult disco artist Rinder and Lewis have a rare CD outing with their ‘Seven Deadly Sin’s’ album which includes their classics ‘Lust’ and ‘Envy’, and their are some good comps especially the eclectic Funk Fever, and incredible value Complete Introduction to Jazz box set. We have managed to source a few more of the Marvin Gaye/Donald Byrd 12″, don’t miss this, there may not be anymore once these have gone.

7″ singles

There have been some good 45 re-issues recently and here is a list of some of the best. Sorry the Ebony Diamonds sold out within 30 mins of yesterdays mailer, we are trying to persuade the label to press some more.

Japanese Pre-orders now taken

We are expecting a big shipment from Japan next week, here are some of the new re-issue Cd titles that are on their way, please pre-order them now as we will have limited quantities of some titles.

Recent collector’s CD arrivals

Here is a list of some Collectors Cds that have just arrived, all of these are one-offs so please order early to avoid disappointment

Carmen Lundy lookback

A big thanks to everyone who came to the Carmen Lundy in store on Saturday, it was fascinating hearing the stories of her career from the lady.
Here are the photos from the event The shows at the Pizza Express Jazz club were amazing, especially the last set on Saturday night which has to be one of the best gigs i have ever been privileged to witness. Carmen was at the top of her game and the superb band which included Patrice Rushen played out of their skins, Incredible !.We have a limited quantity of signed copies of Carmen’s fantastic new album Soul to Soul available on a first come first served basis which you can order here. If you would like a copy please order asap as these will almost certainly sell out fast. We also have regular copies available here.

Radio Show

I hope that you enjoyed the show on Sunday, if you missed it you can catch it on the Podcast here. This Sunday we will be talking to Gedeon Luke as he arrives into the country to perform on Jools Holland show , broadcast next Friday, and he has his own FREE gig at the Brooklyn Bowl O2 on Wednesday night – check it out here!
Have a great weekend
Laurence