The Checkmates LTD were a group discovered by Nancy Wilson. They had a massive US hit with Phil Spector produced "Black Pearl" in 1969. The group were...
Playing Robots Into Heaven follows the critically acclaimed Friends That Break Your Heart and will see James return to the electronic roots of his Hessle,...
Niomi Arleen McLean-Daley, AKA Ms. Dynamite, released her stunning debut album, A Little Deeper, in June 2002. The album won the Mercury Music Prize that...
Featuring "We Live In Brooklyn Baby" and "He's A Superstar"!
Surely the most essential Roy Ayers album - everyone a killer. Super deep, heavy funk jazz....
Mercury Music Prize and GRAMMY Award winning UK singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and producer James Blake releases 'Friends That Break Your Heart'...
Many artists achieve greatness but very few produce work that is so moving it's considered sacred. Whether you choose to call them hymns, psalms or spirituals,...
Cleo Sol returns to Forever Living Originals with an album of gorgeous, deep, tender and ardent soul music with a strong roots/folk feel. Essential release...
Released on the Cadet label in 1968, The Peace-Maker was the first of ten collaborations between the great tenor saxophonist Harold Land and vibraphonist...
'The word timeless is applied way too often in music, but here it is entirely justified.' Fact
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There was one irrepressible Chicago club act that refused to be replaced by any DJ’s sound system. Maxx Traxx (and Third Rail before them) were a scene...
"I think if a nuclear family could have a soundtrack, ours would be the Soul Jazz comp Studio One Scorcher. I wouldn't say it's the best record ever made,...
Superb slice of super-rare electro funk grooviness originally released as a one-off small-run private-press 12" single out of Ohio, USA in 1985. Complete...
"Jackie Mittoo was one of the great names in Jamaican music, manning the keyboards for the Skatalites, the Soul Vendors, and Sound Dimension - three of...
We've all experienced earworms - those phrases or riffs that spiral through your head for an eternity, materializing when you least expect it. On 'Models',...
While we patiently await new music, we can revel in versions that escaped the typical overthinking that occurs during the album process, instead reflecting...
New 10th anniversary edition on Soul Jazz Books/Soul Jazz Records of this now classic large format deluxe book - the definitive photography book and essential...
On this 1970 album recorded in Los Angeles, Donato departs from his Brazilian bossa nova roots, incorporating an eclectic, and electric, mix of funk, fusion...
For the third Lady Blackbird Dubplate,Foundation Music Productions present The Unreleased Remixes Volume 1, enlisting the expertise of four stalwarts of...
Sao Paulo's Afro-Brazilian groove visionaries Bixiga 70 return with an ecstatic 5th album -Vapor- their first in four years. The sound is joyful, a series...
Based in Los Angeles, Slauson Malone 1 is the musical project and performance piece of artist Jasper Marsalis.
Following two critically acclaimed prior...
'Heavenly remixes 7' heads to Belfast, where David Holmes - a producer who first appeared on Heavenly in 1994 amping up the acid on Saint Etienne's 'Like...
'Heavenly remixes 8' opens with Space Afrika's lush, ambient reimagining of the Orielles' 'BEAM/S' before Justin Robertson stretches Amber Arcades' 'Turning...
'Heavenly remixes 7' heads to Belfast. where David Holmes - a producer who first appeared on Heavenly in 1994 amping up the acid on Saint Etienne's 'Like...
The first album in 40 years from this legendary dub act, who were the original On-U house band and responsible for classics such as Dub from Creation and...
"Joy as an Act of Resistance' is pressed on 180g vinyl with interchangeable album artwork: & double-sided inserts with 16 original art prints from the...
Originally privately released as an obscure 7” single on LAS Records, operated by visionary power couple Emerson and Leora Sandidge, ‘Sending All My...
Prolific LA-based musician and producer Mndsgn returns with the third instalment in his series of 'Snax' records, 'Snaxxx'.Looser and more freeform than...
**Jazzman's essential ‘Spiritual Jazz’ series returns!** While the string of legendary independent labels, from Blue Note and Prestige to Steeplechase...
For the album Sun Explosion, we are in Paris in 1978. Six years after his breakthrough on the international scene with the song Soul Makossa, Manu Dibango...
**ONE OF JAZZ'S ALL TIME GREATS PLAYING TURKISH RHYTHMS!**
Don Cherry delves into Turkish rhythms, accompanied by his long-time Don Cherry Trio members:...
First time vinyl repress of a classic Harold Budd album originally released in 1988. Partly recorded at the Cocteau Twins studio with production help from...
Aijuswanaseing is the debut studio album by American singer Musiq Soulchild. It was released originally on November 14, 2000 through Def Soul Recordings...
Crossed Wires III marks the final installment of the Crossed Wires trilogy, a series of releases that saw Crossed Wires dig deep into their archived cassette...