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Rastafari (2024 Edition)The Dreads Enter BabylonSoul Jazz Records
Arthur Baker presentsBreaker's RevengeOriginal B-Boy and B-Girl Breakdance ClassicsSoul Jazz Records
In The Beginning There Was Rhythm(Feat. ACR, Cabaret Voltaire, The Pop Group, Gang of Four, etc)Soul Jazz Records
Punk 45!: Kill the Hippies! Kill Yourself! The American Nation Destroys Its Young (RSD 2024 Edition)Underground Punk in the United States of America, Vol. 1. 1973-1980Soul Jazz Records
300% Dynamite!Ska, Soul, Rocksteady, Funk and Dub in Jamaica ( RSD 2024 Edition)Soul Jazz Records
Studio One Rude Boy (RSD 2024 Edition)Soul Jazz Records
Studio One Downbeat Special extended editionStudio One Downbeat Special (Expanded Edition)Soul Jazz Records
David Lee Jr.EvolutionSoul Jazz Records
Nat King Cool and The Cool RunnersChecking Out (1984)Soul Jazz Records
ScratchKeep On Searching For Love / Eastern Lady (1984)Soul Jazz Records
Punk 45: There Is No Such Thing As Society (2024 Edition)Get A Job, Get A Car, Get A Bed, Get Drunk! Underground Punk in the UK 1977-81Underground Punk and Post-Punk in the UK 1977-81.Soul Jazz Records
Studio One DubSoul Jazz Records
Studio One Disco Mix
Studio One DJ'sSoul Jazz Records
Studio One LoversSoul Jazz Records
Studio One RootsSoul Jazz Records
Studio One Story (Vinyl album only edition)Soul Jazz Records
200% Dynamite (25th Anniversary edition)Ska, Soul, Rocksteady, Funk & Dub in JamaicaSoul Jazz Records
Studio One KingsSoul Jazz Records
Sound DimensionJamaica Soul Shake Vol. 1Soul Jazz Records
Studio One ScorcherInstrumentals at Studio OneSoul Jazz Records
Alien StarrWorld Of EcstasySoul Jazz Records
Jackie MittooLast Train To SkavilleSoul Jazz Records
Studio One Roots 2Soul Jazz Records
Space Funk 2Afro Futurist Electro Funk in Space 1976-84Soul Jazz Records
Holy Church Of The Ecstatic SoulA Higher Power: Gospel, Funk & Soul At The Crossroads 1971 - 83Soul Jazz Records
Miami SoundRare Funk and Soul from Miami, Florida 1967-74 (2023 Edition)Soul Jazz Records
Electric ChairsSo Many Ways / J'Attends Les MarinesSoul Jazz Records
The Carver Area High School SeniorsGet Live '83 (The Senior Rap)Soul Jazz Records
Studio One 007Licensed To SkaJames Bond and other Film Soundtracks and TV ThemesSoul Jazz Records
HawksmoorTelepathic HeightsSoul Jazz Records
Soul Jazz Records presentsStudio One ClassicsFeat. The Skatalites, Horace Andy, Bob Marley, The Heptones and many more!
Studio One RocksteadyRocksteady, Soul and Early Reggae At Studio OneSoul Jazz Records
Studio One Ska FeverMore Ska Sounds From Sir Coxsone's DownbeatSoul Jazz Records
Studio One Women18th anniversary 3 New Special EditionsSoul Jazz Records
- Book (650g) 9781560983705£12.99 £6.99Out of stock Notify me when in stock
During his nearly 40-year tenure with Folkways Records, Moe Asch, the company's founder, amassed a catalogue of almost 2,200 recordings that had expanded the definition of American folk music and introduced listeners to sounds from every corner of the world. This biography provides a complete look at this iconoclastic figure.
Mary Lou WilliamsBlack Christ of the Andes (1964)Smithsonian Folkways
Super-rare and highly sought-after classic modal jazz album finally reissued!HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!!
- – It Ain't Necessarily So
- – Miss D.D.
- – Koolbonga
- 2. – It Ain't Necessarily So
- 4. – Miss D.D.
- 10. – Koolbonga
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- CD SFW40816£11.99Out of stock Notify me when in stock
The Kingdom of ZydecoBy Michael Tisserand
There’s a musical kingdom in the American South that’s not marked on any map. Stretching from the prairies of Louisiana to the oil towns of East Texas,...
- Book (650g) 162872692X£14.99Out of stock Notify me when in stock
The Montgomery MovementThe Montgomery Express (1974) (Reissue)Smithsonian Folkways / Numero Group
** Now available on vinyl **
Super rare funk album released on smithsonian folkways in the early 1970s. "The music of the Montgomery Express is a buried...
- – Montgomery Movement
- – Who
- – Steal away
- – Precious wing
- – Party fever
- – I'm standing by
- – Gotta make a comeback
- – Left me with a memory
- 1. – Montgomery Movement
- 2. – Who
- 3. – Steal away
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- CD STS33868£12.99Out of stock Notify me when in stock
- New LP JR025£17.99Out of stock Notify me when in stock
Soul Sacrifice : The Santana Storyby Simon LongFire Fly
- Original Book (400g)£10.00Secondhand out of print paperback book in good conditionIn stockAdd to Bag
Mary Lou WilliamsMary Lou's MassSmithsonian Folkways
The long-awaited reissue of Mary Lou Williams's magnum opus of religious jazz: Mary Lou's Mass. Newsweek called the score "an encyclopedia of black music,...
- – Willis
- – O.W
- – Credo
- 1. – Willis
- 2. – O.W
- 12. – Credo
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- CD SFW40815£11.99Out of stock Notify me when in stock
In the Fascist Bathroom: writings on Punk 1977-1992by Greil MarcusViking
- Original Book (650g)£8.00secondhand hardback book in good condSold out Notify me when in stock
Gypsy Music in European CultureFrom The Late 18th to the Early 29th Centuries
USA IMPORT HARDBACK BOOK £10 off
Translated from the Polish, Anna G. Piotrowska's 'Gypsy Music in European Culture' details the profound impact that...
- Book (500g) 9781555538378£25.00 £15.00Out of stock Notify me when in stock
Don't Rhyme for the Sake of Riddlin': The Authorised Story Of Public EnemyBy Russell Myrie Cannongate
Russell Myrie has had unprecedented access to the group, conducting extensive interviews with Chuck D, Flavor Flav, Terminator X, Professor Griff, the...
- Original Book (300g) 9781847671264£7.00Secondhand paperbackIn stockAdd to Bag
Yes Yes Y'all: The Experience Music Project Oral History of Hip Hop's First Decadeby Jim Fricke and Charlie AhearnThe Perseus Press
WICKED oral history of early rap. Essential! Secondhand out of print paperback in good condition
- Original Book (1kg) 9781903985571£25.00Out of print paperback in good conditionSold out Notify me when in stock
The Adventures Of Grandmaster Flash: A MemoirBy Grandmaster Flash with David RitzBroadway
- Original Book (600g)£15.00Original out of print secondhand USA hardback w/dustjacket in good conditionSold out Notify me when in stock
Bomb The SuburbsBy William Upski WimsattSubway & Elevated
- Original Book (250g)£8.00Original out of print secondhand book ex-library with stamps
100% guarantee on this and all original books at Sounds of the Universe.Sold out Notify me when in stock
Edwidge DanticatAfter the Dance - A Walk Through carnival in Jacmel, HaitiCrown
If you've seen Soul Jazz Records' Kanaval book - here is an eye-witness look at the carinival in Haiti
- Original Book (300g)£10.00S/hand hardback US first edition bookSold out Notify me when in stock
Language, Rhythm & Sound: Black Popular Culture into the 21 Century By Joseph K. Adjaye Uni of Pittsburgh (1997)
Focusing on expressions of popular culture among blacks in Africa, the United States and the Caribbean, this collection of 15 multidisciplinary essays...
- Original Book (500g)£12.00secondhand ex-library paperbackSold out Notify me when in stock
Drum and Candleby David St. ClairDoubleday & Company
Out-of-print book club edition secondhand hardback book w/dustjacket small tear
- Original Book (400g)£15.00In stockAdd to Bag
Roots Of Black Music In AmericaSome Correspondences Between The Music Of The Slave Areas Of West Africa, USA and CaribbeanSmithsonian Folkways
How the music of USA, the Caribbean and Western Africa is connected by the slave trade with comparisons between the various musics and instruments in the...
- Waje Ward – Virginia Banjo Instrumental
- 26. Waje Ward – Virginia Banjo Instrumental
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- 2×CD FA2694£14.99Out of stock Notify me when in stock
The Brothers Neville - An AutobiographyArt Neville, Aaron Neville, Charles Neville, Cyril Neville and David RitzLibrary of Congress
All you need to know about new Orleans finest funk brothers.
Secondhand paperback original book
- Original Book (1kg)£9.00In stockAdd to Bag
Street and Gangland RhythmsBeats And Improvisations By Six Boys In Trouble (1959)Smithsonian Folkways
Street percussion, drumming, songs and chants recorded in New York in 1959 by a group of street kids. Kind of like a prototype Haryou Percussion Group...
- – Ole
- 6. – Ole
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- CD FD5589£11.99Out of stock Notify me when in stock
HellraisersA Complete Visual History of Heavy Metal MayhemRace Point Publishing
HARD AND HEAVY USA IMPORT HARDBACK. £13 OFF - that's more than 50% OFF RETAIL PRICETake a journey through the history of metal music from its earliest...
- Book (1.5kg) 1631064304£24.99 £12.00Out of stock Notify me when in stock
Rhythms of RaptureSacred Musics of Haitian Vodou (1995)Smithsonian Folkways
Excellent recordings of Haitian voodoo music in all its many forms and variations. Comes with superb booklet.
Cuts from live Vodou ceremonies are juxtaposed...
- Port-Au-Prince Zepol – Vye Gran O (Song for Ezili)
- 6. Port-Au-Prince Zepol – Vye Gran O (Song for Ezili)
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- CD SFCD40464£11.99Out of stock Notify me when in stock
Musical Instruments of Africa; Their Nature, Use, and Place in the Life of a Deeply Musical Peopleby Elisabeth Hoffmann DietzThe John Day Company
Excellent secondhand large hardback book about African musical instruments co-written by Babatunde Olatunji.
- Original Book (700g)£20.00First edition 1965 ex-library, no record, plastic cover on dustjacketSold out Notify me when in stock
Sarah Webster FabioBoss Soul: 12 Poems by Sarah Webster Fabio (1972)Smithsonian Folkways
Tough, tough, tough proto-female rap featuring raw percussion and super-funky accompaniment. This is like Gil Scott Heron's '125th and Lennox' album meets...
- – Work it out
- – Glimpses
- 1. – Work it out
- 4. – Glimpses
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- CD FL9710£11.99Out of stock Notify me when in stock
Gotta Go Gotta FlowLife, Love, and Lust on Chicago's South Side From the SeventiesCity Files Press
£20 OFF !!!! DELUXE IMPORT USA HARDBACK BOOK. MORE THAN 60% OFF. A GREAT BOOK!!!
AWESOME BACK - wicked photos Chicago black club life in the 1970s. Accompanied...
- Book (1.3kg) 0991541820£35.00 £15.00Out of stock Notify me when in stock
East New York Ensemble de MusicAt The Helm (1974)Smithsonian Folkways
Amazing deep, deep jazz as featured on our "New Thing!" compilation! Includes heavyweight African/Eastern styles and the out-there 13 minute version of...
- – Sun Flower
- 3. – Sun Flower
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- CD FTS33867£12.99Out of stock Notify me when in stock
- New LP FW33867£13.99Out of stock Notify me when in stock
Black Power 50Edited by Sylviane A. Diouf and Komozi Woodward
£10 OFF!!!! That's 50% OFF! WICKED USA large format paperback - nice pix, loads of text. Cheaper than Amazon!
Black Power burst onto the world scene...
- Book (650g) 1620971488£20.00 £10.00In stockAdd to Bag