Jazz, Funk & Blues

Acid jazz legend Chris Bangs returns with a brand new album for 2024, following his early-2023 release Firebird, and 2022’s collaboration with Mick...

The Instrumental version of the underground classic El Michels Affair & Black Thought collaborative album Glorious Game. When Leon Michels and ...

First time on vinyl for this lovingly curated collection of full-length and 12” versions of Disco classics, originally released as part of the ‘Dis...

Disco Discharge. Disco Ladies celebrates those women whose voices elevated the genre and continue to soundtrack many a throwback party, queer club ...

The funkiest release on the HDH label and last album from Detroit soul group Chairmenof the Board saw a concerted movement away from harmony soul t...

Originally released in 1974 on the Stax imprint Truth Records, The Round Robin Monopoly's funk-soul extravaganza Alpha returns to vinyl for the fir...

When you ­first hear Thee Marloes, their particular soul sound may seem familiar enough. There are the weighty drums, a crooning guitar, and a beau...

Less than a year after her album Through and Through, Baby Rose returns with Slow Burn, a collection of songs that explode her sonic palette from p...

For Fans Of... Thee Sacred Souls, Joey Quinones, Durand Jones and The Indications,Thee Midniters, The Altons, Trish Toledo, Sunny and The Sunliners...

Betty’s classic third album, originally released by Island Records in 1975 Featuring Betty’s band Funk House Booklet includes liner notes by John B...

This year marks the 50th anniversary of Cymande’s Promised Heights, a record that closed out an historic three album run of seminal early '70s Afro...

Recorded in 1985, after a break from recording and time spent living in Barbados and Liberia, Nina’s Back features a rejuvenated Nina Simone reachi...

’Music is a gift and a burden I’ve had since I can remember who I was. I was born into music. The decision was how to make the best use of it.’’ Re...

Late Night Tales reissues the classic and hard-to-find ‘Late Night Tales: Jamiroquai’, compiled by none other than Jay Kay himself. The 10th editio...

Arc Records are proud to announce Lost Takes: a collection of tracks recorded by Roberta Flack in the sessions leading up to the recording of her s...

Betty Davis was a musical maverick with vision. Image, substance, sex, and grit combined with a badass band that could deliver the funk bed backbon...

Ms Davis's unique story, still sadly mostly unknown, is unlike any other in popular music. Betty wrote the song Uptown for the Chambers Brothers be...

After a series of highly sought-after 7” singles, and an acclaimed compilation album, the Kevin Fingier Collective returns with an all-new, all-ori...

In the 1970s, Betty Davis defied genre and gender by pushing her voice to extremes and embracing the erotic. She articulated a kind of pre-punk, fu...

It is undeniable that Billie Holiday's singing changed in her later years. Her voice darkened and shifted to a lower range. Her economy of expressi...

The Circling Sun channel spiritual/modal jazz and Latin rhythms, simultaneously reference the greats such as Sun Ra, Pharoah Sanders and Alice Colt...

For Fans Of... Monophonics, David Axelrod, The Rugged Nuggets, Adrian Quesada. Debut LP from The Ironsides. Founded and produced by Monophonics mem...

Little Girl Blue was Nina Simone's first studio recording and features her in an intimate trio setting with bassist Jimmy Bond and drummer Albert "...