Jazz, Funk & Blues

Born James Ambrose Johnson Jr. (1948-2004), Rick James transformed from draft dodger to funk legend after being signed to Motown’s Gordy Records in...

Super Fly is the third studio album by American soul musician Curtis Mayfield, released on July 11, 1972, by Curtom Records. It was released as the...

Quit to Play Chess is the final studio album of Cola Boyy, who tragically passed away in March 2024 after winning the hearts of neo-disco and funk ...

After more than a decade of music-making, Durand Jones & The Indications have blossomed as a unit and are basking in their successes. On their ...

Given that 'Round About Midnight was Miles Davis' debut Columbia recording, it was both a beginning and an ending. Certainly the beginning of his r...

The Bridge was the first album Sonny Rollins recorded after he returned to the jazz scene in late 1961, following a two-year layoff to practice and...

This was the first album pairing Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong produced by Norman Granz for his Verve label. After recording a series of duet...

Second only to Kind of Blue by Miles Davis and Jazz Samba by Stan Getz, as the most commercially successful jazz record of all time (it even contai...

Room On The Porch is the follow-up album from Taj Mahal and Keb’ Mo’ to the highly successful, GRAMMY-winning TajMo release from 2017. This collabo...

Red Snapper is reissuing their Reeled & Skinned compilation on Warp Records. It brings together the trio’s self-released early EPs from ’94 and...

Australia’s world-renowned cinematic soul outfit Surprise Chef return with new album Superb. A record that represents a change in their creative ap...

A labour of love, it showcases a tantalising cross- section of disco, funk, boogie, samba and MPB, from past to present. Unearthing tracks from the...

Emma-Jean Thackray, the visionary producer, composer, and multi-instrumentalist, releases her highly anticipated second album, Weirdo on April 25th...

A Blade Because A Blade Is Whole is the latest album from London-based composer-poet-activist-improviser Alabaster DePlume, his first major work fo...

Letters from the Atlantic displays a seamless blend of jazz, house, indie, funk, R&B, soul, bossa nova, and more. The band elevates to a new le...

Cerrone has been a musical icon beyond Disco for 5 decades. He keeps inspiring the greatest names of electronic music and improving his way of play...

Grammy®-winning Arooj Aftab is set to release Night Reign, the follow up to her critically-acclaimed album Vulture Prince, on Verve Records. Aftab ...

1981 album from eclectic jazz music group The Lounge Lizards. French pressing. Year: 1981 - French Polydor pressing Condition: Sleeve has some ring...

1981 album from afrobeat/funk/soul legend Fela Kuti - French pressing. Year: 1981 - French pressing. Condition: Sleeve has some shelf-wear but is w...

Celebrate the 25th anniversary of Kelis' Kaleidoscope with this special 2LP green vinyl release. Originally dropping in 1999, Kaleidoscope introduc...

Debut album from contemporary jazz group R+R=Now Year: 2018 Condition: Easily a VG+ throughout with very minimal signs of any wear or use. As good ...

Debut album from atmospheric contemporary jazz trio Rymden. Year: 2019 Condition: By many standards, this is in fact NM throughout, but we always u...

Released in Sweden, this unofficial release covers two sides of obscure jazz, Latin and funk!  Year: 2002 Condition: Sleeve has just a little too m...

The 2002 debut album from German electronic DJ and producer Jazzanova. Year: 2002 Condition: Sleeve has just a little too much wear for us to grade...

The 2005 debut album from American soul-jazz  seven-piece The Rebirth. Year: 2005 Condition: By our own strict standards, sleeve is just about a VG...

The 2002 album by legendary musician and composer Tony Allen. Year: 2002 Condition: Sleeve has plenty of wear, particularly around the corners and ...

Year: 2001 Condition: Sleeve has mostly only small signs of any sleeve-wear and still has the original shrink on it. Disc has only minimal amounts...

Volume 3 of the best in deep funk and soul from legendary soul and funk producer Keb Darge. Year: 1999 Condition: Sleeve has mostly only small sign...

The second album from Brooklyn afrobeat collective Antibalas. Year: 2002 Condition: Sleeve has some wear around the edges and corners but has no te...

The Original Complete Motion Picture Soundtrack to the 1970 Italian crime film composed by Piero Piccioni, pressed on double LP.  Year: 1999 Condit...

Inner City Sounds (Gritty Soul & Underground Funk From The Vaults Of Inner City Records); the 2003 double LP set. Year: 2003 Condition: By our ...

Limited pressing of 1000 copies, this is the 2005 issue of 'Afro Soco Soul Live' from the "long-lost hero of Afro Soul Funk" Geraldo Pino. Released...

A true return to form and jewel in the crown of their iconic discography, Renascence picks up where their 1974 album Promised Heights left off – a ...

Hard to pin down first and never-since-repressed LP of funk and soul by artist Bobby Glenn with 'Shout It Out' Year: 1976 Condition: Sleeve has som...

Soul Jazz Records' new Miami Sound 2 is a superlative collection of soul; funk; album and boogie of the 1970s with songs by legendary artists such ...

85 years ago on January 6, 1939, a German-Jewish immigrant and passionate Jazz fan named Alfred Lion produced his first recording session in New Yo...

Washington DC’s Experience Unlimited issued their first album, Free Yourself, on the Black Fire label in 1977. Black Fire is most famous for the re...

Strut presents an exclusive reissue of Oneness Of Juju’s classic 1976 album Space Jungle Luv, an essential addition to the Black Fire Records reiss...

Ishmael Ensemble’s third longplayer Rituals marks a significant leap for the Bristolian musicians. With their live-instrumentation-meets-electronic...

From the first listening to Héritage, the much-awaited fourth album by Songhoy Blues, it is clear that the 4-piece rock band from northern Mali are...

This October Jamiroquai celebrates the 30th anniversary of The Return Of The SpaceCowboy. Their second album, it will be reissued as a double-LP se...

Donald Byrd was off to the races after joining Blue Note in 1958 and had fully hit his hard bop stride by 1961 with his excellent album Royal Flush...

One of the great line-ups of Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers coalesced when saxophonist Wayne Shorter joined trumpeter Lee Morgan, pianist Bob...

Empathy can sometimes be a superhuman power; it can connect you so deeply with people, and that bond brings an acute level of trust and love that c...

Released to celebrate the 70th Anniversary of these sessions and the 75th Anniversary of Prestige Records, Miles ’54 brings together 20 tracks reco...

Distance as a measure of time and place informs Kelly Finnigan’s, A Lover Was Born with a grit and grace that turns passion into virtue. The latest...

Strut proudly presents a special edition, deluxe repress of Sun Ra’s classic Lanquidity, for the 25th anniversary of the label. Housed in a tip-on ...

Dark Horse Records is proud to release a very limited pressing of Nina Simone’s debut studio album Little Girl Blue, celebrating the album’s 65th a...