News : Jazz-Funk-Soul

Barbara Norris - Heavy Hitter

12" | United Performers | up929 | € 9.50

Barbara Norris's magnificent disco funk floor filler Heavy Hitter. Although the A side features the knock out vocal version of this classic party starter, it's been the incredible dub mix which has made this such a highly prized 12". [disco]

Candido - Thousand Finger Man

LP | Solid State | ss-18066 | € 11.95

Candido's classic 'Thousand Finger Man' album. Beautifully reissued with gatefold cover. [disco-jazz-funk]

D-Train - You're The One for Me

12" | Prelude | prl621 | € 10.50

Excellent disco-electro-funk by D-Train. Includes vocal and smashing instrumental, which is on the edge of proto-house. [disco]

Dinosaur L - 24 - 24 Music

LP | Sleeping Bag | tlx-0 | € 14.75

Reissue of an incredible mini album from Dinosaur L - the legendary New York dancefloor project of Arthur Russell. The group’s a punky, funky, chunky amalgam of bass thumping, guitar riffing, keyboard filling, and sax honking - all very much in the spirit of Russell’s best quirky club work of the time, but with the added sound here of a more expanded approach.…

Donald Byrd - Love Has Come Around

12" | Elektra | k12514 | € 9.99

Jazz legend Donald Byrd with this superb disco-funk track 'Love Has Come Around'. Flip for Grover Washington - Just the two of us. [disc-funk]

Kano / Firefly - I'm Ready / Love

12" | Emergency | emds6515 | € 10.99

Reissue with 2 classic italo disco tracks: Kano with 'I'm Ready', unique italo vocoder disco produced by Stefano Pulga. Flip for the italo boogie of Firefly. Essential. [italo-disco]

Kleeer - Intimate Connection / Tonight

12" | Atlantic | dmd-9637 | € 10.50

An incredibly smooth and soulful electro funk classic from Kleeer. 'Tonight' is bouncy electro funk with vocoder action and our favorite. [electro-funk]

Miles Davis - Ascenseur Pour L'echafaud

LP | Jazz Wax | jwr4503 | € 17.99

Performed by a Miles Davis-fronted European band for a classic movie by Louis Malle, this music helped define the sound of film noir. Reissue on 180 gm vinyl. Beautiful. [jazz-soundtrack]

Mulatu Astatke - Ethio Jazz

LP | L Arome Productions | aelp90 | € 19.00

Classic work by the legendary Mulatu Astatke. Other-worldly music, a mix of bass-heavy dubby rhythms and spaced-out jazzy solos played on saxophone and electric piano. This LP was the first-ever proper vinyl reissue of Mulatu's work. [afro-jazz-funk]

Stan Getz & Joao Gilberto - Getz / Gilberto

LP | Verve | v6-8545 | € 28.00

Beautifully reissued Stan Getz bossa jazz album featuring Joao Gilberto on vocals and guitar. Its release created a bossa nova craze in the United States in 1964, and subsequently internationally. Gatefold sleeve with a 180 gr high quality audiophile pressing. Essential. [jazz-samba]