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Soul Jazz Records at the V&A Museum
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Stills from the recent Soul Jazz talk/show about Bossa Nova at the Victoria and Albert Museum.

 

 

(Photographs by Dean Brannagan)

Cover Art of Studio One Book Features

Check out feature in the Independent newspaper on Clement Dodd and the forthcoming Studio One book. Feature

 

Listen here to Stuart Baker (Soul Jazz Records) and writer Steve Barrow (Rough Guide to Reggae) talking about the new book Cover Art of Studio One on the Robert Elms BBC Radio London show.

Radio 1 (Huw Stephens) interview with Nicole at Soul Jazz Records

Radio 1 Interview.

 

Nice interview where Nicole here at Soul Jazz talks about bass, dubstep and ... sandwiches!

'Invasion of the Mysteron Killer Sounds' arrival!
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“Digital defenders, these are difficult and dangerous times that we live in. Limiter soundsystems, complaining galaxy neighbours, the practical extinction of vinyl message plates, we call upon all direct jurisdictional Soundlords to use all your allocated audio- powers to protect the dancehalls from eradication from the ALIEN SOUND LORD ABDUCTORS.”

 

Buy 'Invasion of the Mysteron Killer Sounds' here.

Read Pitchfork review here

Sounds of the Universe

Sounds of the Universe is our sister shop where we sell everything we like that is not on our labels. Reggae, Dubstep, Funk, Latin and Brazilian, Disco, Post-Punk, Jazz - it's all here! The shopping cart between the two sites are the same. So after browsing the Soul Jazz Records site take a look at 1000s more related releases. You can swap between the sites at ease. Just press on the "Sounds of the Universe" link here.

 

You can also come and visit the store in person at:

Sounds of the Universe

7 Broadwick Street

Soho

London W1F 0DA

England.

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Voguing book new on Soul Jazz Books

 

Our new deluxe 200 page deluxe 24x30cm flexibound book, Voguing and the House Ballroom Scene of New York City 1989-92, features hundreds of stunning photographs from Chantal Regnault on the hidden world of New York’s underground house ballroom scene.

 

Introductory essay is by Tim Lawrence, author of two seminal music books: ‘Love Saves the Day’ and ‘Hold on to your Dreams: Arthur Russell and the Downtown Music Scene, 1973-92’.

 

CD Out now! To coincide with the book, there is a 3CD/2x2LP album available right now ,featuring Masters at Work, MFSB, Junior Vasquez, Diana Ross, Armand Van Helden, Loose Joints, First Choice, and a super-exclusive free Junior Vasquez old school vogue mix!  More info and listen to audio here.

 

Buy 3CD/2x2LP here.

 

Read interview with photographer Chantal Regnault in the Guardian here and Fader here.

 

Listen to interview with Chantal Regnault on the BBC World Service here.

 

Order book now here.

Latest Albums
Voguing — Voguing and the House Ballroom Scene of New York City 1976 - 1996
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Limited edition 3CD box set comes with exclusive bonus JUNIOR VASQUEZ voguing mix CD as well as set of unique collectible postcards by photographer Chantal Regnault. Also comes in limited ed...
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Steve Colson & The Unity Troupe — Triumph!
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In the early 1970s pianist and composer Adegoke Steve Colson and vocalist Iqua Colson were both members of The Association for Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM), the radical home of jazz ...
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Lloyd McNeill Quartet — Washington Suite
AVAILABLE NOW

Universal Sound are releasing this extremely rare and in demand deep, spiritual jazz album, Lloyd McNeill’s ‘Washington Suite’. 

 

The CD and album ar...
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The Legendary Studio One Records — Original Classic Recordings 1963 - 1980
AVAILABLE NOW

Brand new album featuring non-stop killer Studio One cuts from The Skatalites, Heptones, Lone Ranger, Horace Andy and loads more. 

 

Album comes in jewel case with slip...
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Latest Books
Voguing: Voguing and the House Ballroom Scene of New York City 1989-92 — Photographs by Chantal Regnault, Introduction by Tim Lawrence
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OUT NOW! Available for £17.99 (RRP £25)

 

Our new deluxe 200 page deluxe 24x30cm flexibound book, Voguing and the House Ballroom Scene of New York City 1989-92, ...
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Cover Art of Studio One Records — Deluxe Hardback 12x12" 200 page Book
AVAILABLE NOW

Available for limited period at special discount price! (£20 instead of RRP £30)

 

100% Absolutely essential! Super-deluxe 12x12" hardback 200 page plus, hundred...
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Bossa Nova and the Rise of Brazilian Music in the 1960s — BOOK Edited by Gilles Peterson and Stuart Baker
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This is the first ever collection of bossa nova record cover artwork, featuring stunning modernist and revolutionary designs that reflect the radical and exciting idealism of Brazil at the start...
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Kanaval — Vodou, Politics and Revolution on the Streets of Haiti by Leah Gordon
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“This book contains the most disturbing but exhilarating photographs you are ever likely to see" Bill Drummond

 

Soul Jazz Records' new photo...
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Latest Singles
Rocketnumbernine — Lone Raver / Black and Blue / Steel Drummer
AVAILABLE NOW

SOUL JAZZ RECORDS are releasing the second single by Rocketnumbernine, an intense electronic progressive experimental monster!

 

Their first single was released on Kieran He...
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Barry Stoller / Barbara Moore — Condition Red / Steam Heat
AVAILABLE NOW

EXCLUSIVE 7" 45! EXCLUSIVE 7" 45! EXCLUSIVE 7" 45!

500 COPIES WORLDWIDE!

 

Check out this killer, killer, killer new electronic/funk/jazz 45 on Soul Jazz R...
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Lijadu Sisters — Danger /Orere-Elejigbo
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EXCLUSIVE! -IN STOCK NOW!

 

THIS 12" is exclusive. You can only buy it here!

 

Superb bomb 12", super loud, super heavyweight female Afro-Beat funk.

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Latest News / Forthcoming Releases
Voguing - Exclusive JUNIOR VASQUEZ mix CD on Soul Jazz!

Junior Vasquez has given us a truly wicked exclusive MIX CD that will come in the first copies of our new triple CD Voguing album. This MIX CD also comes free in the first copies of the vinyl edition (in Vol.1 of vinyl). Order your copy of the album Voguing and the House Ballroom Scene of New York 1976-92 now to be sure of getting this killer voguing old school disco and house mix from a legend!

 

Order here

Jende Ri Palenge DVD Box Set

Pre-order this amazing new DVD/2CD and DVD/5LP Box Set now here!

The Cover Art of Studio One Records
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Available now here for special price of £20 (RRP £30)!

 

100% Essential Super Deluxe hardback 12x12" 200 page full colour book featuring hundreds and hundreds of killer Studio One album sleeves including loads of amazing rarities! Introduction by Steve Barrow.

 

In all good retail and internet stores from 2 Nov 2011.

 

A collectors' paradise of classics, rarities, alternate sleeves, silkscreen covers and more. This book is the bomb!

 

Check out this feature in the Quietus here.

Lloyd McNeill - Washington Suite: Deep, Spiritual jazz.
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Universal Sound are releasing this extremely rare and in demand deep, spiritual jazz album, Lloyd McNeill’s ‘Washington Suite’. 

 

The CD and album are bespoke original cover art reproductions. The CD comes in limited deluxe hardback Jap style gatefold card. The heavyweight vinyl pressing is very limited to 1000 worldwide.

 

Buy here.

 

More info and audio here.

 

The Legendary Studio One Records

Monster new collection of killer Studio One tunes from The Skatalites, Horace Andy, The Maytals, Michigan and Smiley, Wailing Souls, Lone Ranger and many more!

 

This CD, EXCLUSIVE DIGITAL DOWNLOAD and limited edition heavyweight gatefold double LP are available right now from here.

 

 

Lijadu Sisters AFROBEAT exclusive!

Exclusive AFROBEAT 500 pressing 12". YOU CAN ONLY BUY IT HERE. Available right now here!

Black Caribs of Belize
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Check out Barbara Norales (our co-ordinator in Belize) on the BBC World Service talking about and playing tracks from our new album project Black Caribs of Belize: Garifuna - Ancestral Travellers of the Caribbean. This is some deep music. Out now! To hear the interview go to here.

 

For more information on or to buy the album go here.

Studio One Story DVD

Back in print! If you didn't see it first time around now's your chance! Released in the full DVD/CD/Book and DVD/2LP/Insert original formats. Now also available as a stand alone DVD (for £9.99!).

 

 

Buy here.

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Soul Jazz Sound System, London Sat 4th Feb

Soul Jazz Sound System touching down this Sat 4th Feb at:

 

New Empowering Church

1a Westgate St

London E8 3RLTransport London Fields

 

Reggae, funk and soul 9-3am

Bossa Jazz - The Birth of Hard Bossa, Samba Jazz and the Evolution of Brazillian Fusion 1962 - 73
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Mind-blowing new Brazilian jazz album featuring Sergio Mendes, Airto Moreira, Quarteto Novo, Tom Jobim, Milton Banana, Meirelles, Tenorio Jnr, Joao Donato and more!

 

This is an essential guide to the incredible set of musicians who started their careers in Rio or Sao Paulo in the 1960s and laid down the template for Brazilian music over the next 50 years.

 

At the end of the 1960s many of these musicians headed to the USA pioneerring the new sound of Brazilian jazz fusion as Airto Moreira joined Miles Davis's electric group, Dom Um Romao joined Weather Report and Deodato became one of the biggest selling fusion artists of the decade.

 

This album tells the story of how this music evolved from the swinging hard bossa of Rio's nightclub scene in the early 1960s to the explosion of fusion in the USA in the 1970s.

 

Buy here.

More info and audio here.

 

 

Rocketnumbernine on Soul Jazz Records
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SOUL JAZZ RECORDS are releasing a very limited 12" single by Rocketnumbernine, an intense electronic progressive experimental monster!

 

Check it out here!

 

(photo by jason moon)

 

Exclusive 45! British TV, Film and Library Composers

EXCLUSIVE 7" 45!

EXCLUSIVE 7" 45! 

EXCLUSIVE 7" 45!

500 COPIES WORLDWIDE!

 

Check out this killer, killer, killer new electronic/funk/jazz 45 on Soul Jazz Records. These two tracks (one rare library cut and one side taken from the original music of The Sweeney) are a taster for our forthcoming album of British TV,film and library composers that will be released at the start of 2012. 

 

This 45 is going to go fast so if you want one, get in there quick!

 

Buy here.

 

Audio here.

 

 

Super-rare, Super-limited Deep Jazz album release.

Available now!

 

Detroit-born Drummer AkLaff's super deep, experimental solo album originally released on Oliver Lake's bespoke Passin Thru Records in New York in 1979.

 

Hardback CD exact replica artwork issue and strictly limited 1000-copies worldwide gatefold deluxe vinyl.

 

More info, audio or to buy go here.

Soul Jazz Records checking out Gwo Ka musicians in Guadeloupe, French West Indies, July 2011

Soul Jazz Records are currently back in the Caribbean (it's a tough job but someone has to do it) recording some heavyweight Gwo Ka drumming and music in Guadeloupe. Stuart Baker (Soul Jazz Records) is in the green shirt, Caribbean co-ordinator Pedro Perez Sarduy is on the far-right.