Books and DVDs

NEWS!! Free Shipping over £50, Videos, books, tickets and more!

Hello and welcome to the newly updated Soul Jazz Records website!

 

We have made a number of changes and updates to help improve and update the site. There is a new postage system which means that most of our shipping prices have been reduced and if you live in the UK you now have FREE SHIPPING OVER £50! 

 

Our search has also been updated making it easier than ever to swap between this site and our sister site, Sounds of The universe (SOTU), which sells all related non-Soul Jazz products. REMEMBER they both use the same Shopping Basket so you can swap between both sites when you are shopping. The link to SOTU site is at the bottom left of this homepage (similarly for Soul Jazz Records on the SOTU site). Or just press here.

Latest Albums
Tropicalia — A Brazilian Revolution in Sound
AVAILABLE NOW

Tropicalia: A Brazilian Revolution in Sound. Tropicalia is one of the most significant cultural movements in Brazil encompassing music, film, visual art and theatre. ‘Tropicalia' is the f...
More Info & Audio

Sylvia Striplin — Give Me Your Love
AVAILABLE NOW

Soul Jazz are issuing this seminal in-demand super-rare boogie-funk-soul album produced by Roy Ayers originally released on his own independent Uno Melodic label in 1981.

 

...
More Info & Audio

Rara in Haiti — Street Music of Haiti
AVAILABLE NOW

Anarchic carnival street music from Haiti. Traces of New Orleans' Second Line jazz meets Cuban carnival Comparsas and Brazilian afro blocs and the ancient to modern spirit of Kinshasa's Konono n...
More Info & Audio

Latest Singles
Four Tet / Mala — Nothing To See / Don't Let Me Go
AVAILABLE NOW

Two exclusive new tracks from two artists creating progressive new future music both at the height of their respective careers.

 

This amazing double-header single is a samp...
More Info & Audio

Grievous Angel — Move Down Low
AVAILABLE NOW

Wicked UK funky/dancehall bomb on Soul Jazz Records!

 

A super LARGE funky refix of Rubi Dan's voicing to 'Move Down Low' for Sheffield's Grievous Angel. 'Move Down Low' has...
More Info & Audio

Kalbata & Mixmonster feat. Little John & Jah Thomas — Sugar Plum Plum
AVAILABLE NOW

Deep dancehall dub bomb!

Kalbata's new tune was recorded in Kingston, Jamaica, with two legendary Jamaican MCs, Jah Thomas and Little John,  using live musicians and analog equipmen...
More Info & Audio

 
Latest News / Forthcoming Releases
Sylvia Striplin, seminal Roy Ayers production!

Buy here.


More info and audio here.


Soul Jazz are issuing this seminal in-demand super-rare boogie-funk-soul album produced by Roy Ayers originally released on his own independent Uno Melodic label in 1981.


This incredible one-off album produced by Roy Ayers in 1981 features the amazing vocal talents of Sylvia Striplin, one of the featured members of Eighties Ladies, who the year before had released another seminal release (“Ladies of the Eighties”) also produced by Roy Ayers. Striplin was also the vocalist in the classic jazz fusion soul group Aquarian Dream. Sylvia Striplin’s solo album features the two classic singles ‘Give Me Your Love’ and “You Can’t Turn Love Away’. Her only solo album – this has been a serious collectors album ever since it’s original release and is definitely a rare groove holy grail!


Soul Jazz Records are re-issuing this remastered album in its entirety with original artwork, in Soul Jazz case edition CD. Vinyl is on heavyweight double vinyl and deluxe heavyweight card – even better and louder than the original!


 

Kanaval: Vodou, Politics and Revolution on the Streets of Haiti by Leah Gordon

"This book contains the most disturbing but exhilarating photographs you are ever likely to see." Bill Drummond


The book is out now! For more info, or to buy go here.  Limited first copies are signed!


Soul Jazz Publishing are releasing this new deluxe flexi-bound book of stunning photographs by Leah Gordon about Kanaval in Haiti. As well as hundreds of photos there are also essays and text by an amazing set of writers including Madison Smartt Bell, Don Cosentino, Richard Fleming, Kathy Smith and Myron Beasley.


To coincide with the book, Soul Jazz Records have also released a new CD, "Rara in Haiti: Street music of Haiti", featuring the anarchic sounds of Rara music that plays throughout Kanaval. The music was recorded by Soul Jazz Records in Haiti. For more info, audio clips or to buy go here.

Four Tet! Mala! Future Bass!

Double-header single out now!


Buy single here.


Buy as an exclusive digital download here.


Two exclusive new tracks from two artists creating progressive new future music both at the height of their respective careers.


This amazing double-header single is a sample of the forthcoming ‘Future Bass’ project coming in September where Soul Jazz Records have brought together the most pioneering producers of the day to create music that is post-dubstep, post-house, post everything.


The album features Four Tet, Mala, Untold, Black Chow (Kevin Martin’s latest project), Coki and loads more all-exclusive new tracks put together for this album.


Don't sleep on this single – it will be deleted on release of the album!

Tropicalia 2010 edition

Back in print! The definitive guide to Tropicalia.


Tropicalia: A Brazilian Revolution in Sound is back in print in a new edition.


Featuring Os Mutantes, Gilberto Gil, Caetano Veloso, Jorge Ben and Tom Ze this is the definitive guide to the Brazil's legendary radical psychedelic movement in the late 60s.


This complete package includes 48 page book with extensive text, photographs and interviews. If you don't own it, now's your chance!


Also limited edition heavyweight double vinyl with full sleevenotes included.


Buy here. More info here.

Deutsche Electronische Musik

Buy now here. More info here


Soul Jazz Records new release features Can, Neu!, Cluster, Faust, Ash Ra Tempel and more. Everything you always wanted to know about German experimental rock and electronic music.

Nu Yorica Roots back in print!

New edition of long-out-of-print Soul Jazz bomb of non-stop killer 60s Latin! Comes with extensive sleevenotes charting the rise in Latin music in New York in the 1960s and wicked photographs and artwork of Izzy Sanabria, New York latin's graphic design genius. First CD copies come with limited edition 4 postcard exact reproduction poster set, double vinyl comes on deluxe gatefold with full sleevenotes. Out now! Buy 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" button at the top of the left-hand side of this page
 

Your account

MP3 Store