JAZZ GIANT CAPTURED AT SMALLS
One of the last survivors from jazz’s golden age, George Coleman is not going gently into that good night, as the Welsh poet Dylan Thomas once so eloquently put it. At 88, the Memphis-born...
NATASHA WATTS: ‘Music Is My Life’ ( https://www.natashawattsmusic.com/)
NATASHA WATTS is a respected UK soul stylist, her work well-known to and revered by soul collectors with a passion for quality sounds . Via her collaborations with people like DJ Spen and the...
SPEAKING A UNIVERSAL TRUTH; THE BILLY VALENTINE INTERVIEW…
BILLY VALENTINE (yes, one half of the Valentine Brothers) is lining up a rather special album for release later this month; ‘Billy Valentine and The Universal Truth’. His people tell us that the long...
VARIOUS: Loma Northern Soul (Kent)
Loma is one of those magical, mystical US record labels. Like Golden World, Ric Tic, Mirwood, Wand, Okeh and Brunswick they have a very special cachet with serious soul collectors. And rightly so. Each...
CHUCK JACKSON DIES…
Though the news is yet to be confirmed, several US media sites are reporting the death of veteran soul man CHUCK JACKSON. No details are forthcoming save that Jackson passed away on Thursday 16th...
WILLIAM BELL: The Man In The Street (Kent)
Over the years the team at Ace Record’s Kent imprint have carefully and respectfully curated the venerable Stax back catalogue. They’ve released a slew of memorable compilations and reissued plenty of single artist sets...
OCTOBER LONDON; The Rebirth of Marvin (Death Row Records)
If you’ve been listening to soul radio lately (not too many stations out there are there?!!!), you’re bound to have heard music from this particular album. Tracks from ‘The Rebirth of Marvin’ are being...
BURT BACHARACH DIES….
The legendary musician/writer/producer BURT BACHARACH died yesterday, Wednesday 8th February. He was aged 94 and the sad news was announced by his publicist. Few details are known save that he passed away at his...
WILL DOWNING; Pieces (Sophisticated Soul)
WILL DOWNING is rightly nicknamed “The Prince of Sophisticated Soul” but on the evidence of his brand new album/EP, this concise 7 tracker that is ‘Pieces’, he could equally be called “The King Of...
