Soul Jazz Records

Soul Jazz Records - Studio One Ska Fever! [Compilation]

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A blistering collection of ska tunes from Clement 'Sir Coxsone' Dodd's legendary Studio One Records, Jamaica's foundation label of reggae music. Featuring classic cuts from the originators of Ska - The Skatalites, The Wailers, Lee Perry - alongside a heavy dose of superb rarities from the might vaults of 13 Brentford Road - pure Ska Fever !

Soul Jazz Records new Studio One Ska Fever returns back to the early 1960s - when Ska was the soundtrack to Jamaica's Independence and Sir Coxsone ruled the land and The Skatalites and Studio One were creating history on a daily basis with an endless stream of blistering, scorching classic tunes.

This album includes an incredible line-up of only the finest artists in reggae music, including Roland Alphonso, The Gaylads, The Ethiopians, Don Drummond, Jackie Opel and many more.

An all-star cast from Studio One, as Chris Blackwell famously noted, the 'University of Reggae'. - Soul Jazz Records

Tracklist:

A1	Hugh Godfrey	Mad World
A2	Johnny Moore	Skavling Johnny
A3	Bongo Man & The Skatalites	Marcus Garvey
A4	The Clarendonians	Rudie Bam Bam
A5	Jackie Opel	Old Rocking Chair
B1	The Wailers	Climb The Ladder
B2	Jackie Mittoo	Jump For Joy
B3	Lee Perry	Gumma
B4	Soul Brothers	Freedom Sounds
C1	The Clarendonians	You Won't See Me
C2	Roland Alphonso & The Studio One Orchestra	Cleopatra
C3	The Gaylads	Don't Try To Reach Me
C4	The Skatalites	Ska La Parisienne
D1	Joe Higgs & Roy Wilson	There's A Reward
D2	The Skatalites	Timothy
D3	The Ethiopians	Live Good
D4	Don Drummond	Green Island
D5	The Wailers	Mr Talkative

Item description:

Artist:	Various
Title:	Studio One Ska Fever!
Label:	Soul Jazz Records
Format:	2 × Vinyl, LP, Compilation, Gatefold
Pressing:	UK
Release Date:	2013
Genre:	Reggae
Style:	Rocksteady, Ska, Roots Reggae
Catalog No:	SJR LP271
Condition:	New

'Baby Face' Willette – Face To Face | 2016 Reissue

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“"Face to Face", recorded in 1961, was one of two sessions he did for Blue Note (the second "Stop and Listen" was reissued last year) and features Fred Jackson on tenor, the fine R+B/jazz guitar of Grant Green and drummer Ben Dixon. The 6 tunes presented are all Willette originals with the exception of "Whatever Lola Wants". The beefy tones of tenor man Jackson, another long forgotten player, are always on display and he contributes a number of sly, witty solos. Equal space is afforded to Green and his blues-rooted, single note runs mesh perfectly with those of Willette.” – All About Jazz

“Face to Face boasts a mighty meat and potatoes soul-jazz lineup: Green on guitar, Fred Jackson on tenor, and drummer Ben Dixon. Comprised of six cuts, five of them are Willette originals. The evidence of the rough and rowdy side of Willette's playing is evident from the opener, "Swinging at Sugar Ray's." His approach to the B-3 is far more percussive than Jimmy Smith's, each note is a distinct punch; not only in his solos, but in his chord and head approaches. His solo is a nasty, knotty blues sprint that encompasses gospel licks and R&B fills, too. The other notable thing about the cut is Green's guitar break that shows a side of him we seldom got to hear early on, where he's bending strings, playing in the high register, and using intense single-note runs. It's nearly a breathless way to open a record. Things slow down on the blues "Goin' Down" that features a nice emotive solo by Jackson. The mambo-infused "Whatever Lola Wants" by Richard Adler and Jerry Ross comes next and includes some beautiful stop-and-and start moves in the melody, as well as beautiful call and response between Jackson and Willette, while Dixon's drums shift around the outside before the whole thing breaks down into a groover.” – All Music

Item description:

Artist:	'Baby Face' Willette
Title:	Face To Face
Label:	Blue Note , Elemental Music
Format:	Vinyl, LP, Album, Limited Edition, Reissue, Remastered, Stereo, 180 gr
Pressing:	Europe
Release Date:	This reissue: 2016 \| Original: 1961
Genre:	Jazz
Style:	Hard Bop
Catalog No:	ST-84068, ERLP 1037
Condition:	New

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Blue Note

'Big' John Patton ‎– 'The Way I Feel'

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For his third album on Blue Note, Big John Patton decided to expand his band to quintet. Retaining the services of his longtime colleagues, guitarist Grant Green and drummer Ben Dixon, he hired tenor saxophonist Fred Jackson (who also played on the previous work "Along Came John") and trumpeter Richard Williams. – All Music

Label: Blue Note ‎– BST 84174, Elemental Music ‎– ERLP 1040

Series: Blue Note Collection –

Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, 180 Gram

Country: Europe

Released: 2016

Genre: Jazz

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Ninja Tune

Actress - Ghettoville

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"Ghettoville is the bleached out and black tinted conclusion of the Actress image.

Where the demands of writing caught the artist slumped and reclined, devoid of any soul, acutely aware of the simulated prism that required breakout.

Four albums in and the notes and compositions no longer contain decipherable language.

The scripts now carry tears, the world has returned to a flattened state, and out through that window, the birds look back into the cage they once inhabited.

Spitting flames behind a white wall of silence.

The machines have turned to stone, data reads like an obituary to its user.

A fix is no longer a release, it's a brittle curse. Zero satisfaction, no teeth, pseudo artists running rampant, but the path continues.

R.I.P Music 2014."

- Actress (Ninja Tune)

Artist - Title:	Actress - Ghettoville
Label – Catalog No:	Ninja Tune ‎– WDNT 006
Format:	3 × Vinyl, LP
Country:	UK
Released:	Jan 2014
Genre:	Electronic
Style:	Abstract, Ambient, Techno, Dubstep
Condition:	New

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Ninja Tune

Actress x London Contemporary Orchestra - LAGEOS

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“At a first glance, techno and contemporary classical music do not seem like ideal partners. One, a bass-heavy hedonistic genre designed for dancefloors, the other suited to the calm of the concert hall. Yet Darren Cunningham, aka electronic producer Actress, and the London Contemporary Orchestra have built their careers in pushing boundaries of genre.

Both sets of artists explore the hybridity between the electronic and the acoustic: the LCO regularly records experimental film scores, including Jonny Greenwood’s recent anxiety-inducing compositions for You Were Never Really Here, and last year Actress performed a live rendition of Steve Reich’s 1988 work Different Trains. On Lageos, rather than have the orchestra approximate the alien sounds of Actress’s electronics, they formulate a new sonic palette that is in equal measures intriguing and unsettling.

The album is often upbeat: strings streak in between clattering, fairground rhythms on Galya Beat, while Hubble and N.E.W. are softer, more melodic interpretations of Actress’s previous releases. It is in moments of quiet ambience, though, that Lageos excels, blurring the boundaries between static and harmony on Momentum or between creaking double bass and kick drum on Voodoo Possee, Chronic Illusion. A challenging yet satisfying listen.” – The Guardian

Item description:

Artist:	Actress x London Contemporary Orchestra
Title:	Lageos
Label:	Ninja Tune
Format:	2 x Vinyl, LP
Pressing:	Europe
Release Date:	25^th May 2018
Genre:	Electronic
Style:	Minimal, Leftfield, Abstract
Catalog No:	ZEN251
Condition:	New

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