R&B

Limited 2017 release. West Coast funkster, Diamond Ortiz, is back in action with a collection of unreleased songs titled Tiz Zop Diz Zown. Thought to be just a bandcamp release from the summer of 2017, Ortiz dug into the archives to share some of his...

Limited 17 CD set. After discreetly having pre-release album cuts played on the UK's pirate jazz-funk and soul stations, Imagination, with their charismatic lead singer, Leee John, burst onto the scene in May 1981, when their debut single 'Body Talk'...

Limited 13 CD set. With a cannon of more than 20 albums, Kool & the Gang are one of the most sampled Bands in music history. From their roots in the mid-late '60s, the Band has explored many musical styles from jazz and soul, funk and rock, R&B/Pop, with...

Limited 12 CD set. To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the iconic WATTSTAX event that took place at the L.A. Memorial Coliseum in 1972, Stax Records presents the most comprehensive collection of audio recordings from the event ever. This 12-CD set,...

Limited 12 CD box set. It's just over 40 years since global music icon Dionne Warwick signed with Arista Records marking a defining fifteen-year chapter in the star-studded career of the Lifetime Achievement and multi-Grammy-winning songstress,...

Limited 10 CD box set. Watch out! PTG Records has dropped a massive Soul bomb on the dance floor! Black music was the irresistible beat the world danced to during the '80s. The era also gave birth to the first black superstars like Michael Jackson,...

Like their West Coast Contemporaries Sly and the Family Stone, The Chambers Brothers shattered racial and musical divides to forge an incendiary fusion of funk, gospel, blues, and psychedelia which reached it's apex with the perennial 1968 song "Time Has...

Like a Fire features songs written specifically for the GRAMMY.-winning King of Rock 'n' Soul by an all-star group of songwriters, including Eric Clapton, Ben Harper, Jesse Harris, and Keb' Mo', who just happen to be some of his biggest fans. Eric...

Life, Love & Pain, the debut album by Sacramento based band Club Nouveau was released on December 2, 1986. The album contains the songs "Jealousy, " "Situation #9, "Why You Treat Me So Bad" and a cover of Bill Withers' "Lean on Me". The last two tracks...

Let It Be Me, the greatest hits of Betty Everett including Let It Be Me (with Jerry Butler), It's In His Kiss (The Scoop Shoop Song), You're No Good, I Can't Hear You, It Hurts To Be In Love, Chained To A Memory, Love Is Strange (with Jerry Butler), The...

Less up-tempo, frantic and danceable - and considerably more melodic - than regular 60s Soul, the roots of SOUTHERN SOUL can be dated back to the mid-50s. This 60-track, 2-CD set comprehensively explores the birth of Southern Soul, from the point where...

Les Disques Bongo Joe and Sofa Records proudly present a compilation of music from Maghreb recorded and produced in Lyon (France) between 1985 and 1997. It gathers eight tracks (plus introductions on the vinyl and CD versions) released back then on audio...