R&B

2020 live release. Ten time Grammy Award winning artist Chaka Khan returns home to Chicago's Harris Theatre to perform a selection of her greatest hits in front of an enthusiastic hometown audience. Homecoming features Chaka Khan and her 12-piece band...

2020 is a landmark year for Brian McKnight. Exodus is his 20th album. Brian has stated that this will be his final album of all original material. Exodus includes the hit singles "When I'm Gone", "Neva Get Enuf Of U", and "Nobody" alongside other...

2020 collection. Though there were other integrated '50s vocal groups, The Crests demonstrated that musical and racial harmony went hand in hand. From the liner notes by Bill Dahl, "Several integrated 1950s vocal groups preceded them, notably The...

2020 collection. The second of our compilations featuring the blues recordings the Bihari brothers made in the 1960s. The CD is centred around 11 sides from Willie Headen and Willie Garland. Willie Headen's Dootone sides have been well represented, but...

2020 collection. On this very personal selection - mostly up-tempo numbers and brilliantly arranged pop - you will find rarities and greatest hits. Among them her smash hits 'What A Diff'rence A Day Made' (she sang makes instead of made), 'September In...

2020 collection. By May 1964, when "The 'Sound' of the R&B Hits" compilation came out in the UK on Stateside, Motown had yet to have a hit or even a record issued on it's own label, later to be Tamla-Motown. This LP was the first of many UK anthologies...

2020 collection. 1980s New York was where modern dance music took it's first steps; a Phoenix rising out of the ashes of disco's over-exposure and demise. The underground scene was the very opposite of the celebrity-sprinkled commercialism of Studio 54 -...

2020 archive collection. "We are always sitting on a handful of unreleased songs that didn't make their way to albums. Listening back to these gems we decided to launch a new series entitled Big Crown Vaults and the first volume features the music of Lee...

2019 release. With a whimsical grin and a contagious beat, the Horne Electric Band brings horn driven electro-funk to the stage. On the cusp of their debut record, the HEB has long tantalized audiences with dozens of shows in New York. They've been...

2019 release. While he was working on Oxnard, the ever-ambitious Anderson.Paak was recording Ventura at the same time. As he explains it, both albums showcase the duality that has inspired the Grammy-award winning artist throughout his career. "Growing...

2019 release. The overall proceedings, as produced by Corey Wong, reveal a controlled yet freewheeling energy, one that revolves around a love of soul-oriented sounds and lyricism. The flavor of Need You reflects the diversity of intent and approach in...

2019 release. The Midnight Hour is Black excellence: an ode to the cultural sophistication that the Harlem Renaissance established for it's people. The Midnight Hour is comprised of Ali Shaheed Muhammad and Adrian Younge, alongside a tight rhythm section...