R&B

Joseph Washington Jr.'s Merry Christmas To You is your shelter in a blizzard of bland holiday music. This barely-known 1983 private issue puts a soulful, funky, suave ribbon on nine frosty Christmas cuts-originals, not covers; real joy, real wonder-the...

Jorja Smith returns to announce a new 8-track project. 'Be Right Back' is due May 14th and is the first body of work from Jorja since her 2019 critically-acclaimed, Mercury Prize nominated debut album 'Lost & Found', for which she won her second BRIT...

Jon Lucien is one of the most amazing vocal soul singers, nicknamed 'the man with the golden throat'; he also had his own percussive style, and was prolific in the 70's writing many timeless classics over the years. Dynamite Cuts take four of these...

John Legend's 4th studio album, Love In The Future celebrates it's 10th Anniversary. Featuring the smash hit, "All Of Me" and an additional 15 tracks with appearances from Rick Ross and Stacy Barthe.1. Love in the Future (Intro) 2. The Beginning 3. Open...

John Edwards' version of America's 'Tin Man' came out originally as a 45 on Kent in 2002 but sold out and demand has been growing ever since. Those copies now sell for ú50-ú100 so we have re-released it with the superb, previously LP only, 'We Always...

Joe Buckner was lead singer of the Major IV, a Chicago group who recorded in Los Angeles in the late 60s. 'I Wish I Knew' had been issued by the Ballads on Venture in 1969 and that outfit later re-cut it as 'Butterfly' in 1975. Joe and the Majors give an...

Joao Selva returns with a second album, a true hymn to creoleness and tropicalism, embued with flavors of funk, jazz and disco. An exhuberant travelogue diary featuring some shiny souls such as the sprightly Flavia Coelho and the multiinstrumentalist...

Jimmy Castor, is a New York soul legend, a singer, instrumentalist and songwriter whose mastery of genres from doo wop to Latin soul to funk and instruments including saxophone and bongos. This is his groups 1973 album originally released on Paul Winley...

Jessie Reyez - "YESSIE" - On Jessie Reyez' sophomore album, the GRAMMY-nominated singer/songwriter captures the human experience in a unique and relatable way. YESSIE, the album title and moniker affectionately used by her family, touches on the...

Jerry Williams JR was born in Virginia in 1942 and is best known by his alter-ego Swamp Dogg. He has enjoyed a prolific career as an artist, writer and producer scoring hits for Gene Pitney, Doris Duke, Dee Dee Warwick, Freddie North and Johnny Paycheck...

Jerry Naylor was the Crickets' lead singer in the first half of the 60s. By 1965 he was a solo act, recording with Mike Curb in Los Angeles. They produced this evocative, blue-eyed soul sound which was picked up by Northern Soul DJs in the late 70s and...

JEROME BRAILEY funk drummer and former member of George Clinton's PARLIAMENT FUNKADELIC is most famous for co-writing PARLIAMENT's 1976 gold hit single "Give Up The Funk (Tear The Roof Of The Sucker)'. But thanks to poor management, in 1978 he and...