Honest Jon's
278 Portobello Road
London
W10 5TE
England

Monday-Saturday 10 till 6; Sunday 11 till 5

Honest Jon's
Unit 115
Lower Stable Street
Coal Drops Yard
London
N1C 4DR

Monday-Saturday 11 till 6; Sunday 11 till 5

+44(0)208 969 9822 mail@honestjons.com

Established 1974.

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The Whispers

It's Rainin', It's Pourin'

Canadian American

Bobby Byrd

If You Don't Work You Can't Eat

King

Ann Peebles

I Can't Stand The Rain

Fat Possum

Bump And The Soul Stompers

I Can Remember

Numero

Invoking The Delfonics’ Do You Remember, and flipping its melody the other way around. Recorded at the Damon Studios in Kansas City (owned by Victor Damon, inventor of the spring reverb).

Lucan Scissors

Music Family

Iroko

1990 digi killer by Leicester’s finest, originally out on the Japanese Tachyon label run by Bullwackies cohort Sonny Ochiai. Classic.

American Gypsy

Angel Eyes

Chess / Music on Vinyl

Seamus Cater

The Three Things You Can Hear

Nearly Not There

Lovely record. An intimate, unshowy, reaching blend of British folk and minimalism in the tradition of Robert Wyatt solo; quietly co-mingling Henry Flynt and Ivor Cutler, Eastern outernationalism and Radio art. Beautifully presented, too; in a die-cut, inside-out sleeve, with a poster. Check it out!

Warfaring Strangers

Darkscorch Canticles

Numero

Simtec And Wylie

Gettin' Over The Hump

Mister Chand

The Conquerors

If You Can't Beat Him

High Note / Dub Store

Phil Upchurch

You Can't Sit Down

Boyd

Francis Bebey

African Electronic Music 1976-1982

Born Bad

Mary Afi Usuah

African Woman

PMG

African Star

They Just Can't Stop Us

Palm Disco

Top-notch vocal-harmony roots and tough dub, produced by the legendary engineer Sylvan Morris.

Abdullah Ibrahim

African Space Program

Enja

Mal Waldron

Candy Girl

Strut

‘A lost 1975 session by the great pianist Mal Waldron, recorded in Paris with core members of the mighty Lafayette Afro Rock Band.
‘By 1975, Waldron was a decade into his self-imposed exile from the United States, having reassembled his sound after a devastating breakdown in the early ‘60s. His post-1969 output stripped jazz down to its core elements: modal intensity, locked grooves, and hypnotic repetition. Candy Girl doesn’t interrupt this trajectory—it extends it, wrapping Waldron’s minimalist mantras around the funked-up chassis of the Lafayette rhythm section.
‘Originally released in microscopic quantities on the Calumet label and long shrouded in obscurity, Candy Girl was recorded spontaneously in the studio of producer Pierre Jaubert, whose Paris HQ had become the workshop for both avant-garde jazz (Archie Shepp, Art Ensemble of Chicago, Steve Lacy) and psychedelic funk (Lafayette Afro Rock Band AKA Ice). This session finds Waldron jamming freely with bassist Lafayette Hudson, drummer Donny Donable, and keyboardist Frank Abel on clavinet, Moog and more—laying down raw, unfiltered instrumental funk with an experimental edge.
‘Highlights include the low-slung vamp of Home Again, the crisp, break-laden groove of Red Match Box, and the mesmeric swirl of the title track Candy Girl — a minor-key electric piano waltz with hints of cosmic soul. The sombre yet meditative Dedication To Brahms deconstructs the composer’s third symphony into a sparse jazz reverie.’

Ken Parker

I Can't Hide

Duke Reid

Mickey Simpson

I And I Can't Turn Back Now

Ital Sounds

Excellent mid-seventies roots by this singer from Jack Ruby’s Hi Fi.

Livingstone Hurlock

Natty Become A Hurricane

Black Fighting Heritage / Digikiller

Venezuela 70

Cosmic Visions Of A Latin American Earth

Soul Jazz

Venezuela 70

Cosmic Visions of A Latin American Earth Vol 2

Soul Jazz

Nigeria Freedom Sounds!

Popular Music And The Birth Of Independent Nigeria 1960-63

Soul Jazz

Lorraine Chandler

I Can't Change

RCA Victor

Terrific soulful Northern banger — a Wigan anthem — and classic Motor City fire from Jack Ashford’s Pied Piper Productions. Performed, written and produced by LC.

Rev. Jodie Holmes

When I Could I Wouldn’t And Now I Want To But I Can’t

Detroit Gospel Reissue Project

Nadia Harris McAnuff

Home Away From Home

Shamala

Winston’s daughter, on a vintage Channel One rhythm; produced last year by Franklin ‘Steamers A Bubble’ Irving. Straight to the head of all nationalists and xenophobes.

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