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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Patty Waters

You Loved Me

Cortizona

‘First vinyl release of the breathtaking songs Patty Waters recorded in 1970 at the Coast Recordings studio, together with the unreleased single My One And Only Love, and a live session recorded at Lone Mountain College in 1974.
‘Here is the missing link between the two groundbreaking ESP LPs from the end of the 60s and the late-90s releases. Whereas PW’s debut album Sings concerned itself with themes of heartbreak, loneliness, and yearning, You Loved Me is abundant with love, joy, and togetherness. Whilst Patti’s songs cross spiritual jazz and US folk revivalism, Touched By Rodin is a brilliant extended showcase for the uneasy Cageian minimalism of her piano playing.’
Patty Waters… admired by Albert Ayler, Miles, Patti Smith, Yoko Ono…

Dadawah

Peace And Love

Antarctica Starts Here

Dark, hypnotic, tripping nyabinghi from 1974.
Led by Ras Michael over four extended excursions, the music is organic, sublime and expansive, grounation-drums and bass heavy (with no rhythm guitar, rather Willie Lindo brilliantly improvising a kind of dazed, harmolodic blues).
Lloyd Charmers and Federal engineer George Raymond stayed up all night after the session, to mix the recording, opening out the enraptured mood into echoing space, adding sparse, startling effects to the keyboards.
At no cost to its deep spirituality, this is the closest reggae comes to psychedelia.

Neville King & Friends

Lovers Rock Revisited Vol.1

Rock A Shacka

A judicious compilation of cornerstone, pioneering UK Lovers: One Blood, Simplicity, Karen Dixon…

Omar Khorshid

With Love

Wewantsounds

Fred Locks Meets The Creators

Love & Harmony

Burning Sounds

Sun Ra

When Angels Speak Of Love

Cosmic Myth

John Coltrane

A Love Supreme

Impulse!

Chicago Gangsters

Gangster Love

Amherst

Triston Palma

Joker Lover

VP

Zulu Guitar Blues

Cowboys, Troubadours and Jilted Lovers (1950-1965)

Matsuli

‘Amazing! Like stumbling on a treasure-trove of unheard Charlie Patton and Blind Willie McTell 78s, but imbued with the spirit of Mahlathini and Ladysmith Black Mambazo,’ says Joe Boyd.

Nina Simone

To Love Somebody

RCA / Music On Vinyl

The Delfonics

La La Means I Love You

Philly Groove / Music On Vinyl

Roy Ayers

Everybody Loves The Sunshine

Polydor / Vampisoul

Terry Callier

What Color Is Love

Cadet / Music On Vinyl

Art Blakey

Like Someone In Love

Blue Note

‘Classic vinyl.’

Love

Forever Changes

Elektra

Linval Thompson

I Love Marijuana

Trojan / Music On Vinyl

Orange vinyl.

Peter Brotzmann

14 Love Poems

Cien Fuegos

Our favourite of all his records.
From 1984, inspired by a Kenneth Patchen chapbook, it favours tenderness, lyricism and expressivity, but without foregoing Brötzmann’s characteristic squalling ferocity and angst. It never drags: he plays baritone, tenor and alto saxes, different clarinets including bass clarinet, and tarogato, bringing every trick and technique to bear on a whirl of feelings and emotions, in pieces nearly all less than five minutes. Bar the gorgeous opening reading of Lonely Woman, it’s all improvised, but utterly compelling, reflective, melodious, ravishing and rawly personal.
Beautiful music; hotly recommended.

Wendell Harrison

Dreams Of A Love Supreme

Pure Pleasure

Dave Barker

Prisoner Of Love

Trojan / Music On Vinyl

Frank Sinatra

Songs For Swingin' Lovers

Universal

Aretha Franklin

I Never Loved A Man The Way I Love You

Atlantic / Rhino

Studio One Lovers

Studio One / Soul Jazz

Give Me Love

Songs Of The Brokenhearted, Baghdad, 1925-1929

Honest Jon's Records

‘Beautiful, haunting… spiritual reflection is sung with carnal force, songs of romance are rendered like hymns. For a few moments, on these ancient records, Baghdad sounds like paradise’ (Rolling Stone).

The Southern University Jazz Ensemble

Goes To Africa With Love

Now Again

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