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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Chris McGregor's Brotherhood Of Breath

Procession

Ogun

Chris McGregor's Brotherhood Of Breath

Live At Willisau

Ogun

Gabor Szabo

The Sorcerer

Craft

‘Verve By Request.’

Coyle And Sharpe

These 2 Men Are Impostors

Sharpeworld

Street pranks and put-ons — ‘terrorizations’ — from early sixties San Francisco; also a DVD of the pair’s The Impostors TV show, too far ahead of its time to get past this ‘64 pilot.

Sam Cooke

For Sentimental Reasons

Keen

Barry White

Barry White Sings For Someone You Love

20th Century Records

Dizzy Gillespie

The New Continent

Jazz Collectors

The big band, with Frank Rosolino, Phil Woods, James Moody and the rest, and pianist Lalo Schifrin leading the way through his compositions. Plus four live Quintet tracks, from 1961, the year before.

Sweet Charles

For Sweet People From Sweet Charles

People

The Gladiators

Serious Thing

Omnivore

The Gladiators

Full Time

Omnivore

The Gladiators

Lie Low

Trojan / Far East

Very early Glads, from 1967, seemingly pre-Albert Griffiths — and a killer Tommy McCook instrumental. Both previously unreleased Duke Reid productions, when Trojan was properly trojan; by way of Japan.

The Gladiators

Live Wire

Treasure Isle / Far East

Sweet rocksteady — expertly arranged, with boss guitar, horns and harmonies.
“We’re going to put it on… we are loaded… (long pause)... with soul music.”

The Gladiators

Symbol Of Reality

Omnivore

The Gladiators

Live Wire (Take One)

Duke

The Gladiators

Untrue Girl

Upsetter

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The Gladiators

Tribulation

Studio 1

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The Gladiators

Can't Stop Righteousness

Hit Bound

Loren Connors

Hell! Hell! Hell! Hell! Hell!

Enabling Works

Loren Connors

Unaccompanied Acoustic Guitar Vol. 1

Feeding Tube

‘Committed to tape on February 20, 1979… a real declaration of identity for Loren. He was introducing himself publicly as a guitar player, although his approach was still very much dictated by the influence of the painter, Mark Rothko, who Loren once described as using a minimal palette to create vital art… The feel to this session is bluesy, in as much as Loren’s wordless vocals have a surface similarity to a hellhound’s, and while he was not using a slide, most of the notes he plays are bent to the edges of their known range. Fahey always said blues was ‘about’ anger, though there’s not really any of that here. I am more reminded of this Rothko quote. ‘You’ve got sadness in you, I’ve got sadness in me ... and my works of art are places where the two sadnesses can meet, and therefore both of us need to feel less sad.’ The first side is solo. On the second Loren is joined for a bit by Kath on hums and recorder. The music brims with sorrow more than anything else. And while it’s clear Loren was embracing an abstract avant garde aesthetic vis-a-vis his playing, the urge to communicate seems to lie at its roots. Whatever you choose to call it, this is the beginning of something quite beautiful’ (Byron Coley).

Cheikh El Afrite

Trésors de la Chanson Judéo-Arabe

Buda Music

The ‘little devil’ was born in Tunis in 1884 to a Libyan mother and Moroccan dad. The first half of the twentieth century was a golden era in Tunisian music; Cheikh El Afrite its most celebrated artist. As a youngster he became fluent in its mix of classical Arab-Andalous and Ottoman traditions with folk idioms like bedouin and other African melodies, fondo and fezzani, and the festive tripolitain music of Libya. Turning professional at eighteen, he was soon singing for the bey every Tuesday night, at his seaside palace in Hammam Lif. Later, his recordings made him star throughout the Maghreb.

Gas

Konigsforst

Kompakt

Red D

Kitchen People

Morse

Chris McGregor

Chris McGregor's Brotherhood Of Breath

Fledg'ling

Inspirational, joyous melding of African dance music and free jazz. The Brotherhood Of Breath’s 1971 recording debut, for RCA’s Neon imprint, produced by Joe Boyd.

Rebel MC

Emperor Selassie I

Congo Natty

John Robinson

I Am Not For Sale

Fat City

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