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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Jah Wire

Slavers

Soul Beat

Studio One Space Age Dub Special

Intergalactic Dub From Studio One

Studio One / Soul Jazz

Funk Masters

Love Money

Soul Jazz

Afro-Peruvian Classics

The Soul Of Black Peru

Luaka Bop

The Dome City Rock Orchestra

Quiet Village

Colsoul

Wailing Soul

Dungeon

Mafiatone

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Afrosound

Carruseles

Vampisoul

Studio One 007

Licensed To Ska - James Bond And Other Film Soundtracks And TV Themes

Studio One / Soul Jazz

Eccentric Deep Soul

Numero

Eccentric Northern Soul

Numero

The Soul Of Congo

Treasures Of The Ngoma Label

Planet Ilunga

A fabulous survey of early Congolese recordings, 1948-1963.
We can’t recommend it strongly enough.

Just A Touch

Underground UK Soul

Athens Of The North

A terrific compilation of vintage UK street soul — at its nexus with rare groove and lovers rock, so intensely nostalgic for us at HJ — by the same crew which put together the excellent For The Love Of You volumes.
A dozen gems here: treasurable DIY labels and whites teeming with raw longing and overproof sincerity, riding limber Soul II Soul-style grooves, wannabe Jam & Lewis, and crunchy, synthy, electro-soul. (The System were the US overmasters of this.)
Just a touch of cheese, a smidgen of sublimely out-of-tune singing, splashes of sploshy beatbox and dodge sampling, a brazen Roy Ayers pinch… components of loveliness.
Calling all midnight ravers and undercover lovers. You know who you are.

Mainstream Funk

Funk - Soul - Spiritual Jazz - 1971-75

Wewantsounds

Chester Randle & Soul Senders

Soul Brothers Testify

BGP

Fiery, head-banging deep funk by this Louisiana guitarist; originally out on Eddie ‘Goldband’ Shuler’s ANLA label, in 1967.

Skyway Soul: Gary, Indiana

Numero

‘A sonic snapshot of America’s steel capital, probing the fertile cavern between the departure of the Jackson 5 to Motown and the collapse of U.S. steel… a love letter to Gary, Indiana, salvaging twenty-plus lost songs from the southern-most tip of Lake Michigan. Housed in a deluxe tip-on gatefold jacket, with a 16-page booklet crammed with photos, ephemera, and an in-depth essay, Skyway Soul connects the dots between The Spaniels, Michael Jackson, and Freddie Gibbs.’

Harmonizing Soweto

Golden City Gospel & Kasi Soul From The New South Africa

Ostinato

Francisco Mela, Matthew Shipp, William Parker

Music Frees Our Souls Vol. 1

577 Records

Francisco Mela, Cooper-Moore, William Parker

Music Frees Our Souls Vol. 2

577 Records

100% Pure Poison

Coming Right At You

Soul Brother

Francisco Mela, Leo Genovese, William Parker

Music Frees Our Souls, Vol. 3

577 Records

Nippon Psychedelic Soul 1970-1979

Time Capsule

Eccentric Soul - Consolidated Productions Vol. 1

Numero

‘Operating in the farthest margins of L.A.’s cutthroat music business from 1961-1991, Mel Alexander’s Consolidated Productions was among the longest running Black-owned independent record conglomerates of the 20th century. Disentangling a web of imprints — including Ajax, Angel Town, Car-A-Mel, Emanuel, and Kris — this first volume gathers 28 smouldering R&B cuts by the likes of Lee Harvey, B .B. Carter, Marilyn Calloway, the Del Reys, the Deb Tones, the De Velles, Gene Russell ’s Trio, Jimmy ‘Preacher’ Ellis, and Ty Karim.’
Presented with customary class and attentiveness by Numero.

Togo Soul

2

Hot Casa

Gloria Coleman

Soul Sisters

Impulse!

Featuring Grant Green, and engineered by Rudy van Gelder, in the manner of classic Blue Note organ jazz, this is an ‘underappreciated gem’, according to AllMusic. Leo Wright plays a blinder.
Here is a lovely photo of drummer Pola Roberts performing in the fifties. Nice name, the Pixie Bongo 4 Jewel’s.
Pola and Gloria had an all-women band together in the early sixties. George Coleman is Gloria’s old man.
‘Verve by Request’.

Cumbia, Cumbia, Cumbia​!​!​! Vol. 2

Vampisoul

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