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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Nigeria 70

The Definitive Story Of 1970s Funky Lagos

Strut

Tyshawn Sorey

Verisimilitude

PI

Positioning him between Milford Graves and Morton Feldman, the New York Times reckons this is ‘Mr. Sorey’s best album… bereft of almost anything resembling a steady cadence. Instead, what’s inside the pulse — resonance, fluid, potential — comes to the fore. It’s not rare for recordings of improvised music to give a sense of the physical space between instrumentalists, but with Mr. Sorey’s trio, that air seems to be in a state of charged collapse, packed with magnetic density.’

Hypnotic Brass Ensemble

Hypnotic Brass Ensemble

Honest Jon's Records

Tear-up bad-boy brass-band scorchers. Just like dad crossed Sun Ra with Kool And The Gang, this crashes funkdafied New Orleans street jazz into hip hop. With Flea, Damon, Tony Allen, Malcolm from The Heliocentrics.

The World Is Shaking

Cubanismo From The Congo, 1954-55

Honest Jon's Records

Fired-up, originary African pop, conjuring the Congolese rumba from imported Latin 78s — with thumb pianos, kazoos, banjos, bottles, violins, and irresistible little songs about pimps, dope, clubbing, sex, death.

Asher Gamedze

Constitution

International Anthem Recording Co.

Henry Thomas

Texas Worried Blues

Yazoo

Harry Partch

Delusion Of The Fury

Columbia

London Is The Place For Me

2: Calypso And Kwela, Highlife And Jazz From Young Black London

Honest Jon's Records

‘superlative’, Mojo; ‘sensational’, The Observer; ‘hugely evocative and poignant’, Daily Telegraph; ‘*****’ The Times, Metro; ‘sheer joy from start to finish’, Sunday Telegraph.

Watch How The People Dancing

Unity Sounds From The London Dancehall 1986 - 1989

Honest Jon's Records

Exhilarating reggae music from Stoke Newington, north east London, made by soundboys on a Casio and a drum machine, in a room over Eddie Regal’s record shop.

The Phenomenal Handclap Band

The Phenomenal Handclap Band

Tummy Touch

Actress

Splazsh

Honest Jon's Records

Dazzling melds of classic Detroit, grime, dubstep, speed garage, Paisley rock, synth-wave and the rest, with none other than the man not-himself crowned king.

The Secret Museum of Mankind

Volume 2

Outernational

Jeff Parker

Mondays at The Enfield Tennis Academy

Aguirre

‘2 LPs of long-form, lyrical, groove-based free improv recorded live at a bar in LA’s Highland Park neighborhood with just enough space in the back for Parker, drummer Jay Bellerose, bassist Anna Butterss, & alto saxophonist Josh Johnson to convene in extraordinarily depth-full & exploratory music making. Gleaned for the stoniest side-length cuts from 10+ hours of vivid two-track recordings made between 2019 & 2021 by Bryce Gonzales, Mondays at The ETA is a darkly glowing séance of an album, brimming over with the hypnotic, the melodic, & patience & grace in its own beautiful strangeness. Room-tone, electric fields, environment, ceiling echo, live recording, Mondays, Los Angeles. It belongs in the lineage of such canonical live double albums recorded on the West Coast as Lee Morgan’s Live at the Lighthouse, Miles Davis’ Friday & Saturday Night at the Blackhawk & Black Beauty, & John Coltrane’s Live in Seattle.
‘While the IVtet sometimes plays standards &, including on this recording, original compositions, it is as previously stated largely a free improv group — just not in the genre meaning of the term. The music is more free composition than free improvisation, more blending than discordant. It’s tensile, yet spacious & relaxed. Clearly all four musicians have spent significant time in the planetary system known as jazz, but relationships to other musics, across many scenes & eras — dub & Dilla, primary source psychedelia, ambient & drone — suffuse the proceedings.’

The Southern University Jazz Ensemble

Goes To Africa With Love

Now Again

Madlib

High Jazz

Stones Throw

Medicine Show No. 7.

Actress

R.I.P

Honest Jon's Records

Bilal

Airtight's Revenge

Plug Research

London Is The Place For Me

1: Trinidadian Calypso In London, 1950-56

Honest Jon's Records

‘an exquisitely poignant, evocative record’, Daily Telegraph; ‘wonderful… album of the year’, Sunday Times; ‘simply a classic album. Music by the people, for the people,’ The Voice.

Brian Eno

Small Craft On A Milk Sea

Warp

Bellyachers, Listen

Songs From East Africa, 1938-46

Honest Jon's Records

The first half of the Something Is Wrong CD set, beautifully pressed and presented, with its own twelve-inch-square booklet.

Something Is Wrong LP

Songs From East Africa, 1952-57

Honest Jon's Records

The second half of the CD.

Captain Beefheart And His Magic Band

The Spotlight Kid

Rhino

The original album cut AAA (fully analogue) from original master tape; and a bonus LP including previously unreleased alternate versions and outtakes from the recording sessions.

Madlib

Medicine Show No. 9

Stones Throw

Greetings From Nittyville.

Studio One Story

Studio One / Soul Jazz

Arthur Russell

Love Is Overtaking Me

Rough Trade

Twenty-one songs, running right back to 1971: assured, lovely, intelligent, good-humoured singer-songwriting, mixing up Americana, folk, pop, art rock, and gentle experimentalism.

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