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 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

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Bilal

Airtight's Revenge

Plug Research

London Is The Place For Me

1: Trinidadian Calypso In London, 1950-56

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‘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

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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.

Rangers

Pan Am Stories

Not Not Fun

Pinch And Shackleton

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The two dubstep pioneers at the top of their game. Truly an album, the music is multi-levelled — dark as anything at times, but engrossingly varied and emotionally shaded, always on the move.

Junjo Presents...

Big Showdown

Greensleeves

Peter Tosh

Legalize It

Columbia

Including a disinterment of his great song Burial.
‘What a big disgrace, the way you rob up the place… everything you can find, you even rob the blind. Now we know the truth… taking people’s business on your head, might as well you be dead.’
The second LP contains the dubs.

Las Malas Amistades

Maleza

Honest Jon's Records

‘The bad influences’, from Bogota, with their third album for us: twenty-eight gorgeous variations of saudade, in a warmly acoustic, post-punk take on Tropicalismo — impromptu, snapshot and sublime.

Kelan Philip Cohran And The Hypnotic Brass Ensemble

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Brand new recordings, this is majestic, surging, scintillating music — with swing, jump and shout, Sun Ra, Mingus and Gil Evans, Arab-Andalusian music, hip hop and New Orleans funk all coursing through.

Moritz Von Oswald Trio

Fetch

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At its darkest and most driving. The group is clear and unanimous — this is their best yet.

Ornette Coleman

In All Languages

Caravan Of Dreams

Original copies of the 1987 double-LP: OC on one record with Don Cherry, Charlie Haden and Billy Higgins; on the other with Prime Time… Bern Nix, Denardo, Jamaaladeen Tacuma and co.

MM KM

Ich Sehe Vasen

The Trilogy Tapes

Isabella Antena

En Cavale

Numero

Townes Van Zandt

Live At The Old Quarter, Houston, Texas

Fat Possum

Wonderful early recordings, some of his very best, from a small club, six yards by twelve, in 1973.

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