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.

  • Latest 100 arrivals
  • Blues
  • Dance
  • Folk
  • Jazz
  • Odds
  • Outernational
  • Reggae
  • Soul / Funk

  • Basic Channel
  • Basic Replay
  • Bullwackies
  • Digikiller
  • Dub Store
  • Dug Out
  • Ethiopiques
  • Hive Mind
  • Honest Jon's
  • Maurizio
  • Mississippi
  • Numero
  • Ocora
  • Rhythm & Sound
  • Studio One
  • Sublime Frequencies
  • The Trilogy Tapes
  • One-Off Records
  • Merchandise
Honest Jons logo
  • Label
  • Shop
  • Alphabetically / Latest entry first
  • All formats / Vinyl only
  • List / Gallery

The Gaylads

Gal And Boy

Studio One / Rock A Shacka

The Blue Beats

Change Your Gear

Studio One / Rock A Shacka

Cassey Man

Ready Or Not

Tuff Scout

Max Romeo

Sexy Natty

Black Art

The Gatherers

Start Over

Upsetter

Horace Andy

Skylarking / Sky Rhythm

Studio One / Soul Jazz

The Skatalites

Man In The Street

Studio One / Soul Jazz

Norma White

I Want Your Love

Soul Jazz

Jeffrey

Love One Another

Federal / Dub Store

Lilian Williams

Why Did You Use Me

High Note

Terrific, resilient, rootical lovers, with backing by the Revolutionaries, recorded in the late-seventies by Sonia Pottinger for Sky Note. The same rugged rhythm as Clifton Campbell’s
A New Civilisation, devastatingly contrasted with the sweetness and vulnerability of the singing.

Brief Encounter

Get A Good Feeling

Athens Of The North

Justin Hinds And The Dominos

The Little That You Have

Treasure Isle / Far East

Terrific close-harmony rocksteady bad tidings from 1967.
The flip doubles the murder rate: Tommy McCook’s Persian Ska, from the previous year.

George Nooks

Tribal War

Joe Gibbs

Time Unlimited

Judgement

Black Art

Dermot Lynch

Cool It

Gay Feet / Dub Store

Al & Freddie

Born A Freeman

Studio One / Rock A Shacka

A deadly fleet of Studio One sevens, and one almighty ten-inch, swooping in from the Far East.

Lennie Hibbert

Chinese Beauty

Studio One / Rock A Shacka

Freddie McGregor

Home Ward Bound

Studio One / Rock A Shacka

Ruben Alexander

Jah Light

Studio One / Rock A Shacka

The Conquerers

You Hold The Handle

Studio One / Rock A Shacka

Freddie McGregor

Sweet Child

Studio One / Rock A Shacka

Jah Warrior & Diggory Kenrick

Political Games

Jah Warrior Records

Dillinger

Cup A Tea

Shaolin Temple

The Versatiles

Stronger Strong

Soul Sounds / Dub Vendor

Sun Ra

I Struck A Match On The Moon

Corbett Vs Dempsey

In 1961 Sun Ra took off from Chicago – where he had established the Arkestra, his dedicated ensemble and the vehicle for his mission to better the planet – and with a scaled-down version of the band he landed in NewYork. Their first recording session was in Newark in October of that year. The Futuristic Sounds Of Sun Ra, recorded for the Savoy label, is a beautiful document of the material they’d honed during a long residency at the Wonder Inn at the end of the Chicago period. Among tracks left in the vault from that day in the studio were these two great ballads sung by Ricky Murray, both of them redolent of the bright popcraft that had long been part of Ra’s repertoire, with classic Afrofuturist themes of navigating outer space and altered destiny cloaked in sweet songs with tart arrangements.
“Marshall Allen especially liked playing I Struck A Match On The Moon,” recalls Ricky, “because he got a chance to light up a cigarette while we were singing.”

525354555657585960616263646566676869707172203

Your basket is empty