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

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Sun Ra presents The Qualities

It's Christmas Time

Strut

Likely recorded in Chicago around 1956; originally released on Saturn. Ra is co-composer of both sides; it could be him playing the harmonium.
‘I had two main vocal groups at the time,’ Ra once recalled. ‘One was called the Cosmic Echoes. And the Cosmic Rays, too. It was around the same time that John Gilmore joined the band. I saw the possibility that they could be really great so I began to coach them; they were connected with a barber shop, but I taught them other things.’ ‘We’d go down to the barber shops and rehearse some groups,’ added John Gilmore. ‘Sun Ra had them singin’ some beautiful stuff. I think he probably was saving them from themselves. He heard them, heard their potential, snatched them off the street, and started making them do something constructive.’

Jimmy Conwell

Let It All Out

Kent

Killer balladry for the Lowrider massive.
Great, great soul music: authentically, rawly heartfelt and emotionally generous; beautifully expressed.
Conwell leads the Exits in a Northern favourite, on the flip.
Hotly recommended.

Vin Gordon

Jungle's March

High Tmes / Hornin' Sounds

Tremendous.
High-drama, dubwise Channel One, with deadly guitar and congas, and fatter-than-Fat-Albert trombone.

Richie Mac

Jah Solid Rock I Stand

Pablo International / Only Roots

Richie Mac

All Out

Pablo International / Only Roots

Hugh Mundell

My Mind

Pablo International / Only Roots

Hugh Mundell

Let's All Unite

Rockers / Only Roots

Hugh Mundell

Don't Stay Away Too Long

Rockers / Only Roots

Augustus Pablo

Thunder Clapp

Pablo International / Only Roots

Augustus Pablo

Pablo's Theme Song

Pablo International / Only Roots

Delroy Williams

This Love

Message / Only Roots

Dalton

Alech

Habibi Funk

The Viceroys

Don't You Cry

Taxi / Digikiller

Hopeton Lindo

Tribute

Parish / Digikiller

Bobby Aitken & The Carib Beats with Lloyd & Glen

Keep On Pushing

BA / Digikiller

Glen Adams & The Outerlimits

Stay Dread

Capo / Jah Fingers

Holy Tongue

Ambulance Dub

Trule

Two contrasting, bolshie, try-a-thing dubs, bristling with ideas and energy.
‘Ambulance Dub creeps along like John Carpenter laying down a dubplate special at Firehouse. The Bigger Tutti is full-on, punky-reggae-party steppers.’
Hand-stamped.

Hodges, James, Smith & Crawford

Nobody

BGP

Tobi Lark

True True Love

Kent

Courtney Sinclair

Diffuse The Vibes

Silver-B / TRS

Archie Wonder

Cruising

Wooligan / TRS

Terry Callier

I Don't Want To See Myself (Without You)

Acid Jazz

Ijahman Levi

Chariot Of Love

Jahmani / Jah Fingers

Prince Buster

Got To Be Free

Rock A Shacka

Prince Buster

Funky Jamaica 7

Prince Buster / Rock A Shacka

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