It is certain: Melt Yourself Downs is an album released in 2013 by Melt Yourself Down. "an English band based in London who incorporate elements of jazz and funk music." This was released by Leaf.

Bass great Marcus Miller brings the influence of modern urban music to his trademark sound on his highly-anticipated, genre-defying new album Laid Black, which will be released June 1 on Blue Note Records. It’s been three years since Miller’s last album, Afrodeezia, which The New York Times called “vibrant and expressive… music that frames his playing beautifully.” Miller says: “Afrodeezia was like a musical voyage through my history. I followed the journey of my ancestors by collaborating with musicians along the African Slave route – musicians from West Africa, North Africa, South America and the Caribbean. With Laid Black, I decided to bring the music right up to the present - using elements from what’s happening in urban music today. So you’ll hear hip-hop, trap, soul, funk, R&B and jazz on this album.

Teena Marie had the distinction for many years of being not only one of the rare white acts on Motown, but also one of its greatest female soul singers. She hedged her bets by doing lots of uptempo funk and dance-flavored tunes, but when she did ballads, even overproduced ones, her strong, soaring voice had the kind of earthy, direct quality attainable only by someone who really had soul. While Motown's various special lines and concept packages are often ripoffs, in this case it's certainly worth getting The Marie package, especially because many of her albums didn't sell all that well and are now hard to find.

Five years ago, after Dave Koz and Friends released Summer Horns—the GRAMMY-nominated album that paid tribute to classic songs featuring killer horn sections—all that the musicians could think about was how much fun they’d just had. They toured behind the album during the summer of 2013, then vowed to spend the following summer doing it all over again.

On Revolution In Your Heart, Eric Lindell weaves timeless, infectious tales of family, friends and love on twelve new original songs that combine sunshiny melodies and thick, greasy grooves. Lindell does all the singing and performs all instruments except the drums, making the performances exceptionally heartfelt and engaging.

Elvin and his Big Fun Trio-mates (Willy Jordan on cajon and vocals, Bob Welsh on guitar and piano) serve up a fresh new helping of their good ‘n’ greasy blues and R&B, highlighted by the title track, a comic State of the Union address as only the blues and Southern Rock legend can deliver. Album includes four additional new originals, Big Fun Trio takes on Elvin’s Right Now Is The Hour, Jackie Wilson’s (Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher & Higher, Ann Peebles’ I Can’t Stand The Rain and more.

"Fully Exposed" was the third studio album by soul musician, songwriter, and record producer Willie Hutch. It was released in 1973 on Motown Records, the same year as Hutch's soundtrack to The Mack.

After Labelle's breakup in early 1977, Patti LaBelle, Nona Hendryx, and Sarah Dash took very different paths as solo artists. LaBelle became a middle of the road urban/adult contemporary superstar, Dash recorded the occasional R&B album with little commercial success, and Hendryx favored rock-minded albums that came the closest to Labelle's free-spirited wildness. Hendryx's solo career started out on a hard rock note with her self-titled debut album of 1977, but she took a more new wave-influenced turn in the '80s, and 1985's The Heat brings together rock and synth funk with memorable results.

Limited to 5000 copies. Paper sleeve. COLD SWEAT, James Brown's fifth and last album release of the year was released Sept. 12, 1967 as KING KS-1020 in stereo. It was preceded by JAMES BROWN Plays The Real Thing and followed by JAMES BROWN Presents His Show Of Tomorrow. The album was released in England, Germany, Colombia and New Zealand as MR. SOUL with a different cover. The indelible title cut, with it's exhortations of "Maceo!" and "give the drummer some!" has also been sampled numerous times, for example PUBLIC ENEMY's "Welcome To The Terrordome."

A New York City octet, one of three funk and/or disco bands in which producer/keyboardist Randy Muller was involved. The original lineup featured Denise, Delores, and Bonny Dunning as vocalists, with guitarists Solomon Roberts and Anibal Anthony Sierra, keyboardist Larry Greenberg, bassist Gerald Lebon, and drummer Tommy McConnell. Muller organized the group and they recorded for Salsoul from the late '70s until 1984. Their biggest hit was "Call Me" in 1981, an R&B chart-topper. They could do sweeping funk tracks, dance-oriented cuts, or light ballads, although they never enjoyed the crossover success of a group like Atlantic Starr. They moved to Capitol in 1986 and enjoyed their biggest hit in quite some time with "Givin' It (To You)," a Top Ten R&B single. They recorded Start of a Romance for Atlantic in 1989 and landed another hit with "Real Love." Their most recent release was Nearer to You in 1992.

"Don't Stop" is the third solo album by Jeffrey Osborne, released in 1984. The album reached #39 on the Billboard 200 albums chart and #7 on the R&B album chart. The title song as well as the two other singles, "The Borderlines" and "Let Me Know", all reached #6, #7, and #44 on the R&B Singles Chart.

"Soul Woman" is an incredible 80 track, 4CD album of the biggest and best finest female soul singers of all time. The fabulous collection spans decades, from the 60s anthems of Nina Simone, Aretha Franklin and Dusty Springfield (celebrating 50 years of 'Respect' and 'Son of a Preacher Man'), to the disco-infused sisterhood of Chaka Khan’s 1978 hit ‘I'm Every Woman’ and Diana Ross’ ‘I’m Coming Out’. In addition to classic soul and disco, there are legendary ladies from the nu-soul era: Mary J Blige, Mica Paris, Amy Winehouse.

"Knights of the Sound Table" is the seventh album by the funk/R&B band Cameo, released in 1981. It debuted at #2 and 44 on both the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums and Billboard 200 charts respectively and spawned two singles: "Freaky Dancin'" and "I Like It".

• Millennium Jazz is a collective and label based in London and home to talent from the UK, France, Canada Germany, Holland etc. Founded in 2003 with the main focus of providing production, sound engineering for artists and producers as well as workshops for young people. MJM now focuses on project management and releasing material of various styles and genres in digital and physical format •

“Continuation” is the first solo album which Earth Wind & Fire vocalist Philip Bailey made in 1983 for CBS. After the release of the album Electric Universe, EW&F took a break so Bailey had time to work on his solo career. The album was produced by George Duke and it features musical contributions from crème de la crème musicians such as Nathan East on bass, James Gadson and Ricky Lawson on Drums and Paulinho da Costa on percussion. George Duke himself plays the keyboards and the horn arrangements are from Jerry Hey & the Seawind horn selection.