Tough Love (10th Anniversary) - RSD 2024 (Vinyl 2xLP) discogimp

Tough Love (10th Anniversary) - RSD 2024 (Vinyl 2xLP) discogimpFollowing on from Record Store Day 2022s ecstatically received 10th anniversary deluxe of her debut album Devotion, 2014s Tough Love by Jessie Ware one of the hottest stars on the planet right now gets the same treatment for 2024 with this lovingly curated 2LP set of the original album plus bonus tracks all pressed on solid white 140 gram vinyl. After her Mercury Prize and Brit Best Newcomer nominations in the wake of Devotion, Jessie Ware explored

Soul Bank’s Greg Boraman

and the raw vulnerability expressed on You Heat Me Up

most of which involve the occasionally riotous and often bittersweet vagaries of love

beautiful music can be made

EP releases

The Races and Fishing while also featuring a re-recording of early single and live favourite Camel Crew - until now

Sun Ra responded to the New York jazz community's embrace by pushing the form in new directions-often to the point that what he was playing wasn't jazz

Unwilling to let her leave the stage

existentialist and nihilist

while bootlegs from the same period find him whipping up electric storms Sun Ra style

or his later hard bop explorations with trumpeter Clifford Brown

and Sebasti√£o Nunes