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Poretta Soul Festival 2013

ACE Records — 16th May 2013 12:00:00 GMT

Midsummer is always a special month for European lovers of Southern Soul. For the past 25 years, in a small, friendly, picturesque ‘spa town’ in Northern Italy called Porretta Terme, Italian music promoter and Otis Redding obsessive Graziano Uliani has been curating and ‘creatively directing’ Porretta Soul, probably the longest running - and almost certainly the best – music festival of its kind anywhere in the world.

Country Joe Manufacturing Fault

ACE Records — 17th April 2013 12:00:00 GMT

Apologies are in order folks. The first pressing of our Country Joe Electric Music reissue has a pressing fault (affecting track three on disc one - the mono disc). If you have one of the affected copies, just email your details to us at social (at) acerecords (dot) com and we will dispatch a corrected copy post-haste.

George Jackson Remembered

ACE Records — 15th April 2013 12:00:00 GMT

I only ever met George Henry Jackson once, but it was an occasion I’ll never forget. In January 2010 my Ace colleague Dean Rudland and I left our Muscle Shoals hotel in the small hours of the morning, to drive several hundred miles in weather conditions that ‘appalling’ would be far too kind a word to describe, braving snowdrifts and sub-zero temperatures at an ungodly hour to keep a 10AM appointment to interview George and Harrison Calloway at Malaco’s famous Jackson, MS studios. We were nervous and excited at the prospect of meeting a couple of our musical heroes, and the fact that we were a little late in arriving made us even more so – particularly as both men were already sitting in the Malaco lobby waiting for us when we got there.

WE AIN’T CHEAP (compared to the out of copyright releases)

ACE Records — 14th February 2013 12:00:00 GMT

In these straitened times everyone is looking for a bargain. When it comes to the world of re-issues, there is a flood of CDs out there utilising recordings made prior to 1963 that are now free of copyright. Good news for the bargain hunters amongst you, as dozens of independent labels scramble to release ever-cheaper compilations of old masters.

2012-13 Catalogue Update

ACE Records — 12th February 2013 12:00:00 GMT

The new catologue is out now. If you have already signed up for it your copy is on its way. If you would like to sign up please email catalogue@acerecords.com with your name and address.

Phill Jupitus on Never Mind the Buzzcocks

ACE Records — 12th December 2012 12:00:00 GMT

Ace were rooting for Phill's team last night on Never Mind the Buzzcocks. Although always impeccably dressed, there was something about his outfit last night that really stood out....

Holiday Opening Times

ACE Records — 12th December 2012 12:00:00 GMT

Please note we will be closed for Christmas between the 22nd of December and January 2nd 2013. Our online shop will stay open over the Christmas period. All orders will be processed when we get back on January 2nd 2013.

Season's greetings from all at Ace

Ace Singles Club

ACE Records — 30th October 2012 12:00:00 GMT

This month we're proud to announce two more releases in the ‘Ace Singles Club’, a series of vinyl 7’s that will be pressed in highly limited quantities and that will only ever be available directly from our site. These fine looking and fine sounding forty fives are manufactured to look like The Real Thing – that’s to say, we’re using the original label designs that these singles would have had, if they had originally been released as singles…

Terry Callier Remembered

ACE Records — 29th October 2012 12:00:00 GMT

On my first day at work in July 1990, the very first record that I worked on was the Acid Jazz reissue of Terry Callier's 'I Don't Want To See Myself'. This record had been championed on the modern soul scene by Dr Bob Jones, and Eddie Piller had tracked down Terry to his home in Chicago to license the record. Terry had retired from the music industry about eight years previously and retrained as a computer programmer so that he could be at home to look after his daughter Sundiata.

New Tees Coming Soon

ACE Records — 29th October 2012 12:00:00 GMT

WHY DIDN’T YOU INCLUDE THAT TRACK?

ACE Records — 12th September 2012 12:00:00 GMT

A compiler’s answer to the most frequently asked question among Ace collectors…

CALLING ALL LONDON-AMERICAN COLLECTORS!

ACE Records — 16th August 2012 12:00:00 GMT

..STOP PRESS, THESE TWO HAVE NOW BEEN LOCATED...

Charlie Gillett

ACE Records — 17th March 2010 12:00:00 GMT

Charlie would have hated all this fuss and bother over him. He was the most self effacing man I have ever met, and in the last year or more I confirmed that view, working with him on the ‘Honky Tonk’ CD. It was entirely about the music and the people who made it and the people who helped them produce it and get it out there and promote it. That’s what excited Charlie.

Alex Chilton

ACE Records — 17th July 2010 12:00:00 GMT

Alex Chilton, the Memphis rock iconoclast best known as a member of 1960s pop-soul act the Box Tops and 1970s cult group Big Star, died of apparent heart problems in New Orleans on 18 March. He was 59 years old.

Jerry Ragovoy

ACE Records — 15th July 2011 12:00:00 GMT

The great songwriter and record producer Jerry Ragovoy died on Wednesday 13 July.

Sean Bonniwell

ACE Records — 11th January 2012 12:00:00 GMT

We were sad to learn of Music Machine lead singer Sean Bonniwell’s death from cancer just before Christmas 2011. An admiring Alec Palao pays his respects.

Johnny Otis

ACE Records — 19th January 2012 12:00:00 GMT

Pioneering rhythm and blues singer, songwriter, drummer, bandleader, disc jockey and good friend to Ace, Johnny Otis sadly passed away last week at the age of 90. Alec Palao pays tribute to the music legend who also happened to officiate at his wedding.

Donald 'Duck' Dunn and Andrew Love

ACE Records — 9th July 2012 12:00:00 GMT

It was with great regret that we learned of the sudden death of Donald ‘Duck’ Dunn, bass player extraordinaire, at the tragically early age of 70. He was the very archetype of the solid, deep-in-the-groove bass players, always on the button with the rhythm and punching on the accents perfectly. In Booker T and The MGs he meshed with Al Jackson’s sparse drum patterns, forming the bridge to Steve Cropper’s chopping guitar phrasing and allowing Booker T Jones Hammond to float on top, together making up the most perfect instrumental group ever to have laid down a groove - and what a groove.