Various Artists - Martin Freeman and Eddie Piller Present On The Corner *Pre-Order

Release Date Friday 23rd October 2026
All pre-orders will be dispatched/made ready for collection on that day.

After a five-year break, Martin Freeman and Eddie Piller return with their latest compilation: ‘On The Corner’. While previous albums have shone a spotlight quite specifically on jazz and soul, the latest iteration takes a more panoramic approach, taking in those loves, but adding in some British Modstomp, Neo-Library music and some Ye-Ye, as Martin says in his note.

Martin is of course the multi-award-winning actor famed for ‘The Office’, ‘The Hobbit’, ‘Sherlock’ and ‘The Responder’, but also for his deep love of music, which brought him to Acid Jazz with these compilations. On this volume he has chosen well, with obscure cuts from Santana, Neo-Soul from Kadhja Bonet and Indo-Funk from Ashal Puthli. These sit alongside jazz from Gary Burton and Buddy Rich, as well as favourite Soul 45s, all topped with thewonderful stew of Traffic’s ‘Medicated Goo’.

Eddie founded Acid Jazz in 1988 and even before then was a well-known and successful DJ. His sides show the excitement that he still finds indiscovering and playing music. Opening with the synth-led ‘Main Title Theme’ from UK cult film ‘The Long Good Friday’, he selects beautiful soul and jazzy disco, before entering the world of Brit-Funk with cuts by HiTension and Light Of The World. He brings it home via Ace’s ‘How Long’ and some Brian Auger, which sets us up for the Ye-Ye beat of Jacquelin Taieband Jacques Dutronc.

Showing the label’s modernist roots, the album comes sharply dressed in its Dean Chalkley-photographed Unknown Partnership sleeve on CD and double LP, with notes by both Ed and Martin. The perfect end-of-year present to yourself or the one you love.

Tracklisting
1. Big Time Operator – Zoot Money’s Big Roll Band
2. Needle In A Haystack – The Whispers
3. Light Of Life – Santana
4. Vibrafinger – Gary Burton
5. Space Shuttle – Buddy Rich
6. Please Open The Door – Little Charles & The Sidewinders
7. Higher Ground – Doug Carn
8. Procession - Kadhja Bonet
9. Funky Mule – Ike Turner
10. Right Down Here – Asha Puthli 
11. Top Brass – Matt Berry*
12. Medicated Goo – Traffic
13. Main Title Theme From The Long Good Friday – Francis Monkman
14. I Can’t Keep From Crying Baby Sometimes – The Deidre Wilson Tabac
15. Too Late – Mandrill
16. Wounded woman – Sandra Wright
17. I’ve Got To Come In – Jean Battle
18. Don’t You Worry Baby, The Best Is Yet To Come – Bessie Banks
19. Don’t Walk Away - General Johnson*
20. Hi Tension – Hi Tension
21. Time – The Light Of The World
22. How Long – Ace
23. Rope Ladder To The Moon – Julie Tippets and Brian Auger
24. 7th Du Matin – Jacquelin Taieb
25. Le Responsible – Jacques Dutronc

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