ACID JAZZ RECORDS


To coincide with the 2024 ‘Just Something’ tour, we’re hugely excited to present this special edition 12” EP from Dee C Lee – ‘Extended Versions’, out 20 September exclusively from the Acid Jazz store.

12" Extended Versions (limited)
12" Extended Versions (limited)

"Back In Time" is released in a wonderful picture sleeve, with a new portrait of Dee by Will Parsons, with a classic Acid Jazz disc label. Limited to 500 copies.

7" limited. Back In Time (click to order)
7" limited. Back In Time (click to order)

Just Something - Album

Acid Jazz HQ, 26th Jan 2024
Acid Jazz HQ, 26th Jan 2024
Blue Vinyl (Acid Jazz exclusive)
Blue Vinyl (Acid Jazz exclusive)

16th January 2024

Released on 22nd March

We’re hugely excited to announce the brand new album from Dee C. Lee – ‘Just Something’, out 22 March on Acid Jazz. It follows the incredible response to the new single ‘Walk Away’ and last year’s double-sider ‘Don’t Forget About Love’ / ‘Be There In The Morning’, marking the return of one of the UK’s most revered soul singers. Dee is known for her work with The Style Council, Wham!, Slam Slam and Animal Nightlife, and an illustrious solo career (including the Top 3 hit ‘See The Day’). ‘Just Something’ is her first new record since 1998, and her debut for Acid Jazz. Available on LP and CD, all pre-orders from the Acid Jazz Store will be signed by Dee. A limited edition blue vinyl LP is available exclusively from Acid Jazz. Pre-order now!

‘Just Something’ features 11 songs: nine originals co-written by Dee, a song penned by her daughter Leah Weller, a successful singer/songwriter in her own right, and two inspired covers. Produced by Sir Tristan Longworth, the album is a soulful collection that frames her instantly recognisable vocals in luxurious horns, percussion and keys, and heritage soul with a disco backdrop. While making the record has been a collaborative process, ‘Just Something’ is nevertheless the sound of a singer in charge of her own style and direction. Her vocal delivery and phrasing steal the show throughout, bright and lilting one moment, passionate and ringing the next. She cites Chaka Khan and Jean Carn as major influences, but Lee’s voice is resolutely her own, the product of a life lived.

Inspired by classic Motown, current single ‘Walk Away’ was written by Dee with one of her ‘brothers from another mother’, former fellow Style Council member Mick Talbot, and features Talbot’s distinctive piano and Wulitzer playing on the track. Talbot also plays on another of the album’s many standouts, the Leah Weller-penned ‘Everyday Summer’.

Three of the album’s songs, opener ‘Back In Time’, first single ‘Don’t Forget About Love’ and ‘How To Love’ were co-written with Michael McEvoy and Ernest McKone, whom Dee wrote with back in the 1980s. All three songs channel her musical past, from the thrill and excitement of those early Wham! days, going out and partying, to The Style Council’s trademark jazzy soul, and expressive balladry and killer choruses, which places Lee in the lineage of classic soul singers.

Elsewhere, on ‘Anything’, co-written with Paul Barry, Dee sings her heart out on a song full of optimism and hope for the future, while ‘For Once In My Life’, the oldest song here dates back to 1998, is effortlessly commercial and has hit written all over it, with Lee empowered and regal sounding over a warm blanket of bassy funk.

The album’s two covers, meanwhile, were both suggested to Lee by Acid Jazz’s Eddie Piller. In Lee’s hands, Renee Geyer’s ‘Be There In The Morning’ is pure celebration, taking its cue from the Norman Connors version from 1979. ‘I Love You’, written by Don Blackman and recorded by Weldon Irvine in 1976, could have been written with Lee in mind. A big club tune, Dee recalls hearing it everywhere she went and I wanted to keep as close to the original vibe as she could.

Dee’s relationship with Acid Jazz the goes back to The Style Council days, and it was the 2019 documentary ‘Long Hot Summers’ that renewed Dee’s friendship with label founder Ed Piller and director Dean Rudland. We’re honoured to release this record and be a part of Dee’s return to the forefront of UK soul music.


Walk Away

4th January 2024

Acid Jazz are thrilled to present a brand new single from Dee C Lee, out now on all digital platforms.

‘Walk Away’ was written by Dee and fellow former Style Councillor Mick Talbot, who brings his distinctive piano and Wurlitzer playing to the track.


7" SINGLE - Out now!

27th September 2023

We are very excited to announce the return of illustrious soul singer Dee C. Lee with the very special double A-side single - ‘Don’t Forget About Love’ / ‘Be There In The Morning’. 

The digital single was released on all streaming platforms on Friday 29th Sept 2023

 7” vinyl -  Order HERE