Honest Jon's is a British independent record shop based on Portobello Road in Ladbroke Grove, London, operating since 1974. The shop is owned and run by Mark Ainley and Alan Scholefield, who took over from one of the original proprietors, "Honest" Jon Clare.
Biography
Honest Jon's is a British independent record shop based on Portobello Road in Ladbroke Grove, London, operating since 1974. The shop is owned and run by Mark Ainley and Alan Scholefield, who took over from one of the original proprietors, "Honest" Jon Clare. Their record label of the same name is run in conjunction with Damon Albarn, who has been quoted as saying: "I don't really like the term world music. Wherever it comes from, it's all just music, isn't it? Hopefully that's what Honest Jon's is about – to open a few minds to what's out there." The shop sells a multitude of genres of music on vinyl and CD, specializing in jazz, blues, reggae, dance, soul, folk and outernational. It runs a mail-order business. Formed in 2002, the label has released compilation albums such as its London Is the Place for Me series, excavating the music of young Black London, in the years after World War II ("a fascinating archive of material from the 1950s and 1960s, chronicling a time when diasporic rhythms were more or less the sole preserve of the small communities responsible for bringing them to these shores"); also collections of British folk, Port-of-Spain soca, Afro-Cuban jazz from the Bronx
Scores
Sources & provenance
- https://musicbrainz.org/artist/48f33eb9-3dcc-48b0-9662-f4ee9a4098e0
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honest_Jon%27s
| Field | Value | Source | Verified | Conf. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| origin_country | NO | MusicBrainz | June 10, 2026 | 95 |
| genres | deep house | MusicBrainz | June 10, 2026 | 80 |
| origin_city | Norway | MusicBrainz | June 10, 2026 | 75 |
| musicbrainz | https://musicbrainz.org/artist/48f33eb9-3dcc-48b0-9662-f4ee9a4098e0 | MusicBrainz | June 10, 2026 | 99 |
| discogs | https://www.discogs.com/artist/1158290 | MusicBrainz | June 10, 2026 | 88 |
| spotify | https://open.spotify.com/artist/6XKpS1uSV0qmFmeyZO6mzp | MusicBrainz | June 10, 2026 | 88 |
| apple_music | https://music.apple.com/gb/artist/980545632 | MusicBrainz | June 10, 2026 | 88 |
| gender | male | MusicBrainz | June 10, 2026 | 85 |
| wikipedia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honest_Jon%27s | Wikipedia | June 10, 2026 | 85 |
| bio_short | Honest Jon's is a British independent record shop based on Portobello Road in Ladbroke Grove, London, operating since 1974. The shop is owned and run by Mark Ainley and Alan Scholefield, who took over from one of the original proprietors, "Honest" Jon Clare. | Wikipedia | June 10, 2026 | 80 |
| bio_long | Honest Jon's is a British independent record shop based on Portobello Road in Ladbroke Grove, London, operating since 1974. The shop is owned and run by Mark Ainley and Alan Scholefield, who took over from one of the original proprietors, "Honest" Jon Clare. Their record label of the same name is run in conjunction with Damon Albarn, who has been quoted as saying: "I don't really like the term world music. Wherever it comes from, it's all just music, isn't it? Hopefully that's what Honest Jon's is about – to open a few minds to what's out there." The shop sells a multitude of genres of music on vinyl and CD, specializing in jazz, blues, reggae, dance, soul, folk and outernational. It runs a mail-order business. Formed in 2002, the label has released compilation albums such as its London Is the Place for Me series, excavating the music of young Black London, in the years after World War II ("a fascinating archive of material from the 1950s and 1960s, chronicling a time when diasporic rhythms were more or less the sole preserve of the small communities responsible for bringing them to these shores"); also collections of British folk, Port-of-Spain soca, Afro-Cuban jazz from the Bronx | Wikipedia | June 10, 2026 | 80 |
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