mixamelo# “a mix/mixtape every monday”: This monday by Radius from the Chicago based crew The Boogie Munsters. “Exactly How I Feel” is an all vinyl mix of various biz that he collected digging over the last year, mainly Jazz but also touches other influences too, like Dub, instrumental hiphop, funk, etc… stream below, enjoy!
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everybodydigs# is a series of posts about Jazz, Funk, Soul & R’n’b albums released from the 20s to the 90s, you can read a brief description/review and listen to a small preview (when it’s possible). everybodydigs# is like when someone tells you “hey you should listen to this album!” and nothing less, enjoy!
Straight Ahead was recorded in 1961 and was Abbey Lincoln’s fifth album in as many years. Though she was only 31 when this set was recorded, Lincoln already possessed great confidence and a powerfully emotive voice. She’s surrounded by a superlative cast of players, including Max Roach, Eric Dolphy, Coleman Hawkins, Booker Little, Mal Waldron, and Julian Priester. As Lincoln shifts from playfulness to melancholy, and anger to romance, the band is right with her. The rhythmic support is supple and the soloing is full of emotional resonance and invention, free of needless filigree. One highlight takes place in “When Malindy Sings” (a song based on a poem by Paul Laurence Dunbar), as Dolphy’s flute flies in after the conclusion of Little’s trumpet solo. Though Abbey Lincoln’s entire catalog is particularly strong, this album deserves special attention. (cduniverse)
Personnel: Abbey Lincoln (vocals); Coleman Hawkins, Walter Benton (tenor saxophone); Booker Little (trumpet); Julian Priester (trombone); Eric Dolphy (reeds); Mal Waldron (piano); Art Davis (bass); Max Roach (drums); Roger Sanders, Robert Whitley (congas).
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everybodydigs# is a series of posts about Jazz, Funk, Soul & R’n’b albums released from the 20s to the 90s, you can read a brief description/review and listen to a small preview (when it’s possible). everybodydigs# is like when someone tells you “hey you should listen to this album!” and nothing less, enjoy!
Having taken Benson along with him when he founded CTI, Creed Taylor merely leaves the guitarist alone with a small group on his first release. The payoff is a superb jazz session where Benson rises to the challenge of the turbulent rhythm section of Jack DeJohnette and Ron Carter, with Clarence Palmer ably manning the organ. Benson is clearly as much at home with DeJohnette’s advanced playing as he was in soul/jazz (after all, he did play on some Miles Davis sessions a few years before), and his tone is edgier, with more bite, than it had been for awhile. The lyrical Benson is also on eloquent display in “Ode to a Kudu” (heard twice on the CD, as is “All Clear”), and there is even a somewhat experimental tilt toward Afro-Cuban-Indian rhythms in “Somewhere to the East.” A must-hear for all aficionados of Benson’s guitar. (allmusic.com)
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sampleecious#: a post every Friday where i choose just one great track sampled for one or more other great tracks, also you can listen to (when it’s possible) a small preview on the video below, enjoy!
#11: “Pisces: Allison’s Trip” by Cannonball Adderley from “Love, Sex and The Zodiac” released in 1974 > sampled in > “Believe” by Q-Tip feat. D’Angelo from “Renaissance” released in 2008.
New Bonobo‘s album entitled “The North Borders” is available now! I have already listened to it a couple of times and it’s a beautiful album, it feels like an evolution of the previous album “Black Sands” released 3 years ago. Down below you can listen to “‘Heaven For The Sinner’ featuring the great Erykah Badu, go get the full album at > www.ninjatune.net enjoy!
This is “Convergent” the first single from the next Scrimshire‘s album entitled “Bight” that will be released in May. The single, which is an absolutely bomb, will be released on April 15th (pre-order here) and will also includes remixes from Yosi Horikawa, Mazoulew and Blue Movies, in the meantime you can stream “Convergent” down below, enjoy!
Official video of “All i Know” and “Movin On”, two track off Miles Bonny & Brenk Sinatra’s album “Supa Soul Sh*t” , watch it below, enjoy!
Chet Faker‘s new EP entitled “Live Sessions” is out now and is available as free download. Recorded in the old Buttery Factory, in rural Australia, the EP contains acoustic versions of “Archangel”, “Love and Feeling” and “No Diggity”, stream and download below, enjoy!
Crate Diggers profiles people with extraordinary vinyl record collections, with owners displaying and telling the stories behind their collections. In this episode they celebrate legendary producer J Dilla, who has worked with The Roots, Common, Erykah Badu, Janet Jackson and A Tribe Called Quest. Then we join musician friends J. Rocc, DJ Spinna, Frank Nitt and Grap Luva in Detroit to open Dilla’s storage locker, which has remained untouched since his death, watch it below, enjoy!
This is “Streams & Rivers” the 1st Single from the new Coultrain‘s album entitled “Jungle Mumbo Jumbo” that will be released on April 23rd via Plug Research Records, stream below, enjoy!
For more info check: www.plugresearch.com