Funky16Corners (Free subscription) | yesterday
Jimmy Smith at the Organ “Listen - Jimmy Smith - Sag’ Shootin’ His Arrow - MP3″ Greetings all. I hope everyone has had an excellent week, and that Monday’s podcast added just the right amount of funk to your life. I also hope that you’re ready for some slamming organ funk. If you fall by here in the reg, [...]
HarbourLiving.ca (Free subscription) | 09/30/2008
Victoria: A stunning and versatile vocalist who captivates audiences and jazz musicians.
Soul Sides (Free subscription) | 08/14/2008
(Editor's Note: This comes from Matt Rogers, one of the contributing editors at Wax Poetics and someone who I thought could do an excellent retrospective on the late Jimmy McGriff (who we lost earlier this year). With his death, alongside that of Jack McDuff and Jimmy Smith, one of the greatest sets of jazz organists to ever come through are now gone. Rogers pays proper tribute to one of those masters....
Funky16Corners (Free subscription) | 08/14/2008
Funky16Corners Radio v.55 - Soul On Playlist Four Gents – Soul Sister (HBR) Billy Larkin & the Delegates - Little Jr. Detroit (World Pacific) Leon Haywood – Soul On (Imperial) Merl Saunders – Soul Roach Pt2 (Early Bird) Hank Jacobs - Heide (Sue) Wildare Trio – Cruising (Brunswick) Tall Paul Hankins – I Did It (Pop Up) Magnets – The Swingin’ Organ (Keys) Bill Black’s [...]
LP Cover Lover (Free subscription) | 08/02/2008
“GOOD TIMES” The vocal & harmonica blues of SHAKEY JAKE (Harris) with Jack McDuff on the B3 and Bill Jennings on guitar. No bass or drums on the session. Recorded at Rudy Van Gelder’s legendary Englewood Cliffs studio and released on Prestige/Bluesville. (1960) Featuring Worried Blues; My Foolish Heart, (a take [...]
Strat-O-Blogster Guitar Blog (Free subscription) | 06/25/2008
If you can just get your mind around this... Barbara Dennerlein , "Queen of the Hammond B3" is truly amazing! How does this white chick, from Germany, find herself in the modus operandi of Jimmy Smith/Jack McDuff/Jimmy McGriff?? Even more amazing is the bass player in Barb's band. She must have kicked him out-- and with that same foot she handles the bass duties herself. Talk about a walking bass line!...
The Vinyl Word (Free subscription) | 05/30/2008
Hammond B3 organist Jimmy McGriff, who died the other day aged 72, was one of the leading exponents of organ-based soul/jazz in the 60s, along with Jimmy Smith, Brother Jack McDuff and Richard Groove Holmes, and his singles and LPs on the UK Sue label have become highly collectable. Jimmy was best known for I've Got a Woman and The Last Minute and albums such as Blues for Mister Jimmy and a Bag Full...
A Jazz Blog (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
DYLAN HOW UNITY 4 DYLAN HOWE Drums, SAM CROCKATT Tenor saxophone, MIKE OUTRAM Guitar, ROSS STANLEY Hammond Organ Larry Young’s Unity is a classic of Modern Jazz and one of the few Hammond organ-led albums that some Modern Jazz fans take seriously. Joined by Joe Henderson, Woody Shaw and Elvin Jones, this album established Larry Young as an original voice – he was dubbed the “Coltrane of the Organ”...
Funky16Corners (Free subscription) | 04/20/2008
To infinity, and beyond! Funky16Corners Radio v.47 - Cosmic Sea Playlist Mystic Moods – Cosmic Sea (WB) Miles Davis – Spanish Key (45 Edit) (Columbia) Jackson 5 – I’ll Bet You (Motown) Miles Davis – Miles Runs the Voodoo Down (45 Edit) (Columbia) Jose Feliciano – Light My Fire (RCA) Herbie Mann – If I Were a Carpenter (Atlantic) BB King – Ghetto [...]
Some Velvet Blog (Free subscription) | 03/17/2008
With the SXSW updates behind us, SVB presents this week's Weekend Mixtape on a weekday. Different Drum - Michael Nesmith She Cries Your Name - William Orbit & Beth Orton Stoned Soul Picnic - Laura Nyro Call Me The Breeze - J.J. Cale (you do know this song) Mothership Connection - Parliament Mistadobalina - Del Tha Funkee Homosapien Ain't No Such Thing As Superman - Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson Hunk...
Dilated Choonz (Free subscription) | 03/11/2008
Brother Jack McDuff – Oblighetto (Jaydee Remix) In my last post I mentioned the J Rocc Blue Note mix. Whilst I do not wish to sound like a stuck record (despite it being a well blended fusion of classic hip hop with Blue Note originals etc etc), it did also indirectly lead me to this. More than two years after J Dilla’s death (Jaydee swiftly changed his name when he learned that Jermaine Dupree had...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 03/10/2008
Jamie Fox's path to recording his first album as a leader has been anything but mundane. Growing up listening to, well, just about everything, Fox began his career as a musician in San Francisco. There he followed his eclectic ear to playing gigs with such diverse names as Brother Jack McDuff, Dr. John, Joan Baez, and his own collective, The Blues Among Us. After tiring of the San Francisco scene and...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 03/10/2008
Jamie Fox's path to recording his first album as a leader has been anything but mundane. Growing up listening to, well, just about everything, Fox began his career as a musician in San Francisco. There he followed his eclectic ear to playing gigs with such diverse names as Brother Jack McDuff, Dr. John, Joan Baez, and his own collective, The Blues Among Us. After tiring of the San Francisco scene and...
St. Louis Jazz Notes (Free subscription) | 02/21/2008
Although the 2007-08 seasons of St. Louis' various not-for-profit presenters still have three or four months to go, the process of booking acts for the 2008-09 season has been well underway for a while. As those upcoming dates are confirmed with the artists, some of them show up on the online concert information service Pollstar even before the local presenters have announced their schedules. This...
Soul Sides (Free subscription) | 02/02/2008
Lou Donaldson: It's Your Thing From Hot Dog (Blue Note, 1969) Ronnie Foster: Mystic Brew From Two-Headed Freap (Blue Note, 1972) Both on Droppin' Science (Blue Note, 2008) Back in the mid-1990s, Blue Note Records, astutely noting how popular their catalog was becoming amongst hip-hop producers, began to release a series of anthologies in 1993 called Blue Break Breaks . Each featured about a dozen or...
