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#1 2009-04-13 08:49:38
- chetmiles
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Jazz? Soul?
Music - usually black - goes with our tastes in clothing.
A quick dekko along my shelves gives me Miles, Mose Allison, Jackie Wilson, Arthur Alexander, Georgie Fame, Sandy Rogers and Edith Piaf.
There's more - of course there's more.
My Dad's a massive jazz fan; most of my mates are deeply into soul, especially of the Twisted Wheel/Torch variety. Others love their bluebeat and ska.
Could we share a few names?
#2 2009-04-13 09:21:10
- Alex Roest
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Re: Jazz? Soul?
Playing on iTunes at the mo' "Impressed with Gilles Peterson". I'm into anything that has soul IMO though, from the 50's onwards until now i.e. Jazz, Soul, Ska, Rocksteady, Funk, obscure disco even, some old skool hip hop, Acid Jazz, modern jazz, dance and soul artists, R&B, lounge stuff, mellow house etc etc
Apart from the usual suspects I could mention at random Black Market Audio, Noonday Underground, Les Hommes, Quantic Soul Orchestra, Stephanie McKay, Thievery Corporation, Lefties Soul Connection, Sharon Jones, Five Corners Quintet, Koop, Eli Reed, The Herbaliser, Bugz in the Attic, Saint Etienne, Mother Earth and a lot more....
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#3 2009-04-13 09:41:19
- chetmiles
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Re: Jazz? Soul?
Feckin' 'ell... Thanks for hopefully starting the ball rolling, Alex.
#4 2009-04-13 09:43:41
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Re: Jazz? Soul?
Last Trane on iTunes now 
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#5 2009-04-13 09:52:13
- Just Jim
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Re: Jazz? Soul?
I'm listening to Bird. I'm getting 'rootsy' in my old age.
#6 2009-04-13 09:58:18
- chetmiles
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Re: Jazz? Soul?
Bird when bluesy, not when he's showing off. Tried Wardell Grey? Lovely-jubbly!
#8 2009-04-13 10:34:23
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Re: Jazz? Soul?
Favourite tunes to dance to?
SR and the miracles - Dance what you wanna
#10 2009-04-13 11:51:20
- Hard Bop Hank
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Re: Jazz? Soul?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-I2a5AJUk7M
Billie Holiday With Coleman Hawkins, Lester Young, Ben Webster, Gerry Mulligan, Vic Dickenson, Roy Eldridge...1957
... for Chetmiles... I know you dig Lester Young...
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#11 2009-04-13 11:59:26
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Just a few names from today's rotation: Mable John, Son House, Desmond Dekker, Carla Thomas, Smokey and the Miracles, Frankie and the Teenagers, Coltrane and Cherry, Sonny Rollins- Prestige Box
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#14 2009-04-13 12:56:14
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today i had a bt of the Impressions - i'm the one who loves you
you know where your at with the Impressions
#15 2009-04-13 13:06:37
- Hard Bop Hank
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When I'm djing with my mates, we made a deal with the bouncer, that anybody who complains about the Impressions will be kicked out!
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#16 2009-04-13 13:15:22
- Hard Bop Hank
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Re: Jazz? Soul?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rv-_mzVBSF8
Skip James - Hard Time Killin' Floor Blues 1931 recording...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtZ6DoeimP4&feature=related
Skip James - Devil Got My Woman
love his eerie falsetto and the unusual Bentonia tuning... he also had an unusual piano style....
Gotta love the complete early recordings collection and his 2 albums he recordrd in the sixties...
He's also featured in one of those 3 DVDs of The American Folk Blues Festival...
You can find some video footage as well on youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytVww5r4Nk0&feature=related
Blues legend Skip James sings "Crow Jane." From 1967.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhrqBOSazzA&feature=related
Newport 1966
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#17 2009-04-13 13:25:59
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Skip James is amazing. He's right up there with Son. Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee too! Robert Johnson gets all the press, but they are the real deal. I have this Leadbelly LP I took from my dad's collection that has Sonny playing harmonica and singing on "How Long". It's the Lomax stuff. Anyway here is one that lived well into the 90s.
RL Burnside
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8RtayjqqIw
Sonny and Brownie
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLKvn6WRwQM
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#19 2009-04-13 14:02:38
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About as real as it gets. I mentioned both of these ladies in my initial posting. Sort of flirted with both soul and blues (especially Mable).
The great Mable John- You won't find this one on the pretty soul ballads collections they sell on television:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnEsM2PzgN8
And Carla Thomas :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWRJmkWdY5M
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#20 2009-04-14 01:07:10
- Moose Maclennan
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Re: Jazz? Soul?
The playlist in the car at the moment consists of The Fall, Chuck Brown, Trouble Funk, Chet Miles, Deacon Blue, Roachford, Buddy Rich, Dave Brubeck, Real Essence, Friedrich Gulda and Bud Powell.
#21 2009-04-14 12:50:16
- Hard Bop Hank
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Re: Jazz? Soul?
“No Room For Squares”
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#22 2009-04-14 13:13:53
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Burnside had this amazing understanding of rhythm. He was just a force on his instrument. Where I grew up in Florida, there is this little restaurant called "The Yearling", its a tribute of sorts to my state's "native" daughter Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings. Anyway there is this old guy there, Willie Brown, that will play the blues for hours on end. I use to talk to him about Burnside, Leadbelly, and Son House etc. and watch him play. Jazz guitar can teach a lot of things but when the Blues come naturally to someone its just amazing to watch.
Willie Brown
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVdzGQ-1on8
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#23 2009-04-14 17:13:15
- Hard Bop Hank
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Great stuff! Willie Green's new to me...
I thought you were talking about the Mississippi Delta Willie Brown of "M&O Blues" fame....
like it says in the Robert Johnson lyrics:
"Tell my sweet boy Willie Brown"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Undrgz--xr0
Son House & Willie Brown - Walking Blues
Honeyboy Edwards and Louisiana Red, BTW, both live in Germay...
You can see some great musicians over here, sometimes....
Honeyboy Edwards used to play and travel with RJ in the 30s... None of these mysterious stories that Son House spread when he was taking the mickey out of some journalists...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7UV0JKEfVQ
David "Honeyboy" Edwards - Gamblin' Man
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEp7CUYjI68&feature=related
Sittin' Here Wondering Louisiana Red
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jadoJGX_K_E
Louisiana Red - Ride On Red, Ride On
I play this disc, too... One of my mates got his signed....
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#24 2009-04-14 17:21:56
- Hard Bop Hank
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Re: Jazz? Soul?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQQ4YTL1P1A&feature=related
LIGHTNIN HOPKINS " GOIN DOWN SLOW"
...I Grow Old, I Grow Old....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNDJF4azgog&feature=related
Lightnin' Hopkins "Mojo Hand" 1962
Love these videos... I grew up listening to Lightnin' Hopkins...
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#25 2009-04-14 17:23:11
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More good stuff. Yeah, I probably just confused the two names in my head when I was typing out the post. All the regulars at the restaurant just call him Willie. He's a interesting guy, will talk your head off outside when he goes to smoke. He has to be in his nineties by now.
"All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it." -- H.L. Mencken