Jazz in the late 70s / early 80s (jazz goes pop, jazz goes disco)

haha, i posted that video on that jap electronic thread just now

that 1981 album is like, 808 new wave, whereas the 77 album is closer to CTI meets Dr. Buzzard

I discovered his solo work via the Japanese City Pop lastfm group, which is ironic considering how much YMO and Sakamoto I already own.

Elastic Dummy is the best example, but La Rosa is the best available on youtube:

and along these lines, here's "solid slider" by Tatsuro Yamashita. my friend owns the record. think it trades hands for like $50

ok, that is nice

oh, this is why it's so expensive i guess http://72records.com/ebay-aud/tatsurospacy.mp3

I think this might qualify:

Minako Yoshida - Town

And another from her:

Minako Yoshida - Let's Do It

just picked up 'turn this mutha out' by idris muhammad, spinning it right now. pretty sick album.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAijAjixYX8&feature=related

and it's got 'could heaven ever be like this'!! still need a copy of this album/single

It's all about the A-side on this one for me. Three excellent tracks.

Moodymann sampled the title track for his track "Amerika", one of my Moodymann favorites:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOdaUEFnDG4

Idris Muhammad is the shit! I haven't that particular album, but Black Rhythm Revolution and Peache & Rhythm (available as a two-fer-one CD) have some dope soulful/spiritual jazz grooves, and House of the Rising Sun is one of the best disco/funk jazz albums ever.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRL54DjLJ2g

Maybe the best version of this oldie.

Idris Muhammad - Sudan

What a fucking groove!

Idris Muhammad - Rhythm

Once this song kicks in it never stops.

By the way, a while ago I did a mixtape with a lot of disco jazz (including Idris Muhammad), you can listen to it here:

http://8tracks.com/nexinexim/all-aboard-the-groove-machine

Has Turn This Mutha Out ever been reissued? I've never seen it in the local record stores.

been digging bob james a lot lately. picked up "3" on vinyl recently and i gotta say, "westchester lady" is one sick, sick track. i think i'm going to have to invest in some more of his CTI albums.

ya. westchester (the neighborhood in la i grew up in) lady and Storm King fucking kill it

i just remembered where i'd heard that track sampled before:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkzVBtUA4rU

The Michael Jackson fervor has caused me to seek out Greg Phillinganes's solo work.

His 1981 album fits the bill here, especially "Girl Talk":

http://img.snowrecords.com/lp/20342.jpg

i love phillinganes. he covered (and got eric clapton to cover) a YMO song. how fucking rad is that?!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQTWNPL2PJQ

and had donald fagen to write a song for him.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFBS9H_tFLo

You are still a sick sick man jaxon. Although i too have a soft spot for that glossy hitech 80's production style.

KEYTAR!

Just discovered Kimiko Kasai & Herbie Hancock's 1979 collab:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_hjzm9ehso

i mentioned that song on this thread
folk, jazzy, slightly funky, sorta smoothed out Singer Songwriter stuff (sort of a post Steely Dan thread)

you've heard the original, ya? (o, i mentioned it in the original post of this thread)

I got a couple of FUNKY fusion records off emusic by The Headhunters that I never could find on CD that are pretty great. There are some vocals on a few tracks, but it is all still pretty intense funk. If you like Herbie's 70s stuff, they are well worth searching out.

Straight from the Gate
Survival of the Fittest

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VS0SKQnpddM

http://ileoxumare.blogspot.com/

urszula's dope. i love husband/wife jazz combos. her and Urbaniak, abbey & max, sonny & linda, Jean & Doug Carn, airto & flora. annette peacock, paul bley, gary peacock and who ever they're fucking. just uploaded a flora purim song today. she and urszula are totally on the same vibe.

http://www.robotsinheat.com/trax/Sarara.mp3

I've been listening to Larry Carlton's s/t album from 1978. It's kind of incredibly odd: beautiful Gibson ES-335 soloing over some basically straight-up disco arrangements with a couple of yacht-rock-ish vocal tunes thrown in there!

jazz + disco :

http://ireallylovemusic.co.uk/blog/wp-content/lalo.jpg

this makes me wanna sit on the beach w/a fruity cocktail in my hand

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMldvm8pYYI

^ lalo schifrin produced/written etc. my 12" is called 'dream machine' not 'undercurrents'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVKAt8hAWBY&feature=share

amazing

ha, total jaxon jam

sweeeeeet

That came out two years before Miles Davis's Tutu. Chuck Mangione, cyber-jazz-funk pioneer!

before future shock too

Enjoyed that.

DAZZ DAZZ, DISCO JAZZ: It's the time of the season again, so revisiting this thread.

George Benson's In Flight!

Also, just got Ramsey Lewis's Sun Goddess, and getting Love Notes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yk3k7KYRE1A

Sun Goddess is so great! It sounds more like an Earth, Wind & Fire album with Ramsey Lewis as a guest than the other way around, but that's just a good thing. Not sure if it fits this thread though, as it's firmly in the early 70s jazz-funk camp. Anyway, besides the title tune, I particularly love the weird-ass goblin synth funk om "Tambura".

I would say Spring High from Love Notes does:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rAFUTaCa3k

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KzMuz5gK4yY

Really like this, I will buy this straight away if you can vouch for the rest of the album being as good as this (or at least close)?

this is the best music for january

http://www.vinylist-records.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/image/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/s/e/serpico-ost-soundtrack.jpg

I have been devouring this thread. So many favorites discussed, and definitely got put on to some new ones. Thought I'd offer up a recent discovery; the arrangements are Bob James. Some serious grooves amidst the standard backing fare. It's on Paramount, but it fits with the CTI catalogue.

Amazing thread. So much of this is right up my alley.