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
― A. Roddick City (jaxon), Monday, 13 July 2009 00:14 (fourteen years ago) link
You are still a sick sick man jaxon. Although i too have a soft spot for that glossy hitech 80's production style.
― mully, Monday, 13 July 2009 01:34 (fourteen years ago) link
KEYTAR!
― A. Roddick City (jaxon), Monday, 13 July 2009 01:36 (fourteen years ago) link
Just discovered Kimiko Kasai & Herbie Hancock's 1979 collab:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_hjzm9ehso
― PappaWheelie V, Monday, 12 July 2010 13:53 (thirteen years ago) link
i mentioned that song on this threadfolk, 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)
― jaxon, Monday, 12 July 2010 18:45 (thirteen years ago) link
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 GateSurvival of the Fittest
― earlnash, Monday, 12 July 2010 22:42 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VS0SKQnpddM
― ('_') (omar little), Friday, 10 September 2010 20:55 (thirteen years ago) link
http://ileoxumare.blogspot.com/
― ('_') (omar little), Saturday, 11 September 2010 20:11 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― jaxon, Saturday, 11 September 2010 22:43 (thirteen years ago) link
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!
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Wednesday, 16 March 2011 03:57 (thirteen years ago) link
jazz + disco :
http://ireallylovemusic.co.uk/blog/wp-content/lalo.jpg
― mark e, Wednesday, 16 March 2011 08:54 (thirteen years ago) link
this makes me wanna sit on the beach w/a fruity cocktail in my hand
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMldvm8pYYI
― jaxon, Sunday, 27 March 2011 20:55 (thirteen years ago) link
^ lalo schifrin produced/written etc. my 12" is called 'dream machine' not 'undercurrents'
― jaxon, Sunday, 27 March 2011 20:56 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVKAt8hAWBY&feature=share
amazing
― jaxon, Wednesday, 27 April 2011 18:56 (thirteen years ago) link
ha, total jaxon jam
― adult music person (Jordan), Wednesday, 27 April 2011 19:47 (thirteen years ago) link
sweeeeeet
― omar little, Wednesday, 27 April 2011 19:59 (thirteen years ago) link
That came out two years before Miles Davis's Tutu. Chuck Mangione, cyber-jazz-funk pioneer!
― that's not funny. (unperson), Wednesday, 27 April 2011 20:08 (thirteen years ago) link
before future shock too
― adult music person (Jordan), Wednesday, 27 April 2011 20:14 (thirteen years ago) link
Enjoyed that.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Wednesday, 27 April 2011 21:48 (thirteen years ago) link
DAZZ DAZZ, DISCO JAZZ: It's the time of the season again, so revisiting this thread.
George Benson's In Flight!
― PappaWheelie V, Saturday, 28 May 2011 16:55 (thirteen years ago) link
Also, just got Ramsey Lewis's Sun Goddess, and getting Love Notes.
― PappaWheelie V, Saturday, 28 May 2011 16:59 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yk3k7KYRE1A
― PappaWheelie V, Saturday, 28 May 2011 20:17 (thirteen years ago) link
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".
― Tuomas, Monday, 30 May 2011 07:11 (thirteen years ago) link
I would say Spring High from Love Notes does:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rAFUTaCa3k
― ♫♪♫♪♫ ((┗|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|┛))♫♪♪♫♪♫ (PappaWheelie V), Monday, 30 May 2011 15:19 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KzMuz5gK4yY
― hardcore oatmeal (Jordan), Monday, 20 June 2011 20:19 (twelve years ago) link
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)?
― Spottie_Ottie_Dope, Monday, 20 June 2011 20:44 (twelve years ago) link
this is the best music for january
― coal, Wednesday, 4 January 2012 14:52 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Playoff Starts Here (san lazaro), Wednesday, 9 January 2013 02:39 (eleven years ago) link
Amazing thread. So much of this is right up my alley.
― FunkyTonk, Friday, 11 January 2013 05:05 (eleven years ago) link
Idris Muhammad is fantastic. Had never heard of him before reading this thread.
Does anyone here have any thoughts on Azymuth?
― FunkyTonk, Thursday, 17 January 2013 16:13 (eleven years ago) link
The Azymuth album with the spade on the cover is pretty dope. "Mañana" especially. And of course, "jazz carnival" is classic.
― brimstead, Thursday, 17 January 2013 18:43 (eleven years ago) link
I got a 4CD box of albums by Jack DeJohnette's Special Edition, all released between 1979 and 1984 and now reissued on ECM. There is some seriously weird shit on here, including a version of "Monk's Mood" played with a truly horrifying '80s synth sound.
― 誤訳侮辱, Thursday, 17 January 2013 19:15 (eleven years ago) link
Nice, I love most of that era of DeJohnette. Are there any extra tracks on there? New notes?
― FunkyTonk, Thursday, 17 January 2013 20:24 (eleven years ago) link
I don't have a physical copy, only downloads. There may be new notes, but there are no new tracks. One of the big selling points is that one of the albums - Album Album, from 1981 - has never been on CD before.
― 誤訳侮辱, Thursday, 17 January 2013 21:58 (eleven years ago) link
Actually that's not true- I think maybe Album Album was never released on CD in the States, but I have a copy, and it's here:
http://www.amazon.com/Album-Jack-Dejohnette/dp/B00000DTF5/ref=sr_1_31?ie=UTF8&qid=1358531769&sr=8-31&keywords=dejohnette+special+edition
― FunkyTonk, Friday, 18 January 2013 17:57 (eleven years ago) link
You're right - Inflation Blues is the one that's never been on CD before.
― 誤訳侮辱, Friday, 18 January 2013 18:20 (eleven years ago) link
Ah right. And I do want Inflation Blues, so I'll probably pick up the box, despite having purchased 3 of the discs in the last few months. Argh.
― Funk/Tonk (FunkyTonk), Saturday, 19 January 2013 18:35 (eleven years ago) link
i feel like donald byrd's recent passing has made me want to go and scoop up as much of this shit as i can
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Tuesday, 5 March 2013 19:44 (eleven years ago) link
Always looking for a good reason to revive this thread. Found this today, features include George Duke, Marcos Valle, Flora Purim (of course), Joe Farrell and many of the CTI usual suspects, although it's a Warner release. Perfect for the first summery night in NYC.
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6m4qBoeu-XM/TMKXMURgnmI/AAAAAAAAC-Q/vfpn5fxKzzo/s400/Airto_TouchingYouTouchingMe.jpg
― Playoff Starts Here (san lazaro), Saturday, 11 May 2013 03:49 (eleven years ago) link
I love "toque de cuica" on that.
― brimstead, Saturday, 11 May 2013 04:15 (eleven years ago) link
I am really close to really digging the new Rudresh Mahanthappa, but I can't quite get into the way it sounds -- it has that shiny metallic 90s jazz sound that I thought had mostly died out. I hate the way the drums are recorded to sound more like rock drums.
― THIS IS NOT A BENGHAZI T-SHIRT (Hurting 2), Sunday, 12 May 2013 23:54 (eleven years ago) link
oh durr, wrong jazz thread
― THIS IS NOT A BENGHAZI T-SHIRT (Hurting 2), Monday, 13 May 2013 00:00 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18Ff1Zib66U
― THIZZ VAN LEER @_@ (lpz), Monday, 13 May 2013 03:24 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pt7Ltf-wjbY
― THIZZ VAN LEER @_@ (lpz), Monday, 13 May 2013 03:29 (eleven years ago) link
Pharoah Sanders on the bandwagon;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hiNJzmtAfwg
I wanted to post his cover of "Got To Give It Up" off the same album but it's not on YouTube.
― high inerja (seandalai), Thursday, 13 June 2013 15:38 (ten years ago) link
search: ramsey lewis' ramsey from 1979. a1 and b1 are disco. the rest is more on the jazz-funk side. production is excellent.
― JEFF 22 (Matt P), Tuesday, 1 October 2013 22:59 (ten years ago) link
lol, the rest of the second side is "don't cry for me argentina"
― JEFF 22 (Matt P), Tuesday, 1 October 2013 23:22 (ten years ago) link
So many of these records are completely forgotten. I guess jazz disco just doesn't fit well into the jazz mythology that prevailed.
― #fomo that's the motto (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 2 October 2013 02:33 (ten years ago) link
i was wondering that recently - to what extent was this stuff considered 'jazz' at the time? especially when you get into the '80s. now i suppose the standard image of 'jazz' without any hyphens is something that stops really moving some time in the mid-60s, but did the critics and the public think of the pop and disco moves (as well as the funk etc moves before it) as more or less the same lineage, in the way that e.g. rock was allowed to be completely different over a span of decades but still be part of a tradition?
― opie dead eyed piece of shit (Merdeyeux), Wednesday, 2 October 2013 02:41 (ten years ago) link
I would say no. There is the stodgier strain of jazz criticism that just acts like jazz died when Bitches Brew came out (or earlier), and there's a more open strain that accepts fusion and/or out and free stuff. But I don't think there's much critical love for the music this thread discusses.
― #fomo that's the motto (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 2 October 2013 02:46 (ten years ago) link