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  Richard Felstead (felstead2001) 2-Debutant Username: felstead2001 Post Number: 17 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 128.40.91.183 |
Hopefully a topic that will appeal to some of you. I'd love to hear from you if this style of music has a special place in your heart. Here are some of my faves from over the years. Demonette - Neil Larsen Barbara Ann - Webster Lewis Walk Tall - Mark Soskin Wizzard Island ( the whole album ) - The Jeff Lorber Fusion Saturday Night - Herbie Hancock The World Is A Ghetto - War Keep That Same Old Feeling - Side Effect Sweet Nothings - Tyzik Cordon Bleu - Stix Hooper He Loves You - Seawind Aquilas Coisas Todas - The Starship Orchestra Run For Cover - David Sanborn City Lights - Dave Grusin Music - Gary Bartz Slipstream - Morrissey / Mullen I Want You For Myself - George Duke Jazz Carnival - Azymuth The Sound Table - Cameo Winelight ( the whole album ) - Grover Washington Jr Endless Flight - Rodney Franklin Family - Hubert Laws Spiral / Snowflake - The Crusaders What are yours SD Forum. :-) | ||
David Meikle (david_meikle) 3-Pundit Username: david_meikle Post Number: 69 Registered: 3-2004 Posted From: 81.130.211.124 |
Pressure Sensitive-Ronnie Laws | ||
Wonder B (wonder_b) 4-Laureate Username: wonder_b Post Number: 91 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 81.48.238.25 |
The Hornet - Yellowjackets Mystic Mariner - Phyrework Eastbound - Peter Muller ( annewcomer with only one album last year but a sure winner... you should listen to this guy if you like Marcus MIller! LOL check here http://cdbaby.com/cd/petermull er ) The Hustler - Crusaders We Got A Way - Seawind Jack Daugherty (I think the LP is called Carmel By The Sea... the whole LP! LOL) Black Pearl - Tatsuya Takahashi & Tokyo Union (a whole LP on the Zen label all produced and composed by Herbie Hancock...) Black Octopus - Paul Jackson (the whole album on Toshiba... absolutely fantastic LP but so rare... I heard that there had been a CD reissue in Japan a couple of years ago) Rocks - Brecker Brothers Sneakin Out - L.A Express Ode Infinitum - Dexter Wansel Insight - Wilton Felder Wonder B If you mess with the 'fro, you gotta go! | ||
john c (john_c) 2-Debutant Username: john_c Post Number: 11 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 12.2.233.107 |
Dolphin Dreams - Lee Ritenour | ||
Rich (richk) 1-Arriviste Username: richk Post Number: 4 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 12.76.21.28 |
Any of y'all hip to "River Luv Rite" by Oneness of JuJu? Awesome jazz/funk. There are tons of great jazz/funk cuts. Far too many to mention. Leave that list to Mel-O-Delic Jazz Funk & Jazz Fusion to me are very different. IMHO ... to be funky there's got to be a stanky presence of some dirtied-up, filthy-MacNasty thangs goin into the groove. Not just syncopated rhythms or even polyrhythmic. But something rhythmically offensive. Little of the fusion I've ever heard heads down that rabbit trail. That said, there's a lot of great Crusaders funky-fusion cuts from the mid-70's that I love, but witout lyrics, I can rarely be sure the titles of the tracks I'm hearing. | ||
Catdaddy (catdaddy) 1-Arriviste Username: catdaddy Post Number: 3 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 68.75.167.4 |
The very first Brecker Brothers album - with "Sneakin' Up Behind You". Catdaddy (Message edited by catdaddy on April 20, 2004) | ||
1wicked (1wicked) 1-Arriviste Username: 1wicked Post Number: 3 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 24.126.64.72 |
Now you're talking MY language !! Hubert Laws "Say It With Silence" (complete LP) Harvey Mason "Funk In A Mason Jar" Ronnie Foster "Midnight Plane" Gene Harris "AstralSignal" BWB "Groovin'" Madhouse (both LP's.....Prince throws down !!) Bryan Culbertson "Come On Up" (^^recommended) Dave Grusin "Mountain Dance" (complete LP) Mark Cargill "Ramsey" Kevin Toney "Sweet Spot" Larry Gittens & Media "Dual Identity" Bobbi Humphrey "Blacks and Blues" Lonnie Smith "Afrodesia" Lonnie Liston Smith "Expansions" and others Jorge Dalto (keys from Benson's Breezin' band) Eric Leeds "Now & Again" Tony Williams "The Joy of Flying" (awesome !!) Bob James....Just about everything ever done The Crusaders...all projects individually and collectively And...last, but not least: Fishbelly Black (all releases) All I can say is....Get Acquainted !! | ||
keeping soul alive (bosstrainer) 2-Debutant Username: bosstrainer Post Number: 11 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 217.44.8.100 |
I used to be a big jazz funk freak in late 70's making the transition from Northern Soul with the UK DJ Colin Curtis who did so much to promote the genre in UK dance clubs during that period. One of my faves which I recently dug out because I love the the vocal tracks is Stanley Cowell's Galaxy cut from 79 Talkin' Bout Love feat. Loretta Devine & Charles B. Fowlkes Jr Colin | ||
Rich (richk) 1-Arriviste Username: richk Post Number: 5 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 69.72.3.211 |
1W - what's the music like on the Larry Gittens & Media album? | ||
K-Bee (kbee) 2-Debutant Username: kbee Post Number: 19 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 129.142.211.170 |
All of the stuff mentioned above works for me too!! a few more worth mentioning: (sorry if they're already on somebody's list) Lesette Wilson's "Caveman Boogie" Chick Corea - "Fickle Funk" Dizzy Gillespie - "Unicorn" Herbie Hancock - "Just Around The Corner" Buddy Rich - "Chameleon" Donald Byrd - "Love Has Come Around" Eddie Henderson - "Prance On" Harvey Mason - "Phantazia" Hugh Masakela - "African breeze" Miroslav Vitous - "New York City" Pleasure - "Joyous" ....and many more I'm sure will be mentioned sooner or later. | ||
Richard Felstead (felstead2001) 2-Debutant Username: felstead2001 Post Number: 21 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 128.40.91.183 |
Nice to see some of you into this particular type of music. Some truly great tunes mentioned here. Keep em comin' if you can. Yes, jazz-funk and fusion are very different, but I thought I'd put them under one thread on this forum,as Jazz doesn't seem to be talked about much on here. (Message edited by felstead2001 on April 23, 2004) | ||
Rodmann (rodmann) 4-Laureate Username: rodmann Post Number: 77 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 12.221.46.129 |
Here are some of my favorites in no particular order: KEEP THAT SAME OLD FEELING - Crusaders CRAB APPLE - Idris Muhammad FUNKIN' FOR JAMAICA (N.Y.) - Tom Browne I THOUGHT IT WAS YOU - Herbie Hancock I WANNA PLAY FOR YOU - Stanley Clarke & Dee Dee Bridgewater THOUGHTS AND WISHES - Hamilton Bohannon & Liz Lands MY SWEETNESS - Stuff MISS CHERYL - Banda Black Rio BITCH TO THE BOYS - Shakatak JUST LIKE YOU - Fred Wesley & The Horny Horns WE BOTH NEED EACH OTHER - Norman Connors featuring Phyllis Hyman & Michael Henderson JAZZ FREAK - Paulette Reaves YOU ARE MY STAR - Paulette Reaves SWEET RAIN - Dee Dee Bridgewater WE LIVE IN BROOKLYN, BABY - Roy Ayers COFFY BABY - Roy Ayers & Dee Dee Bridgewater BRAWLING BROADS - Roy Ayers COCOA BUTTER - Roy Ayers MYSTIC VOYAGE - Roy Ayers VIBRATIONS - Roy Ayers And so many others by Roy Ayers! It's impossible to put into words how much I enjoy this man's music. His picture should be in the encyclopedia under Jazz Fusion! Will someone help me out here? I get the idea but I'm having a hard time separating the Fusion from the Jazz-Funk from the Soul-Jazz from the jazzy R&B from the plain old Soul, Funk and R&B performed by Jazz artists! LOL. What's the difference? | ||
Dayo (dayo) 2-Debutant Username: dayo Post Number: 11 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 81.134.152.116 |
For my money, to be called jazz funk, it has to be danceable. I guess you can dance to anything if you really try (witness line dancing! lol) but I always think Jazz Funk has to have an obvious dance groove. End of the day, its all music. These pigeonholes are useful though to a point. | ||
roger (roger) 2-Debutant Username: roger Post Number: 24 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 217.35.87.17 |
Hello Everyone. There is a school of thought in East-London/Essex that says that the term "Jazz-Funk" came about by accident in the Mid '70s as certain D.Js ( Chris Hill, Tom Holland etc. ) started to advertise the music they would play as "Jazz, Funk and Soul" .. and this eventually got mis-translated as Jazz/Funk and Soul. I'm not too sure about this, it seems very similar to the various theories about the origin of the term "Northern Soul", but I think there is some truth in it. TOM HOLLAND was a guest on Soul-City Radio (which broadcasts from Romford) a few months back and related this as his opinion of the origin of the term. Anyone else out there hear the show .. Helene? From what I recall, in the mid/late '70s Jazzy/Dance-R&B influenced music was being called "Jazz/Funk" in the London area, "Disco/Funk" in North West England and "Jazz-Fusion" in the States, and it was all basically the same. I'm not to keen on these pigeonholes as ( as Dayo says ) .. its all music. For example in Richard Felsteads first list he mentions "I want You For Myself" by GEORGE DUKE. Yes .. a great tune .. and a great personal favourite, but to my ears it sounds like the sort of thing that THE EMOTIONS were doing at the time. Now if THE EMOTIONS had recorded it I doubt if anyone would term it as Jazz .. even if it had been produced by GEORGE DUKE himself!! Anyway .. off of my soapbox .. here are some favourites of mine .. "Get on Up, Get on Down" - ROY AYERS .. and just about everything else by him too!! "Sunset Burgandy" - BOBBY HUMPHRIES "Dominoes" - DONALD BYRD .. and almost everything else, as with ROY AYERS!! "Could Heaven Ever Be Like This" - IDRIS MUHUMMAD. "Space Princess" - LONNIE LISTON SMITH. Roger | ||
Richard Felstead (felstead2001) 2-Debutant Username: felstead2001 Post Number: 22 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 128.40.91.183 |
Thanks guys for your posts, I'm real pleased you like this music, whatever we choose to call it. :-)) All of the above tracks are great tunes, which are great examples of the genre. Actually Roger that George Duke track is interesting. I love the tune anyway, but as many of you will be aware it was originally on his album "The master of the game". I have that album bought all those years ago, but a couple of years back "I want you for myself" was released on a compilation series of cd's called "Disco Spectrum". Up till then, I had never thought of it as a disco track !!!. I still don't. :-)) As far as where the term Jazz-funk is derived from, I believe you to be correct. It is in effect, Jazzy funk. Recordings were made around the mid-seventies "The Bottle" - Gil Scott Heron, being one of the earliest, up to around 1882.The music reached it's peak in the UK around 1979, with the Soul weekenders, led by dj's Chris Hill, Froggy, and Robbie Vincent. Check out the album "Jazz-Funk" - Incognito for a good example of early british jazz-funk. Some of the tracks on the album still hold up under close scrutiny today. Keep those favourites of yours comin' Richard Felstead www.solarradio.com The Home Of Soul (Message edited by felstead2001 on April 23, 2004) | ||
Manny (manny) 1-Arriviste Username: manny Post Number: 5 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 217.124.11.74 |
Hi, fusion lovers! Many coincidences in personal tastes as the artists mentioned by Roger and Richard Felstead. Anyway, this is a brief list of some jazz-funk or latin jazz or simply fusion all-time favorites: -"Samba Da Barra" and "Valsa For Us" by Azymuth -"Woman Of Ireland" by Bob James -"Reality" by Monk Montgomery -"Soncere" by Michael Pedicin Jr. -"Doin It" by Herbie Hancock -"Theme From The Planets" by Dexter Wansel -"Veronica" by Donald Byrd -"Serenity" by Crusaders and hundreds more...! Peace! | ||
Rodmann (rodmann) 4-Laureate Username: rodmann Post Number: 104 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 12.221.46.129 |
I forgot to mention one of my all-time favorites! Has anyone else heard Brenda Lee Eager's excellent early 70's single 'When I'm With You' featuring Bobbi Humphrey? Whew!  | ||
Robb_K (robb_k) 4-Laureate Username: robb_k Post Number: 109 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 66.81.30.230 |
Always There-Ronnie Laws Jungle Funk-Duke Lumumba Lots of Crusaders, Hubert Laws, Herbie Hancock,Chick Corea, Donald Byrd | ||
zebop (zebop) 2-Debutant Username: zebop Post Number: 13 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 152.163.252.166 |
Hummingbird-Gypsy Skys Billy Cobham-Crosswind Caldera-Seraphim Caldera-Ancient Source Norman Connors-Say You Love Me Noel Pointer-Niteroi Webster Lewis-The Love You Give To Me Gene Dunlap-It�s Just The Way I Feel Rodney Franklin-Life Moves On Charles Earland-Ahead Of Your Time Jack McDuff-Midnight Fantasies Gary Bartz-Gentle Smiles Rodney Franklin-Song For You Roy Ayers-Love From The Sun Roy Ayers-Stairway To The Stars/No Stranger To Love Tom Browne-Herbal Scent Yutaka-Dreamland Lonnie Liston Smith-Bridge Through Time Roy Ayers Wayne Henderson-Thank You, Thank You Herbie Hancock-No Means Yes George Duke-Just For You Donald Byrd-I Feel Like Loving You Today/Falling In Love With You /You and Music /Lovin� You Bobbi Humphrey-San Francisco Lights/New York Times No doubt a few typos, I better stop, there's a lot more | ||
SF3000 (slyfan_3000) 3-Pundit Username: slyfan_3000 Post Number: 52 Registered: 5-2004 Posted From: 67.115.73.201 |
Expansions..Lonnie Liston Smith | ||
Manny (manny) 4-Laureate Username: manny Post Number: 85 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 217.124.11.105 |
Hello again, SDF-usion lovers! Hey, Slyfan, if you likes "Expansions", all the album "Visions Of A New World " also by Lonnie Liston Smith & Thee Cosmic Echoes breath the same atmosphere! Mellow cosmic-jazz funk! (especially "Love Beams"). Some more fusion faves: -"Visions" / Luis Gasca -"Roy's Scat" / Roy Ayers -"Poo Poo La La" / Roy Ayers -"Reza" / Jaco Pastorius -"Opus Pocus" / Jaco Pastorius -All the album "Double Vision" by Bob James & David Sanborn -"Afrodesia" / Lonnie Smith -"Dorado" / Blue Mitchel -"Future Children Future Hopes" / Blackbyrds -"Boogie Woogie" / Sound Experience -"Veracruz" / Stanley Turrenetine -"People Make The World Go Round" / CTI All-Stars -All the album "Chain Reaction" by the Crusaders, especially "Hallucinate". -All the album "Southern Comfort" also by The Crusaders, especially "A Ballad For Joe" and "Lyles Of The Nile". -"On A Clear Day" by Peddlers (a very exceptional vocals!) -"Resaca" by spanish Juan Carlos Calder�n -"Spellbender" / Gabor Szabo -All the albums "Philadelphia Freedom" and "Mysteries Of The World" by MFSB, are fusion and are from my all-time faves (especially "Ferry Avenue", "Tears In The Morning", "Fortune Teller") -All the album "The Aura Will Prevail" by George Duke -All the compilation "Blue Moods" by Incognito that includes their most jazzy - fusion sides as "Deep Water" or "Jacob's Ladder" ... I should to stop, this list can be infinite. I'll post again. Peace & Soul (or jazzy) Food! | ||
SF3000 (slyfan_3000) 3-Pundit Username: slyfan_3000 Post Number: 53 Registered: 5-2004 Posted From: 67.115.73.201 |
Whats Up Manny! Yes, I listen to that album religously! The vibes and energy on that album are amazing..I love all of his albums including the CBS material!! He needs to come back now more than ever! So ahead of his time.. | ||
SF3000 (slyfan_3000) 3-Pundit Username: slyfan_3000 Post Number: 54 Registered: 5-2004 Posted From: 67.115.73.201 |
PS: Please tell me you have his live album on RCA...A saturday afternoon BBQ classic! | ||
Manny (manny) 4-Laureate Username: manny Post Number: 87 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 217.124.11.105 |
Hi again, Slyfan! Sadly I don't have this album you says. These are that i got by now: -"Astral Traveling" / RCA Victor -"Visions Of A New World" / RCA Victor (some vocals remember Cat Stevens to my wife!!??) -"Exotic Mysteries" / Columbia -"Loveland" / Columbia (the last track, "Explorations" is da bomb!) And, finally some tracks in various artists compilations as Expansions. The next time i go to Tarragona, i'll buy the CD "Expansions" that i see the last time (this day i acquired Roy Ayer's "Daddy Bug" and Bob Jame's "Joy Ride"). The ex-girlfriend of my twenties have a compilation ex-mine with "A Song For The Children" that i likes to find again (I don't knows what album belongs). Peace & Soul Food-sion! | ||
SF3000 (slyfan_3000) 3-Pundit Username: slyfan_3000 Post Number: 55 Registered: 5-2004 Posted From: 64.169.107.51 |
Manny: wow!! Good picks!! The "LIVE" album is pretty scarce now..but I hope they reissue it on CD.. I am not hip to the Cat Stevens ref..The only album I have by Cat is with the song "Doughnut".. Loveland is a really great one..."Dreams" is my song on there! WOW ROY AYERS "Daddy Bug" is VERY hard to come by!! Roy has a new album on BBE records..they are basically unreleased songs from the period of 75-80..the album is FLAWLESS!! A MUST HAVE if you are a Roy Ayers fan.. | ||
Manny (manny) 4-Laureate Username: manny Post Number: 88 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 217.124.11.105 |
Hi again, friend Slyfan! I'll try to be with attention on the reissues, thanks! The "Cat Stevens" reminiscence in some vocals by Lonnie is the opinion of my wife who have practically all the Cat's discography. In fact the only Cat Stevens disc of mine is the 45 "New York" with "Back To Earth" in the "B" side, wich is a instrumental whorty of MFSB. About Roy Ayers, the CD "Daddy Bug" is a reissue by Warner (in the credits only says the year of the original Atlantic realise, 1969). Also, in the book have publicity of other Atlantic fusion and jazz albums re-editeds as Roy's "Soul Picnic" and "virgo Vibes" or Jimmy Scott's "The Source". I don't knows if i can autoconsider as a Roy's fan. All i got (or have heard) is by my taste. The most recent from "Nuyorican Soul" album by Masters At Work (1996). And the rest more older ("In The Dark", "You Might Be Surprised", a collaboration with The Soul Society ("Smiling Faces", 1997) and a very good live track in a various artists CD i got, "Latin Jazz At Ronnie Scott", where Roy plays Tito Puente's "Philadelphia Mambo". Peace & Soul Food-sion! | ||
mel(andthensome) (mel) 4-Laureate Username: mel Post Number: 117 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 81.154.242.51 |
Heres a few jazz/funk toons for ya not my forte but still listen to other vibes man.... Rhythm makers-zone-vigor Ronnie foster-delight-gbs Rodney Franklin-on the path-columbia Bobbi Humphrey-sidewinder-bluenote leon gardner-the farm song-igloo Round robin monopoly-life is funky-? X-Cessors-boog-Lutall Kickin' Mustangs-kickin'-plato that will do me gotta split as the mutha'ship is here acidjazzfun-a-teeeer darksideofthemoon-mel |
