Most listened to in 2023 2/10
(In no particular order)
Galactic - Tchompitoulas
A short but in your face EP which proves Galactic still has it (and then some) and that they can still fish the best collaborations in town. #funk#neworleans#music
Went to an evening of snacks and wine at a local winery and caught an excellent live #music performance from Michele D'Amour and the Love Dealers ("Old school R&B, #blues, and #funk to move you!"). Chatting with the guitar player afterward, my wife discovered they had sang in a community chorale together almost 30 years ago.
The #BassGuitar player was amazing. All of them, really. I don't expect I will ever be that good, but I can be a little better every day.
#NowPlaying Grant Green - Alive! (Blue Note, 1970). Recorded live at the Cliché Lounge, Newark, NJ on 8/15/1970. Jazz-funk (or is it funky jazz?) was my gateway from hip-hop to jazz. The closing track Down Here On The Ground is instantly recognizable from the sample on A Tribe Called Quest - Vibes and Stuff. Anything with Idris Muhammad on drums is worth listening to. #jazz#funk#hiphop#GrantGreen@vinylrecords
Your periodic reminder to dive into the "Super Deluxe Editions" of older Prince albums. These collections contain hours and hours of previously unreleased material and great live versions.
The amount of really solid, but ultimately discarded material on his "cutting room floor" is quite jaw dropping.
Together with guest musicians the cover a wide range of songs. They manage to add their own touch and the fun they have recording it radiates through the videos.
Look, the tight execution, sense of musical restraint and, of course, the lack of actual jamming means that "No Obsession" from @stereopolarity is NOT jam band music. That said, it features the same core fusion of jazz and funk, with just a touch of rock and some electronics, that powers nearly all jam bands -- and, to be completely honest, this tune would be fucking sick if it was jammed out to deep space and back.
Jam from the man himself, only saw an archival release last year on Tuff City! It’s amazing to me this was never sampled into something (at least, according to whosampled)
Oh my. My friend had Sly Stone’s “Spaced Cowboy” on over the weekend and I remarked how I thought the genre of #yodel#funk was underexplored (I’m weird, I know it)
Now I pop on the first track of Eddie Bo’s 1980 “Watch for the coming’, and sure enough ‘Country Hoedown’ is a yodeling funk jam: