Bop or Not Session #16 For Radio RAPTZ ~ AFRO2DiSCO

The Be Hard Bop's show #16 for Parisian webradio RAPTZ, including Boogie Funk, Soul, Afrobeat & Disco performed by worldwide artists from US to Japan by West Africa and Brazil featuring Alice Clark, Albert Ayler, Peter King, Eugene McDaniels, Eji Oyewole, Zeca Do Trombone, Hatsumi Shibata, Sandra Sa and many more... Compiled & mixed by Be Hard Bop for Radio RapTz.

TRACKLiST : Peter King - Shango - Bobby Moore & The Rhythm Aces - Witch Doctor - Alice Clark - Hard Hard Promises - Albert Ayler - Free At Last - Eugene McDaniels - Headless Heroes - Wade Marcus - Thank You Falletin Me Be Mice Elf Agin - Joe Bisso - Don't Fight The Feeling - Voices Of Darkness - Mota Ginya - Zeca Do Trombone - Te Queria - School Band - I Hope It's Fine - Hatsumi Shibata - I Wish You Love - Akira Yasuda & Beat Folk - Yumura No Obaba - Sandra Sa - Pela Cidade - J.M. Tim & Foty - Not So Bad - M'Bamina - Atide O Sika (Scène De Village) - Mary Afi Usuah - Tell Me Now

DJ Yoshizawa Dynamite.jp & Chintam - Wamono A To Z Vol. II

 

Year : 2021

Label : 180g

Serie : Wamono A to Z

Genre : Jazz, Pop

Style : Jazz Funk

Compilation series by DJ Yoshizawa Dynamite, a renowned japanese DJ/producer, and DJ Chintam owner of Blow Up shop settled in the Tokyo's Shibuya district since 2018. Nowadays, the serie includes three volume based on the "Wamono A to Z Record Guide" from Jazz to City-Pop of the 70s-80s japanese groove scene, than Yoshizawa published in 2015. This second volume brings together some of the best jazzy-funky tracks and disco grooves produced during the seventies in Japan including killer dance club song "I Hope It's Fine" by School Band. It features also by Mieko Hirota, Jiro Inagaki & The Soul Media, Hatsumi Shibata, Akira Yasuda & Beat Folk.

One Note Summer

  

New hot summer compilation including exotic sounds in afro-cuban jazz, disco, jazz-funk, afro-funk & samba styles from Brazil to West Africa, featuring Gyedu Blay Ambolley, Frank Gérard, Nico Gomez, Quarteto Em Cy, Zeca Do Trombone, School Band, Robert Charlebois, Eji Oyewole, Mario Castro-Neves, The Chakachas and many more. Compiled & mixed by Be Hard Bop.

Elis Regina - Elis Especial

 

Year : 1968

Label : Philips

Serie : De Luxe

Genre : Latin Jazz

Style : Bossa Nova, Samba

Among top of the best album by the Queen of Bossa higlithing her fabulous vocal skills, just recorded before her European tour. Conducted & arranged by pianist Erlon Chaves, "Elis Especial" offers a sublte blend of various Latin rhytms including rumba, samba, bossa nova, and a nice "spy jazz" touch reinforced by the strings ensemble. Elis perfoms songs of renowned Brazilian composers from Antônio Carlos Jobim, Baden Powell, and Edu Lobo to Chico Buarque, Roberto Menescal and Gilberto Gil. Titles include "Samba Do Perdão", a tribute to Jobim, the classic "Viramundo" of Gilberto Gil, two Elis' standards regularly performed in concert ("Corrida De Jangada", "Upa, Neguinho"), and another tribute to the Rio de Janeiro's district, the favela "Mangueira".

The Big Score ~ Music in Cinema in Music

Let yourself away on a cinematic journey through a 27 musical masterpieces selection to the groovy beats recorded for various soundtracks, TV shows, advertisings or others commercial programs from the late sixties to early seventies. Titles include some recordings from iconic music library labels including British KPM & Chappell, French Orly & Montparnasse 2000 or Italian CAM catalogues. It features Michel Legrand, Jacques Loussier, Alan Hawkshaw, Keith Mansfield, Janko Nilovic, Dave Grusin, Serge Gainsbourg, Piero Piccioni, Michel Colombier & many more... Compiled & mixed by Be Hard Bop.

Antonio Adolfo - Viralata

Year : 2017/1979

Label : Far Out Recordings/Artezanal

Genre : Jazz, Latin Jazz

Style : Jazz Funk, Fusion, Samba

Essential album and timeless jazz funk classic from the Brazil '70 by the versatile pianist and arranger featuring bassist from Banda Black Rio, Jamil Joanes, Serginho Trombone and sound engineer Toninho Barbosa. "Viralata" is a pure fusion album including african rhythms and Adolfo's musical influences as well as jazz, marchinhas de carnavalbaião, Brazilian Nordeste music, MPB and funk. Antonio Adolfo started in classical music before embarking on the decisive musical turning point of the early 1960s in Brazil, the Bossa Nova, playing alongside its greatest actors in Jazz shows and tours among Leny Andrade, Carlos Lyra, Flora Purim, Wilson Simonal, Elis Regina and Milton Nascimento. In the seventies, he moved to US and recorded with  international renowned artists such as Sergio Mendes, Stevie Wonder, Herb Alpert, Earl Klugh, Dionne Warwick and many others.

Marcos Resende & Index

 

Year : 2021

Label : Far Out Recordings

Genre : Jazz, Latin Jazz

Style : Jazz Funk, Samba, Smooth Jazz

Recorded in 1976, "Marcos Resende & Index" should have been the first official album of the group, long before "Festa Para Um Novo Rei" released in 1978. However, it will remain unreleased for over 40 years before Far Out Recordings convinced Marcos to come it out from the darkness. Innovative musician using as well Fender Rhodes as various synthesizers like the Minimoog, mixing Jazz, Electronic music with Samba, he was a pianist session in demand in Brazil, collaborating to recordings of the legends Gilberto Gil, Chico Buarque, Edu Lobo or Gal Costa. In the early seventies, he formed the electronic progressive jazz group "Status", who opened shows for Stan Getz or Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers. He recorded the album featuring Rubão Sabino (eb), Claudio Caribé (ds), the great saxophonist Oberdan Magalhães from Banda Black Rio and the legendary Toninho Barbosa, sound engineer on "Light As A Feather" by Azymuth, "Previsão Do Tempo" by Marcos Valle and "Quem É Quem" by João Donato.

Assim Assado - Assim Assado

 

Year : 2017/1974

Label : Groovie Records/CiD

Genre : Rock, Latin Rock

Style : Pyschedelic rock, Samba soul

 

The short-lived band "Assim Assado" was an attempt by a small label to ride on the success of the Brazilian progressive rock group "Secos & Molhados". The band is led by Miguel de Deus (former member of Os Brazões) who signed all the compositions, plays guitar and singing, supported by Darcio Mario Ract (eb), Marciana (vo, eg) and Albino Infantozzi (ds). More than influenced by "Secos & Molhados", they even took name of the eponymous song, and the front cover is a wink of their first album. "Assim Assado" performes a mixture of psychedelic rock and Samba Soul (Viva Crioula, Morena, Sol Amarelocinza) including heavy metal (Na Boca Da Estrada, Lunatica Marciana). Titles include also the rock-waltz "Sombras" and two  reminiscent songs of the Tropicália musical movement ("Sol, Sal, Sol Tropical" and "Pesçados").

Brazilian Tapestry Vol. 8 ~ The Sound Of Brazil '70

The compilation series dedicated to the essential & versatile sound of the Brazil '70, EPISODE 8. From the Tropicália to the Black Rio movements, this volume includes Bossa Nova, Jazz Funk, MPB, Samba Funk, Soul & Boogie sounds, featuring Sandra Sà, Gal Costa, Novos Baianos, Antonio Adolfo, Bebeto, Orlandivo, João Donato, Roberto Carlos, Elza Soares, Sonia Santos & many others. All tracks recorded between 1968-1983, compiled & mixed by Be Hard Bop.

Bop or Not Session #15 For Radio RAPTZ

The Be Hard Bop's show #15 for Parisian webradio RAPTZ, including Afro Cuban Jazz & Latin Fusion from Japan to US by Brazil featuring Bobby Hutcherson, Serge Gainsbourg, Candido, Akira Ishikawa, Mongo Santamaria, Ray Barretto, Willie Bobo and many more... Compiled & mixed by Be Hard Bop for Radio Raptz

TRACKLiST : Bobby Hutcherson - Oyé Como Va - Serge Gainsbourg - Mambo Miam Miam - Les Chakachas - Yo Soy Cubano - Ben & The Platano Group - Salute Tu Santa - Nico Gomez And His Afro Percussion Inc. - Cuba Libre - Candido - St. Thomas - Emilio Santiago - La Mulata - Akira Ishikawa & Count Buffalo - Guantanamera - Mongo Santamaria - Para Ti - Ray Barretto - Pastime Paradise - Willie Bobo - Evil Ways - Tadaaki Misago & Conjunto Barbaro - Azucar - Os Novos Baianos - Outro Mambo, Outro Mundo - Joe Torres - Get Out Of My Way - Di Melo - Kilariô - Les Chakachas - Vendo Mango - Mikio « Mickey » Masuda - Corazon - Shunzo Ohno - Antares Part. 2

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Michel Legrand - Bande Originale Du Film La Piscine ~ Un Homme Est Mort

 

Year : 2021

Label : We Want Sounds

Genre : Jazz, Pop

Style : Soundtrack

 

Michel Legrand's rare score from the iconic 1969 French crime movie directed by Jacques Deray starring Alain Delon, Romy Schneider and Jane Birkin. Originally only released in Japan in 1969, the reissue of the soundtrack includes also the highly sought-after 45 rpm "Un Homme Est Mort" from another Jacques Deray's film released in 1972. Composed just after "The Thomas Crown Affair", the soundtrack uses the same success recipe, namely some beautiful wistful melodies, catchy pop songs and scat singing which decline in several jazzy and groovy variations, all reflecting the festive nights of the French riviera in the 60s. He also invites his sister Christiane Legrand who dubbed Catherine Deneuve in "Les Parapluies de Cherbourg", the violin soilist Stéphane Grappelli and organist Eddy Louiss to participate. Titles include also the jerk "Run, Brother Rabbit, Run" sung by Delaney Bramlett from the pop duo Delaney & Bonnie, "Ask Yourself Why" sung by Sally Stevens, the funky nugget "Un Homme Est Mort" and the erotic song "Onyx Bar".