Sunday, October 25, 2015

The Blackbyrds - The Blackbyrds



Year : 1974
Label : Fantasy
Genre : Jazz
Style : Jazz Funk

The debut album of an american rhythm section produced by Larry Mizell, formed & supervised by Donald Byrd for six students of music department from the Howard University, playing Jazz Funk fusion. It's a typical Mizell Brothers production, a music conceived for dancefloor based on Funk/Soul arrangements, as was done for for the Donald Byrd & Bobbi Humphrey (Fancy Dancer) albums, recorded during the seventies. Most of the tracks include original compositions of Donald Byrd such as "Do It, Fluid" or "Funky Junkie", Larry Mizell's contribution with "Life Styles" and Allan Barnes with "Summer Love".

MUSICIANS : Allan Barnes - soprano & tenor saxophone - Kevin Toney & Orville Saunders - keyboards, melodica, synthesizer - Steve Johnson - sax, flute - Joe Hall & David Williams - bass - Keith Killgo - drums - Oscar Brashear - trumpet, flugelhorn - Ray Armando & Perk Jacobs - percussion

Friday, October 23, 2015

Björk Guðmundsdóttir & Tríó Guðmundar Ingólfssonar - Gling-Gló


Year : 1990
Label : Smekkleysa
Genre : Jazz
Style : Contempory Jazz

"Gling-Gló" is the only album of this jazz trio featuring the most iconic Icelandic singer, Björk, lead by the pianist Guðmundar Ingólfsson with drummer Guðmundur Steingrímsson (both from Jazzvaka band) and bassist Þórður Högnason. Produced & mixed by Tómas Magnús Tómasson from the rock band Stuðmenn, it was released under the Smekkleysa label (Sigur Rós & Björk albums issues) and  recorded while Björk was a member of The Sugarcubes. Gling-Gló consists of fourteen songs only in islandic tongue, including Scandinavian themes as the title track (the English equivalent of "Ding Dong"), "Það Sést Ekki Sætari Mey" based on "You Can't Get A Man with A Gun" composed by Irving Berlin for the 1946 Broadway musical comedy, "Annie Get Your Gun".

Thursday, October 22, 2015

We've Got The JAZZ Vol. 5 ~ Jazz (We've Got)



The great meeting between Jazz & Hip-Hop by oldschool rappers & various artists from the independent Hip-Hop scene from US to Europe by Japan. It features Jurassic 5, Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth, Insight, Substantial, DJ CAM Quartet, A Tribe Called Quest, Pete Philly & Perquisite, De La Soul, Glue, Blackalicious & many more. All tracks released between 1991- 2009, compiled & mixed by Be Hard Bop.

Various - Trio By Trio + 1


Year : 1970
Label : Victor
Genre : Jazz
Style : Free Jazz, Contempory Jazz, Hard Bop

Recommended by the Swing Journal, the legendary Japanese jazz magazine from 1947 to 2010, "Trio By Trio + 1" is a japanese jazz essential album recording live to the forefront of the japanese jazz including avant-garde Jazz with free forms. Performed and recorded at Yamaha Hall in Tokyo in 1970 by three rhythm sections led by the masters Yosuke Yamashita, Itaru Oki and Yuji Ohno, joined by jazz vocalist Kimiko Kasai, all met in an amazing concert. Titles include Free Jazz tracks performed by the Yosuke Yamashita (Dore) & Itaru Oki Trio (Conversation With Water), jazz standards "Autumn Leaves", "I Can't Give You Anything But Love" & "Get Out Of Town" by Yuji Ohno Trio, "Black Shadow Woman" & "Theme Of The Unkown People" by the meeting Yuji Ohno + Itaru Oki Trio feat. Kimiko Kasai.

MUSICIANS : Yosuke Yamashita Yuji Ono - piano - Itaru Oki - trumpet - Seiichi Nakamura - saxophone - Takeo Moriyama, Hozumi Tanaka Kazuyoshi Okayama - drums - Keiki Midorikawa Takashi Mizuhashi - bass - Kimiko Kasai - vocal

DISC 1 : Yosuke Yamashita Trio - Dore / Yosuke Yamashita Trio - Mokurin ~ Gugan / Itaru Oki Trio - Flying Into The Space / Itaru Oki Trio - Conversation With Water

DISC 2 : Yuji Ohno Trio - Autumn Leaves / Yuji Ohno Trio, Kimiko Kasai - I Can't Give You Anything But Love / Yuji Ohno Trio, Kimiko Kasai - Get Out Of Town / Yuji Ohno Trio - Kenny's Moods / Itaru Oki Trio, Yuji Ohno Trio, Kimiko Kasai - Black Shadow Woman / Itaru Oki Trio, Yuji Ohno Trio, Kimiko Kasai - Theme Of The Unkown People

Wednesday, October 21, 2015

Ramsey Lewis - Mother Nature's Son


Year : 1968
Label : Chess/Cadet Records
Genre : Jazz, Electronic
Style : Jazz Funk, Pop

As the cover album "The Other Side Of Abbey Road" by George Benson, Ramsey Lewis revisits another great Beatles' act, the "White album", supported by strings ensemble and conducted by Charles Stepney featuring the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. "Mother Nature's Son" includes ten songs extracted from the famous double album whose the "Back In The USSR" and "Blackbird" hit singles. The tracks are introduced with some experimental electronic effects produced by the moog synthesizer including jazz improvisations, pop rhythms and Funk/Soul accents. All tracks arranged by Charles Stepney.

Tuesday, October 20, 2015

Daniel Janin - Dinha Mantha's Power


Year : 1974
Label : PSI
Genre : Jazz
Style : Big Band, Funk/Soul, Jazz Funk

"Dinha Mantha's Power" is the most famous album to the Funk/Soul accent and probably the best of French band leader Daniel Janin, including the soulful song "Sand And Rain" featuring american jazz songstress Nancy HollowayDaniel Janin is a vibrationist, arranger, band leader & composer for various TV shows, who was big band conductor for the Bruno Coquatrix's Olympia Hall in Paris from 1961 to 1964, and worked with various artists from the french variety such as Jacques Brel, Gilbert Bécaud or Dalida. A part of his work has often been sampled by several Hip-Hop artists as the songs "Black Night", "Fat Fat Fellow" or more recently "Trumpet Flower" by Nujabes on the Samurai Champloo original soundtrack. "Sand & Rain" was selected by Mickaël Darmon for the  KIF label's compilation, "Mélodie En Soul Sol : Paris '70".

Thursday, October 15, 2015

Raulzinho - Impacto 8 ~ International Hot

 
Year : 1968
Label : Equipe
Genre : Jazz, Funk/Soul, Latin
Style : Soul Jazz, Boogaloo, Bossa Nova

Amazing Samba Funk/Soul album by Raul De Souza alias Raulzinho, under the name Impacto 8 group featuring brazilian singer Betinho, drummer Robertinho Silva & saxophonist Oberdan from famous Som Imaginário & Banda Black Rio bands. Raulzinho is a jazz trombonist coming from Rio De Janeiro, one of the greatest player of his generation who started as professional alongside the legendary guitarist Baden Powell and evolved in Sérgio Mendes & Bossa Rio. Since the seventies, he is a session musician in demand playing for american jazz fusion group "Caldera" and others international artists such as A. C. Jobim, Airto Moreira, Hermeto Pascoal, Sonny Rollins, Cal Tjader, Jimmy Smith and Sarah Vaughan. In 1975, with "Colors" (produced by Airto Moreira), he embraces an international career, signing on Milestone & Capitol Records and released two albums produced by George Duke, "Sweet Lucy" and "Don't Ask My Neighbors" (1977-1978). Titles include the club killer "Two Beat Manchild (Mundo Louco)", western pop hits "Spinning Wheel", "You've Made Me So Very Happy", the James Brown funk "I've Got The Feelin'", the jazz standards "Mercy, Mercy, Mercy" and "Cantalope Island". 

Friday, October 2, 2015

La Musica E Un Messaggio



The lovely days of the electronic beats featuring main actors of Trip Hop scene including famous British Ninja Tune label. It features Mr Scruff, Blockhead, DJ Shadow, Dan The Automator, Madlib, Fat Jon & the japanese beatmakers Fantastic Plastic Machine, U.F.O. (United Future Organization) & DJ Ryow from ShinSight Trio. All tracks released between 1996-2009, compiled & mixed by Be Hard Bop.
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