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 Holloway. Daniel 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".

Vladimir Cosma - Ultra Pop-op

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Year : 1970   

Label : Sylvester Music Company/MPI

Serie : Sounds Pop
Genre : Jazz, Rock
Style : Jazz Rock, Psychedelic, Pop   

Vladimir Cosma is a French/Romanian composer, conductor and violinist in various music genres during over fifties years, collaborating with Michel Legrand and likewise jazz giants  Chet Baker, Pepper Adams or Toots Thielemans. He was in charge of numerous french film music scores, whose the most famous are "Les Aventures De Rabbi Jacob" and "Le Grand Blond Avec Une Chaussure Noire" (starring Louis De Funès and Pierre Richard). Originally released under N° 27 of the "Musique Pour L'Image" (French music library label) including background music & psychedelic soundscapes, "Ultra Pop-Op" back in the spotlight thanks to the track "Black Flowers" selected by french Hip-Hop producer Michaël Darmon (Kif records, Jazz Liberatorz) for the French jazz compilation released in 2002, "Mélodie En Soul Sol".