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.

Various - Tchic, Tchic ~ French Bossa Nova 1963-1974

 

Year : 2020

Label : Born Bad Records

Genre : Latin Jazz, Pop

Style : Bossa Nova, Samba, Chanson Française 

 

The French Bossa Nova boom startded at the end of fifities through the paris jazz connection with contibutions of  Pierre Barouh and his Camara Trio, Georges Mousatki or the great Baden Powell settled in the city of lights during the seventies. Compiled by DJ Afrobrasileiro, "Tchic-Tchic" includes a variety of samba expressions played by pop & jazz aces featuring icons Sophia Lauren, Marpessa Dawn, (actress from Marcel Camus' Black Orpheus film), Baden Powell, Pierre Vassiliu (Les Masques feat. Camara Trio) or Jean-Pierre Sabar from french pop rock Balthazar. Titles include also reinterpretations of Brazilian MPB classics "Shirley Sexy" by Claudette Soares (Hlm Et Cine Roman), "O Cafona" by Marcos Valle (Cent Mille Poissons Dans Ton Filet), "Aquarela" by Ary Barroso, "Samba Da Minia Terra" by Joao Gilberto (Pas Tant D'chichi Ponpon), "Casa Forte" by Edu Lobo.

Yuji Ohno - The Boss And His Piano Part II ~ Selected Works 1975 - 1983

Volume 2 of the compilation series dedicated to the japanese jazz pianist Yuji Ohno including studio and live recordings as sideman, producer & arranger. Yuji Ohno was in charge of numerous background music composed for films, among others "Inugamike No Ichizoku" (The Inugami Family, 1976), "Nigen No Shomei" (Proof Of The Man, 1977) and animation TV series such as "Lupin The 3rd" (since 1977), "Captain Future" (1979). During the seventies, he was a popular arranger for various japanese jazz&pop songstress, including Martha Miyake, Mieko Kaji, Eiko Shuri, Kimiko Kasai, Mieko Hirota or Hatsumi Shibata. From 1975, Yuji turns to the Jazz Funk style and formed his famous "You & The Explosion Band" featuring Jake H. Conception, Takeru Muraoka & Akira Okazawa for the "Lupin III" soundtrack. Compiled & mixed by Be Hard Bop featuring Yuji Ohno, Chu Kosaka & Ultra, Hatsumi Shibata & Hang Over, Kiyoshi Sugimoto, Masa Matsuda, You & The Explosion Band, Electro Keyboard Orchestra.

Bossa for Sofa (Bossa Nova, Jazz Samba And Screen Favorites)

Lean back in your sofa and listen these 23 musical pieces of Bossa Nova featuring european, japanese & american jazz musicians (Benny Golson, Cortex, Norio Maeda, Ron Carter, Helen Merrill among others), and compositions for various TV shows, series, advertising or others soundtracks. Titles include background music extracted from famous European music library labels such as KPM (England), Montparnasse 2000 (France) or Selected Sound (Germany). Compiled & mixed by Be Hard Bop.

Various - Doing It In Lagos

Year : 2016
Label : Soundway Records
Genre : Funk/Soul, Pop
Style : Disco, Boogie, Afro Funk

Twenty amazing funky songs from the Nigerian pop & club music recorded between late 1970s and early 1980s, compiled by british label Soundway Records. The songs are the reflect of a joyful period, all were recorded during the short democratic interlude in Nigeria from 1979 to 1983, before the military dictatorship back. A new generation of artists featuring Steve Monite, Livy Ekemezie or Willy Roy have been emerge on the Lagos musical scene. Moving away the Afrobeat and nigerian highlife era, they were supported by influential producers like Odion Iruoje, and perfectly suited for dancefloor with the casualness brings by the disco style (Donna Summer or Michael Jackson), but adding their Afro touch. "Doing It In Lagos" has been concieved as the ultimate dance compilation including various styles as Funk (Willy Roy - Don't Give Up), Pop (Burnis Moleme - Where Is The Answer), Boogie (Mike Umoh - Shake Your Body / Godfrey Odili - Let's Do More Music), Jazz Funk (Gboyega Adelaja - Colourful Environment) and Disco (Ofege - Burning Jungle) closed to House music (Steve Monite - Only You).

  

DISC 1 : Hotline - Fellas Doing It In Lagos / Peter Addul - Don't You Know / Steve Monite - Only You / Oby Onyioha - Enjoy Your Life / Kio Amachree - Ivory / Livy Ekemezie - Holiday Action  

DISC 2 : Willy Roy - Don't Give Up / Danny Offia - Funk With Me / Rick Asikpo - Too Hot Toby Foyeh - Ore Mi / Gboyega Adelaja - Colourful Environment / Mike Umoh - Shake Your Body

DISC 3 : Burnis Moleme - Where Is The Answer / Sony Enang - Don't Stop That Music / Nkono Teles - Be My Lady / Veno - Groove I Like / Godfrey Odili - Let's Do More Music / Terry Mackson - Distant Lover / Ofege - Burning Jungle / Lexy Mella - On The Air

SUPERSOUND Vol. 2

A collection of some incredible songs with heavy funky beats & groovy sounds, eigtheen tracks recorded from the mid-seventies to the early eighties including Afro Funk, Disco Highlife and Jazz Funk featuring Donald Byrd, The Magic Diso Machine, The Blackbyrds, Jimmy Castor Bunch, Oneness Of Juju, Livy Ekemezie, Lee Fields, Joe Tex, Reuben Wilson & many more... Compiled & mixed by Be Hard Bop.

Various - Brand New Wayo : Funk, Fast Times And Nigerian Boogie Badness

Year : 2011
Label : Comb & Razor Sound
Genre : Soul, Disco
Style : Funk/Soul, Boogie

"A Brand New Wayo" brings togheter fifteen songs recorded during the post-afrobeat era, when the nigerian disco explosion occured from the late seventies to the early eighties. The evolution of nigerian society, the end of dictatorship and the short democratic period that followed, gave birth to a freedom artistic which contributed to the developpement of some creative emulation from nigerian producers & musicians. Selected by Uchenna Ikonne for his label "Comb & Razor Sound", all the songs fit into a own musical genre, called the ''Nigerian Boogie'', based on modern dance groove, served by the bass beat of disco funk and connected to the afro spirit (check below "Boys And Girls" ). Titles include songs from Mixed Grill, Murphy Williams, Joe Moks, Bayo Damazio, Martha Ulaeto...

DISC 1 : Mixed Grill - A Brand New Wayo / Kris Okotie - Show Me Your Backside / Murphy Williams - Get On Up / Joe Moks - Boys And Girls / Amas - Slow Down / Oby Onyioha - I Want To Feel Your Love / Dizzy K. Falola - Excuse Me Baby / Chris Mba - Funky Situation 

DISC 2 : Bayo Damazio - Listen To The Music / Martha Ulaeto - Music Alone / Segun Robert - Big Race / Amel Addmore - Jane / Honey Machine - Pleasure / The Stormmers - Love Or Money Emma Baloka - Let's Love Each Other 

Various - Black Rio 2 ~ Original Samba Soul 1968-1981

Year : 2009
Label : STRUT
Genre : Latin, Soul
Style : Funk/Soul, Samba

Compiled by DJ Cliffy and released under the British Afro music Label "STRUT", Black Rio Vol. 2 brings together some of the best Brazilian Soul & Funk songs recorded from the late sixties to the early eighties. Some of which are belong to a new musical genre arising in the mid-seventies, called Black Rio, the meeting between typical Brazilian sound and the music of James Brown. The Black Rio matches to a style mixing Afro-Samba & Funk influenced by the Black Power movement, whose the most representative actors then were Miguel De Deus, Toni Tornado, Tim Maia, Emilio Santiago, Dom Salvador, Banda Black Rio (and its fisrt incarnation "Cry Babies") or Bebeto with the song "Princesa Negra De Angola" included in this compilation.

DISC 1 : Zeca Do Trombone & Roberto Sax - Coluna Do Meio / Renata Lú - Faz Tanto Tempo / Balanca Povo - Novo Dia / Guimaes E O Grupo Som Sagrado - Our Sound / Rubinho E Mauro Assumpção - Ta Tudo Ai / Emilio Santiago - Bananeira / Watusi - Oio Gere / Os Diagonais - Não Vou Chorar / Som Nosso - Pra Swingar / Super Som Lord - BR Samba  

  

DISC 2 : Pete Dunaway - Supermarket / Marilene - Sinal Vermelho / Avan Samba - Ibere / Azambuja & CIA - Tema Do Azambuja / Cry Babies - It's My Thing / Edson Frederico E A Transa - Bobeira / Bebeto - Princesa Negra De Angola / Sonia Santos - Poema Ritmico Do Malandro 

Various - Saigon Supersound 1965-75

 

Year : 2017
Label : Saigon Supersound
Genre : Pop, Rock, Latin Jazz, Folk
Style : Latin, Funk/Soul

Saigon Supersound, the compilation which brings together some lost vietanmese pop songs recorded between 1965 and 1975, when US army was stationned in the South Vietnam, a period considered as the golden era of popular vietnamese music. Americans brought with them Rock 'N' Roll and Soul music to Vietnam, which influenced local artists and popular singers such as Carol Kim who integrated it to the standard vietnamese songs repertoire (melancholic and love themes), all developed in opposion of communist revolutionary music. Marked by the american way of life, some young bands were formed like the Dew Drop or The Dreamers. They performed in the G.I. Clubs integrating western rock as well as funk/soul elements to their music, but not only, their songs included also latin rhythms such as Rumba, Tango and Cha Cha Cha.

DISC 1 :  Carol Kim - Tình Ta Như Lửa Đơm Hoa / Hùng Cường & Mai Lệ Huyền - Sống Cho Nhau / Duy Quang & Thái Hiền - Mộng Về Quê / Thanh Vũ - Nếu Mình Còn Yêu Nhau / Connie Kim - Lý Luận Tình Yêu / Hòa Tấu - Phố Đêm / Phượng Mai - Mùa Xuân Gửi Em / Khánh Ly - Diễm Xưa / Kim Loan - Căn Nhà Ngoại Ô

DISC 2 : Thanh Thuý, Văn Thanh, Hoàng Liêm & Thanh Mai - Đoàn Người Lữ Thứ /Kiều Oanh - Đêm Cuối Cùng / Thanh Lan, Châu Hà & Thanh Mai - Hát Mừng Xuân / Mai Lệ Huyền - Có Ai Trên Đời Mà Không Yêu / Vân Sơn & Thùy Dung - Chọn Mặt Gửi Vàng / Hoàng Oanh - Mùa Gặt Mới / Thanh Lan - Tình Đêm Liên Hoan / Phương Dung - Vòng Tay Giữ Trọn Ân Tình / Ngọc Giàu - Câu Vọng Cổ Chúc Tết 

A Soul Flavor Vol. 2 ~ Deep Soul & Funk Relics

Rare Deep Soul & Funk Relics released from 1966 to 1974, featuring Archie Bell & The Drells, Mary Jane Hooper, Stevie Wonder, Fontella Bass, Norma Jean, Joe Tex, Eddie Bo & many more... All tracks compiled & mixed by Be Hard Bop.

New Stream In Jazz Vol. 10

Compilation series dedicated to the golden era of the japanese jazz scene through the years 60's-70's. This volume is devoted to the Jazz standards including some Soul covers, taken back by the main protagonists from the Japanese Jazz's "New Wave" among others Toshiko Akiyoshi, Takehiro Honda, Masabumi Kikuchi, Terumasa Hino, Hiroshi Suzuki. All tracks are recorded between 1967-1975, ranging from Post Bop, Latin & Soul Jazz. Compiled & mixed by Be Hard Bop.

The Psychedelic Soul Vol. 4 ~ Japanese Beat, Jazz & Rock 'N Roll

Another journey into the amazing world of the japanese beat from the sixties including Psychedelic grooves, GS music (for Group Sounds), Jazz & Rock 'n Roll. This volume consists of Japanese pop songs inspired by psychedelic music & various covers of western rock standards (Black Dog, Lowdown, Crossroads) featuring Peter Pan, Hiro Yanagida, Jun Mayuzumi, Soul Messengers, Akira Ishikawa, Kiyoshi Sugimoto, Emy Jackson, Takeshi Terauchi, Maki Asakawa, Jiro Inagaki and of course Group Sounds (The Carnabeats, The Youngers, The Tempters, The Jaguars & The Jacks). All tracks released between 1966-1972, compiled & mixed by Be Hard Bop.

The Big Band Scope ~ Worldwide Brass Bands & Jazz Orchestra

Worldwide brass bands & jazz orchestra including Jazz Funk, Soul & Contemporary Jazz. This compilation highlights the masters of the discipline from US (Buddy Rich, Jimmy Smith, Oliver Nelson or Gil Evans), the most renowned japanese big bands among others the Sharps & Flats featuring Nobuo Hara, Toshiyuki Miyama & his New Herd or The Inner Galaxy Orchestra conducted by Bingo Miki and some european jazz brass bands (French composer Daniel Janin, Pete Moore and Ray Davies). All tracks recorded between 1964-1978, compiled & mixed by Be Hard Bop.

New Stream In Jazz Vol. 9 ~ Boogie Funk & Disco Beats

Compilation series dedicated to the golden era of the japanese jazz scene through the years 60's-70's. Following the volume 3, this volume celebrates the jazz groove into the boogie sphere, highly tinted of slapping bass, disco rhythms & funky beats, including thirteen tracks recorded between 1974-1980 featuring Kimiko Kasai, Jiro Inagaki, Kiyoshi Sugimoto, Toshiyuki Miyama, The Soul Media, Ryo Kawasaki, Teruo Nakamura, Mieko Hirota, Ryo Kawasaki, Akira Ishikawa, Toshiyuki Honda, Shunzo Ohno, The Count Buffalos, Hiroshi Fukumura & Sadao Watanabe. Compiled & mixed by Be Hard Bop.

New Stream In Jazz Vol. 8 ~ The Golden Age Of Japanese Jazz

Compilation series dedicated to the golden era of the japanese jazz scene through the years 60's-70's. This volume includes thirteen tracks ranging from Soul Jazz to Hard Bop by Jazz Funk styles, all recorded between 1967 and 1977, featuring Eddie Daniels, Toshiaki Yokota, Shoji Yokouchi, Jiro Inagaki, the Tokyo Cuban Boys, Kazuo Yashiro Trio, Takeshi Inomata, George Otsuka Quintet, Hiroshi Matsumoto, Hideo Ichikawa Quartet, Terumasa Hino, Norio Maeda, Hiroshi Suzuki and Kunihiko Sugano. 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

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Agent Double-O-Soul ~ An Anthology Of Music Library

24 musical masterpieces extracted from the late sixties to early seventies, recorded for various screen movies, TV shows, advertising or others commercial programs. Mostly were released under famous music library labels including British KPM, French Montparnasse 2000, or Télémusic catalogues. This compilation of amazing cinematic grooves featuring Alan Hawkshaw, John Schroeder, Janko Nilovic, Vladimir Cosma, Alan Moorhouse, Sandro Brugnolini & many more... Compiled & mixed by Be Hard Bop.

SUPERSOUND

This is Super Sound ! A collection of some incredible catchy beats and insane groovy sounds including heavy funk & crossover jazz, featuring Manu Dibango, The Fatback Band, Kool & The Gang, Betty Davis, Oliver Nelson, Earth Wind And Fire, Oneness Of Juju, O'Donel Levy, The Sisters Love, Incredible Bongo Band, Eric Burdon & War, Jimmy Castor Bunch and many more... All tracks recorded between 1968-1976, compiled & mixed by Be Hard Bop​.

Yuji Ohno - The Boss & His Piano ~ Selected Works 1967 - 1975

Dedicated to the legendary japanese jazz pianist, "The Boss & His Piano" includes essential studio & live recordings by Yuji Ohno as a sideman and under his own name. Best known as composer of various background music for films and animation series, Yuji Ohno played alongside the greatest japanese jazz musicians among trumpeter Terumasa Hino, the drummers Masahiko Togashi & Hideo Shiraki or guitarist Ryo Kawasaki from Gil Evans Orchestra. From 1970 to 1975, his regular jazz trio consists of drummer Kazuyoshi Okayama and the bassists Yoshio Ikeda, Takashi Mizuhashi. During the seventies, he was an arranger in demand who regularly collaborated with various japanese jazz songstress such as Mieko Hirota, Martha Miyake, Kimiko Kasai, Hatsumi Shibata, the american Ann Young and brazilian Sonia Rosa. All tracks recorded between 1967-1975, featuring Terumasa Hino, Kimiko Kasai, Yuji Ohno, Sonia Rosa, Ann Young, Itaru Oki, Hiroshi Suzuki, Masahiko Togashi. Compiled & mixed by Be Hard Bop.