the ultimate ish otc funk/soul/jazz thread

[playtetris]

so, there's a whole lot of talk about hip hop on this site. fair enough, it's pretty much the genre of our generation. however, i don't think there's enough discussion re: the music that inspired (and indeed was used as samples in) hip hop music.

this is the thread in which you post the illest oldskool jams you listen to.

i'll kick it off with:

RAMP (roy ayers musical project) - everybody loves the sunshine (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7wjBwjsVDo)

donald byrd - wind parade (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2t84LCgXU08) (sampled by beatminers for black moon's 'buck em down')

funkadelic - maggot brain (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dh3bleXWaCk)

johnny hammond - lost on 23rd street (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBikUbz42tE)

idris muhammad - loran's dance (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25uLX-1wUGY)

ahmad jamal - swahililand (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxsvPKrtLGg) (used by jay dee for de la soul's 'stakes is high')

caesar frazier - sweet children (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7sqsQK7-gQ) (kanye jacked this)

marvin gaye - inner city blues (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPH3xNkHFhE)

[RainierBeachPoet]

kizzle is ihs's expert soul/r&b man and will be glad to see this thread

some of my favs:

earth, wind and fire
the barkays
con funk shun
al green
stevie wonder
cameo
teddy pendergrass
frankie beverly and maze
parliament

[playtetris]

kizzle is ihs's expert soul/r&b man and will be glad to see this thread

some of my favs:

earth, wind and fire
the barkays
con funk shun
al green
stevie wonder
cameo
teddy pendergrass
frankie beverly and maze
parliament

great list there, rbp. some of my personal favourites also include parliament, al green, teddy pendergrass and earth, wind and fire.

some other nice cuts:

lou rawls - you've made me so very happy (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PhsBk5xhLg)

deodato - super strut (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9Ik81plN_Q) (nice wah wah)

al hirt - harlem hendoo (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUJMqVkSMh4) (pimpest track ever... i want this as my personal theme music. you know, the track that comes on whenever you walk in a room)

curtis mayfield - give me your love (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bovB6XH7yoA)

minnie riperton - inside my love (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VS6X_ExoLU)

[LJJ]

Yes.

Some of my personal favorites are:

The Spinners
The Stylistics
Bobby Womack
Chris Kenner
Allen Toussaint
Buddy Miles
The Meters
Stanley Turrentine (If he counts)
King Curtis
Todd Rundgren

And of course a lot of the classics mentioned in this thread ( marvin Gaye, Al Green, Funkadelic, Bar Kays, Al Hirt)

ONe of the giants I never got is Sly Stone.

[Brunch@Five]

My favourite Jazz trumpeter ever, Lee Morgan:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDbrxLz20JY

this somehow always gives me chills (young Maynard Ferguson):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4MwyGkPg10

classic Miles + 'Trane

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4FAKRpUCYY

another classic, played by Charles Mingus:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__OSyznVDOY

Piano/Vibraphone duo, Chick Corea + Gary Burton:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCZ-iL19Em4

[ikoiko]

some lesser known soul gems:

odyssey - our lives are shaped by what we love http://youtube.com/watch?v=zWdnX3XlaI4

chairmen of the board - working on a building of love http://youtube.com/watch?v=urp6M6sXrII

honey cone - stick up http://youtube.com/watch?v=_AhL3y1PsYM&feature=related

loose jointz - shoot the pump
http://www.blaxploitation.com/sounds/2006/j%20walter%20negro%20&%20loose%20jointz%20-%20shoot%20the%20pump.mp3
(one of the awesomest songs of all time)

theres just too much great stuff out there from the days of yonder...

[RedBlackAttack]

I've always been a Herbie Hancock man...

Here is Watermelon Man... maybe the funkiest opening to any song... ever.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jo5GcYeh7XA


Here is Miles Davis and the Quintets (which included Herbie Hancock) playing live:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_whk6m67VE

[i seen hippos]

Maggot Brain = anything anyone ever did in the late 60's/70's including Jimi, Clapton, etc.

[Brunch@Five]

Here is Miles Davis and the Quintets (which included Herbie Hancock) playing live:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_whk6m67VE

maybe the best quintet Miles has ever lead. Wayne Shorter was/is just off the hook. Same goes for Ron Carter.

some nice soul/funk by Maceo Parker:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JawQn7gKdJo

[L.Kizzle]

Y'all heard of Shuggie Otis (son of legend Johnny Otis?) Dude is very underrated and rare. Very ahead of his time, doing stuff in the late '60 and '70 which really didn't come widely used until decades later. Cat did the original Strawberry Letter.

Inspiration Information (http://youtube.com/watch?v=vq0tl5h_a7s)
Happy House (http://youtube.com/watch?v=-olNCb8FEzE&feature=related)
Island Letter (http://youtube.com/watch?v=eIQn6Gc1Fdc&feature=related)
Pling (http://youtube.com/watch?v=5eJ7utitnYg)
Rainy Day (http://youtube.com/watch?v=xCBNoEcMn-g&feature=related)
Sparkle City (http://youtube.com/watch?v=_Z1NlJnktBQ&feature=related)
Strawberry Letter #23 (http://youtube.com/watch?v=r_Hx6F2cTzA)

[Brunch@Five]

One of the best Funk bands ever, Tower of Power:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpMW7WrUW4o&feature=related

ToP w/ Santana

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bw1Pt6yrARE&feature=related

[ikoiko]

Y'all heard of Shuggie Otis (son of legend Johnny Otis?) Dude is very underrated and rare. Very ahead of his time, doing stuff in the late '60 and '70 which really didn't come widely used until decades later. Cat did the original Strawberry Letter.

Inspiration Information (http://youtube.com/watch?v=vq0tl5h_a7s)
Happy House (http://youtube.com/watch?v=-olNCb8FEzE&feature=related)
Island Letter (http://youtube.com/watch?v=eIQn6Gc1Fdc&feature=related)
Pling (http://youtube.com/watch?v=5eJ7utitnYg)
Rainy Day (http://youtube.com/watch?v=xCBNoEcMn-g&feature=related)
Sparkle City (http://youtube.com/watch?v=_Z1NlJnktBQ&feature=related)
Strawberry Letter #23 (http://youtube.com/watch?v=r_Hx6F2cTzA)

yes. his trippy style rules!

[playtetris]

some great picks in here from everyone. stylistics, shuggie otis (i was stuck on that album for a while), mingus, herbie, chick corea, miles, coltrane... just what i was hoping for.

i was sad to hear that the greatest hammond organist ever died just the other day.

RIP jimmy mcgriff

turn blue (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhDBDCZhNHY)

[Roy Munson]

Maggot Brain = anything anyone ever did in the late 60's/70's including Jimi, Clapton, etc.

Cosign.

Anyway I might as well add some of my faves.

Bootsy Collins - I'd Rather Be With You (the solo is ridiculous)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kS5DLL9TlqM

Bobby Womack - Across 110th Street
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtzRJgZG98I

Isley Brothers - Who's That Lady (Ernie plays his arse off)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1DDgNCLD84

Funkadelic - Cosmic Slop
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCgthG5sL6M

[SHEED_ gangsta]

I've always been a Herbie Hancock man...

Here is Watermelon Man... maybe the funkiest opening to any song... ever.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jo5GcYeh7XA


Here is Miles Davis and the Quintets (which included Herbie Hancock) playing live:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_whk6m67VE


such a good song :cheers:

[mateo31]

Earth, Wind, and Fire-September/Sly and the Family Stone-Thank You (I think that is the name of the song anyway) :rockon:

[playtetris]

Isley Brothers - Who's That Lady (Ernie plays his arse off)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1DDgNCLD84



can't believe i forgot the isleys!

kool and the gang - fruitman (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnfTmTwSetw)

[Brunch@Five]

Nils Landgren Funk Unit - House Party

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=is-6SfGzZlU&feature=related

one of the best trombonists out there

btw, this thread needs a adamcz sighting

[playtetris]

Nils Landgren Funk Unit - House Party

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=is-6SfGzZlU&feature=related

one of the best trombonists out there

btw, this thread needs a adamcz sighting

yeah,it does.

in his absence, gotta post some more coltrane.
here's the transcription of his classic 'giant steps'. one of my favourite joints of all time. that initial chord progression.... wow.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kotK9FNEYU

and here's a robot playing the same piece at 350bpm :roll: :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7VJMGy3P4w

[L.Kizzle]

How about a Funk/Soul/Jazz band all in one, the OHIO PLAYERS. Not to mention these guys had the greatest album covers EVER!


Sknin Tight (http://youtube.com/watch?v=MC_GIdrzv7U) One of the FUNKIEST JAMES EVER!!
I Want to Be Free (http://youtube.com/watch?v=InG2lLAgflo) (Drums on this track are crazy)
Pride & Vanity (http://youtube.com/watch?v=S6ICQ9DDsDM)
Ecstacy (http://youtube.com/watch?v=v5Lv6d5tCcE) (most know this as Jay and BIG's Brooklyn's Finnest)
Pain (http://youtube.com/watch?v=T-pnmyfQ9BU)
Who'd She Coo (http://youtube.com/watch?v=N3A7z-gVxJw)
Streakin' Cheek to Cheek (http://youtube.com/watch?v=p0lNJiXm9Zw)
It's All Over (http://youtube.com/watch?v=tcIt4dw0qVU)
My Life (http://youtube.com/watch?v=DjzM0kV2-9w)
Honey (http://youtube.com/watch?v=9r9xot4jaHI)
Heaven Must Be Like This (http://youtube.com/watch?v=M6BdGfA2tNw) A Ron Simmons "DAMN!"


Can't post them all but here or some of their cuts...

[playtetris]

How about a Funk/Soul/Jazz band all in one, the OHIO PLAYERS. Not to mention these guys had the greatest album covers EVER!


Sknin Tight (http://youtube.com/watch?v=MC_GIdrzv7U) One of the FUNKIEST JAMES EVER!!
I Want to Be Free (http://youtube.com/watch?v=InG2lLAgflo) (Drums on this track are crazy)
Pride & Vanity (http://youtube.com/watch?v=S6ICQ9DDsDM)
Ecstacy (http://youtube.com/watch?v=v5Lv6d5tCcE) (most know this as Jay and BIG's Brooklyn's Finnest)
Pain (http://youtube.com/watch?v=T-pnmyfQ9BU)
Who'd She Coo (http://youtube.com/watch?v=N3A7z-gVxJw)
Streakin' Cheek to Cheek (http://youtube.com/watch?v=p0lNJiXm9Zw)
It's All Over (http://youtube.com/watch?v=tcIt4dw0qVU)
My Life (http://youtube.com/watch?v=DjzM0kV2-9w)
Honey (http://youtube.com/watch?v=9r9xot4jaHI)
Heaven Must Be Like This (http://youtube.com/watch?v=M6BdGfA2tNw) A Ron Simmons "DAMN!"



Can't post them all but here or some of their cuts...

for sure, ohio players are the sh*t.

here is an awesome track from the delfonics:

'walk right up to the sun' (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FpVNEVcGmo)

2:00 instrumental breakdown is pure pimp swagger

and a dope funk cut from the kashmere stage band:

'super bad' (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CFDGueaui4)

[playtetris]

bumped for musical solace from the pile of shit that is the OTC of late.

gary bartz - gentle smiles (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtAA0qeT6rA)

hip hop heads may recognise 1:05... smooth like butter

[hito da god]

GOAT jazz album imo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJNPDwkgT7U

that's the opening track "solo dancer" from charles mingus' album 'the black saint and the sinner lady'

i can literally stay seated and listen to this CD play through front to end and not mind one bit... the visuals it gives me and story it depicts are outstanding

[hito da god]

bump...

[playtetris]

GOAT jazz album imo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJNPDwkgT7U

that's the opening track "solo dancer" from charles mingus' album 'the black saint and the sinner lady'

i can literally stay seated and listen to this CD play through front to end and not mind one bit... the visuals it gives me and story it depicts are outstanding

great selection, HDG. you got some dope taste, no doubt. so tough to state the GOAT jazz album, or even my favourite.

a couple come to mind for me, though. idris muhammad's 'power of soul', and coltrane's 'a love supreme' (cliched, but you can't beat that album for raw passion from a musician) are two albums i can listen to literally 20 times in a row and not get sick of them.

here's (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFjwJvphMfc) an ill cover of funkadelic's 'i'll stay' by roy hargrove, featuring d'angelo. it's funny, d pretty much dropped off the scene since releasing 'voodoo', only popping up a couple of times (on this track and that dilla joint). still has that amazing vocal tone, though. hopefully he gets his ish together for a new record

roy ayers - searching (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqpAYnjIm8w)

(the roy ayers track is one of my favourite tracks to blaze to)

[hito da god]

listened to the roy ayers track last nite after a nice J... it was phat :pimp:

listing favorite jazz albums is usually hard for me too, but there's just something about the black saint and the sinner lady that gets me every listen... it was made as a ballet, so i guess that's where the story part comes in but the visuals it gives me is what really hits me most about the album

[hito da god]

my favorite jazz musician has to be pops... there's something about that early swing era sound that i love. he just played the hell out of that trumpet with so much power and passion... a few great examples

west end blues :bowdown:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6COgkqy1UU8

potato head blues [sounds a lil cheesy in the beginning but still amazing]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Z6BxJF6q1Q

alligator crawl:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_blkdENzzI

[RainierBeachPoet]

from my george duke thread-- http://www.insidehoops.com/forum/showthread.php?t=101535


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4E56...eature=related (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4E56YEk1r4&feature=related)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTp-T...eature=related (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTp-TrVCuKQ&feature=related)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEehu...eature=related (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEehuUrOd18&feature=related)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KzdCM...eature=related (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KzdCMH8aKxQ&feature=related)

[playtetris]

@ HDG: louis :bowdown:

inspired by RBP's thread, i've been cranking some george duke tonight.

rashid (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZ_Wunak1jM)

old slippers (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSSVwUxT9_s)

followed by idris muhammad

could heaven ever be like this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EStIjUWVf1s)

[RainierBeachPoet]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqw6hXxAtEk&feature=related

raid (everybody raid the dancefloor) by lakeside

:hammertime::pimp::hammertime:

and slave's "watching you"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4Gf54hcRYY&feature=related

[hito da god]

booty bump one of the better threads on this site

[LJJ]

Classic white boy funk:

http://es.youtube.com/watch?v=U_NEIbLpg5E

Chris Kenner - Something You Got ( of the LP) (this is some of the real old school New Orleans soul):

http://es.youtube.com/watch?v=iHZtf8P41L8&feature=related

Bobby Womack - If You Think You're Lonely Now (with Richard Pryor in the audience, hehe):

http://es.youtube.com/watch?v=ERu7Y365CIA

[LJJ]

I'm going to take over this thread.

The video of this Chris Jasper (w Isley & Isley) classic is so campy, but the song is so gorgeous:

http://es.youtube.com/watch?v=_ARl3dUyAyc

[playtetris]

I'm going to take over this thread.

The video of this Chris Jasper (w Isley & Isley) classic is so campy, but the song is so gorgeous:

http://es.youtube.com/watch?v=_ARl3dUyAyc

hahaah that video is mad (no homo). :lol

speaking of funk, check this synth+sax:

dexter wansel - theme from the planets (http://es.youtube.com/watch?v=dNQ8PFD1AU8)

dizzzzzzope!

could i be more drunk right now? i think not

[playtetris]

i'm not going to let this f*cker die.

lamont dozier - the picture will never change (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yC6DmSabVs)

SUCH an epic track. lamont is a :pimp: ! you may recognise a fragment as being used by alchemist for pharoahe monch's track 'desire'.

[Brunch@Five]

I really like Grover Washington ... so smooth

Grover Washington Jr. - Just the two us (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EapcVSB7U4U)

[LJJ]

Anyone like the Stylistics?

Pieces:
http://es.youtube.com/watch?v=I5Xj0OErZv0

They sound a little bubblegummy maybe. But the instrumentation is always really good.

[hito da god]

fred wesley & the JBs - blow your head
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BSrW4b2ljE&feature=related

[playtetris]

Anyone like the Stylistics?

Pieces:
http://es.youtube.com/watch?v=I5Xj0OErZv0

They sound a little bubblegummy maybe. But the instrumentation is always really good.

stylistics are dope.

anyways, i'm bumping this thread b/c lately i've been really getting into this contemporary jazz pianist named robert glasper. amazing musician.

ftb (http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=xBLaWrPPH3E) (piano breakdown at 1:59 blows my mind)

everything in its right place/maiden voyage (http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=faBD41GR5jU) (dope cover of radiohead/herbie)

album link (http://rapidshare.com/files/60518351/robert_glasper_-_in_my_element_2007.rar)

[rufuspaul]

Yes.

Some of my personal favorites are:

The Spinners
The Stylistics
Bobby Womack
Chris Kenner
Allen Toussaint
Buddy Miles
The Meters
Stanley Turrentine (If he counts)
King Curtis
Todd Rundgren

And of course a lot of the classics mentioned in this thread ( marvin Gaye, Al Green, Funkadelic, Bar Kays, Al Hirt)

ONe of the giants I never got is Sly Stone.

Dude, you're one of my most respected posters. But Todd Rundgren??

[L.Kizzle]

Dude, you're one of my most respected posters. But Todd Rundgren??
Ohh, you in tuble!!

[rufuspaul]

Ohh, you in tuble!!

L.Kizzle, did you get my PM?

[L.Kizzle]

L.Kizzle, did you get my PM?
No, send it again.

[LJJ]

:no:

I don't have time to put in the work right now, but I'm coming back to this thread to school rufuspaul on one of my favorite musicians.

[rufuspaul]

:no:

I don't have time to put in the work right now, but I'm coming back to this thread to school rufuspaul on one of my favorite musicians.

Uh oh. I'll bring a pen and notebook.

[LJJ]

I'm a little lazy so I'm just going to link:
http://www.insidehoops.com/forum/showthread.php?t=102079&page=11

To add to the thread a couple of Rundgren related soul links:


Examples of Todd doing soul classics:
I'm So Proud medley (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zz4i8FGMkkA)
(couldn't find his Marvin Gaye tribute, but it's terrific)

Originals:
Parallel Lines (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5O8S5pdXUpQ)
Want of a Nail (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Z4TSG2KcO0&feature=related) (check Bobby Womack on the guitar! :oldlol:)

Rundgren getting covered:
Infamous Isley Brothers cover of Rundgren (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHp1Tr_4_A8)
The Four Tops - We Gotta Get You A Woman (http://www.seahaas.com/toddrundgren/4topsleroy.mp3) (Mp3)
John Legend covering the Todd (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7w0YYDhi6nw)
(there's more like Mary J Blige, Robert Palmer)

[rufuspaul]

Thanks LJJ. I was messing with you to see if I could produce a rant, but you took the high road as you always do. A good musical education for us posters.

[Looten Plunder]

Think-Lyn Collins
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jiqxkdhzi_M

Do It-B.T. Express
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2yCgO1vRT8

Apache-Incredible Bongo Band
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KoO35k8Vpzc

[Dasher]

Blue Magic-Side Show (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eamL5JBdcM8)
Since You've Been Gone (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYBSHoQNXpY&feature=related)
Can I Say I Love You (http://3.media.tumblr.com/i2dw5nf19jfx6abqg3oFpEV9o1_500.jpg)


Bobby Womack cuts:

If You Think You Are Lonely Now (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=naRIH5F9sz0)

I Wish He Didn't Trust Me So Much (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovmS20sc2_U)

That's The Way I Feel About Cha (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axrG4uh-m0c)

MFSB:
The Sound of Philly (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsOL_nYTmA4)
Summertime (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7npn13YbLC4&feature=related)
Love Is The Message (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuUvGh9-Ef4&feature=related)
Sexy (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0H6kRDjs58&feature=related)


This is great striding music. Play this, and even the lamest of lames, will acquire a playerific hitch to his strut.

The Limitations-My Baby (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82Umw_8FBOA&feature=related)

[LJJ]

One of the most underrated Gaye cuts:
My Love is Waiting (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6UWvx8fsF0)

William Bell - You Don't Miss Your Water (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvcP100RnX8)
Both a soul and a country classic. :D



and when you listen to this awful shyt:
Diana Krall - Fly Me To The Moon (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVCgf6_M7i4&feature=PlayList&p=F6433C62B77C2C6E&index=0&playnext=1)

Really I listen to that for 1 minute and I want to smash my head into the keyboard.

Can you then imagine someone did it like this:
Womack's cut (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QraECEHUT_A)

[Dasher]

Eddie Holman in the building!:

My Mind Keeps Telling Me (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uS8PPFAC43s&feature=channel) (This is my favorite Holman joint. It is capable of softening the heart of the even the most stone-hearted goon.)

Hey There Lonely Girl (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXJKCV6HCPM)

I Love You (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=569y2SBRe7I)

Whatever Happened To Our Melody (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtmsR43dxhk)

[hito da god]

some funkadelic for ya asses...

mommy, what's a funkadelic?:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGOF2aQAqfU

funky dollar bill:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTu0eyyKMRs
i almost wanna say 'white people can't dance' cuz of this video :oldlol:

friday night [august 14th]:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYfWlMuZR1E

good old music:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlUaKUdAk6U&feature=related

live medley [great clips], part 1:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPpk7LXx_HM&feature=related

and part 2:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bO1IH8f0Wm4

[BankShot]

Harlem Shuffle - Bob & Earl
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjrvEeQowRk

Get Out My Life, Woman - The Mad Lads
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXtx8zYGXyA

Baby Let Me Take You in My Arms - Detroit Emeralds
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfOLQKvN0rk

Got To Learn How to Dance - The Fatback Band
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCCU4n6VSjM

Hold On I'm Coming - Sam & Dave (must see... 7+ minute rendition from Stax-Volt Euro Tour)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_juH0AHvwk

Some classics to make ya shake

[Brunch@Five]

Wynton Marsalis ain't my favorite Jazz artist, but some of his stuff is really amazing, especially for a fellow trumpet player like me:

Chop Suey (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtXpo2OC0GQ&feature=channel_page)

also, what about some latin Jazz? Paquito D'Rivera is a god with the clarinet

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vw9_9ndCGSw&feature=channel_page

[playtetris]

some great additions from dat doe dash, ljj, gdg, bankshot and b@5!

this thread needs some love unlimited orchestra (barry white's band for the uninitiated):

midnight groove:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUglr62TJG4

midnight and you:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PqpvN02bpA (classssssssic)

strange games and things:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRdrzF0DbbE

[HisAirness]

Harlem Nocturne (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2K15lCaSIg)

Harlem Nocturne (Big Band Arrangement) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bYPnfXXUp4)

[L.Kizzle]

Curtis Mayfield:So In Love (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7NJgEBl8mM)

[Brunch@Five]

Harlem Nocturne (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2K15lCaSIg)

Harlem Nocturne (Big Band Arrangement) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bYPnfXXUp4)

greate piece. I'm playing that with my Big Band, another arrangement though :applause:

John Patitucci, Vinnie Colaiuta and Chick Corea playing SPAIN (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z95pQ7f-iJQ&feature=channel_page)

[Dasher]

Herb and The Impacts-Where Are You? (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DW7VYCaAvA&feature=related)

Chuck Jackson:
I Wake Up Crying (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVANgCaQREo&feature=related)
I Don't Want To Cry (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWTyuLfJj_c&feature=related) (I ****s with the strings in this joint)
Tell Him I'm Not Home (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9Aaj5fhYwk&feature=related)
w/Yvonne Fair-It Must Be Love Baby (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpJwqtlfP7s&feature=related) (He is not crying in this joint)


Let me segue into some Yvonne Fair:
Funky Music Sho Nuff Turns Me On (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PjbLgIJZho&feature=related)
Let Your Hair Down (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAZ3ULLU_9I&feature=related)
Say Yeah Yeah (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnLdXITW7gY&feature=related)
It's Bad For Me To See You (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lExFId5MWY&feature=related)
It Should Have Been Me (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5q64jDvTnm8&feature=related)

Yvonne's husband was a member of Little Anthony and The Imperials. Today they would be billed as Lil Anthony and the Imperial Gangsta Clique:
Hurt So Bad (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vcb4wFRvRqo)
Tears on My Pillow(Live) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DqUG6YBgLAw&feature=related)
I'm On the Outside Looking In (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZnRk1l_3Fk)

Baby Washington covered I'm On the Outside Looking In:
I Can't Wait To See My Baby's Face (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TiD8NsKDp0c)
The Clock (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRk7uGD2utA&feature=related)
Leave Me Alone (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VoXwCISFEx0&feature=related) (More great strings)

[HisAirness]

greate piece. I'm playing that with my Big Band, another arrangement though :applause:

John Patitucci, Vinnie Colaiuta and Chick Corea playing SPAIN (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z95pQ7f-iJQ&feature=channel_page)

I've played Nocture and Spain. I really liked Spain.

[Dasher]

Alphonse Mouzon-The Next Time We Love (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjqi6EoDsBo&feature=channel)

Paradise-I'm Going Away (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2y7BqvOCrk&feature=channel)

Search-Missing You (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCldrip1i7g&feature=related)

Positive Express- Do Me (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KcSimAYbsbI&feature=related)

Prince ft Miko-Do Me Baby(Live In Tokyo) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JD0sHuPC9KU)

[Dasher]

Punkass Otis would not let him back in the Temps, but he still the man. He cranked out numerous joints that became standards. I went as David for Halloween once. My friends were uh....The Temptations.

http://bp2.blogger.com/_j2wXLbpHeM0/SBMaPkfnRUI/AAAAAAAAAb0/C7qlwmJzG9c/s400/david.jpg


David Ruffin
Statue of A Fool (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18RBbHY16-4&feature=related)-Later Sampled By Juicy J on the track Name it After Me (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxHu2zdQ2nc) on the classic album Chronicles of The Juice Mane
Common Man (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E20Tbn-6dy4&feature=related)-Sampled on the Jay Z joint Never Change (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Uvkco6eumo)-off The Blueprint
I Miss You (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Es0W7wsZlBg&feature=related)-You don't hear grown ass man vocals like this anymore.
My Whole World Ended-Live (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WU5TYHHoMdw&feature=related)
I Want You Back (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jn1vzpbNakQ&feature=related)-(Jackson 5 Covered It Later)
I Let Love Slip Away (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWM6i7xkjy8&feature=related)

[Bean]

All Gil Scott-Heron:

Angel Dust (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ViS56I-_bY)

Legend in his own mind (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xY867gz_4o0)

Home is where the hatred is (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOUMvjw9RlA)

I couldn't find "The revolution will not be televised", some G man obviously intervened and removed the link due to its sheer Fire.

[L.Kizzle]

Punkass Otis would not let him back in the Temps, but he still the man. He cranked out numerous joints that became standards. I went as David for Halloween once. My friends were uh....The Temptations.

http://bp2.blogger.com/_j2wXLbpHeM0/SBMaPkfnRUI/AAAAAAAAAb0/C7qlwmJzG9c/s400/david.jpg


David Ruffin

I Want You Back (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jn1vzpbNakQ&feature=related)-(Jackson 5 Covered It Later)

Actually bro, the J5 did the original version. It was actually written for Gladys Knight and the Pips, but Berry had just signed these 5 young kids and they needed a song.

[Dasher]

http://assets.mog.com/pictures/wikipedia/165712/Wilson_pickett.jpg

Wilson Pickett

I'm In Love (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwjxHzg-PgM) "Live" on Soultrain-(Originally by Bobby Womack, and written about Sam Cooke's widow.)

In The Midnight Hour (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhOy1wt5lDc)-Live

Land Of A 1000 Dances (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0U8CDzRk2WE&feature=related)-Live on David Letterman

Live W/The Godfather of Soul (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24KKwn0iVhU&feature=related)

Don't Knock My Love (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFaVUyBdsjY)-Live on Soultrain

Everybody Needs Somebody (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvcFvjRFR94)-Live

[BankShot]

Actually bro, the J5 did the original version. It was actually written for Gladys Knight and the Pips, but Berry had just signed these 5 young kids and they needed a song.

Its true, Ruffin's version was on the 1971 album "David", and the Jackson 5 released theirs in 1969.

[BankShot]

Punkass Otis would not let him back in the Temps, but he still the man. He cranked out numerous joints that became standards. I went as David for Halloween once. My friends were uh....The Temptations.


I would hardly blame the Otis Williams or the rest of the Temptations for the breakup and falling out between them and David Ruffin. He had ego, control, and drug, problems that led to him alienating the rest of the band, and later when he was officially out, ruining shows and creating legal issues.


By 1967, however, ego problems with Ruffin became an issue for the group. He became addicted to cocaine, and began missing rehearsals and performances. Refusing to travel with the other Temptations, Ruffin and his then-girlfriend Tammi Terrell traveled in a custom limo (with the image of his trademark black rimmed glasses painted on the door). After The Supremes had their name changed to Diana Ross & the Supremes in early 1967, Ruffin felt that he should become the focal point of the Temptations, just as Diana Ross was for her group, and began demanding that the group name be changed to David Ruffin & the Temptations. This led to a number of fights between Ruffin and the group's de facto leader, Otis Williams. In addition to the group's problems with his ego, Ruffin began inquiring into the Temptations' financial records, demanding an accounting of the group's money. This caused friction between Ruffin and Gordy.

In mid-1968, the Temptations agreed that Ruffin finally crossed the line when he missed a 1968 concert to attend a concert being performed by his new girlfriend, Barbara Martin instead. Ruffin was replaced with former Contour Dennis Edwards, who had been a friend of Ruffin and the group as a whole beforehand. Despondent that he had been fired from the group that he felt he had single-handedly brought to success, Ruffin began turning up at and crashing Temptations' concerts. When the group started to perform a Ruffin-era song such as "My Girl" or "Ain't Too Proud to Beg", Ruffin himself would appear on the stage, grab the microphone from Dennis Edwards and steal the show, embarrassing the band but delighting the fans. The Temptations resorted to hiring extra security to prevent Ruffin from attending their shows.[citation needed]

Meanwhile, Ruffin filed suit against Motown Records, seeking a release from the label and an accounting of his money. Motown countersued to keep the singer from leaving the label and eventually the case was settled. The settlement required Ruffin to remain with Motown to finish out his initial contract (Ruffin joined Motown as a solo artist, and always had a separate contract from the other Temptations, which some felt caused a lot of the in-fighting within the group).

[BankShot]

Everybody Needs Somebody (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvcFvjRFR94)-Live

Solomon Burke baby :bowdown:

[playtetris]

the delta rhythm section - orange (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cst6DEJ_w9s)

LTD - love to the world (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fT-yaRs1yjw)

mandrill - honeybutt (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8Ksq2yulXQ)

lonnie liston smith - garden of peace (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-n9pj1eAfk)

[Dasher]

http://moogie.info/music/cd/Debarge-best.jpg


I Like It (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtYeLU0n4KI&feature=related)

Time Will Reveal (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_988-cpiG94&feature=related)

All This Love (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpfm_9zklyo)

Whose Holding Donna Now (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6SRtj4kX2s&feature=related)

Stay With Me (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CinavBPMy-I)

Rhythm of the Night (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7T4FuJJO1E)

Love Me in a Special Way (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyQm3rYyNrQ&feature=related)

Share My World (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gg3Lif8DykA&feature=related)

Hesitated (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNApwHaU2OQ&feature=related)

Can't Stop (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfbgPXOe_EE&feature=related)

You're So Gentle So Kind (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azqYfXAW-XU&feature=related)

You Wear It Well (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVxGpmNf5YA)

[Dasher]

By 1967, however, ego problems with Ruffin became an issue for the group. He became addicted to cocaine, and began missing rehearsals and performances. Refusing to travel with the other Temptations, Ruffin and his then-girlfriend Tammi Terrell traveled in a custom limo (with the image of his trademark black rimmed glasses painted on the door). After The Supremes had their name changed to Diana Ross & the Supremes in early 1967, Ruffin felt that he should become the focal point of the Temptations, just as Diana Ross was for her group, and began demanding that the group name be changed to David Ruffin & the Temptations. This led to a number of fights between Ruffin and the group's de facto leader, Otis Williams. In addition to the group's problems with his ego, Ruffin began inquiring into the Temptations' financial records, demanding an accounting of the group's money. This caused friction between Ruffin and Gordy.

None of this seems paticularly unreasonable. David Ruffin and The Temptations has a nice ring to it.

[Dasher]

http://www.onlyfunk.com/Affiches/Maze%20featuring%20Frankie%20Beverly/Oeuvre/Maze%20Featuring%20Frankie%20Beverly.jpg

Maze featuring Frankie Beverly, Maze with Frankie Beverly, or Frankie Beverly and Maze is the ultimate family reunion band. They have a song for whatever situation pops up at family get-togethers. When cats talk about great bands, I don't think they come up enough. They made such beautiful music. There are very few singers who can be as vulnerable as Frankie and not come off as whiny, soft, *****-whipped, and/or bitchmade.

Reason (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXTr3m_qRl0) (If the Dash Mane ever jumps the broom, this will be the wedding song. It is such a great cut.)
Before I Let Go (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTdX6dKBM68&feature=related)(Club Staple)
We Are One (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2lS283bmKM&feature=related)
Happy Feelin's (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pq5zgqmzWSI)(This song can never be played too many times.)
Joy and Pain (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6DFEOFHl0w)(Electric slide time)
You-Live (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcP6AmE7SZ8&feature=related)
Family (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKiLzsPR9do&feature=related)
Can't Get Over You (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RceeYjvjSio&feature=related)
Too Many Games (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LQtgCmViXA&feature=related)
Back in Stride (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4JUCNTAN-g&feature=related)
Feel That What You're Feeling (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvKVPRLjM_E&feature=related)
Lady of Magic (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkpXNDc1rHM&feature=related)

(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RceeYjvjSio&feature=related)

[RainierBeachPoet]

tune into some vintage george duke!

look what you find
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTp-TrVCuKQ&feature=related

reach for it
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXhnQY5Kva0

funkin' for the thrill
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEehuUrOd18&feature=related

i want you for myself (with lynn davis)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unBfb2syL18&feature=related

[hito da god]

it's a soul/jazz/funk thread, but how about showing some love for a lady bluesman... or a blueswoman... whichever works. thought we'd show some love to the ladies, specifically the big women.

big mama thornton:
hound dog on a record player:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcK6Ct22Y8A&feature=related

they call me big mama:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYSv3qyGJFA
"they call me big mama cuz i weigh 300 pounds" :applause: :oldlol:

summertime:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwlTOspKNh8

down home shakedown [jam session]:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhyjFfZTGHk

one of the few woman artists i can really listen to, and an amazing voice :pimp:

[answer323]

All Gil Scott-Heron:

Angel Dust (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ViS56I-_bY)

Legend in his own mind (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xY867gz_4o0)

Home is where the hatred is (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOUMvjw9RlA)

I couldn't find "The revolution will not be televised", some G man obviously intervened and removed the link due to its sheer Fire.

http://video.google.com/videosearch?hl=en&q=gil+scott+heron+the+revolution+will+not+be+telev ised&um=1&ie=UTF-8&ei=NTG_SaS-M43WMPjcoK4N&sa=X&oi=video_result_group&resnum=4&ct=title#

[playtetris]

summertime:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwlTOspKNh8


nice... she's got a powerful voice.

i also enjoyed the george duke and gil scott heron tracks (two of my favourite artists).

more tracks:

rhythm - the world is a place (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXILWhNqe6M) (LOVE this joint)

minnie riperton - take a little trip (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZn25Snl710)

stylistics - people make the world go round (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExWtwDYwOQU) (dopest stylistics cut)

[LJJ]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXRN23gC-Ws&feature=related

Just such a classic.

And the dopest Stylistics cut is just, obviously:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=alvEUFJtMw8

[answer323]

don't know if this has been posted yet

letta mbulu - pula yetla

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJLFVUL63xU

[playtetris]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXRN23gC-Ws&feature=related

Just such a classic.

And the dopest Stylistics cut is just, obviously:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=alvEUFJtMw8

:applause:
herbie :bowdown:
that IS a nice stylistics track; i hadn't heard that before. the intro is killer. 'stop, look, listen' (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObEsLBBK2JA)is also up there.

golden music orchestra - african honeymoon (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcvlwJc-zIk) (some slinky sh*t)
harlem underground band - ain't no sunshine (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gm1WAADbTKQ) (awesome version)
manzel - space funk (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LJKlY7E8OU) (title says it all)
ronnie laws - tidal wave (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FDuZhknxv0) (sampled by the beatminerz for 'who got da props' by black moon. sick track)

[L.Kizzle]

Greatest Jackson 5 song ever! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xz_yfFrTyzw)

[quasimoto]

Mtume (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPEx8Gsa0XA). Good shit.

[LJJ]

Gotta love the 80s
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6s2SzejKvA)

[playtetris]

i'm in an earth wind and fire mood this afternoon... my favourite tracks by them:

can't hide love (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wr0ekZlcM8E)

reasons (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GN2HFpEYNf8)

that's the way of the world (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDhCtwr6W2U)

[RainierBeachPoet]

i'm in an earth wind and fire mood this afternoon... my favourite tracks by them:

can't hide love (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wr0ekZlcM8E)

reasons (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GN2HFpEYNf8)

that's the way of the world (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDhCtwr6W2U)

all great songs-- two more ewf

fantasy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SIR0LgdIaY

serpentine fire
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctcMZHwP1H4&feature=related

[Dasher]

[quote=loot]Last week it was 39 (!!!) years ago she died. One of the all time great female voices.

http://s3.amazonaws.com/findagrave/photos/2001/222/terrelltammibio.jpg

The story of her live, and probably even more her death, reads like a hollywood production. With a very bad ending though.

Aged twenty she was already perfomring in fornt of large audiences, and aged 22 she released the untitled duet album together with Marvin Gaye on Tamla records.

http://www.nndb.com/people/169/000092890/terrell-sm.jpg

In 1970 she collapsed onstage in the arms of Marvin Gaye, while performing. Later she was diagnosed with a braintumor, and she died a few years later due to the illness.

Really sad story. She recorded some of the greatest duets ever with Marvin Gaye:

1967: "Ain't No Mountain High Enough"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVFT7i94zQU

1968: "Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svAs-6MiqxE&feature=related

1968: "You're All I Need to Get By"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFqqgdhWEN8

1969: "You Ain't Livin' Till You're Lovin'"


Marvin Gaye took a hiatus after her death for more than a year, and the creation of his classic album 'What's Going On' was in large part influenced by Terrell's death. He changed a lot after she died. Tammi would have been remembered by many as one of the all time greats if she would've gotten more time. She's appreciated.


1966: "All I Do" (written by Stevie Wonder)

1967: "Two can Have a Party"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjcgJ2qHiIU

(check this video, it's not the original video; there was never made one, but it features a scene from the 1941 movie 'Helzapopin' with the incredible, incredible Whitey's Lindy Hoppers, I might do a little topic about them in a few weeks)


April 29, 1945

[L.Kizzle]

............
Most peeps don;t know that she started out with James Brown beofre moving on to Motown.

[Dasher]

You learn something new everyday.

[L.Kizzle]

You learn something new everyday.
Yeah, she went by Tammy Montgomery back than.

I Cried (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMLH2IU7Hqk)
If You Don't Think (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFPByLCacL0)

both written by James Brown.

[Bean]

This is possibly one of the best threads that ISH has to offer. Hours of pure awesome music.

[answer323]

found this for cheap on vinyl at the record store
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51TRJMCXZKL._SS500_.jpg

god made me funky (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAfVsuVEYD0)

[L.Kizzle]

I been on a Rick James binge lately

Fool On The Street (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKMsypQ2i-w)
New York Town (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7B2CPJAnlg)
Summer Love (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55WPxZ6XzNQ&feature=related)
Ghetto Life (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wWh-3ZN-g0)
Teardrops (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQpsjnRXXcI)
Glow (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVZfm7qXY9A) (WATCH THIS VIDEO TO SEE WHERE CHAPPELLE GOT HIS INSPIRATION FROM, lolololol)

Stone City Band: Ladies Choice (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSTg3VCaE1Y&feature=related)

[RainierBeachPoet]

I been on a Rick James binge lately

Fool On The Street (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKMsypQ2i-w)
New York Town (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7B2CPJAnlg)
Summer Love (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55WPxZ6XzNQ&feature=related)
Ghetto Life (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wWh-3ZN-g0)
Teardrops (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQpsjnRXXcI)
Glow (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVZfm7qXY9A) (WATCH THIS VIDEO TO SEE WHERE CHAPPELLE GOT HIS INSPIRATION FROM, lolololol)

Stone City Band: Ladies Choice (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSTg3VCaE1Y&feature=related)

rick's early stuff was the best:

bustin' out
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oi4NXoFWMlU

[Dasher]

Since you like those funk cuts, here are some more.

James Brown: Give It Up or Turnit Lose (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Yw6SdHhewM)
Funkadelic: One Nation Under a Groove (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msNgZ2nexC0)
Bar-Kays: Let's Have Some Fun (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CI8wZsNkFbg)


Mid '70s to Early '80s R&B
Marvin Gaye: I Met a Little Girl (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wltA2dQ5oJI)
Bootsy's Rubber Band: I'd Rather Be With You (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18vLUUSqv0A)
Michael Jackson: I Can't Help It (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SwvRZC7XgY)
Switch: I Call Your Name (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmNztRHEnzc)
Barry White: Just The Way You Are (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BFrTxvxKTs)
The Time: Gigilos Get Lonely Too (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLLmg_eGxrk)
DeBarge: I Like It (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpiLtAQIFTg)
The Commodores: ZOOM (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPQz5nCn158)
O'Jays: Forever Mine (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIqMV7hwaGk)

Let's see, '80s Funk similar to Rick James.

Try some Time, Zapp, Cameo, Steve Arrington's Hall of Fame among others.


The Time: Get It Up (http://youtube.com/watch?v=vmST6l3rhtg)
The Time: 777-9311 (http://youtube.com/watch?v=HfHQ0T_hvrQ&feature=related) (You probably know it as 2Pac's "What's Ya Phone #")
Zapp: More Bounce To the Ounce (http://youtube.com/watch?v=_sNQxzabWpg)
Cameo: Flirt (http://youtube.com/watch?v=dxtqIe2P_TI)
Steve Arrington's Hall of Fame: Weak at the Knees (http://youtube.com/watch?v=SGO-TGQbnTM)
Invisible Man's Band: All Night Thing (http://youtube.com/watch?v=PnccRY4eAjI)
GQ: Disco Nights (Rock Freak) (http://youtube.com/watch?v=fFXPq8R_Qng)
One Way: Mr. Groove (http://youtube.com/watch?v=1PBjNyZwqXs)
DeBarge: You Wear It Well (http://youtube.com/watch?v=xVxGpmNf5YA)


And since you like the Bar-Kays so much, here is some more from them ...
Funky 'Kays
FReaky Behavior (http://youtube.com/watch?v=37HssXXkbRQ)
Hit and Run (http://youtube.com/watch?v=HqV6K_TBhvo)
Sex-O-Matic (http://youtube.com/watch?v=4mRAsvfXdnA)
Propositions (http://youtube.com/watch?v=Em8-qHK6-r0)
Nightcruising (http://youtube.com/watch?v=AKbtXyAtZow)

Soulful 'Kays
Attitudes (http://youtube.com/watch?v=p5Z-3n-rFgk)
Anticipation (http://youtube.com/watch?v=-4P_5BKLl3A&feature=related)
Shine (http://youtube.com/watch?v=ifLy7tGqQbA) ..................

[StaxMan]

The flagship of Stax Records: The Immortal Otis Redding

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-eNLcerd-U

[RainierBeachPoet]

robin thicke's last cd-- something else

maybe has one or two tracks that are not all that great-- but the rest of the songs are VERY good

does thicke get points deducted because he is white?

[L.Kizzle]

robin thicke's last cd-- something else

maybe has one or two tracks that are not all that great-- but the rest of the songs are VERY good

does thicke get points deducted because he is white?
Nope, he actually gets more points. No offense to Alan Thicke's kid, but it's a shame when a white guy has more soul than anyone in the current RnB field (mainstream Rnb that is.)

[RainierBeachPoet]

Nope, he actually gets more points. No offense to Alan Thicke's kid, but it's a shame when a white guy has more soul than anyone in the current RnB field (mainstream Rnb that is.)

sounds like he gets points deducted from you kizz:D

[L.Kizzle]

sounds like he gets points deducted from you kizz:D
THat's actually a knock on the other current RnB cats.

[RainierBeachPoet]

THat's actually a knock on the other current RnB cats.
seems like back in the day when the technology wasnt as advanced, guys like teddy p, barry w, marvin, phillip bailey, jeffrey osborne, old school lionel richie, al green relied on their talent and developed it

now, you got technology tidying up guys voices and when they try to sing live, their abilities (or lack thereof) are really exposed

[L.Kizzle]

JACKIE JACKSON: Do I Owe (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UE1bkbcLWPA&feature=related) (yes, one of the brothers)
WILLIE HUTCH: I Can Show Give You Love (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MuEyA5yUZKc) (damn!!)
VANITY & MORRIS DAY: Mechanical Emotiond (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwr9Krq0zeY&feature=related)

[Dnn111]

I love R&B soul and funk and jazz

Albums I recommend on getting...

Al Green, Call Me (Al Green's best album overall and vocally)
Curtis Mayfield, Superfly
Sam Cooke, Portrait of a Legend 1951-1964
Miles Davis, Kind of Blue (the greatest jazz album, period!)
Van Morrison, Astral Weeks (greatest blue-eyed soul album)


I have so many to name...

[BankShot]

I love R&B soul and funk and jazz

Albums I recommend on getting...

Al Green, Call Me (Al Green's best album overall and vocally)
Curtis Mayfield, Superfly
Sam Cooke, Portrait of a Legend 1951-1964
Miles Davis, Kind of Blue (the greatest jazz album, period!)
Van Morrison, Astral Weeks (greatest blue-eyed soul album)


I have so many to name...

MUCH bigger fan of Lets Stay Together... but its Al good :cheers:

Speaking of which, I just re-stumbled across this YouTube gem:

Al Green & Backup Band - People Get Ready
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8NWqO85P6Y&feature=related

The unparalleled charisma and style of Al Green.... great backup band, backup vocals.... people get ready there's a train comin

[Brunch@Five]

Kanye West - Original Samples (http://kevinnottingham.com/myblog/2008/05/27/kanye-west-original-samples-collection/)

A really great collection of awesome mostly soul, funk and jazz. All songs that Kanye West sampled as a producer.

[L.Kizzle]

Kanye West - Original Samples (http://kevinnottingham.com/myblog/2008/05/27/kanye-west-original-samples-collection/)

A really great collection of awesome mostly soul, funk and jazz. All songs that Kanye West sampled as a producer.
So that's basically all his songs right ... :oldlol:


O'Jays: I'll Be Sweeter Tomorrow ( Then I Was Today ) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpeslxI9OIg)

[Dasher]

Bobby Womack-I'm Through Trying To Prove My Love To You (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PjoCVh4RgA)
Millie Jackson version (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAOTxk5T-0A&feature=related)

Across 110th St.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtzRJgZG98I

If You Think You're Lonely Now
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=naRIH5F9sz0

Harry Hippee
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbrYM_x37GU

Women's Gotta Have It
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YF_TRdqTij8

I Wish He Didn't Trust Me So Much
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovmS20sc2_U


That's The Way I Feel About You (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLYNWSyti6o)
You're Welcome, Stop On By (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1vF0i3khZc)
How I Miss You Baby (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PReCXYXgEOQ)
More Than I Can Stand (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fc2MjWrNVns) (Live version with The Preacher is waaayyy better.)
I Can Understand It (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0KSkcLrUBI)
Lookin' For a Love (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrUB2KY8u1M)

[playtetris]

my nickname is bobby womack. dig that funk.

creation unlimited - chrystal illusion (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouqolD71WzI)

i caught this next group jamming at union square in frisco when i was recently there. amazingly dope sh*t. if anyone digs, hit me up; i've uploaded their album to zshare.

supa lowery bros - connections (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bHUV0bJDbc)

supa lowery bros - fur live (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1y_0AUd05g)

[Dasher]

BMU-You Will Know (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bx48V14NdcQ&feature=related)

The cats in this vid need to start back cranking out material. Outside of Raphael I don't think anyone has released any recent material.
R.I.P.-Gerald Levert

[L.Kizzle]

BMU-You Will Know (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bx48V14NdcQ&feature=related)

The cats in this vid need to start back cranking out material. Outside of Raphael I don't think anyone has released any recent material.
R.I.P.-Gerald Levert
Mint Condition just released a new LP a few months back, the rest of the cats are on the inactive list. El DeBarge-come back.


Christion: Full Of Smoke (1997) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJsfAKBpiTg)
Dionne Farris: Hopeless (1997) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlkJ7JXETr0)
Bilal Love It (2000) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xo9-RZNUmQ)
Gene Chandler: Just Be True (1964) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8j-yQsgJrM)
Four Tops: Loving You is Sweeter Than Ever (1966) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZaLnTYd3W0)

[Dasher]

Also R.I.P Kenny Greene of Intro who appears in the BMU vid. He died of AIDS a few years back.


Still thinking about the relevance of Kenny Greene's life and death

Oct 13 '02

The Bottom Line He was a major talent, with major potential and minor to non-existent love and support. For shame.

This is a slight revision, I liked the original but some things needed clarification for me.

Most people probably don't even know who Kenny Greene is. Most people don't even know the buzz that was going on in the industry about this guy before he died in October of 2001 of complications due to AIDS. I could go on and on about how talented he really was and how, at least for the R&B community, he will be missed. And I will, but there is a greater more meaningful purpose to this editorial. And if it gets even one of you to pick up an album by Kenny's group INTRO, that'll be enough for me.


Kenny Greene started out as one-third of the R&B trio INTRO. They dropped their eponymous debut album in 1993 and it spawned the hits, Let Me Be The One and Why Don't You Love Me. And their astonishingly daring ballad Come Inside may have spawned a generation in the same way Marvin's Sexual Healing did. And it is just as good a song. Look at any guy or girl's sex mixtape and I guarantee it is on there. They are credited with taking the New Jack sound farther, giving it what would ultimately be called a "neo-soul" flair. Kenny's writing and arranging was so critically lauded that he and Dave Jam Hall (you know the guy who actually produced Mary J Blige's What's The 411? and much of Madonna's Bedtime Stories) tied with Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis for ASCAP's Songwriter of the Year in 1993. If you don't believe he is great you know Mary J. Blige's Reminisce and Love No Limit? Yep, Kenny Greene wrote them.

INTRO’s first album was stellar and more accomplished than any of the debuts by the male groups coming out at the time. If you listen to Shai's ...if i ever fall in love or Silk's Lose Control, H-Town, Portrait, any of those guys, INTRO's music is much more assured and complex. Kenny's arrangements were definitely influenced by the classics, none more than The Blue Notes in my opinion. And over the new jack beats, there is a freshness that is timeless in a way those other albums I've mentioned will never be.

But their second and final album together New Life fixes all the small things that were wrong with the first album. The backgrounds are more pronounced and the production is dialed down a bit. The lyrics are much more insightful, none more apparent than on the metaphoric richness of the title track, a Stevie-esque ode to renewal. Kenny Greene's ability to take simple arrangements and merge them with a modern context made him a hidden gem in a bedrock of more showy neo-soulers who couldn't find a way to make their influences mesh with a modern context. The fact that he and INTRO didn't last is a testament to the radical, and subtle songwriting that didn't quite fit with neo-soul or new jack swing. And it speaks volumes about how knowledgeable the average R&B listener is NOT about the complexities and nuances of songwriting.


In July of 2001, Kenny Greene came out as a man who had been living a life as a bisexual. It was important for him to do so because he had been irresponsible and the pressure to be a straight man in the alpha-male world of being a black man and a R&B singer was enormous. He didn’t want to allow the pressures and hate that goes on toward gay and bisexual men in the R&B world to go on in secret. It was important to him to make sure that people understood that what they see isn’t necessarily who the artist is.

I'm not excusing Kenny's actions, but it must have been excruciating. Let us remember that this was the early 90's, pre-Ellen, pre-Will and Grace, before Greg Louganis came out, before Melissa Etheridge was a household name, before the countless gay-themed movies, Queer as Folk , and Rupert Everett and George Michael came out (officially).

And in the black context it was before Dwight Ewell's gay militant in Chasing Amy or Michael Boatman's Carter on Spin City . Why do I say that? Well think of other prominent black gay actors or characters in the media. There aren't any. And Ewell and Boatman aren’t even gay.

The black population is overwhelmingly Puritanical, due almost entirely to the Big Brother like presence (and importance) of the church in our history and culture. Black people are frighteningly homophobic mostly because black masculinity in this country has historically been linked to his ability to procreate. The more women a black man got pregnant the more valuable he was to the master and the economy of this country. Sexuality and virility in black men is intrinsically linked to economics. But more interestingly, our Puritanical pariah-like faith is a direct response to our oppressors who said one thing in the name of God and did the exact opposite. For black people, it wasn’t about lip service but real spirituality and faith. And while that is changing, the mindset prevails.

Kenny Greene was in a high profile position where he was making very erotic and sensual music and if the public knew it could have been about a man, it would have sent shockwaves through the black community...in a way that we may not be ready to deal with. This is inexcusable. In my mind, a population still persecuted should not persecute another, but I’m smart enough to know it is not that simple. The bottom line is Kenny Greene’s music was damn good and no one in our community could have dealt with the ramifications of intense sexual and emotional bonds between men. And since he was bisexual, the not knowing would have made it worse. We like our demons and hatred clear-cut in America. Context is just too much for our minds. He’d have been run out of the industry.

Kenny Greene was a man who never really got the opportunity to really grow. Mary J Blige got her start with Kenny Greene’s music but since then we’ve gotten a chance to see the woman and artist that she is. Kenny doesn’t have that luxury. The growth between the two INTRO albums is astonishing and those albums are nearly 10 years old. It is daunting a task to think about where he could be. Perhaps he could be where R. Kelly was. Perhaps he could have surpassed him. Possibilities are endless. His time in the industry was just under 10 years and he had only did a handful of stuff. His backing vocals for everyone from Will Smith to Cam'ron will never be indicative of the burgeoning talent in the man.

I loved INTRO. Their debut was the third CD I ever owned after Expose and SWV. I remember hearing about all the fighting and ego stuff that went on after the release of New Life. And I desperately remember wishing they'd drop another album. Kenny's debut release never materialized and I'm not even sure how much he even recorded. But I'm sure those masters, if there are any, have some great material on them.

And I wanted to talk about him because there are lots of other closeted men in the music industry and Kenny Greene's death should not be in vain. E Lynn Harris's novels featured a closeted R&B singer who was leaving his group to launch a solo career...out and proud. The general consensus is that that character was based on Kenny Greene. While that is entirely possible the simple fact that Harris chose to address this issue speaks volumes about the prevalence of such a phenomenon. Who knows how many men are living as dangerously and with as much self-loathing as it seems Kenny Greene did. We owe it to him to not allow this to continue. Yes, it is those closeted men’s decision, but they shouldn’t have to forgo their musical ability just because the environment and public response is hostile.

The emotional fallout from Kenny Greene's death has been minimal and I think that is what disturbs me most. I can understand how people in the industry don't want any confusion if a fuss were made over Kenny, but I don't agree or support it. It’s not about condoning a lifestyle choice. As some point we need to realize that some things in life aren’t a choice. And not just nod when you read this and agree, but live out what that means. Open your minds, understand that love and sex are what they are. There don’t have to any rules that the people involved don’t impose on themselves. And music is music. If it is good does it really matter where it comes from? For all the hoopla they make about dead artists, this one deserves just as much if not more. And some of these dead artists did worst things that Kenny Greene did. Some are a part of a generation that ripped off an entire genre of music and passed it off as their cultural bullhorn. I think it is disgusting that nothing will be done publicly for fear of rumors of being gay or bisexual.

This might have to be Kenny Greene's legacy, that of forced obscurity because who he was and the politics of his chosen profession don’t mesh in a way that is comfortable for a country that is economically and technologically on the cutting edge, but culturally so old-fashioned, ignorant, and hateful. Who he was didn’t make room for his artistry, however little, to be celebrated and appreciated. That is just inexcusable. People do horrible things, people do things that we don’t agree with, that has nothing to do with their artistry.

At the very least, he should be credited with giving Mary J. Blige two of her best songs ever. But that would be insulting and I guess I would rather him forgotten than trivialized and belittled by throwing him the metaphoric bone of "Aww, we're sorry you're gone...what you could have been."

[L.Kizzle]

RIP. Dasher you mentioning INTRO made me think of this 90s' song.

Hi-Five: She's Playing Hard To Get (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZFxpiSNHJA)

[Dasher]

I remerber that joint. I miss some of those late New Jack Swing joints from back in the day. I performed this joint: Shai-If I Ever Fall in Love (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVHpsgvBxlw) when I was in 8th grade at a talent show. Let's just say the honey dips were all on my tip.

[L.Kizzle]

I remerber that joint. I miss some of those late New Jack Swing joints from back in the day. I performed this joint: Shai-If I Ever Fall in Love (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVHpsgvBxlw) when I was in 8th grade at a talent show. Let's just say the honey dips were all on my tip.


[/URL]
LOL, I've been on a early 90s' RnB mood recently, remember these joints ...

[URL="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlPBDzq5i5A"]Aaron Hall: Don't Be Afraid (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVHpsgvBxlw)
Jade;Don't Walk Away (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KcJXJg8QPzE)
Ralph Tresvand: Stone Cold Gentleman (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WiwJhfGSY9c&feature=PlayList&p=C422008B5414FE50&index=0&playnext=1)
DRS: Gangsta Lean (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmztCakVdvE)

[Dasher]

Tevin Campbell had a cut that had the words "shower me with your love" in the hook. Do you know the song title? I have been looking for it.(nostalgia/first piece of the akshone purposes).

Homie from H-Town died too. Damn I am starting to feel old.

Edit found it. Surface-Shower Me With Your Love (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13F6ino_GT8)
It is cheesy, but it makes me fell 13 again.

[playtetris]

syreeta - black maybe (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HL_i4FrPvvY)

produced by stevie. amazing track. syreeta's voice is teh sex

[RainierBeachPoet]

it always makes my day when this thread gets bumped!!

how about some mid 70s commodores:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fJaRzmGGgk&feature=related

i think it would make a good sample for someone

i like this one too:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxNRQ5U-3g4&feature=related

[playtetris]

it always makes my day when this thread gets bumped!!

how about some mid 70s commodores:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fJaRzmGGgk&feature=related

i think it would make a good sample for someone

i like this one too:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxNRQ5U-3g4&feature=related

you're one funky mofo, rbp! the commodores kill it! :rockon:

speaking of funky:

gary bartz - music is my sanctuary (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dT5B_O30LI);

not so funky, but dope nonetheless:

weldon irvine - here's where i came in (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFYjak72ijg)

[DreamShake34]

I'll chime in with some Lake Side

Fantastic Voyage:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_Sht9nE7Pg

[RainierBeachPoet]

I'll chime in with some Lake Side

Fantastic Voyage:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_Sht9nE7Pg
:rockon:

here is my fav lakeside jam

its all the way live

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8ML-PxsHlg&feature=related


edit: i just found a great brick song!!

aint gonna hurt nobody
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZQ246aEK5w&feature=related

[playtetris]

time for another bump.

john dankworth - return from ashes (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFxaVmUrsU4) (funky motherfunkin track. the strings are killer)

eddie holman - i love you (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=569y2SBRe7I)

lou donaldson - caracas (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rdiks1Vk6OE) (feat. my man grant green on the geetar)

the three sounds - once in a lifetime (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27BywPMCTlA) (produced by the master, quincy jones)

[L.Kizzle]

Ray, Goodman and Brown: Special Lady (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fA70hhimR2E)

James Brown: Nose Job (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QlW_TvnbH8)

David Ruffin: Walk Away from Love (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NiApUZnr5k4)

[RainierBeachPoet]

try this slow jam:

Con Funk Shun- Let me put love on your mind

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODKeI2ieA4Y&feature=related


side note: i have been listening to raphael saadiq lately-- i didnt know he was part of tony toni tone back in the day...

[RainierBeachPoet]

and this one from brick

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyBa862AxaE&feature=related

[L.Kizzle]

try this slow jam:

Con Funk Shun- Let me put love on your mind

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODKeI2ieA4Y&feature=related


side note: i have been listening to raphael saadiq lately-- i didnt know he was part of tony toni tone back in the day...
Yes, lead of the group. Originally went by Raphael Wiggins up until about 1995.

Tony, Toni, Tone: Just Me and You (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fY1t1Kj9iLw)
Tony, Toni, Tone: I Care (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9ds7Ny_q3s)

[playtetris]

[edit] rbp, that con funk shun joint is the sh*t.

this track sounds like dasher's theme song :oldlol: obligatorynohomo

johnny guitar watson - superman lover (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrDLLXnl0-I)

an epic track

syl johnson - i'm talking about freedom (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVw-aoxFDIE)

[LJJ]

Johnny Guitar Watson is one of my favorites. Very tasteful player, and the way he reinvented himself in the seventies is so impressive. From early electric Texas blues musician in the fifties to completely over the top funk artist.

Plus, he was just a pimp straight up.

[RainierBeachPoet]

[edit] rbp, that con funk shun joint is the sh*t.

[/URL]

try this funky jam by confunkshun:

miss got the body

[url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9bHvmYEJ0g&feature=related (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVw-aoxFDIE)

[Dasher]

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_KqndcpjQSek/STubxjt9jUI/AAAAAAAAKO0/jtc7T2zO3XE/s400/Switch-+This+Is+My+Dream81.jpg

I Call Your Name (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8GuWCRE6X0)

There'll Never Be (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLKkkOoszAA)

The Best Beat in Town (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9vxFNclQu8)

Calling on All Girls (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZ3_IQ2ln7U&feature=related)

I Wanna Be Closer (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8q5bSPkci8)

Don't Take Your Love Away (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O04kHmkambQ)

I Do Love You (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JL1kRKK8qQM)

Love Over and Over Again (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkBceyxYCro)

[L.Kizzle]

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_KqndcpjQSek/STubxjt9jUI/AAAAAAAAKO0/jtc7T2zO3XE/s400/Switch-+This+Is+My+Dream81.jpg

I Call Your Name (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8GuWCRE6X0)

There'll Never Be (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLKkkOoszAA)

The Best Beat in Town (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9vxFNclQu8)

Calling on All Girls (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZ3_IQ2ln7U&feature=related)

I Wanna Be Closer (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8q5bSPkci8)

Don't Take Your Love Away (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O04kHmkambQ)

I Do Love You (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JL1kRKK8qQM)

Love Over and Over Again (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkBceyxYCro)
Discovered and produced by Jermaine Jackson.

[RainierBeachPoet]

it always makes me happy when this thread is recycled

:rockon:

[playtetris]

hahaha love some of those switch cuts.

lamar posted this grover washington jr track (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UiGYUKquQ0) in another thread (the ISH beat comp thread), and it got me on a grover/bob james kick:

grover washington jr - hydra (sampled by beatminers for black moon's 'how many emcees')

grover washington jr - moonstreams (amazing vibe out joint) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGQq60mDBns)

grover washington jr - ain't no sunshine (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vacZwnV-aKw)

bob james - caribbean nights (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwjqWH9pQcc)

bob james - reunited (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRhCMvpjhzs)


it always makes me happy when this thread is recycled

:rockon:

the funk will never die, rbp. i'm going to keep bumping this thread for as long as i post here. :cheers:

[L.Kizzle]

Some Mike ... RIP

I Can't Help It (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnhWML43NI8)
Who Is It (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pveL3tM9ejw&feature=fvst)
Tabloid Junkie (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KM2IvF-1***)

The Jacksons

Do What You Wanna (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dl3bAbq-was)
Time Waits For No One (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_Wx0ZFqPM8)
Jermaine ft. Michael: Tell Me I'm Not Dreamin' (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGE970BBLZo)

[playtetris]

Some Mike ... RIP

I Can't Help It (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnhWML43NI8)
Who Is It (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pveL3tM9ejw&feature=fvst)
Tabloid Junkie (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KM2IvF-1***)

The Jacksons

Do What You Wanna (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dl3bAbq-was)
Time Waits For No One (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_Wx0ZFqPM8)
Jermaine ft. Michael: Tell Me I'm Not Dreamin' (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGE970BBLZo)

great music, RIP.

my favourite mike tracks:

never can say goodbye (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xbv-5h_oXZw)

i wanna be where you are (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYFe-Wjp3Ws) (this is my sh*t)

rock with you (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hK3Y1Ehv9c)

[L.Kizzle]

great music, RIP.

my favourite mike tracks:

never can say goodbye (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xbv-5h_oXZw)

i wanna be where you are (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYFe-Wjp3Ws) (this is my sh*t)

rock with you (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hK3Y1Ehv9c)
Ever heard these joints ... lil' Mike at his best

Maybe Tomorrow (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atINVA6my08)
REady Or Not (Here I Come) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=weJ5el8eISc)
Darling Dear (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Od79N4w7nqo)
One More Chance (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKD3fk1bZDk)

[playtetris]

Ever heard these joints ... lil' Mike at his best

Maybe Tomorrow (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atINVA6my08)
REady Or Not (Here I Come) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=weJ5el8eISc)
Darling Dear (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Od79N4w7nqo)
One More Chance (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKD3fk1bZDk)

all awesome tracks. classic delfonics cover right there. :cheers:
overall, i actually prefer lil mike to older mike. all of the jackson 5 stuff is beyond amazing.

[RainierBeachPoet]

the funk will never die, rbp. i'm going to keep bumping this thread for as long as i post here. :cheers:and if you dont, i will

this is one of the few thread i subscribe to

:D

[Dasher]

http://www.disco-disco.com/images/chic.gif


Chic

Le Freak (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MadI2SeyyAs)

Good Times (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8g6bUe5MDRo)

My Forbidden Lover (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DK-N-oKStc)

Everybody Dance (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOx81aG-EN4)

Mystique (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7k4q8ztvMU)

[L.Kizzle]

http://www.disco-disco.com/images/chic.gif


Chic

Le Freak (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MadI2SeyyAs)

Good Times (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8g6bUe5MDRo)

My Forbidden Lover (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DK-N-oKStc)

Everybody Dance (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOx81aG-EN4)

Mystique (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7k4q8ztvMU)
Dash, I'm at work, so pust some Slave for ya boy. You do know about Slave right??

[Dasher]

http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/252/332846.jpg



Slide (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91pg54SDTJE) This joint is a family reunion staple.

Just a Touch of Love (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5KyBwSiQTc)

There is not much Slave on youtube.

[L.Kizzle]

http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/252/332846.jpg



Slide (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91pg54SDTJE) This joint is a family reunion staple.

There is not much Slave on youtube.
Just A Touch or Stone Jam not on youtube? They trippin'.

[Dasher]

Just A Touch or Stone Jam not on youtube? They trippin'.I added Just a Touch of Love

http://www.vinyl-masterpiece.com/catalog/images/atlantic_starr_-_the_millennium_collection.jpg

Atlantic Starr

Always (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUu9YDUqw-4&feature=related)

Secret Lovers (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IgbI3gscv_o)

Let's Get Closer (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVgQWXqqBow&feature=PlayList&p=386FA4AC69D68FA7&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=55)

Send for Me (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWzAANsTBzM)

Love Me Down (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzK-XEcpaS0)

[L.Kizzle]

I added Just a Touch of Love

http://www.vinyl-masterpiece.com/catalog/images/atlantic_starr_-_the_millennium_collection.jpg

Atlantic Starr

Always (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUu9YDUqw-4&feature=related)

Secret Lovers (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IgbI3gscv_o)

Let's Get Closer (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVgQWXqqBow&feature=PlayList&p=386FA4AC69D68FA7&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=55)

Send for Me (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWzAANsTBzM)

Love Me Down (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzK-XEcpaS0)
Yuck, sorry never cared for Atlantic Star besides "Send For Me" to sappy. They are the weakest of the Star groups from around that era. Midnight Star >>>>> Atlantic Star. Hell Five Star even. :oldlol:

[Dasher]

Yuck, sorry never cared for Atlantic Star besides "Send For Me" to sappy. They are the weakest of the Star groups from around that era. Midnight Star >>>>> Atlantic Star. Hell Five Star even. :oldlol:**** outta here! Atlantic Starr goes hard, and that's real homie. How can you not ride with "Send for Me" or "Secret Lovers"?

[L.Kizzle]

**** outta here! Atlantic Starr goes hard, and that's real homie. How can you not ride with "Send for Me" or "Secret Lovers"?
I did say I liked "Send For Me" that's about it.

Midnight Star >> Atlantic Star

Wet My Whistle anything ATL Star has ever done.

[Dasher]

I did say I liked "Send For Me" that's about it.

Midnight Star >> Atlantic Star

Wet My Whistle anything ATL Star has ever done.Lies! Lies! Lies!

[L.Kizzle]

Lies! Lies! Lies!
Wet My Whistle ain't jammin'? Imdas Touch, thay whole No Parking on the Dance Floor LP.

[Dasher]

[edit] rbp, that con funk shun joint is the sh*t.

this track sounds like dasher's theme song :oldlol: obligatorynohomo

johnny guitar watson - superman lover (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrDLLXnl0-I)
This at one point was my club pregame track.

[RainierBeachPoet]

atlantic/midnight star were ok


give me EDWIN starr anyday:D:

war
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_d8C4AIFgUg

this is funky AND social commentary

[L.Kizzle]

atlantic/midnight star were ok


give me EDWIN starr anyday:D:

war
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_d8C4AIFgUg

this is funky AND social commentary
Who was better, Midnight or Atlantic???:D

[RainierBeachPoet]

Who was better, Midnight or Atlantic???:D

if edwin starr was rick barry,

midnight star would sidney moncrief and
atlantic star would rolando blackman
:rockon:
:lol:no::lol:no:

[L.Kizzle]

if edwin starr was rick barry,

midnight star would sidney moncrief and
atlantic star would rolando blackman
:rockon:
:lol:no::lol:no:
Awesome.

Edwin > Midnight > Atlantic.:banana:

[RainierBeachPoet]

Awesome.

Edwin > Midnight > Atlantic.:banana:





but if you want a guy at the free throw line with no time on the clock--- ya gotta go with rolando

if youre with your honey, "always" by atlantic star is ftw

[Dasher]

but if you want a guy at the free throw line with no time on the clock--- ya gotta go with rolando

if youre with your honey, "always" by atlantic star is ftw :applause:

[L.Kizzle]

but if you want a guy at the free throw line with no time on the clock--- ya gotta go with rolando

if youre with your honey, "always" by atlantic star is ftw
**** you got me.:pimp:

[RainierBeachPoet]

**** you got me.:pimp:

however...

two time dpy; six time all star; ten time 1st/2nd defensive team--- most people would pick sidney

freakazoid and no parking on the dancefloor move the feet. midnight star's use of the talkbox was my first recollection of a group using this unique sound in r&b/funk. that was a breakthrough for the genre

[L.Kizzle]

however...

two time dpy; six time all star; ten time 1st/2nd defensive team--- most people would pick sidney

freakazoid and no parking on the dancefloor move the feet. midnight star's use of the talkbox was my first recollection of a group using this unique sound in r&b/funk. that was a breakthrough for the genre
Take that Dasher.
:hammertime:

[Dasher]

Take that Dasher.
:hammertime:Yawn....


http://binkis.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/cameo_wordup_101b1.jpg


Single Life (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldWZyEJ3fVE)

She's Strange (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sw39i1QYQIQ)

Word Up (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_7Kp_TapA4)

Attack Me With Your Love (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5of2dhF67pE)

Candy (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUiSkgkkr0A)

Sparkle (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZehsuCfkiqs)

[L.Kizzle]

Yawn....


http://binkis.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/cameo_wordup_101b1.jpg


Single Life (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldWZyEJ3fVE)

She's Strange (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sw39i1QYQIQ)

Word Up (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_7Kp_TapA4)

Attack Me With Your Love (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5of2dhF67pE)

Candy (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUiSkgkkr0A)

Sparkle (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZehsuCfkiqs)
Yeah, Cameo messes up both of them but, um ...

Icka Prick (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QoJVeY-13dk&feature=related)

Not Just (Knee Deep) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtcmZ-84DgY)

One Nation Under a Groove (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tv-H15IaT10&feature=related)

Aqua Boogie (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ro-DT4UBcZk)

Bop Gun (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PO1HDGxO3t0&feature=related)

[LJJ]

Not Just (Knee Deep) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtcmZ-84DgY)



This is a user-trimmed version of Parliament's classic funk/dance song "(Not Just) Knee Deep".

Stripped down to 10 minutes to comply to YouTube's time limit as well as consolidate the song to focus more on danceability. The long guitar improv part was removed since it was one of the least appealing parts of the song.
THA ****?!!!

[RainierBeachPoet]

http://binkis.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/cameo_wordup_101b1.jpg


Single Life (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldWZyEJ3fVE)

She's Strange (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sw39i1QYQIQ)

Word Up (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_7Kp_TapA4)

Attack Me With Your Love (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5of2dhF67pE)

Candy (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUiSkgkkr0A)

Sparkle (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZehsuCfkiqs)
here is a forgotten cameo song-- but a personal favorite


alligator woman

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvKeTQ1pDoQ&feature=PlayList&p=3EF529C359549CD5&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=2

also: back and forth
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-I9E9X8aS4&feature=PlayList&p=3EF529C359549CD5&index=3&playnext=2&playnext_from=PL

[Dasher]

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51XgwudlyjL._SL500_.jpg


Let Me Prove My Love To You (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8k8uCZioiLU&feature=rec-fresh+div)

You've Been My Inspiration (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aD7w6BrGW44)

I'm So Proud (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vxKGlXrZfI&feature=related)

Everybody Plays The Fool (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KiWqPxCo3iI)

[L.Kizzle]

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51XgwudlyjL._SL500_.jpg


Let Me Prove My Love To You (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8k8uCZioiLU&feature=rec-fresh+div)

You've Been My Inspiration (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aD7w6BrGW44)

I'm So Proud (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vxKGlXrZfI&feature=related)

Everybody Plays The Fool (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KiWqPxCo3iI)
Oh snap, Radio's daddy!

[BankShot]

Some classic Fred Wesley & The JB's

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHWEPf-qPD4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqUKydxDmBQ&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBpuhNwNNKQ&feature=related

[32jazz]

**** outta here! Atlantic Starr goes hard, and that's real homie. How can you not ride with "Send for Me" or "Secret Lovers"?

Gonna have to ride with L. Kizzle on this one & say that Atlantic Starr did tend to get a bit 'soft'/'sentimental' at times, but 'Send For Me' was tight.

Atlantic Starr doesn't have much in their discography to match this tune from Midnight Star

'CURIOS'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbUJcnLrjy4


That's mid 80's funk/R&B at it's best.

[L.Kizzle]

Gonna have to ride with L. Kizzle on this one & say that Atlantic Starr did tend to get a bit 'soft'/'sentimental' at times, but 'Send For Me' was tight.

Atlantic Starr doesn't have much in their discography to match this tune from Midnight Star

'CURIOS'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbUJcnLrjy4


That's mid 80's funk/R&B at it's best.
Or this, ATL Star has nothin' jammin' like this cut.

Night Rider (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8h7XcJhM_BU)

[Dasher]

BB King-The Thrill is Gone (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qtm66Z3lebc)
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8o8gMJcgvGU) Isaac Hayes-Theme From Shaft (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAa5rP64YbQ)
The BarKays-Holy Ghost
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NDAIWXU1Vg) Bobby Blue Bland-Aint No Love in the Heart of The City (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bDsSfXq_VY)
Steve Cropper-Green Onions (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IM6MEb2xnLk)
Aretha Franklin-I Say A Little Prayer
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STKkWj2WpWM) Al Green-Let's Stay Together (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAOOFk549fw)
W.C Handy-*Memphis Blues
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZkdRjAWR6g) John Lee Hooker-Boom Boom Boom
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOyj4ciJk34)Howlin Wolf-Little Red Rooster
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GN2GE_SWRcY) Booker T. Jones-Green Onions
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mwor78mv9k) Jerry Lee Lewis-Great Balls of Fire (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mwor78mv9k)
Otis Redding-The Dock of the Bay (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzrXc68gNjQ)
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQ5-GSrdk1Y)Sam And Dave-Hold On (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fN4DHY_9gOs)
Ike Turner-Proud Mary
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54XRNQ2C2x0)Rufus and Carla Thomas-BABY (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jaEgCblJoAw)

[playtetris]

bobbi humphrey - san francisco lights (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5zzuferxGQ)

bobbi humphrey - my little girl (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4IUZuiotlY)

some ill arse funk courtesy of bobbi humphrey and the mizell bros (my favourite production team ever. yes, i even prefer them to gamble and huff.

[playtetris]

this one goes out to RBP, my favourite old funkmeister on this site.

here's a little bit of the new doing the old. the kid can sing.

d'angelo - can't hide love (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3Eerrtzt2U)

["Jesus"]

Thank you for this thread. I recently found out about Tower of Power and I am loving them.

Any vocal jazz that anyone can introduce me too? I like Stacey Kent.

[quasimoto]

Anyone into Brazilian music?

[URL="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHZ5TdOXf2k"]Ivan Lins - Velas I

[L.Kizzle]

Switch - My Friend In The Sky (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_P1_r086AMg)

Switch - I Wanna Be Closer (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8q5bSPkci8)

Switch - Calling On All Girls (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmlXx0Vhiz4)

Switch - I Call Your Name (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4VRl_LbmIk)

Switch - There'll Never Be (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLKkkOoszAA)

[artex]

miles davis' bitches brew sessions are my favorite, followed closely by a love supreme by coltrane

[playtetris]

[QUOTE=quasimoto]Anyone into Brazilian music?

[URL="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHZ5TdOXf2k"]Ivan Lins - Velas I

[RainierBeachPoet]

getting a blackstreet vibe...

before i let you go
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kC6TnBx0HIU

no diggity (with lil penny!!)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KL9mRus19o&feature=channel

joy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07vnBwaQF-k&feature=related

[Dasher]

Bump

[playtetris]

first musical post of the new year for me!

eddie kendricks - intimate friends (hhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDoWSb4xrts)

carmen mccrae - can't hide love (smokin' version) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9jrtBfUizA)

wood brass and steel - my darling baby (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0s-I3nqaFRM)

baby huey - hard times (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMIzTh0Lafg)

[BankShot]

baby huey - hard times (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMIzTh0Lafg)

Baby Huey and the Babysitters are f*cking awesome.

Too bad the only album I've been able to find is their Greatest Hits.... anyone know any torrent sites with any actual albums??

[playtetris]

Baby Huey and the Babysitters are f*cking awesome.

Too bad the only album I've been able to find is their Greatest Hits.... anyone know any torrent sites with any actual albums??

http://www.mediafire.com/?8qomt5fmsoj

you're welcome

[BankShot]

http://www.mediafire.com/?8qomt5fmsoj

you're welcome

Thanks!!!! :bowdown:

Turns out thats the one I have (The Baby Huey Story: The Living Legend)

Apparently its the only available release from Baby Huey

[RainierBeachPoet]

this one goes out to RBP, my favourite old funkmeister on this site.

here's a little bit of the new doing the old. the kid can sing.

d'angelo - can't hide love (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3Eerrtzt2U)
thanks for the bump because i wouldnt have seen this post that i missed the first time around!!

PT-- you da man
:cheers:

good find on an old EWF classic...d'a did a good job with it

here's one back at ya:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glrl4LcvU5g&a=ov0YbdJC85o&playnext_from=ML

[playtetris]

some more real shit i've been loving lately:

caldera - triste (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9z-ncmJbnxY) (kinda reminds me of RAMP)

also off the same album:

caldera - ancient source (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1D7fG08hkgk&feature=related) (hip hop heads may recognise this as the sample used for rick ross' 'machbach music 3' as well as the intro for dj premier's beat 'it's all real' [pitch black]

also been bumping a lot of stan getz lately:

corcovado (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMX6E68qJAg)

samba de una note (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vg1xlLufxIU&feature=related)

in the same vein:

antonio carlos jobim - vivo (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYAnBIetxrM&feature=related)

[LJJ]

some more real shit i've been loving lately:

caldera - triste (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9z-ncmJbnxY) (kinda reminds me of RAMP)

also off the same album:

caldera - ancient source (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1D7fG08hkgk&feature=related) (hip hop heads may recognise this as the sample used for rick ross' 'machbach music 3' as well as the intro for dj premier's beat 'it's all real' [pitch black]

Ahahaha. Cheesy in exactly the way I like it. Downloaded the discovery. :D

[RainierBeachPoet]

brick: aint gonna hurt nobody

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyBa862AxaE

[Dasher]

Bump...

[Juvenile]

Benny Goodman from 1937:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mJ4dpNal_k

Get a great concert of his bigband from 1938 live at the Carnegie Hall here:
http://www.amazon.com/Complete-Benny-Goodman-Carnegie-Concert/dp/B000HWXGDO/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1284579856&sr=8-1

There is a digitally enhanced version of that CD available, but I could not find it on amazon.

[playtetris]

back with some new jack swing/funkee music from the '80s. normally i don't get into this sorta thing, but there are some gems within the oeuvre:

william bell - passion (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlisMlXhwI4)

bb&q band - genie (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nY9AqqHW810&feature=related)

followed up with some patrice rushen

where there is love (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0b13_V9y5zo)

i'm feeling that intro a lot.

[RainierBeachPoet]

a lot of these videos on youtube have been removed
:banghead:

[playtetris]

a lot of these videos on youtube have been removed
:banghead:

they have, which is why we need to keep this thread alive and moving, RBP!

:cheers:

[L.Kizzle]

Dreamboy: I Promise (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LO6lf0iLZfs)

O'Bryan: You and I (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdV6-HbQH20)

Riy Ayers: Searchin' (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuDUWp4h9h4)

The Impressions: It's All Over (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O05BTevivus)

Five Stairsteps: The Shadow of Your Love (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lG1ixFzr9ZM)

David Ruffin: Walk Away from Love (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NiApUZnr5k4)

Eddie Kendricks: Date With The Rain (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1E52UUnbkvs)

[RainierBeachPoet]

i'm listening to some al jarreau live tonight....

boogie down
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brHjkwjRo0g

and some george benson

never give up on a good thing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SS9podxdW6E

[RainierBeachPoet]

they have, which is why we need to keep this thread alive and moving, RBP!

:cheers:

you ARE the funkmaster of ish PT!!

[Jailblazers7]

Been listening to a ton of Thelonius Monk lately.

One of my favorite songs is I Surrender, Dear. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DHn43Z-Zkw&feature=related)

[Dasher]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/4d/The_Bad_Plus_-_Suspicious_Activity.jpg

The Bad Plus - Anthem For the Earnest (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lb-bJlxXDbs)

[momo]

http://www.mediafire.com/?8qomt5fmsoj

you're welcome

Gawd, thanks!

[LJJ]

I was listening to the Belle album by Al Green and then this (unreleased!) gem comes at the end of the record:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXfsyS_GraU#t=03m042s

Damn. Imagine the days tracks like that didn't even make the cut. Straight fiyah.

[BankShot]

"Rubberband Man" by the Spinners

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CR2T1fXP9NI

[Brunch@Five]

Oscar Peterson

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPPQLzwCosI

[momo]

Good bump. Not sure if they are posted but Rose Royce has been in rotation on my pod recently.

Love Dont live here anymore (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5gFAiPJhvI)

Speedometor - Hot Packet (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVlYx9tc2Ww&playnext=1&list=PL832E2D2F9881D348)

Boris Gardiner - Ghetto Funk (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVo7kwgLvio&feature=related)

[RainierBeachPoet]

"Rubberband Man" by the Spinners

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CR2T1fXP9NI

i like this live version from the midnight special!

i remember seeing them sing (actually lips sinc) this song on soul train (or it might have been american bandstand) and them pulling out the large rubberbands.

even as a little kid i thought it was novel, but on the cheesy side

great song though and the spinners are usually under appreciated-- thanks for the post

[L.Kizzle]

Been jamming some JERMAINE JACKSON lately!! Brother was bad!!

My Touch of Madness (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3eacUIuHfU)
Castles of Sand (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6TtbyWfAWw)
You Need To Be Loved (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ipgOjUlIn4)
Je Vous Aime Beaucoup (I Love You) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JO6tqVUg3-w)
Where Are You Now? (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3x1b5yEHJw)
I'm Just Too Shy (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMh_F7Fef4Y)
Words Into Action (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SCAKIlNSkE)
Two Ships (In The Night) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYbejd-KqNI)

[fiddy]

Great thread. More please.

[FatComputerNerd]

hmm. Didn't read, but was Bootsy posted yet?

Any Bootsy and/or P-Funk fans might want to check out "Praxis".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUL_gcHv0EA

Praxis also featured Buckethead, who is one of the greatest guitarists alive.

If you like it, download the album "Transmutation" (mutatis mutandis). Great album, with lots of "funk", but also some great psychedelia, much like Maggot Brain.

[RainierBeachPoet]

george duke!!


reach for it

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_P2a9YL1aeU&feature=fvw


funkin for the thrill

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEehuUrOd18&playnext=1&list=PLA02561450ABD2F4B


look what you find

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTp-TrVCuKQ&feature=related


i want you for myself

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unBfb2syL18&feature=related


sweet baby (with stanley clarke)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZZcZHWw9eM&feature=related

[RainierBeachPoet]

Slave - Watching You



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZeZeAcuIkgk&feature=related


slave-- slide


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91pg54SDTJE&feature=list_related&playnext=1&list=MLGxdCwVVULXd3x_07PEPOayiRfXh5N8gP

[L.Kizzle]

george duke!!



sweet baby (with stanley clarke)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZZcZHWw9eM&feature=related
The Clarke/Duke project is classic.

[Dasher]

Chet Baker-Like Someone In Love (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHsMXQRiapA)

[thebirdman]

not a lot i can contribute here that isn't very well known already or even already posted, but here's two songs for you i think will be new to a few people.

The Limp Twins - Living Well (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvAEXdlRbAc)

the limp twins are will holland and russell porter. will holland is probably best known as quantic.

that was the funk part, now some jazz, from the only jazz album i have!

George Benson - Living Well (http://www.we7.com/#/song/George-Benson/Easy-Living)

couldn't find a youtube vid so it's just a music streaming site. nice relaxing tune.

[leopoldstotch]

thanks for the thread!

i've been looking for some funk/soul music to jam to while working. :lol

[RainierBeachPoet]

bump

[playtetris]

the meters - look of love (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYI9VJ3VH-c&feature=channel_video_title)

teddy pendergrass - turn off the lights (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xo9df0kQx1k&feature=channel_video_title)

greg perry - come on down (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ceKmWak1F8&feature=channel_video_title)

junior parker - love ain't nothing but a business going on (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6CxhyXCiCY&feature=related)

[L.Kizzle]

the meters - look of love (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYI9VJ3VH-c&feature=channel_video_title)

teddy pendergrass - turn off the lights (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xo9df0kQx1k&feature=channel_video_title)

greg perry - come on down (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ceKmWak1F8&feature=channel_video_title)

junior parker - love ain't nothing but a business going on (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6CxhyXCiCY&feature=related)
Check my James Brown thread.

[Jailblazers7]

http://pixhost.info/avaxhome/e2/36/000936e2_medium.jpeg

Loving this album and Parlan's music in general. Can't believe I never knew about him considering he was born in Pittsburgh.

Baby Face Willette is another artist I've come to know and like a lot from listening to old Blue Note albums.

Recently DL'd this too thanks to a Questlove interview I watched:

http://www.myguitarsolo.com/500Albums/Pics500/218The%20Meters%20-%20Look-Ka%20Py%20Py.jpg

Pure funk.

[playtetris]

thundercat - for love i come (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8nuH6SKtNU)

cover of george duke's classic sampled by doom in 'i hear voices'

his album 'the golden age of the apocalypse' is "out there". fonkeh as hell, definitely worth checking out if you enjoy ^^^

[Brunch@Five]

Listening to Wynton Marsalis From the Plantation to the Penitentiary right now.

Supercapitalism (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LF4KpJK8mrU) has incredible vocals

[CrownTime]

Download this compilation album- Katalyst Presents Dusted. Review below- it is ultimate listening after a smoke...

http://www.invadarecords.com/News.php?ID=00000075

Some of the artists include - The Meters, Labi Siffre, Marlena Shaw, Ramsey Lewis, McKay. Enjoy

[LJJ]

Any of you ISH heads familiar with Mingus' solo piano album?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHY2AMNnrFQ

This album is GREAT.

[Godzuki]

Any of you ISH heads familiar with Mingus' solo piano album?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHY2AMNnrFQ

This album is GREAT.


wow you're gay as shit :oldlol:

[Rasheed1]

YEssirrr

I been on my Roy Ayers kick lately

Everybody loves the sunshine (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M36OGCfYp3A)

Searchin (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuDUWp4h9h4)

you send me (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7qVPFEaFX8&feature=related)

running away (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7fNWT3omcE)

[Jailblazers7]

Yeah, I found that Mingus album on demonoid when I was randomly digging through different artists torrents. Great album.

Been listening to this a ton lately:

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41Y6FdmCdBL._SL500_AA280_.jpg

Angola, LA, & the 13th Amendment is incredible.

[RainierBeachPoet]

it always makes my day when this thread is bumped

:cheers:

[L.Kizzle]

Been jamming some Tony Toni Tone lately.

There LP's Sons of Soul and House of Music are epic greatness.


I Couldn't Keep It To Myself (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cmefx7u4BPU&feature=fvst)
Leavin' (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMPRKQi4mD0)
Lovin You (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DV4WS6zDazw)
Still a man (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwvlH4nwR38)
Don't Fall In Love (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uA6gfb8Vm0)
Holy Smokes & Gee Whiz (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmLYsMD_EEA)
Till Last Summer (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TkP5DwMmeU)

[pete's montreux]

Listened to Prince's Controversy album three times today. You cannot listen to the title track and not want to dance immediately.

[L.Kizzle]

Listened to Prince's Controversy album three times today. You cannot listen to the title track and not want to dance immediately.
Love that album, it's underrated. Always been a big fan of Annie Christan, shit is addicting. Punk/Funk.

[pete's montreux]

Love that album, it's underrated. Always been a big fan of Annie Christan, shit is addicting. Punk/Funk.

I'm not too familiar with the album yet, I kind of zone out at times when I'm working and the music is just kinda 'there'. I kept putting the album back on hoping I'd pay attention more but it didn't happen. I'm picking around Prince's catalog recently. I actually thought the Controversy album was a different one, I got my Prince hits mixed up.

[Rasheed1]

Love that album, it's underrated. Always been a big fan of Annie Christan, shit is addicting. Punk/Funk.


ditto...

Annie Chistian
Lets Work
Controversy

[RainierBeachPoet]

since we are on the prince wagon:

DMSR from 1999

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFcLMQSIwoc&feature=related

[L.Kizzle]

since we are on the prince wagon:

DMSR from 1999

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFcLMQSIwoc&feature=related
Cloreen Bacon Skin (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsMvyKUwd4A)

15 minutes of unadulterated dunk by Prince and Pete's favorite Morris Day.

[JEFFERSON MONEY]

hey

[L.Kizzle]

hey
Clyde McPhatter: Love Please (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHDrRiyHCdk)

[Rake2204]

I'm not huge into funk or soul, but I do like jazz. The problem is, I'm having a tough time getting my feet off the ground and finding specific artists to focus in on (aside from the super most popular names I've heard like Miles Davis and Louie Armstrong). I'm interested in traditional jazz (if that's what it's called), as opposed to comtemporary Kenny G type stuff. I'm particular a fan of songs featuring prominent piano and perhaps, trumpet.

Do any of you guys have a direction you could point me? I'm ignorant enough about this music that this thread was tough to work through because I couldn't tell by name which links were going to be funk, which were going to be soul and which were going to be jazz. For the time being, my outlet for this genre has been a jazz channel on Pandora.

[Legend of Josh]

Whatever happened to playtetris?

[Jailblazers7]

I'm not huge into funk or soul, but I do like jazz. The problem is, I'm having a tough time getting my feet off the ground and finding specific artists to focus in on (aside from the super most popular names I've heard like Miles Davis and Louie Armstrong). I'm interested in traditional jazz (if that's what it's called), as opposed to comtemporary Kenny G type stuff. I'm particular a fan of songs featuring prominent piano and perhaps, trumpet.

Do any of you guys have a direction you could point me? I'm ignorant enough about this music that this thread was tough to work through because I couldn't tell by name which links were going to be funk, which were going to be soul and which were going to be jazz. For the time being, my outlet for this genre has been a jazz channel on Pandora.

Grant Green is a jazz guitarist that I like a lot. He has a smooth, low-key sound. Freddie Hubbard is usually who I listen to when I want to listen to hard bop/bebop.

Also, listen to Christian Scott asap. He is the best modern jazz artist I've heard. Angola, LA & the 13th Amendment might be my favorite jazz song ever.

[LJJ]

I'm particular a fan of songs featuring prominent piano and perhaps, trumpet.


Given this description I would say a good starting point is Herbie Hancock's earlier stuff. Empyrian Isles or Maiden Voyage would be good records to first get into. Those are some of the greatest jazz records ever, featuring a pianist leader (actually not that common in jazz), a fantastic rhythm section and Freddie Hubbard on trumpet.

If you are looking for something slightly more traditional, I would reccommend you to look into some of Thelonious Monk's earlier work such as Brilliant Corners and Monk's Music.

[Rake2204]

Given this description I would say a good starting point is Herbie Hancock's earlier stuff. Empyrian Isles or Maiden Voyage would be good records to first get into. Those are some of the greatest jazz records ever, featuring a pianist leader (actually not that common in jazz), a fantastic rhythm section and Freddie Hubbard on trumpet.

If you are looking for something slightly more traditional, I would reccommend you to look into some of Thelonious Monk's earlier work such as Brilliant Corners and Monk's Music.Awesome. That all sounds right down my alley. Much appreciated.


Grant Green is a jazz guitarist that I like a lot. He has a smooth, low-key sound. Freddie Hubbard is usually who I listen to when I want to listen to hard bop/bebop.

Also, listen to Christian Scott asap. He is the best modern jazz artist I've heard. Angola, LA & the 13th Amendment might be my favorite jazz song ever.Thanks for this too. I'm not sure how I feel about jazz guitar yet but I'm willing to give it a shot.

[Brunch@Five]

this thread needs a bump, since I recently hit an old-school record store and reactivated my LP player.

fits this thread only barely, but I've revisited Jethro Tull and cannot stop being amazed at the virtuosity:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWubhw8SoBE