Lazy time
is one of my last Funk and Soul with Jazz elements orientated mixes for next
time, it will be for sure some more….
It is completely
orientated on the 70s, the decade that is for me personally as the prosperative
in music at all to be seen not only in soul and funk direction with known
artist, it is in other directions as well like Rock&Roll and Progressive
Rock&Roll, new stones was build for Acid and Funk Jazz and what was more
important it was a movement against the establishment that began in late 60’s.
This movement
is now since decades dead, if you are aware of it, you can, during rehearings of the music from this time, hear when the movement and attitude of people came to
fall.
You can
hear it from an inner point of stand it came to stop and then came the period
of music that I personally can’t stand at all, this funk time with numberless groups
that was trying desperately to be as the 70’s to have this connection to the
people as the musicians before.
Characteristically
was the electric drum for this period “Funk time” that I mean, I see so much
people drawing in this music, it is just a complete no go for me, sorry.
I hope you
will like the following constellation of musicians that wrote a hugh part of
important music history.
Quincy Delightt Jones, Jr. is born on March
14, 1933
and is an American record producer and musician.
His career
spans five decades in the entertainment industry and a record 79 Grammy Award
nominations, 27 Grammys, including a Grammy Legend Award in 1991.
He is
particularly recognized as the producer of the album Thriller, by pop icon
Michael Jackson, which has sold more than 110 million copies worldwide, and as
the producer and conductor of the charity song “We Are the World”.
In 1968,
Jones and his songwriting partner Bob Russell became the first African
Americans to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Song "The
Eyes of Love" from the Universal Pictures film Banning.
That same
year, he became the first African American to be nominated twice within the
same year when he was nominated for Best Original Score for his work on the
music of the 1967 film In Cold Blood.
In 1971,
Jones would receive the honor of becoming the first African American to be
named musical director/conductor of the Academy Awards ceremony.
He was the
first African American to win the Academy's Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award,
in 1995. He is tied with sound designer Willie D. Burton as the most
Oscar-nominated African American, each of them having seven nominations.
At the 2008
BET Awards, Quincy Jones was presented with the Humanitarian Award. He was
played by Larenz Tate in the 2004 biopic about Ray Charles, Ray.
Summer in
the City is on album You've Got It Bad Girl from the year 1973.
Sérgio Santos Mendes is born on February the 11.-th in 1941
in Niterói , Brazil
He has over
fifty-five releases, and plays bossa nova heavily crossed with jazz and funk.
During his attend
at the local conservatory with hopes of becoming a classical pianist his
interest in jazz grew, he started playing in nightclubs in the late-1950s just
as bossa nova, a jazz-inflected derivative of samba, was emerging. Mendes
played with Antonio Carlos Jobim (regarded as a mentor) and many U.S. Brazil
The
original lineup of Brasil '66 was Mendes (piano), vocalists Lani Hall and Bibi
Vogel (later replaced by Janis Hansen), Bob Matthews (bass), José Soares
(percussion) and João Palma (drums). John Pisano guested as guitarist. Few
people are aware of Bibi Vogel (1942-2004) as one of the original singers in
the first incarnation of Brasil '66. She wasn't credited in the original vinyl
LP cover.
For what
it's worth you can find on 1970 album Stillness.
Monty
Alexander born as Montgomery Bernard Alexander on June 6, 1944 in Kingston , Jamaica
His playing
has a strong Caribbean influence and swinging feeling, but
he has also been influenced by Art Tatum, Oscar Peterson, Wynton Kelly, and
Ahmad Jamal.
Alexander
discovered the piano at the age of 4, taking classical music lessons at 6 and
became interested in jazz piano at the age of 14, and began playing in clubs,
and on recording sessions.
Roy Ayers
is born on September the 10.-th in 1940 and is an American funk, soul, and jazz
composer and vibraphone player.
Ayers began
his career as a post-bop jazz artist, releasing several albums with Atlantic
Records, before his tenure at Polydor Records beginning in the 1970s, during
which he helped pioneer jazz-funk .
At the age
of five, Lionel Hampton gave him his first pair of mallets, which led to the
vibraphone being his trademark sound for decades.
Ayers as
not only an accomplished musician but also a well-known entertainer on the
music scene. He often performs with music and comedic speech/storyline
interaction to his audience to enhance his appeal.
Hummin' you
can find on the album Ubiquity from 1970.
Ballin'
Jack was an American horn rock group formed in Seattle , Washington
Rabb and
Hammon were inspired by the success of their childhood friend, Jimi Hendrix.
They added Glenn Thomas on guitar and, on the horns, were Jim Coile and Tim
McFarland. They moved to Los Angeles , California
Hendrix
asked the group to come along with him on his 1970 "Cry Of Love" tour.
Try to
relax is from the 1973 album Special pride.
Willie
McKinley Hutchison, known professionally as Willie Hutch is born December
6, 1944 — September
19, 2005
was an American singer, songwriter as well as a record producer and recording
artist for the Motown record label during the 1970s and 1980s.
As a
teenager he joined a doo-wop group, The Ambassadors.
Moving to Los Angeles
Hutch
received the call, "I'll Be There," which was to be for The Jackson 5
the song was recorded by the group, the next morning after.
Hutch's
later collaborations would be with the Jackson 5 and their front man Michael
Jackson, Smokey Robinson, the newly rechristened Miracles and Marvin Gaye.
Give me
some of that good old love you can find on Foxy Brown from year 1974.
Johnny
Bristol born as John William Bristol, February 3, 1939 - March 21,
2004 , was
an American musician, most famous as a songwriter and record producer for the
Motown label in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
He was a
native of Morganton, North Carolina.
Bristol
flourished at Motown working with some of the label's best-selling acts.
In the mid
1960s, Motown had absorbed Tri-Phi and Bristol began working with Fuqua as a
songwriter and producer.
Among their
successes as producers were hit singles with Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell', Bristol
was the producer and co-writer of the final singles for both Diana Ross &
the Supremes and Smokey Robinson & the Miracles.
Woman woman
appears on 1974 album Hang on in there baby.
Love
Unlimited was a female vocal trio that provided backing vocals for American
R&B/soul singer Barry White on his albums and concert tours.
They also
found success with their own recordings. Formed in 1969, the group included
Barry White’s future wife, Glodean James, her sister, Linda James, and their
cousin Diane Taylor.
The group
disbanded in 1985, with the death of Diane Taylor.
Move me no
mountain is from 1974 album In heat.
Lyn Collins
was born on 12 June 1948 – 13 March 2005 as Gloria Lavern Collins and was an
African American soul singer best known for working with James Brown in the
1970s.
She began
her recording career aged 14.
Her biggest
solo hit was the James Brown-produced gospel-style song "Think (About
It)", from her 1972 album of the same name on People Records.
You can't
love me, if you not respect me appears on several funk and soul compilations.
Ellas Otha
Bates born on December 30, 1928 – June 2, 2008, was known by his stage name Bo
Diddley, was an American rhythm and blues vocalist, guitarist, songwriter
(usually as Ellas McDaniel), and inventor.
He was playing
on street corners with friends, including Jerome Green (c. 1934–1973), in a
band called The Hipsters (later The Langley Maxwell Street
By 1951 he
was playing on the street with backing from Roosevelt Jackson (on washtub bass)
and Jody Williams (whom he had taught to play the guitar).
In late
1954, he teamed up with harmonica player Billy Boy Arnold, drummer Clifton
James, and bass player Roosevelt Jackson, and recorded demos of "I'm A
Man" and "Bo Diddley". They re-recorded the songs at Chess
Studios with a backing ensemble comprising Otis Spann (piano), Lester Davenport
(harmonica), Frank Kirkland (drums), and Jerome Green (maracas). The record was
released in March 1955, and the A-side, "Bo Diddley", became a #1
R&B hit.
Bite you you
can find on Big bad Bo album from 1974.
Gladys
Knight & The Pips were an R&B/soul family musical act from Atlanta , Georgia
The group
was best known for their string of hit singles on Motown's "Soul"
record label and Buddah Records from 1967 to 1975.
The
longest-lived incarnation of the act featured Gladys Knight on lead vocals, with
The Pips, who included her brother Merald "Bubba" Knight and their
cousins Edward Patten and William Guest, as backup singers.
The group
was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1996, the Vocal Group Hall
of Fame in 2001 and received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Rhythm &
Blues Foundation in 1998.
Who is she is
from the year 1973 album Neither one of us
Odetta
Holmes, born on December 31, 1930 – December 2,
2008 , known
as Odetta, was an American singer, actress, guitarist, songwriter, and a human
rights activist "The Voice of the Civil Rights Movement".
Her musical
repertoire consisted largely of American folk music, blues, jazz, and
spirituals.
An
important figure in the American folk music revival of the 1950s and 1960s, she
was influential to many of the key figures of the folk-revival of that time,
including Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Mavis Staples, and Janis Joplin.
Time
included her song, "Take This Hammer", on its list of the All-Time
100 Songs, stating that "Rosa Parks was her No. 1 fan, and Martin Luther
King Jr. called her the queen of American folk music."
Hit or miss
is on Odetta sings album from 1970.
The
Notations were an American soul group from Chicago
The group
formed in the late 1960s, they scored several minor hits on the U.S. R&B
chart, but are perhaps best remembered for the 1975 funk single "Super
People", which was produced by Curtis Mayfield.
Their early
lineup comprised Clifford Curry, LaSalle Matthews, Bobby Thomas, and Jimmy
Stroud; Stroud left the group in 1973 and was replaced by Walter Jones from
1973-76.
Superpeople
you can find on a single both parts from year 1974.
The Sisters
Love was an American R&B and funk ensemble active in the late 1960s and
early 1970s.
Sisters
Love was founded in 1968 by former members of The Raelettes. Several members of
Ray Charles's backing ensemble quit the band at the same time and soon after
organized into their own vocal group.
They appear
in the Willie Hutch-scored blaxploitation film The Mack singing the funk song
"Now Is the Time".
They toured
with the Jackson Five and had a full-length scheduled for release in 1972, but
this LP was shelved and the group disbanded in 1973; the recordings for the
album remained unreleased until 2010.
Give me
your love is on 1973 B-Side of Motown-Single „(I Could Never Make) A Better Man
Than You“.
Julie
Tippetts born as Julie Driscoll, on 8.-th June 1947, London
Since the
1970s Driscoll has concentrated on experimental vocal music, married jazz
musician Keith Tippett and collaborated with him.
Later in
the 1970s she toured with her own band, and recorded and performed as one of
the vocal quartet 'Voice'.
Charles
Earland, 24 May 1941 – 11
December 1999
was an American jazz composer, organist, and saxophonist in the soul/acid jazz
idiom.
He
performed with Lou Donaldson, Grover Washington Jr., Pat Martino.
In 1978
Earland hit the disco/club scene with a track called "Let the Music
Play", written by Randy Muller from Brass Construction. The record was in
the U.S.
His hard,
simmering grooves earned him the nickname, “The Mighty Burner”.
Revelation is
from the 1977 album with Odyssey.
Odyssey was
a New
York
It grew out
of the talent of the Connecticut-born Lopez sisters: Lillian Lopez (born 16
November 1935 ),
Louise Lopez (born 22 February 1933 ), and Carmen Lopez (born July
12 1934 ),
who left the group before Odyssey, as the group came to be known after her
departure, was formed.
Filipino
singer Tony Reynolds was added, at which point the band became known as
Odyssey.
Reynolds,
for unknown reasons, left after the first album and was replaced by Fayetteville , North Carolina
In the United Kingdom
Our lives
are shaped by what we live is from 1972 album Odyssey.
Coke
Escovedo born as Joseph Thomas Escovedo was an American percussionist born April
30, 1941 -
July 13. 1986 in Los Angeles , California
Coke
Escovedo first rose to prominence in 1969 as a member of Santana.
Coke was
featured on Santana's Santana III album.
In early
1972 Coke formed the Band Azteca along with his brother Pete Escovedo.
In 1975
Coke had began to work on the first of his three solo albums simply titled
Coke.
The
pop-oriented Comin' At Ya! in 1976 and Disco Fantasy in 1977 which proved
critically and commercially disappointing and signal the last time Coke would
release anymore solo material.
Coke continued
to do session work and tour and with Santana, Herbie Hancock and his niece
Sheila E.
I wouldn't
change a thing is from the album Comin' At Ya! from 1976.
Hope you will like my choice....
Peace
Peace
01. Summer
in the City - Quincy
02. For
what it's worth - Sergio Mendes & Brasil 66
03. Monticello
04. Hummin'
- Roy
05. Try to
relax - Ballin' Jack
06. Give me
some of that good old love - Willie Hutch
07. Woman
woman - Johnny Bristol
08. Move me
no mountain - Love Unlimited
09. You
can't love me, if you not respect me - Lyn Collins
10. Bite
you - Bo Diddley
11. Who is
she - Gladys Knight & The Pips
12. Hit or
miss - Odetta
13.
Superpeople - Notations
14. Give me
your love - The Sister Love
15. Season
of the witch - Julie Driscoll
16.
Revelation - Charles Earland
17. Our
lives are shaped by what we live - Odyssey
18. I
wouldn't change a thing - Coke Escovedo
No comments:
Post a Comment