Michael Franks - Chain Reaction (DoctorSoul’s “You Can't Fake It” Extended Re-Therapy)

 Sunday Jazz Continues check these menus as we drop this good word and the sound!

The saga  / struggle continues as life goes on as the toil and strife goes on but we'll proceed and continue to put it down!

We're all out here in attack mode due to the information overload that's in overdrive due to this Presidential election!

Many are stressed out due to the information implemented by Russia with Operation Overload in this and that section!

Brotha O? cutting the corner after pulling up to the intersection now bringing this jazz funk / soul jazz from Michael Franks with a track called  Chain Reaction (DoctorSoul’s “You Can't Fake It” Extended Re-Therapy)

Whatch know? Brotha O out of order?  not really! just check out the players and the track s we drop this science letting y'all know what the deal will be!

Solo Saxophone: David Sanborn Unknown: Don Henderson Concert Master Conductor: Israel Baker Music: Joe Sample Solo Piano: Joe Sample Drums: John Guerin Guitar: Larry Carlton Unknown, Vocals: Michael Franks Production Co- Ordinator: Noel Newbolt Producer: Tommy Lipuma Bass: Wilton Felder Arranger: Claus Ogerman Composer: Michael Franks

Being Built Or Torn Down? That Question Is Still Being Asked (Part Seven)

 We're reflecting on past episodes on this Throwback Thursday, some of the circumstances were debatable; we're we being built or torn down?

We're also counting our blessings since it's also a Thankful Thursday; we've got another opportunity to put it down!

But it was all a big puzzle; being built or torn down? spotted how some were rolling, how were they defying destiny? 

Per Wilton Felder and Bobby Womack  they inherited the wind, they even inherited the world but chose to go out in the wilderness.

I wasn't trying to go back; I  saw them while I was out there where it almost got the best of me.

I wasn't trying to go back! I  cried / prayed Lord Help  / Lord Help was the Battle Cry!!! forget me not! soon I was blessed.

Still asking that question about being built or torn down during these debatable circumstances.

Still going off into beast mode per Marshawn Lynch it's rough out here success is not a cinch but we're making advances!

That beast? it seems we're in the belly of it and that dude was muscular with rugged strength.

Please! we keep fighting like they do in the Gaza Strip but the the beast has no vascular disease he's able to go the length!

But the beast will be swooned /  tripped up by the daughter of chaos disguised as a  princess with the sultry essence!

A Beauty and The Beast episode? being built or torn down per the debatable circumstances, dude rescued from the wilderness?

Conversations With The Wind (Part Nine)

 Still trying to stay up on the word on the curb  / word in the wind especially on this so called Terrible  / Terrific Tuesday where things can go either way!

Told not to entertain negative  / terrible outcomes but sometimes it is what it is but we continue to play!

Especially after having conversations with the wind, Bob Dylan said the answer was blowing in it so we're going for what we know with this! but I see my constituents struggling all up in Kentucky in the middle of the day drinkin' dark /  brown whiskey. 

Having their own conversations with the wind, but soon having dark daydreams formulating plots / schemes even asking themselves; did sanity miss me? 

Asking themselves, did the drama revisit me? sounding incoherent like Trump on the campaign trail mumbling something about dream shadows, damn! is his mind broke? 

Damn! and then per conversations with the wind there he was inhaling the second hand weed smoke...

...or maybe even dealing with the fentanyl or meth, pressing the fast forward button for death meanwhile Brotha O is trying to  Inherit The Wind per Wilton Felder and Bobby Womack he hit the reset button!

Now I'm back on Louisville / Newburg default settings per conversations with the wind out here trying to win refusing to be a punishment glutton!

So what's the deal? the drama will emerge but like Middle East countries concerning the Israel-Hamas War some didn't want to put in the work to deal with it they quit on us, damn! it's heart wrenching!

Asked why; conversations with the wind already hipped me to the game, I knew they're content in their formless ambition.

I was wise to the whole set up, some were out here waiting in the dark embracing midnight not morning when Anita Baker and the Winans said it'll be all over! they'll "go with the flow."

But damn! due to polar vortex style conversations with the wind they're soon ambushed when those susurrous winds of change blow!

Conversations With The Wind (Part Six)

 Check us out as we proceed and continue on this Saturday morning, once a prime time for this blog.

The science dropped is appropriate for any time frame as we negotiate this or that mind game enhanced by smoke  / mirrors  / the fog!

After cool conversations with the wind due to this fall weather I update this Captain's Log; after hearing what's said Brotha O is feeling some kind of way; he's furious! in this poetry you should have heard all those cathartic howls! 

After cool conversations with the wind  due to the Aries Full Moon and  Fall Equinox there seems to be more hustle knocks; those edge of night / end of the road scenarios? dark styles!

Brotha O mentioned grey area scenarios earlier did that work for you? it's not right he said, it's blown his mind...

...this time like the Delfonics! in the trembling light he's responding with assaults that are sonic but still out here looking for some kind of sign!

This is our response to it after conversations with the wind, we'll proceed and continue to get breakbeat scientific!

Wilton Felder featuring Bobby Womack mentioned we'll Inherit The Wind if we show some initiative!

Brotha O tried to tell you about the deal with it; it's all game so I asked these players to show me their cards..

..and I'll show you mine; already had an idea due to word on the curb  / word in the wind communications so I tell some to lose those wretched expectations.

Going for mine after having conversations with the wind, actually I possessed a talisman, used to protect hearts.

Going for mine after having conversations with the wind I'm not a foul one, a poltergeist full of elaborations.

Grant Green - Flood in Franklin Park

Sunday Jazz Continues, errr wait a minute; its actually Afternoon Jazz that we're coming through with!

The saga  / struggle continues, we're broadcasting live and direct from our remote outpost out off of I-20 in Atlanta, can you dig it?

We're out here trying to get over the hump per this HumpDay Extravaganza, it's business as usual as we put it on automatic pilot!

We're out here putting it down like this, naysayers say it's mysterious they had low expectations from us plus they're foul with it!

Check out how the style will get! we're out  here rocking this Grant Green with  Flood in Franklin Park!

It's from the  Grant Green Live At The Lighthouse album!! check out the players and the track!!

Grant Green: Guitar

Claude Bartee: Soprano and Tenor Saxophones

Gary Coleman: Vibes

Shelton Laster: Organ.

Wilton Felder: Electric Bass

Greg Williams: Drums

Bobbye Porter Hall: Congas, Percussion

The Crusaders "Free As The Wind"

Sunday Jazz err hold up, now wait a minute; per this Humpday Extravaganza? Digital Crate Digging Continues!! 

Ha! y’all can see what kind of mood I’m in, soul jazzing? jazz funking? check these menus…

…as we rock these venues; Afternoon Jazzing or O-Dog Day Partying!

The saga / struggle continues aka life goes on as the toil and strife goes on, while we’re in the heart of this thing!

We're doing the damn thing though,  checking out Free As The Wind by The Crusaders!! 

Damn!! it sounds so nice!! reminds of the type of music a super hero would have as his theme song!! check it out! once again it’s on! funky music? you should know we’ll play this!

The Crusaders -Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Again)

Sunday Jazz Continues, err hold up, wait a minute! Digital Crate Digging Continues on this Terrible / Terrific Tuesday where things can go either way!

Y’all can see I’m on the jazz vibe, trying to chill / get my mind right so I won’t spaz on the tribe! that’s how a dude is trying to play!

Check the vibe as we let the music play, celebrating the manifestation of a terrific outcome, pulling out the drum!

Check the vibe, O-Dog Day Partying earlier but we’ve got other work to do! Afternoon Jazzing with this jazz funk; once again it’s on!

We're like the  The Crusaders  we want to Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Again). 

Let's Go!! Let’s Get It!! dropping this breakbeat science? it’s on, once again!

Dizzy Gillespie and Lalo Schifrin / Ozone Madness

Sunday Jazz Continues on a Sunday afternoon;  ah!! spring time in Atlanta!!  you know the pollen rates are off the charts!!

The saga / struggle continues, soon Aries season is over and we'll in Taurus so who's for us or against us? revealed in their spirits / hearts..

 But I digress, back to this pollen it's even got a brotha like me sneezing!!  can we  blame it on the Ozone Madness per Dizzy Gillespie & Lalo Schifrin?

But those guys would say, hey!! it's not our fault! we're just dropping this jazz funk!! that's how they're living!!

This song could be talking about me...the Brotha O-Zone..and the madness exhibited on this blog!! 

...anyway...let's check out the players and this funky track!! a good way or us to deal with the ongoing smoke and mirrors / fog..

• Bass – Wilton Felder
• Composed By, Arranged By, Conductor, Keyboards [Electronic] – Lalo Schifrin
• Drums – Eddie Greene
• Electric Piano, Piano – Sonny Burke 
• Flute – Jerome Richardson
• Guitar [Electric] – Lee Ritenour, Melvin "Wah Wah" Watson, Ray Parker Jr.
• Percussion – Paulinho Da Costa
• Saxophone – Ernie Watts
• Saxophone, Flute – James Horn
• Trombone – Lew McCreary
• Trumpet – Jack H. Laubach, Oscar Brashear
• Trumpet [Solo] – Dizzy Gillespie

Grant Green – I Don't Want Nobody To Give Me Nothing

Digital Crate Digging Continues per Music Monday!! We're checking out this classic jazz track from Grant Green –with his version of James Brown's  I Don't Want Nobody To Give Me Nothing...check out the players and the track..

• Drums – Nesbert "Stix" Hooper
• Electric Bass [Fender] – Wilton Felder
• Electric Piano, Clavinet – Emmanuel Riggins
• Engineer – Christina Hersch
• French Horn – Jimmy Buffington
• Guitar – Grant Green
• Liner Notes – Loonis McGlohon
• Percussion – King Errison
• Trombone – Harry DiVito
• Trombone [Bass] – Dick Hickson
• Trumpet – Jimmy Sedlar, Joe Newman, Joe Wilder, Victor Paz
• Vibraphone – Billy Wooten
• Woodwind – George Marge, John Leone, Phil Bodner, Romeo Penque

The Crusaders ~ Merry Go Round

Digital Crate Digging Continues per Music Monday!! We're listening to some classic jazz funk from The Crusaders with a track called  Merry Go Round!! Check out the players and the track..

• Bass – Robert Popwell
• Drums – Stix Hooper
• Guitar – Roland Bautista
• Producer, Keyboards – Joe Sample
• Producer, Mixed By – Wilton Felder
• Written-By – Joe Sample     

The Crusaders - Put It Where You Want It

Digital Crate Digging Continues per Flashback Friday!!  Doing some musical research, started in one direction and ended in another.

Listening to some hip hop / drum and bass, but ended up with some classic jazz / funk.

Checking out The Crusaders with their cut called Put It Where You Want It. Check out the players and the track.

 Joe Sample: keyboards  /  Wilton Felder: saxophones  /  Stephan Baxter: trombone

Ray Parker Jr.: guitar  /   Kendrick Scott: drums / Freddie Washington: bass 

Dee Dee Bridgewater - He's Gone

Digital Crate Digging Continues!! We're checking out some soul jazz from  Dee Dee Bridgewater with  He's Gone. This is her take on the Hall and Oates classic She's Gone. 

A lot of jazz heavyweights are playing on this song!! Check out the players and the track!!!

Backing Vocals – August Johnson, Carolyn Willis, Jackie Ward, James Gilstrap, John Lehman, Marti McCall, Merry Clayton / Bass – Henry Davis, Wilton Felder / Congas – Bobbye Hall / Drums – Ed Greene   / Guitar – David T. Walker, Dean Parks, Melvin Ragin, Ray Parker Jr. / Keyboards – Joe Sample, Tom Hensley / Percussion – Gary Coleman / Producer – Gene Page, Jerry WexlerWritten-By – Daryl Hall & John Oates

Wilton Felder f Bobby Womack and Altrinna Grayson -(No Matter How High I Get) I'll Still Be Lookin' Up To You

Digital Crate Digging Continues!! we're checking out some soul jazz from  Wilton Felder f Bobby Womack and Altrinna Grayson -with (No Matter How High I Get) I'll Still Be Lookin' Up To You. 

The world lost a giant today with the passing of Wilton Felder, who was a saxophonist for the fabled Crusaders. Mr. Felder was 75. 

Felder’s passing comes only a year after the death of his lifelong friend and fellow Crusader Joe Sample. Crusaders trombonist Wayne Henderson died in April, 2014, which now leaves drummer Nesbert “Stix” Hooper as the only living Crusader from the original four. 

Mr. Womack passed away on June 27, 2014!! We're losing a lot of soul jazz pioneers people!! Check this out!!

Paul Humphrey / Got It Together

Afternoon Jazz Continues; we're checking out some jazz funk from Paul Humphrey  with a track called  Got It Together. Check out the players and the track...

• Accordion – Nick DeCaro
• Bass – Chuck Rainey, Wilton Felder
• Drums – Paul Humphrey
• Guitar – Arthur Adams, David Cohen
• Piano – Joe Sample