Charles Earland - More Today Than Yesterday

Sunday Jazz Continues; we're checking out this classic from  Charles Earland  called  More Today Than Yesterday. Check out the players and the track!! Let's Go!! 

• Congas – Buddy Caldwell
• Drums – Idris Muhammad
• Guitar – Melvin Sparks
• Organ – Charles Earland
• Tenor Saxophone – Houston Person
• Trumpet – Virgil Jones

Charles Earland / "Here Comes Charlie"

Digital Crate Digging Continues....just catching up on my pimping...no Sunday Jazz yesterday so I'm flipping it today...checking out  Charles Earland  with "Here Comes Charlie"...check out the players and the tracks..

• Drums – Idris Muhammad
• Guitar – Melvin Sparks
• Organ – Charles Earland
• Tenor Saxophone – Houston Person
• Trumpet – Virgil Jones

Charles Earland – Black Talk

Sunday Jazz Continues...checking out this soul-jazz from Charles Earland – with a track called Black Talk...from his album of the same name. Check out the players and the track..

• Drums – Idris Muhammad
• Guitar – Melvin Sparks
• Organ – Charles Earland
• Tenor Saxophone – Houston Person
• Trumpet – Virgil Jones

Horace Silver – Acid, Pot Or Pills

Digital Crate Digging Continues..checking out some jazz / funk from Horace Silver – talking about Acid, Pot Or Pills....Check out the players and the track...

• Drums – Idris Muhammad, Mickey Roker
• Electric Bass – Bob Cranshaw, Jimmy Lewis (2)
• Electric Piano, Composed By, Liner Notes – Horace Silver
• Guitar – Richie Resnicoff
• Producer – Francis Wolff, George Butler
• Tenor Saxophone – George Coleman, Harold Vick, Houston Person
• Trumpet, Flugelhorn – Cecil Bridgewater, Randy Brecker
• Vocals – Andy Bey, Gail Nelson, Salome Bey

Doktor Pitt - Pharoah Sanders

Sunday Jazz Continues....checking out Doktor Pitt from  Pharoah Sanders. This is from his Journey To The One album. 

Pianist John Hicks, bassist Ray Drummond and drummer Idris Muhammad. were the main players Mr Sanders has on this album. Chris Hayes  on guitar, Eddie Henderson on Flugelhorn and Babatunde  on Congas, Percussion, Shekere also came through. 

Of course Mr. Sanders was playing the hell out of those saxophones!! check this out!!

Down Under By Joe Beck

Digital Crate Digging Continues...checking out the guitar playing of Joe Beck....with a song called Down Under.

Joe Beck was the go to guitarist during the beginning of the jazz funk fusion era during the 1970's...I posted a Idris Muhammad cut Power of Soul.. where Mr. Beck did a great interpretation of  the Jimi Hendrix guitar solo...in the meantime and between time check this out...

...."Something Has To Give"

In search of a breakthrough..man!!! it's like divers looking for survivors of the Costa Concordia sinking....something has to give! 

What did it cost ya? where did  Roy Ayers  type mystic voyages take you? that's what somebody asked a brotha!! I told them I've just got to live! 

Letting the hustlers hustle and the players play...who was victimized?...who fell prey? money was and is wasted..like on Solyndra..somebody told me I have to forgive but I didn't forget! 

Whats up with me? I let it go...packages were returned to senders..us Scorpios roll like this!! like New York Giants  were just trying to win; not lose or forfeit! 

Whats up with me? I'm all up in the spot...but whats up with it? they said I wasn't compliant..the whole situation was wack! 

Something has to give!!! even though were surviving...we didn't quit like Jon Huntsman...whats up man? survival? we have the knack! 

Somebody was trying to live the jet set life!! but it was full of toil and strife..like the Russian Roscosmos  spacecraft they crashed and burned!

Plus the structure was rusted..materials from Steel City disintegrated!! plus the brotha Roscoe felt the bad karma from the cosmos..lessons were learned! 

Trivial pursuits corrupt ya!! natural like osmosis...the big picture vision shows theres still no pity!! still being hated? who earned favorable karmic repercussions?

A hater disputes the truth...but we're dedicated to it..but "something has to give" reality checks are now cashed!! plus we sound clashed with the enemy...weapons used? the good word and percussions...

Breakbeat science is dropped in these discussions! whats the word on the curb? no justice or peace is found in Babylon..even if you win a Golden Globe Award like Idris Elba...


What were we on? searching for a breakthrough "something has to give" we're just trying to live..found the message in the drums played by Idris Muhammad....what will they tell ya?