Orlando Julius with the Heliocentrics - Buje Buje

Digital Crate Digging Continues; we're checking out some afro beat, world beat, jazz from Nigeria's own  Orlando Julius with the Heliocentrics -with a track called  Buje Buje. Let's Go!! 


 

The Family Stand –Ghetto Heaven (Jeff Ishmael 12″ Mix)

 Digital Crate Digging Continues…checking out some of this soul jazz from  Family Stand – with their classic hit Ghetto Heaven (Jeff Ishmael 12″ Mix)

The Family Stand –Ghetto Heaven (Jeff Ishmael 12″ Mix) | Whats Really Going On?

VSOP The Quintet Reunion / Eye Of The Hurricane

Digital Crate Digging Continues....still on some jazz / funk

..checking out VSOP The Quintet...in a reunion concert in 1986 at the  Mt. Fuji Jazz Festival. ...hitting us up with a song called Eye Of The Hurricane...

VSOP The Quintet is a super group consisting of  Freddie Hubbard: on trumpet / Joe Henderson on tenor saxophone


Herbie Hancock on piano /  Ron Carter on bass / and Tony Williams on drums...check them out...
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Everette Harp - Happy Accidental

Digital Crate Digging Continues...checking out Patrice Rushen on my other blog and noticed she had saxophonist Everette Harp playing with her group.

Found this cut by Everette Harp called  Happy Accidental produced by Chuck Loeb from his debut album called  "In This Moment" released in 2006. 

On this record, Everette Harp is joined by plenty of incredible talented musicians such as Norman Brown, Paul Jackson Jr., and George Duke. Check this out!!

Fantasy in D / Freddie Hubbard Quartet

Digital Crate Digging Continues....checking out the Freddie Hubbard Quartet with their classic cut called Fantasy in D.... Live at the Village Vanguard, NYC, 1982....check out the players and the track..

Freddie Hubbard (trumpet)  ...Cedar Walton (piano)

Ron Carter (bass)    Lenny White (drums) 

Kenny Garrett - Kiss To The Skies

Digital Crate Digging Continues..in conjunction with what I listen to at work...checked out hip hop and some drum and some drum and bass. Now winding things down a little bit with Kenny Garrett's Kiss To The Skies...off of his Beyond The Wall album. Heard this earlier today on WCLK....the players and the track?

saxophones...Kenny Garrettt and Pharoah Sanders,the pianist is Mulgrew Miller, on the drums Brian Blade and the it's Robert Hurst on the bass. vibraphonist Bobby Hutcherson also helped them out...

Jesse Fischer & Soul Cycle - Moon Ship

Digital Crate Digging Continues.....due to a previously planned engagement I missed the Jesse Fischer & Soul Cycle show last night at the Apache Cafe here in Atlanta....guess I check out Moon Ship off his latest album  Retro Future, released 10.30.12 on ObliqSound. ....it's hot!!

Ohio Players- Heaven Must Be like this

Digital Crate Digging Continues...rolling down I-20 earlier today..listening to Youngblood on Kiss 104;

They played one of my favorites...Ohio Players- Heaven Must Be Like This...a soul / jazz type of thing that has always been one of my favorites...check it out...

Kenny Barron, Kiyoshi Kitagawa, Brian Blade - I Mean You

Sunday Jazz Continues....checking out Kenny Barron, Kiyoshi Kitagawa, and Brian Blade with a cut called I Mean You...Live at Tsutenkaku ,Japan 2006

....these cats are playing man!! featuring  Kenny Barron: Piano ........Kiyoshi Kitagawa: Bass.......Brian Blade: Drums     check them out..

Skyzoo - Spike Lee Was My Hero (feat. Talib Kweli)

Digital Crate Digging Continues...checking out some so called underground hip hop....to me it sounds better than whats on the radio

...checking out Skyzoo - Spike Lee Was My Hero (feat. Talib Kweli)...these cats are spitting...that sound / track is fire.....check out how they break it down at the end...

Moonchild - Possible Worlds

Sunday Jazz Continues...venturing into the drum and bass side of jazz...oh yeah!! they're related!! "you ain't knowing" ??  do the knowledge

...stare off into the galaxy..check out the Full Moon that was in Aries that occurred this weekend...pondering Possible Worlds per Moonchild...this will take you out there...check this out!!

Matthew Shipp - Rocket Shipp

 Digital Crate Digging Continues..checking out some jazz /funk....riding out on Matthew Shipp's Rocket Shipp... from his Nu Bop album...the players are....

Matthew Shipp on piano w/ William Parker on bass, Daniel Carter is on the sax, Guillermo E. Brown on drums, FLAM on percussions)

LTJ Bukem Featuring MC Conrad - Progression Sessions 4

Sunday Jazz Continues..checking out some drum and bass with a jazz / soul  and hip hop feel to it...checking out LTJ Bukem Featuring MC Conrad  with  Progression Sessions 4 

Cafe Soul All Stars featuring Kenny Garrett & Roy Ayers URBAN JUNGLE

Digital Crate Digging Continues....rolling down I-20 here in Atlanta listening to WCLK....they put this jam on by the Cafe Soul All Stars...featuring Kenny Garrett and Roy Ayers...its fire!! had to check it out again...plus let you "see what I'm sayin" ...check it out!!

Ron Trent - Jazz Funk Freedom

Digital Crate Digging Continues..checking out this classic jazz / funk / house track from Ron Trent...damn!! its called Jazz Funk Freedom...its fire!!

Mandrill "Mandrill"

Digital Crate Digging Continues....much respect to Neftali Santiago and the group Mandrill for providing an education in how jazz / funk / rock / jazz was supposed to sound when they're fused together; 

Check out this classic footage with them playing their "theme song" ..Mandrill...

Roni Size - It's A Jazz Thing

Digital Crate Digging Continues....checking out this Roni Size....It's A Jazz Thing....even though it sounds like its a funk...drum and bass...hip hop jazz thing...whatever...is slamming!! check it out!!

Dollar Brand - African Space Program

Digital Crate Digging Continues...this is real crate digger material here!! South-African jazz pianist Adolph "Dollar" Brand..now known as Abdullah Ibrahim....with a cut called the African Space Program...recorded in 1974...oh yeah!! the motherland was putting it down just like NASA and Space X...the players were


Joe Gardner,tp...Roy Burrowes,tp...Kiane Zawadi, tb...Carlos Ward,as,ss,fl
 
Roland Alexander,ts...John Stubblefield,ts...James Ware,bs...Dollar Brand,p..Johnny Dyani,b plus
Roy Brooks,dr

Goldie - Inner City Life

Sunday Jazz Continues....lets kick things off with Goldie and Inner City Life....ok...this cut has been classified / stereotyped as a drum and bass cut...but to me it has a next level jazz / soul feel to it....check it out....

Kyoto Jazz Massive - Crossbreed

Digital Crate Digging Continues....still checking out this Kyoto Jazz Massive...check out this cut called Crossbreed