Professor Longhair, Ramsey Lewis ,Herbie Mann, The Bamboos, Penny and the quarters, King seven, Gabby young, Malcolm Catto, Colleen, Ryan Gosling, JR
-Hopefully you will think these are all as good as I think they are… there are a few mp3s here but many links to YouTube and spotify, but I hope this inspires you to buy the artists music…. or see a show- nice
Professor Longhair – Big chief Feat, the Meters, Earl King and Dr John – Heck Yes
He seems to have done a million versions of this, some more pianoy and jazzy, some more funked, the versions I have linked to here are my favourites, I feel they exhibit a distinctive new Orleans powerful style, horns, swing, flavour, num num num. Longhair, Smokey Johnson on drums
Professor Longhair – Big Chief – Complete Version
Ramsey Lewis
Jazz-funk unit, He has made1 over 80 albums and some terrific 70’s funk releases
Hang On Sloppy (1973)h
… Miscellaneous cheers and whoops, awesome…
This has been recently remixed my Mr. Scruff, it’s not a lot different, he’s extended it a bit, and turned up the bass… which is always good! But it would be ashame for him to get all the modern credit, as the keys do funny things to you.
Herbie Mann –Herbert Jay Solomon, jazz flutist –
Smooth, jazz/ funk, smooth like tasty puree… kind of a more lounge funk experience, but when the flute Kicks in … bam your knees start to wobble and fingers jingle
Respect yourself
The Letter
The Bamboos
True deep funk
Their new ‘widely acclaimed’ and most popular album is I think their worst, I feel they have lost their edge that their older albums showed… the funkish depth, its more ‘white’ overproduced perhaps, don’t sell out! Please!
This song is a higher tempo version of Will Holland’s Limp Twins song another day in the life of Mr. Jones…
The Bamboos – Another Day in the Life of Mr Jones
This is an older song ‘Tighten up’
The bamboos do a bloody brilliant funk DJ set too… just one of them… not sure which one…
Penny and the quarters
Penny and the quarters have been described as a ‘lost’ soul band, as they preformed 3 demos but never ‘made it’ so were not signed… no one really knows if there are any surving members of their families etc… So they really are kind of an Atlantis of funk… whoopee. It features in the film ‘Blue Valentine’ which is the best film I have seen this year, a really raw, honest, emotional and beautiful film.
King seven
So; on the subject of lost musicians… King Seven from the one and only Cumbria released ‘Hidden’ which appeared on a bonobo ‘Solid Steel’ mix and as it appears from un-extensive research, has only made 2 other songs, ‘faces and sides’ and the ‘science of autumn’ Super pretty songs.
http://www.myspace.com/kingsevenmusic
Internet Tip
www.file2hd.com Go to this site and copy/paste the url of a MySpace site, YouTube, blog with an mp3 imbedded and it will show you the files and you can right click on them and save them… tada… e.g. Go to the king seven MySpace page and copy it… put in file2hd and wham. ..
Gabby young
Gabby Young presents a carnavalesque, exciting and catchy/ tunes/ lyrics… Deciding not to battle against illegal downloads etc, she and the animals, have decided to put extra effort into making shows unforgettable and contrary to other artists, actually make an effort to go that extra mile so you don’t feel like they could have just put the cd on and sat on stage.
Malcolm Catto
Playing with Quantic, DJ Shadow and many of his own formations, I think he is the best Funk/ Jazz/ Breaks drummer around… not that i know many..
http://www.myspace.com/heliocentrics
Colleen
I’ll read you a story, starkly beautiful, it all the more mesmerizing the slower you watch it. Colleen became the soundtrack of my dissertation and made many an all-nighter rather pleasant experiences.
Ryan Gosling,
Clip from blue valentine ‘you always hurt the ones you love’
This is the best version of the song that I have heard, it often feels quite cheesy but this is so memorable and haunting… also fun when you have it in your head and trying to sing it with a terrible and over-the-top embouchure.
Here’s the original I think, not really cheesy like some other covers, but if you can hear it… its nice
JR’s TED prize
I watched JR’s Favella film at a gallery in Newcastle and thought it was one of the best films I have ever seen, a silent film following a day around the favella and interactions with some of the locals, I have tried to find it, buy it, emailing etc but to no avail.. One day…
Anyway JR won the most recent TED prize… Huzzah!
Tao
