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Don Blackman
GRP/Arista | 1982
Mister Keyboardist Don Blackman has only recorded one album but co-operated with a dozen of artists such as Parliament, Funkadelic, Weldon Irvine, Roy Ayers, Lenny White, Mary J Blidge and Janet Jackson. He wrote 'Haboglabotribin' for Bernard Wright (which was later sampled on Snoop's 'Hustlers & G's') and did many of commercial tunes. Blackman ha... [ READ
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posted by: engelbert humperfunk | 11-23-2005
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 Fela Kuti
Expensive Shit
Editions Makossa | 1975
The late Olufela Olusegun Oludotun Ransome-Kuti, who died from AIDS in 1997, was everything Jazztro could ever dream of. As an inventor of the Afro-beat genre and creator of over 70 albums, he was a musical genius, a female magnet (he was married to over 20 wives) but even so a political fore fighter who established his own political party in 1979 ... [ READ
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posted by: jazztro | 10-28-2005
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 Dr Buzzard's
Original Savannah Orchestra
RCA | 1976
People are throwin this record away like it was a worn-out sponge. On flea markets, second hand shops and record fairs you can find this in a dozen. The questions remains why so many people look over this LP? Is it the cover, that reminds of a 1930 advertisement of soda drinks and cheap hotels?
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posted by: engelbert humperfunk | 10-21-2005
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 Marc Moulin
Sam Suffy
CBS | 1975
These days, Marc Moulin is mostly makin danceable funk jazz, for instance on his latest album 'Entertainment', which was issued by Blue Note Records last year. This year, the famous jazz label re-issued Moulin's project from 1975, 'Sam Suffy', an album that turned landmark due ... [ READ
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posted by: jazztro | 09-22-2005
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 Bernard Wright
NARD
GRP | 1981
At only 18 years old, BerNARD Wright released his smashing debut album in 1981. It's produced by the legendary Dave Grusin and Don Blackman co-writed some stuff. Wright worked intensively with Tom -'Funkin Jamaica'- Browne and his influence is present more than ever. With these three geniuses mentioned funk heads will have a gist of what to hear.... [ READ
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posted by: engelbert humperfunk | 09-17-2005
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 Stevie Wonder
Innervisions
Tamla-Motown | 1974
Stevie Wonder. A musical genius. Is it his blindness that made his musical senses even grow bigger? Probably. Lord Finesse fans will know him from such sentences as 'I'm like Stevie Wonder, I can't see a brother beatin me' and crate diggers can easily sum up ten samples taken from his music. But there's more...
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posted by: engelbert humperfunk | 06-28-2005
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 Azimuth
Azimuth
Som Livre | 1975
Aaah, Brazil! The land of milk and honey, Anna Beatriz Barros, Adriana Lima and soccer. But let's not forget the music! A lot of people tend to forget that this country is rich, not of money but of musical resources. And with right and reason a lot of diggers (waddup Madlib?) have dug their way to Rio since a few years ago.
It was then th... [ READ
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posted by: jazztro | 06-21-2005
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