April 27, 2011

Immediately following the debate....Soul Junction.

Stay with GtownRadio.com after the debate for an hour of Soul Junction! Spotlight tonight on the new issue of Wax Poetics, featuring music from George Benson, Billy Cobham, George Duke, Norman Connors, Lenny White, Weldon Irvine & more. SOUL JUNCTION WEDNESDAYS, 8PM-10PM. I'm paying taxes...what am I buying?  --Fred Wesley Playlist (Song/Artist/Title/Label): “Things Could Be Better”  Ernie & The Top Notes  7 inch  (Stonesthrow)  “Footin’ It”  George Benson   Shape Of Things To Come   (A & M)  “In The Back, In The Corner, In The Dark”  Harold Land  Damisi  (Mainstream)  “Mr. Clean”  Weldon Irvine  Liberated Brother  (Nodlew Music)  “Bye Bye Blackbird”  Rahsaan Roland Kirk The Case of the 3 Sided Dream In Audio Color (Atlantic)  “Carlos II”  Norman Connors   Love From The Sun  (Buddah)  “Space Circus (parts 1 & 2)  Return To Forever  Hymn of the Seventh Galaxy  (Polydor)  “Snoopy’s Search/Red Baron”  Billy Cobham  Spectrum  (Columbia)  “Dukey Stick (part one)”  George Duke  7 inch  (Epic)

April 20, 2011

Soul Junction tonight....

Tonight on Soul Junction:
A classic Harold Vick Blue Note session, pristinely reissued on the Parisian Heavenly Sweetness label!  Plus, music from The Dave Pike Set, more from the new Natural Yogurt Band & Vesa-Matti Loiri releases and gospel funk from T.L. Barrett & The Youth For Christ Choir.

SOUL JUNCTION
Wednesday, 8pm-10pm.
Givin' up food for funk.




 April 20, 2011

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 Playlist (Song/Artist/Album/Label):

"Mumbles"  Oscar Peterson Trio + Clark Terry  Oscar Peterson + One  (Mercury)

"Go Down Moses"   Grant Green  Feelin' The Spirit  (Blue Note)

"Owa Tagu Siam"  Jiggs Whigham   Hope  (Pausa)

"Diddy Wa Diddy"  Dizzy Gillespie  Portrait of Jenny  (Perception)

"There's Some Light Ahead"  John Klemmer  Waterfalls  (Impulse)

"Sunshine Superman"  Jerry Hahn  Moses  (Fantasy)

"4 + 20 (session 1A)"  Vasa-Matti Loiri  4 + 20  (Porter)

"We Gettin' Down"  Soul Village  7 inch  (Jazz Makossa)

"Tress-Cun-Deo-La"  Joe Henderson  Multiple  (Milestone)

"Pot Head"  Natural Yogurt Band  Tuck In With....  (NowAgain)

"Space Echo"  Natural Yogurt Band  Away With Melancholy  (NowAgain)

"Discern/Define"  Poets of Rhythm  Discern/Define  (Quannum)

"No Registration"  Janne Schaffer  Chinese  (Vertigo)

"Send Me The Yellow Guys" Dave Pike Set  Infra-Red  (MPS)

"Dr. Watts Hymn & The Disciples Prayer"  T.L. Barrett & The Youth For Christ Choir
Like A Ship...Without A Sail  (Light in the Attic)

"Our Miss Brooks"  Harold Vick  Steppin' Out  (Blue Note/Heavenly Sweetness)

"Jesus Christ Superstar Medley"  Overton Berry Ensemble  T.O.B.E.  (Light in the Attic)

"Sweet Honey Bee"  The Hi-Fly Orchestra  7 inch  (Tramp)

"I Gotcha Opin"   Black Moon  12 inch  (Wreck)

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Soul Junction & Natural Yogurt....together at last.

Soul Junction & Natural Yogurt....together at last.

Wednesday night on Soul Junction: The new Natural Yogurt Band double 10 inch has finally arrived!  Plus, mad Finnish jazz from Vesa-Matti Loiri, electric blues from Howlin' Wolf, & spiritual grooves from Terumasa Hino. SOUL JUNCTION Wednesdays, 8pm-10pm. WEDNESDAYS IS HOT ON GTOWNRADIO.  Just sayin'.

April 13, 2011 CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD     Playlist (Song/Artist/Album/Label): "Swing Down Chariot"  Billy Preston  I Wrote A Simple Song  (A&M) "Miss Priss"  Ken McIntyre  Introducing The Vibrations  (Inner City) "Out On The Coast"  Larry Willis  Inner Crisis  (Groove Merchant) "Uncle Funky"  Bobby Forrester  Organist  (Dobre) "Tell Me"  Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings  7 inch  (Daptone) "Tenor Man"  The Greyboy Allstars  West Coast Boogaloo  (Greyboy) "Black & Brown Boogie"  Jose Mangual  Buyu  (Turnstyle) "Gimme Shelter"  Cal Tjader  Agua Dulce  (Fantasy) "Comin' Home Baby"  Vesa Matti Loiri  4 + 20  (Porter) "I Like Your Stuff"  The Sidewinders  Flatfoot Hustlin'  (Jazzman) "Tweed Suit"  Natural Yogurt Band  Tuck In With...  (NowAgain) "Nervous"  The New Mastersounds  7 inch  (KayDee) "Smokestack Lightening"  Howlin' Wolf  The Howlin' Wolf Album  (Cadet Concept) "Big Nick"  The Tony Williams Lifetime  Turn It Over  (Polydor) "Punk Funk"  McNeil & Niles  Thrust  (Chocolate Industries) "Pretty Brown Skin"  Roy Ayers  Ubiquity  (Polydor) "Be & Know"  Terumasa Hino  Fuji  (Catalyst) "You're Goin' Miss Your Candyman"  Terry Callier  What Color Is Love  (Cadet) CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD

Melvin Sparks, R.I.P.

Playlist (Song/Artist/Album/Label):

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"I Got To Have You"  Melvin Sparks  '75  (Westbound)

"Moanin'"  Bobby Timmons  This Here Is Bobby Timmons  (Riverside)

"Incognito"  Eastern Rebellion   Eastern Rebellion III  (Timeless)

"Nica's Dream"  Sonny Greenwich   Evol-ution, Love's Reverse  (PM)

"Dynasty"  Stan Getz  Dynasty  (Verve)

"Eglise"  Overton Berry Ensemble  T.O.B.E.  (Light in the Attic)

"Between The Seasons"  Volker Kriegel   Lift!  (MPS)

"3rd Version"  Eero Koivistoinen  3rd Version  (Porter)

"Midnight BBQ"  The Soul Investigators  Home Cooking  (Timmion)

"Keep Reachin' Up"  Nicole Willis & The Soul Investigators  If This Ain't Love  (Mit-Wit)

"Charlie Brown"  Melvin Sparks  Sparks!  (Prestige)

"People Sure Act Funny"  Lonnie Smith  Turning Point  (Blue Note)***

"Space Station"  John Patton  Soul Connection  (Nilva)***

"Hicky-Burr"  Caesar Frazier  Hail Caesar!  (Eastbound)***

"Black Talk"  Charles Earland  Black Talk!  (Prestige)***

"Donkey Walk"  Lou Donaldson  Everything I Play Is Funky  (Blue Note)***

"Super Bad"  Idris Muhammad  Black Rhythm Revolution  (Prestige)***

"Get Up With The Get Down"  Melvin Sparks  '75  (Westbound)

 ***featuring Melvin Sparks

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