Mixed Bag.

We are happy to report that records stores were at capacity for Record Store Day 2012. Stop at the Junction Wednesday night for a few Record Store Day exclusive releases, including unreleased Miles Davis (the marathon looms!) and the first ever official release from the Mynah Birds (Rick James & Neil Young...together at last!). Plus, genius from Allan Toussaint, psych-funk from Kool & Together and spiritual jazz from Azanyah (recorded in 1987!). And no, we're not done with the electric piano Eddie Russ yet...in fact, got a whole set lined up: solo, on that fresh new reissue with the Mixed Bag and another jam with Sonny Stitt!

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The record ends and we begin again.

 

April 25, 2012

 

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Playlist (Song/Artist/Album/Label):

"Don't Do It"  The Band  Cahoots (Capitol)
***for Levon Helm

"Blue Monk"  Ron Carter & Jim Hall  Live at the Village West  (Concord)

"Dear Old Stockholm"  Miles Davis  Forever Miles  (Columbia)

"X-Ray Blues"  Ray Charles & Milt Jackson  Soul Meeting  (Atlantic)

"Let's Go Get Stoned"  Ray Charles  Crying Time  (ABC-Paramount) 

"The One"  Azanyah  The One  (Jazzman/Path of Light)

"Return of the Prodigal Son"  Byrdie Green  7 Inch  (Jazzman)

"Get Out of my Life Woman"  Dee Dee, Barry & The Movements  Soul Hour  (MPS/Sonorama)

"Hill Where The Lord Hides"  Eddie Russ & The Mixed Bag  Fresh Out!  (Universal Sound/Jazz Masters)

"Zaius"  Eddie Russ  See The Light  (Monument)

"Escanaba Beat"  Sonny Stitt  Tornado  (Jazz Masters)

"It's My Time"  The Mynah Birds  7 Inch  (Motown)

"If I Were a Bird"  Howlin' Wolf  Message to the Young  (Chess/Get On Down)

"Sittin' on a Red Hot Stove"  Kool & Together  Kool & Together  (Heavy Light)

"I Bet You"  Funkadelic  Funkadelic  (Westbound)

"Dreams"  Buddy Miles  Them Changes  (Mercury)

"Southern Nights"  Allen Toussaint  Southern Nights  (Reprise)

"Sweet Thang"  Shuggie Otis  Freedom Flight  (Epic)

"Them Belly Full"  Bob Marley & The Wailers  Live!  (Island)

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Fresh out.

Oh man...these reissues of extremely rare records just keep on coming!  The latest:  Eddie Russ' Fresh Out, a release that perhaps cements Soul Jazz Records status as the king of reissue labels!  Plus, we got grooves from S.O.U.L. (Sounds Of Unity & Love, natch), blues from Texas tenorman, Curtis Amy, spacejazz from Chris Hinze, and Charles Bradley covering Kurt Cobain!

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Wednesdays, 8pm-10pm
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Put a needle on the record. 

April 11, 2012

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Playlist (Song/Artist/Album/Label):

"Stay Away"  Charles Bradley & The Menahan Street Band  7 Inch  (Dunham)

"Manya"  Nick Rosen  Into The Sky  (Porter)

"Lonely Woman"  Curtis Amy  Katanga!  (Pacific Jazz/Heavenly Sweetness)

"Uptown Conversation"  Ron Carter  Uptown Conversation  (Embryo)

"Moon Dance"  Elvin Jones   Time Capsule  (Vanguard)

"Egypt Strut"  Salah Ragab & The Cairo Jazz Band  Presents Egyptian Jazz  (Sono Cairo/Art Yard)

"Soul Vibration"  Dorothy Ashby  Afro-Harping  (Cadet)

"Hopscotch"  Charles Rouse  Two Is One  (Strata East)

"Netsanet"  Mulutu Astanke  New York-Addis-London: The Story of Ethio Jazz 1965-75  (Strut)

"Stepping Razor"  Peter Tosh  Equal Rights  (Columbia)

"The Lope Song"  Eddie Russ & The Mixed Bag  Fresh Out  (Jazz Masters/Universal Sound)

"Something"  Sonny Stitt   A Brand New Bag  (Jazz Masters)

"Tei Egwu"  Afro Funk  Body Music  (Tropic Vibe/Secret Stash)

"Peace of Mind"  S.O.U.L.  Can You Feel It  (Musicor/BGP)

"Who Do You Love"  Lee Fields  Faithful Man  (Truth & Soul)

"Neighbors"  Chris Hinze Combination  Live at Montreux  (CBS)

"Jah Rock"  Augustus Pablo  This is Augustus Pablo  (VP)

"I Made a Promise"  Sir Joe Quarterman & Free Soul  Sir Joe Quarterman & Free Soul  (GSF)

"Suburban Dream"  The Stepkids  The Stepkids  (Stonesthrow)

"A Long Time"  Mayer Hawthorne  How Do You Do  (Universal Republic)

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Groove merchant.

Dig the Junction Wednesday night, as we spin some scores from a recent trip to the Bay Area, including Polish jazz from Sun Ship and fusion from a Russian band whose name I won't even attempt to pronounce.  Plus, let's dip back into the new Lee Fields, celebrate Ramadan In Space Time with Salah Ragab and (finally) debut Secret Stash Records latest reissue, Afro Funk !

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Wednesdays, 8pm-10pm.
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Coming through with beats for which you been searchin'. 

April 4, 2012

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Playlist (Song/Artist/Album/Label):

"Sunshine Superman"  Sugarman Three  Sugar's Boogaloo  (Daptone/Desco)

"Willow Weep For Me"  Dee Dee, Barry & The Movements  Soul Hour  (Sonorama/MPS)

"Pretty Memory"  Nat Adderley  Work Song  (Riverside)

"Where Were You When I Needed You"   Lionel Hampton  Stop, I Don't Need No Sympathy  (Brunswick)

"You're The Kind Of Girl"  Lee Fields  Faithful Man  (Truth & Soul)

"A Kickass Russian Album That Contains Only Russian Words So I'm Not Going To Insult The Fine Musicians By Trying To Pronounce Their Names"  Apcehhaj 

"Mrowka, Jak Wiemy (An Ant, As We Know)"  Sun Ship  Follow Us  (Polskie Nagrania)

"Footprints"  Lonnie Liston Smith & The Cosmic Echoes  Cosmic Funk  (Flying Dutchman)  

"Who Knows"  J.J. Jackson  J.J. Jackson's Dilemma  (Perception)

"Farewell to Ibusa"  Afro Funk  Body Music  (Secret Stash)

"Liberation Dues"  Oneness of JuJu  African Rhythms  (Black Fire)

"Neveen"  Salah Ragab & The Cairo Jazz Band  Present Egytian Jazz  (Art Yard/Kindred Spirits)

"Headstrong"  Aguabella  Hitting Hard  (Epsilon/Cubop)

"Inner City Blues"  Phil Upchurch  Darkness, Darkness  (Blue Thumb)

"Love The Life You Live"  The Impossibles  Hot Pepper  (Philips/Get On Down)

"Honky Tonk"  Bill Doggett  Honky Tonk Popcorn  (Polydor)

"Maybe So Maybe No/Gangster Luv"  Mayer Hawthorne  Direct To Disc #1  (Stonesthrow)

"If You Only Knew"  Jurassic 5  12 Inch  (Up Above)

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