Mongo Santamaria - The Promised Land

SundayJazz  Continues  check these menus, is this the soundtrack for the Full Moon / Lunar Eclipse in Scorpio tonight / tomorrow!

The saga /struggle continues; let the music play!! actually, it's a good way to deal with the pain and sorrow..

..After being disappointed by following the yellow brick road, maybe even to the so called Promised Land..

Missed appointments? reflected on while chilling out riding down I-20  here in Atlanta, the so called Promised Land..

Musical anointing? listening to Mongo Santamaria with a track called  The Promised  Land, check out the players and the track!!

Sprinkle oil on this thing per Sunday morning church renderings! blessings received rebuking empty promises as we get breakbeat scientific..

• Alto Saxophone [Alto Sax], Flute – Al Williams 
• Bass [Bass Guitar] – Roscoe Mackey, William Allen
• Bongos, Congas, Shekere [Chekere], Cowbell – Greg Jarmon ("Peachy")
• Congas, Bongos, Claves – Mongo Santamaria
• Drums – Bernard Purdy
• Drums [Traps], Timbales, Percussion – Steve Berrios
• Electric Piano [Fender Rhodes] – Armen Donelian
• Electric Piano, Piano [Acoustic] – Paul Griffin
•  Flute – Bob Porcelli
• Tenor Saxophone [Tenor Sax], Soprano Saxophone [Soprano Sax], Flute – Justo Almario
• Trombone, Synthesizer – Tom Malone
• Trumpet – Ray Maldonado, Victor Paz

Mongo Santamaria ‎– Los Indio

Sunday Jazz err I mean Digital Crate Digging Continues on what I refer to as a Terrible / Terrific Tuesday..

Things can go either way, claiming the terrific outcome!! celebrating by pulling out the drum and following my motto; "Let The Music Play"

....O-Dog Day Day Partying earlier but check the mood swing, Afternoon Jazzing!! actually? this vibe is in that same vein..

Jazz funking / Latin Jazzing!!  due to the next mood swing I could be out here spazzing! it's rough out here!! me and my constituents are feeling the same pain!!

Doing the damn thing, check this soul food we bring!! in the midst of the ongoing spiritual warfare we're fighting back with this good word and the sound!! at the moment listening to Mongo Santamaria with a track called Los Indio

This is from his Afro - Indio release back in  1975 / 1976, I'm digging it, getting my Afro / Indio / Cuban musical fix!! check out the players and the track to see what it do!!

• Alto Saxophone [Alto Sax], Flute – Al Williams 
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• Bass Guitar – Roscoe Mackey, William Allen
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• Bongos, Congas, Shekere [Chekere], Cowbell – Greg Jarmon ("Peachy")
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• Congas, Bongos, Claves – Mongo Santamaria
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• Drums – Bernard Purdie
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• Drums [Traps], Timbales, Percussion – Steve Berrios
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• Electric Piano [Fender Rhodes] – Armen Donelian
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• Electric Piano, Piano [Acoustic] – Paul Griffin
• Flute – Bob Porcelli
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• Tenor Saxophone [Tenor Sax], Soprano Saxophone [Soprano Sax], Flute – Justo Almario
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• Trombone, Synthesizer – Tom Malone
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• Trumpet – Ray Maldonado, Victor Paz

Tony Allen With Africa 70 - Afrodisco Beat ·

Digital Crate Digging Continues on what I refer to as a Terrible / Terrific Tuesday; things can play out either way..

They can be lackluster or spectacular!! from both extremes or somewhere in between!! soon caught up in the fray? 

....or paradise or to that place where "it ain't nothing nice" ; going back and forth like Cameo mentioned..

Think Twice per Donald Byrd, you heard? peep game as a hater comes forth making cameo appearances with the interference, I hope y'all pay attention!! 

Nice with this good word, playing this and that dimension!! now back and forth overseas, check this motherland style per Tony Allen With Africa 70 with a track called  Afrodisco Beat · 

Nice with those drums? Tony Allen, a funky drummer like Idris Muhammad, Clyde Stubblefield and Bernard Purdie so who'll work with me? we're dropping this disco jazz / jazz funk / afrobeat on the street!!

Mongo Santamaria ‎– Hitchcock Railway

Sunday Jazz Continues on a hot afternoon / evening here in Atlanta; skies look cloudy but the meteorologists blame it on the Godzilla Sahara Dust Storm..

Son!! I'm  ready to spaz as Breonna Taylor protests up in Jefferson Square in Louisville get fired on; the coupon for redemption shows  no expired on date!! it's not too late, God will deliver us from the storm..

...mentioned earlier in my it all falls apart post but not playing high post I'm  real with it!! your dude is down to earth..

Mentioned earlier, a dude falls through with heart and soul  from coast to coast, worldwide after the mothership landed us on earth..

Paid attention, work to do!! rolling down I-20 in Atlanta listening to some latin jazz from Mongo Santamaria ‎with a track called  Hitchcock Railway

His version of the Joe Cocker song? check the lyrics provided so you won't get me wrong!! as we proceed and continue / move along check out the players rolling with Mongo Santamaria as they play!!

• Alto Saxophone – Sonny Fortune
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• Arranged By – Marty Sheller 
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• Baritone Saxophone – Art Kaplan
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• Bass – William Allen
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• Congas, Bongos – Ramon "Mongo" Santamaria
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• Drums – Bernard Purdie
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• Percussion [Latin] – Julito Collazo, Osualdo Martinez
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• Piano – Rodgers Grant
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• Tenor Saxophone – Hadley Caliman, Hubert Laws
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• Timbales – Steve Berrios
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• Trumpet – Louis Gasca

Sonny Phillips – Sure ‘Nuff, Sure ‘Nuff

Digital Crate Digging Continues!! check us out this Humpday Extravaganza is going down!!

The saga / struggle continues aka life goes on, bumped up due to thiscoronavirus that’s going around..

Your dude is hunkered down / sheltering in place / quarantining and social distancing…

But bringing the funky sound plus on the case with this good word after observing the scene from a distance; doing the damn thing!!

Oh yeah!! doing the damn thing!! jamming!! pulled out some old school jazz!! listening to Sonny Phillips with a track called Sure ‘Nuff, Sure ‘Nuff

Oh yeah!! speaking of doing the damn thing these cats are jamming!! check out the players and the track!! can I get a amen? “sho nuff!! sho nuff!!

Yusef Lateef - Live Humble

Digital Crate Digging Continues on a Friday Night!! we've got that Friday Night Fever set going..

The saga / struggle continues, check these menus for beats and insights; excuse us for "going for what we're knowing"

The saga / struggle continues!! it's rough out here in these streets!! I'm like Michael Buffer: "Let's Get Ready To Rumble" but I just stumble..

Now your dude is chilling out;  just trying to take Yusef Lateef's advice! just trying to Live Humble.

..of course Yusef Lateef  is playing that tenor saxophone...the rest of the crew? 

Richard Tee -- piano /  Chuck Rainey -- Fender bass / Cecil McBee -- acoustic bass / Ray Baretto -- congas

Bernard Purdie -- drums, timbales / Hugh Lawson -- piano, Indian bells

The Sweet Inspirations bring the vocal backgrounds....nice...nice!!

Masters Of Groove - Masters Of Groove Twist

Digital Crate Digging Continues on this Throwback Thursday; that's the kind of business being conducted...

Oh!! earlier we waxed poetic, plus we got techno / technical with it but it's all good nobody was corrupted..

Well, at least not on this side of town!! no poetic justice was served by the GOP in the Senate concerning a Trump Impeachment; now Trump was at the Prayer Breakfast acting like he won the pennant..

Please!! some will need to pump brakes as they ride through town!! karma is something else, jokers will tempt fate..

Meanwhile this chef is in the kitchen aka the lab ready to serve this hot plate!! listening to some classic jazz funk from the Masters Of Groove with a track called Masters Of Groove Twist

Check the style, Bernard Pretty Purdie on drums,  Grant Green Jr  on the guitar,  Reuben Wilson on the keyboards , Jerry Jemmott on the bass; points scored / Afternoon Jazzing with  that jazz funk in our face!! check out the track / the plot twist..

Check this out at Masters Of Groove -  Masters Of Groove Twist

Johnny Hammond - Rock Steady

Digital Crate Digging Continues!! check us out as we lay down our Saturday Night Fever edition..

Check out the segment, all my constituents are eligible for it, based on how they're living..

..knowing reality is unforgiving, especially if episodes are orchestrated like Jussie Smollett ..

...or declaring fake national emergencies like Trump out here faking the funk; they're wrong for that!!

Check out how we work these, we're not  out here faking the funk!! listening to Johnny Hammond with his version of Aretha Franklin's  Rock Steady

Bernard Purdie  supplied  the funky drumming; it sounds like Eric Gale on the guitar but others are listed; check the sound as the funk is revisited!! we'll rock steady!!

• Arranged By, Conductor – Bob James
• Bass – Ron Carter
• Drums –Bernard Purdie 
• Engineer – Rudy Van Gelder
• Guitar – Bob Mann, Eric Gale, George Benson, Melvin Sparks
• Organ, Electric Piano – Johnny Hammond
• Percussion – Airto Moreira, Omar Clay
• Producer – Creed Taylor
• Saxophone [Alto, Tenor] – Grover Washington, Jr., Harold Vick
• Saxophone [Baritone] – Pepper Adams
• Trombone – Wayne Andre
• Trumpet, Flugelhorn – Al DeRisi, Snooky Young
• Violin – Emanuel Green, Gene Orloff, Harry Katzman, Joe Malin, Julius Brand, Julius Held, Max Pollikoff, Paul Gershman

King Curtis and The Kingpins ‎– Changes (Live At Fillmore West)

Sunday Jazz Continues...checking out some classic soul jazz from King Curtis ‎ and The Kingpins– with Changes from his Live At Fillmore West album...

He has an all star cast playing with him...check out the players and the track...         

• Brass – Memphis Horns, The
• Congas – Pancho Morales
• Drums – Bernard Purdie
• Guitar – Cornell Dupree
• Organ – Billy Preston
• Piano – Truman Thomas
• Saxophone – Andrew Love, Jimmy Mitchell, King Curtis, Lou Collins
• Trombone – Jack Hale
• Trumpet – Roger Hopps, Wayne Jackson 
•  Bass – Jerry Jemmott

Horace Silver / The Sophisticated Hippie

Digital Crate Digging Continues per the HumpDay Extravaganza!!

...checking out this classic jazz / funk from Horace Silver  with a track called The Sophisticated Hippie

....check out the players and the track...

• Acoustic Bass – Ron Carter
• Bass – Bob Cranshaw
• Drums –  Bernard Purdy
• French Horn – Vince Derosa
• Tenor Saxophone – Bob Berg
• Trombone – Frank Rosolino, Maurice Spears
• Trumpet – Tom Harrell
• Trumpet, Flugelhorn – Bobby Bryant, Oscar Brashear
• Woodwind – Buddy Collette, Jerome Richardson
•  Written-By, Arranged By, Piano – Horace Silver

Boogaloo Joe Jones - Things Ain't What They Used To Be

Sunday Jazz Continues!! not trying to brag or boast but we seem to have a pretty good thing going!!

Soul jazz? jazz hop? jazzdance? future jazz? like the New Birth track I played earlier we're Coming From All Ends!! whatcha knowing?

Now we'll go off in another direction in our pursuit for beat perfection; we might even roll up in your section...

Starting a sonic insurrection with this sonic assault; I guess we're mad like this Boogaloo Joe Jones track;  "Things Ain't What They Used To Be" per our inspection...

Playing some of this jazz / blues, related to paying dues!! check out the players and the track...

Damn!! "trying not to spaz"  background music? it's conducive!! soon these players will be back...

• Drums – Bernard Purdie
• Electric Bass [Fender] – Jimmy Lewis 
• Guitar – Boogaloo Joe Jones
• Organ – Charlie Earland*
• Tenor Saxophone, Alto Saxophone – Rusty Bryant

Ivan 'Boogaloo' Joe Jones - What It Is

Random Thoughts From A Brotha: Ivan 'Boogaloo' Joe Jones - What It Is: Sunday Jazz Continues!! of course there's some digital crate digging involved... The saga / struggle continues, but we're doing th...

Johnny Hammond - Rock Steady

Random Thoughts From A Brotha: Johnny Hammond - Rock Steady: Digital Crate Digging Continues!! real Flashback Friday business will be conducted.... Of course the saga / struggle continues, how will w...

Masters Of Groove ‎– Jamaican Rock

Random Thoughts From A Brotha: Masters Of Groove ‎– Jamaican Rock: Digital Crate Digging Continues per Throwback Thursday, so this dude will try to represent.. The saga / struggle continues; oh yes!! it go...

Hubert Laws "Yoruba"

Sunday Jazz Continues!!  we're listening to one of my favorite flutists Hubert Laws with a cut called Yoruba

...apparently an ode to a West African / Nigerian ethnic group called the Yoruba

..the players on this cut are Hubert Laws - Flute....Chick Corea - Piano ....Mongo Santamaria - Congas


Bernard Purdie - Drums ....Gary Burton - Vibraphone ....Airto, Joe Chambers and  Warren Smith - Percussion

Check it out / Let's Go!!


 

Ray Shanklin – “Duke’s Theme”

Sunday Jazz Continues!! We’re listening to some blues / soul jazz from  Ray Shanklin with aa track called  “Duke’s Theme”. 

This is from  Fritz The Cat (Original Soundtrack Recording). Check out the players and the track…

Bass – Chuck Rainey Drums – Bernard Purdie Guitar – Arthur Adams Percussion – Kenneth Nash Keyboards / Written-By – Ray Shanklin Vibraphone [Vibes] – Cal Tjader


Ray Shanklin – “Duke’s Theme” | Whats Really Going On?

Harlem River Drive – Seeds Of Life

Digital Crate Digging Continues per Music Monday!! some of my constituents are celebrating Labor Day..

Chilling out hopefully enjoying the fruits of their labor; please!! my constituents work hard for the money?

Dude at the Shell Station over on Panola Road in Lithonia / Stonecrest asked me for change / money, but he seemed much younger / healthier than me!! he should be in his prime money making years!!

Was it a con / shell game? trying to get over? or a cat stoned out of his mind due to drugs / alchohol or maybe mental issues / irrational fears?

O-Zone steers the mothership to a safe haven / safe harbor; reflecting / contemplating on the seeds of toil and strife…

Danger zone business is conducted amongst the corrupted!! what’s up with it? we’re reflecting / contemplating while listening to Harlem River Drive with Seeds Of Life

Check out the players and the track!! Let’s Go!!

Bass – Victor Venegas
Bass [Fender] – Andy Gonzalez
Congas – Eladio Perez
Drums – Bernard Purdy
Guitar [Accompanying] – Cornell Dupree
Lead Guitar – Bob Mann
Tenor Saxophone – Dick Meza
Timbales – Manny Oquendo
Trombone – Barry Rogers
Trumpet – Randy Brecker
Producer, Piano – Eddie Palmieri
Soprano Saxophone, Baritone Saxophone – Ronnie Cuber
Vocals – Jimmy Norman
  
Harlem River Drive – Seeds Of Life | Whats Really Going On?

Harlem River Drive – Idle Hands

Digital Crate Digging Continues per the HumpDay Extravaganza!! it’s like this..

Jazz / funk / soul / hip hop / house music? weaponized for spiritual warfare; we continue to fight this!!

Shining the light with this like a low tech / low weaponized security guard, but with more authority…

This insight and the funk is dropped on the masses providing relief in a hostile territory…

Harlem River Drive with  Idle Hands will tell the story!! they’re a music group not the street mentioned by Bobbi Humphrey..

They get all the way live like Lakeside!! check out the players and the track!! we’re feeding souls that are hungry..

Baritone Saxophone – Ronnie Cuber
Bass – Gerald Jemmott
Congas – Eladio Perez
Drums – Bernard Purdie
Guitar – Cornell Dupree
Tenor Saxophone – Dick Meza
Timbales – Nick Marrero
Trombone – Bruce L. Fowler
Piano – Eddie Palmieri
Vocals – Jimmy Norman
 
Harlem River Drive – Idle Hands | Whats Really Going On?

Eddie Harris and Les McCann - "Set Us Free"

Digital Crate Digging Continues on this Throwback Thursday; at the moment we're chilling out in the lab..

Oh!! the saga / struggle continues!! I call this Throwback / Thirsty Thursday because a dude is still hungry / thirsty!!  I had to do a spiritual / sonic smash and grab...

Supplying sonic rehab for my constituents as we deal with it!! what? we were just discussing how rough it is out here!!

Defying authority in a hostile territory, real with it!! dealing with Pharoah and his crew on the frontlines of spiritual warfare!

We had to tell Pharoah to let my people go!! in the background?  Eddie Harris and Les McCann with   "Set Us Free"  will play..

Check out the players and the track, as we get down!! will jokers be fair with us? man please!! you should know how they'll play!!

• Bass [String Bass] – James Rowser
• Drums – Donald Dean
• Electric Guitar – Cornell Dupree
• Percussion, Drums [African Drums] – Buck Clarke
• Tambourine – Bernard Purdie
• Tenor Saxophone, Saxophone [Electric] – Eddie Harris
• Trumpet – Benny Bailey
• Vocals, Electric Piano [Fendeer Rhodes] – Les McCann

Roy Ayers – Love Will Bring Us Back Together

Digital Crate Digging Continues per Music Monday!! We’re listening to some classic jazz funk from Roy Ayers with  Love Will Bring Us Back Together. 

Of course Roy Ayers handles the keyboards and vocals. Check out some additional players and the track.

Backing Vocals – Carla Vaughn / Bass, Handclaps – William Allen / Drums – Bernard “Pretty” Purdy / Guitar – Chuck Anthony
  
Roy Ayers – Love Will Bring Us Back Together | Whats Really Going On?