Kenny Barron - Sunset

 Digital Crate Digging Continues as we come through broadcasting live and direct from our remote outpost out off of I-20 in Atlanta on this Terrible  / Terrific Tuesday where things can go either way!

Check these menus straight out of souls kitchen! we're claiming the terrific outcome now pulling out the drum as we let the music play...

...it's part of the life celebration; Brotha O  has this good word  / elaboration part of a collaboration with O-Dog as he drops the beat..

..curated  /  weaponized against those that hated like the Doobie Brothers we're taking it to the street!

Those that hate try to utilize Alt- Shift - Delete like some kind of Matrix Architect  but we're not having it, the plot / scheme? unraveling it, now chilling out Afternoon Jazzing listening to Kenny Barron with a track called Sunset, as sunset approaches here on the East Coast in America...

...even though this science dropped is appropriate for any time frame rebuking any mind game! check out the players and the track, this is courtesy of Deep Track Zack from over here on the Eastside! check us out, we're playing fair with ya! 

Check this out at Kenny Barron - Sunset 

Lee Morgan - Speedball

Sunday Jazz Continues, check these menus!! no telling what Brotha O is listening to from old school jazz / soul /funk music, house music, drum and bass , and he even checked out some hip hop!!

The saga / struggle continues as life goes on plus the toil and strife goes on, it doesn't stop!!

 The struggle is dealt with by weaponizing these sounds while we're out here on the front lines of spiritual warfare!

Of course it's accompanied by this good word you heard? that dude O-Zone will take it there...

...now I'm on to some classic jazz from Lee Morgan...with a cut off his Gigilo album called Speedball.

 .....the players? historical, all star players!! on this Sunday afternoon or actually anytime, "this is what's up y'all"

Wayne Shorter - tenor sax.

Lee Morgan - trumpet.

Harold Mabern - piano

Bob Cranshaw - bass  

Billy Higgins - drums....

Freddie Hubbard / Outer Forces

Digital Crate Digging Continues on this Throwback Thursday, who’ll work with me on another "anything goes" night? you might hear anything!! 

Due to this being a Thankful Thursday and it being a blessing to be here? we were O-Dog Day Partying earlier but we’ve got other work to do, check us out as we do our thing!

Check out these remote outpost musings, we’re back in the lab after being out in those Atlanta streets riding through remnants of Tropical Storm Nicholas but now we’re back with this providing bonus coverage but it’s par for the course!

Checking out  some jazz from Freddie Hubbard with a cut called Outer Forces.

 This is from Mr. Hubbard's "Blue Spirits" album, recorded at Van Gelder Studio on february 26, 1965.  

This was remastered in 2004, check out the players and the track to catch the score! these cats are going in, they didn’t shuck or jive!

 Check out the players and the track..

Freddie Hubbard (trumpet)

James Spaulding (alto sax)

 Hank Mobley (tenor sax)

 Kiane Zawadi (euphonium)

 McCoy Tyner (piano)

 Bob Cranshaw (bass)

 Pete La Roca (drums).

Weldon Irvine - Cosmic Vortex (Justice Divine)

Sunday Jazz Continues, check us out!! the pilot is "back up in here" steering the mothership...

Stepped outside to get some fresh air, the four walls were closing in due to sheltering in place / social distancing now a brotha is ready to get breakbeat scientific..

Took five thousand steps of a scheduled ten thousand, it's hard to get there when your "housing" but we'll make it...

Now back to this sound!! exploring different jazz elements earlier  jazz hopping and jazz dancing / housing earlier but now we've got other work to do, keeping it real not fake with it.. 

Made a break for it now I'm back with it, jazz funking this time!! listening to Weldon Irvine with a track called Cosmic Vortex (Justice Divine)

Not pumping brakes kid!! check the players and the track!! crunk with this thing like back in the day ATLiens "Freakniking"? please!! these players are worried about the cosmic karma due to the sport being complex!! coronavirus some kind of cruel justice? at the end of the day? there'll be an intervention that's divine...

Alto Flute – Bill Barnwell
Bass – Bob Cranshaw
Drums – Lenny White
Electric Piano, Clavinet – Weldon Irvine
Guitar – Joe Caro
Trumpet – Everett 'Blood' Hollins

Bobby Hutcherson: Maiden Voyage

Digital Crate Digging Continues per the Terrible / Terrific Tuesday edition..

Things can play out either way, making moves after I pray!! claiming the terrific outcome is how I'm living..

Reality? unforgiving but we keep living!! that's the advice from the old school Baptist preacher..

God willing!! this good word and the sound? that's what we're giving!! just trying to reach ya..

...just like a preacher with a sermon, check out how we're working!! we're  on that Sunday Jazz type of vibe!!

Listening to this rendition of Maiden Voyage!! we've got Bobby Hutcherson on vibes!!

Joined by the artist who composed it, Herbie Hancock on piano,

Bob Cranshaw helps out  on bass and Joe Chambers on the drums; Check it out / Let's Go!!

Lee Morgan - The Sidewinder

Digital Crate Digging Continues per the HumpDay Extravaganza!!

We're chilling out / letting it do what it do,  listening to this old school /classic jazz track from  trumpeter Lee Morgan called Sidewinder.

.. tenor saxophonist Joe Henderson, drummer Billy Higgins, and double bassist Bob Cranshaw helped him out on this...check it out!!

Sonny Rollins - Here's To The People

 Digital Crate Digging Continues!! the venue? my constituents call it Music Monday..

Jazz, funk, house music, hip hop? it's on these menus!! my mantra? let the music play!!

Jazz will play in the background, we didn't back down!! on this Monday evening? we'll try to get our minds right!!

New England Patriots didn't back down in Super Bowl 51 as the Atlanta Falcons came undone!! ATLiens we're heard saying "it ain't right" 

Jazz will play in the background due to being in a Sunday Jazz mood, we'll try to get our minds right!! we're listening to Sonny Rollins with   Here's To The People...

Check out the players and the track as they get down!! how did we get down? we're doing this for people!!

• Drums –  Steve Jordan
• Electric Bass – Bob Cranshaw
• Electric Guitar – Jerome Harris
• Piano – Mark Soskin
• Tenor Saxophone – Sonny Rollins
• Trombone – Clifton Anderson

 
Random Thoughts From A Brotha: Sonny Rollins - Here's To The People

Sonny Rollins ‎– No Problem

Sunday Jazz Continues!! We're listening to this classic jazz-funk track from  Sonny Rollins ‎ called No Problem. This is from his album of the same name. Check out the players and the track..

• Drums – Tony Williams
• Electric Bass – Bob Cranshaw
• Electric Guitar – Bobby Broom
• Tenor Saxophone, Producer – Sonny Rollins
• Vibraphone [Vibes] – Bobby Hutcherson

Horace Silver Quintet - Psychedelic Sally

Digital Crate Digging Continues on #MusicMonday...we're checking out some classic jazz from the Horace Silver Quintet with a track called Psychedelic Sally. She must *be on that stuff* ..but I digress. Check out the players and the track..

Horace Silver (piano) /  Charles Tolliver (trumpet) /  Stanley Turrentine (tenor sax), Bob Cranshaw (bass), Mickey Roker (drum).

Stanley Turrentine - Hey Jude

 Sunday Jazz Continues!! We're checking out  some soul jazz from Mister T aka Stanley Turrentine with his version of the Beatles Hey Jude. Check out the all star players and the track..

• Arranged By – Thad Jones
• Bass, Electric Bass – Bob Cranshaw
• Drums – Mel Lewis
• Flugelhorn, Trumpet – Burt Collins
• Flute, Clarinet, Alto Saxophone – Jerry Dodgion
• Flute, Clarinet, Tenor Saxophone – Jerome Richardson
• French Horn – Brooks Tillotson , Richard Berg 
• Guitar –  Kenny Burrell
• Piano – Herbie Hancock
• Producer – Duke Pearson
• Tenor Saxophone, Leader – Stanley Turrentine
• Trombone – Jimmy Cleveland
• Violin – Gene Orloff

  Random Thoughts From A Brotha: Stanley Turrentine - Hey Jude

Nat Adderley -Cantaloupe Island

Sunday Jazz Continues; we’re checking out this classic from Nat Adderley with a song called Cantaloupe Island. Check out the players and the track…

• Bass – Bob Cranshaw
• Drums – Roy McCurdy
• Piano – Herbie Hancock
• Saxophone –  Joe Henderson
• Trumpet – Nat Adderley

 
Nat Adderley -Cantaloupe Island | Whats Really Going On?

Hank Crawford / You’ve Got It Bad Girl

Digital Crate Digging Continues during Jazz Appreciation Month!! we’re checking out some classic soul jazz music from Hank Crawford  with his version of Stevie Wonder’s  You’ve Got It Bad Girl. Check out the players and the track..

• Alto Saxophone – Hank Crawford
• Bass – Bob Cranshaw
• Drums – Idris Muhammad
• French Horn – Brooks Tillotson, Jim Buffington
• Guitar – Joe Beck
• Percussion – Arthur Jenkins, David Friedman, George Devans, Phil Kraus, Ralph MacDonald, Rubens Bassini
• Piano, Organ – Richard Tee
• Trombone – Paul Faulise, Wayne Andre
• Trombone [Bass Trombone] – Tony Studd
• Trumpet – Alan Rubin, Bernie Glow, Marvin Stamm

 
Hank Crawford / You’ve Got It Bad Girl | Whats Really Going On?