Ronnie Laws – Young Child

Digital Crate Digging Continues as we proceed and continue with this Music Monday edition.

The saga  / struggle continues as we provide bonus coverage just trying to gain leverage in the midst of the ongoing shady dealings!

In our remote outpost out off of I-20 in Atlanta we're chilling handling breakbeat scientific business  / doing operations research!

Soon we'll blast off from our runway out off of I-20 in Atlanta, our gateway to the universe as we come through operating like local  / national  / international and intergalactic mercs.

Afternoon Jazzing and O-Dog Day Partying is how it works, we're checking out this classic jazz / funk classic from Ronnie Laws – with Young Child. 

Check it out y'all! we had to reload it after checking the files now check out the players and the sound / check the styles!
 

Producer -- Ronnie Laws Backing Vocals -- Alexandra Brown, Eloise Laws, Jean Terrell Thompson*, Miki Howard, Ronnie Laws Bass -- Nathanial Phillips* Cello -- Glen Grab*, Ronald Cooper Composed By -- Ronnie Laws Engineer -- Chris Brunt Flute -- Hubert Laws Keyboards -- Bobby Lyle, Joe Sample, Larry Dunn, Patrice Rushen, Ronnie Foster Mastered By -- Ken Perry Viola -- Don Neufield*, Jim Ross* Violin -- Frank Foster), Gina Kronstandt*, Gordon Marron, Haim Shtrum, Jerome Webster, Michelle Grab, Pam Gates Violin, Concertmaster -- William H. Henderson

The Crusaders – Life In The Modern World

 

Sunday Jazz Continues as Sunday morning transitions into Saturday afternoon, check us out as we hit you up with a tune…

…or maybe two so what it do? I guess you can say we’re doing our due diligence; will the madness be over soon?

My dude down on Bay Street down in Nassau in the Bahamas said jokers haven’t stopped the madness so I guess I’ll have back with this…

…soul food / Sunday meal, it’ll be something they can feel; my constituents already know what it is when we “holla back with this”

For some the game is over but we’re still trying to get over coming through listening to The Crusaders with a track called Life In The Modern World

…which is what we’re trying to deal with! check out the players and the track! we’re just trying to stay ahead in the game as the drama unfurled!!

Check this out at  The Crusaders – Life In The Modern World

Airto Moreira - Flora's Song

Digital Crate Digging Continues on this Terrible / Terrific Tuesday where things can go either way!

All day we claimed the terrific outcome now bearing witness to the manifestation now check the celebration as we let the music play!

 Excuse us, but we're checking out some fusion, Latin Jazz from  Airto Moreira -with a track called  Flora's Song, because it was written  and composed by– Flora Purim!!

That track is perfect for cooling out on this Tuesday evening or whenever, perfect for chilling!

We’re broadcasting live and direct from our remote outpost out off of I-20 in Atlanta!!

Check out the players and the track as we continue to get breakbeat scientific; somebody will understand a brotha!

• Double Bass – Ron Carter
• Flute – Hubert Laws
• Flute [Wood] – Airto
• Percussion – Airto
• Piano – Keith Jarrett
• Soprano Saxophone – Joe Farrell
• Trombone – Garnett Brown, Joe Wallace , Wayne Andre
• Trumpet, Flugelhorn – Alan Rubin , Burt Collins , Mel Davis 

Eric Gale - Forecast

Digital Crate Digging Continues on a Flashback Friday, that’s the kind of vibe we’re on. 

Chilling out in the lab / remote outpost, chilling not trying to play high post but once again it’s on!

In our zone, minding and tending good word dropping and beat blending. 

Still getting breakbeat scientific, check us out! there’s a message in the music? oh yeah, that’s what we’re sending!

...checking out  guitarist Eric Gale with his classic cut called Forecast; it’s off his album of the same name...

He had an all star cast recording this album / song; check out the players in the game!

Idris Muhammad  and Rick Marotta on the drums

Saxophonists included Joe Farrell, Pepper Adams,

Trumpeters included Randy Brecker and Jon Faddis.

 Hubert Laws and George Marge sat in the flute chairs, 

Bob James playing piano and synths.

Freddie Hubbard - People Make The World Go Round

Digital Crate Digging Continues per this HumpDay Extravaganza!

We’re chilling out in the lab; broadcasting live from a remote outpost out off of I-20 in Atlanta!

....on a rainy evening; maintaining we keep believing that better days are coming!

In the meantime and between time we’re still celebrating life; we’ve got the funky drummer drumming!

We're chilling listening to Freddie Hubbard's version of People Make The World Go Round. 

Check out the players and the track!! this is how we get down!

• Bass – Ron Carter
• Design [Album] – Bob Ciano
• Drums – Billy Cobham, Jack DeJohnette, Lenny White
• Flute – Hubert Laws
• Guitar – George Benson
• Percussion – Airto
• Piano – George Cables
• Producer – Creed Taylor
• Tenor Saxophone – Junior Cook
• Trumpet – Freddie Hubbard

  

Charles Earland - Cause I Love Her

Digital Crate Digging Continues on a Flashback Friday, that's how I'm trying to play for those wondering...

The saga / struggle continues aka life goes on, it's a blessing to be here making it a Fabulous Friday!! out here on I-20 in Atlanta? oh yeah, we're still wandering! 

Still wondering when the madness will cease; Flashback Friday /  back in the day? dealt with Mitch McConnell and Rand Paul with their shenanigans up in Kentucky..

Now we're down here in Georgia with Brian Crooked Kemp and Marjorie Taylor Greene types with their hypes; so what's up with me? 

We're putting it down, we'll proceed and continue on this Conquest, doing our best to drop this breakbeat acience!! at the moment we're in the lab chilling listening to this smooth track from Charles Earland  called 'Cause I Love Her..

Check out the players and the track as we "holla back" on the smooth tip after hitting the ground running with the O-Dog Day Party!! we're taking it down a thousand, you heard? 

• Bass Trombone – Dick Griffin , Jack Jeffers
• Congas – Sonny Morgan
• Drums – Billy Cobham
• Flugelhorn – Jon Faddis , Lee Morgan , Victor Paz , Virgil Jones 
• Flute – Hubert Laws, Jr.
• Guitar – Greg Millar 
• Guitar [Fuzz] – John Fourie 
• By, Arranged By – Charles Earland, Virgil Jones
  
• Organ – Charles Earland
• Trumpet – Jon Faddis , Lee Morgan , Victor Paz , Virgil Jones 

 

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

Def Jazz- Bring The Pain

Digital Crate Digging Continues per this Terrible /Terrific Tuesday, positive or negative is the perspective...

Digital? analog? usually digging jazz / funk/ hip hop / house music!! oh yes!! it helps the perspective..

Let the music play!! it's all good per the catch phrase / cliche;  much respect shown to the artists..

Mood enhancers, food for chill outers or dancers!! nourishment for minds, bodies, souls and hearts kid..

Advancing kid!! the mood? chillout / jazz frame and mind but something with an edge per the hip hop..

We're checking out Def Jazz featuring Hubert Laws and Kevin Toney with their version of Method Man's Bring The Pain; you don't quit and you stop...

 

CTI All Stars - Fire and Rain (Featuring Hubert La...

Random Thoughts From A Brotha: CTI All Stars - Fire and Rain (Featuring Hubert La...: Sunday Jazz errr I mean Digital Crate Digging Continues per this Music Monday segment.. Son!! I

Hubert Laws - Undecided

Digital Crate Digging Continues on a Throwback Thursday; this is word from a retro-futuristic mystic!!

The saga / struggle continues as Throwback Thursday thoughts have me "feeling some kind of way"; damn!! time is moving fast, checked the past episodes; damn!! did I miss that or this?

The saga / struggle continues as I go back to the future, self inflicted injuries had me getting sutures so let the healing process begin!!

Reflecting on past episodes while listening to some jazz; Sunday and Jazz go together as I like to say; memories of cruising down Broadway up in Louisville towards Shawnee Park was the play on a Sunday; that's what was happening!! 

Checking out this classic  track from Hubert Laws called Undecided; your dude is smiling, because up in the Buick Electra aka deuce and a quarter?  this is something we would ride to!

Check out the players and the track!! word from this classic man O-Zone breaking it down!! letting you know what it do!! 

...Hubert Laws on the flute.

..with Steve Gadd on the drums

... Gary King on bass

...Bob James on the keyboards

..Ralph MacDonald on percussions

....Eric Gale on guitar....

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!!


 

Ronnie Laws ‎– Every Generation

Digital Crate Digging Continues on a  Throwback Thursday / Thanksgiving Day. Hopefully it was a great day for you and yours!! We're checking out one of my favorites, this classic soul jazz track from Ronnie Laws ‎–called Every Generation. 

This is the from his album of the same name. This is the Vinyl 12"  version. 

Oh yes!! it's relevant for today!! Maybe at the family get together or reunion two / three or four generations we're represented!! There were four generations at the spot I was in!! 

In the meantime and between time check out the all star players and the track.

• Backing Vocals – Alexandra Brown, Eloise Laws, Jean Terrell Thompson, Miki Howard, Ronnie Laws
• Bass – Nathanial Phillips
• Cello – Glen Grab, Ronald Cooper
• Composed By – Ronnie Laws
• Engineer – Chris Brunt
• Flute – Hubert Laws
• Keyboards – Bobby Lyle, Joe Sample, Larry Dunn, Patrice Rushen, Ronnie Foster
• Viola – Don Neufield, Jim Ross
• Violin – Frank Foster , Gina Kronstandt, Gordon Marron, Haim Shtrum, Jerome Webster, Michelle Grab, Pam Gates
• Violin, Concertmaster – William H. Henderson

Hubert Laws – The Baron

Digital Crate Digging Continues per what I like to call the Saturday Night Fever!! We’re chilling out / cooling out listening to Hubert Laws with a track called The Baron. Check out the players and the track..

Drums – Gregory Errico Electric Bass – Robert Vega Electric Piano [Fender Rhodes] – Barnaby E. Finch Flute, Piccolo Flute – Hubert Laws Percussion – Victor Feldman Rhythm Guitar – Melvin Robinson Soloist, Guitar – Patrick Kelley Synthesizer [Arp] – Jerry Peters Trombone – Garnet Brown*, Maurice Spears, Thurman A. Green Trumpet – Bobby Bryant, Snooky Young, Ray Brown
 
Hubert Laws – The Baron | Whats Really Going On?

Ron Carter - Can't Give You Anything (But My Love)

Digital Crate Digging Continues on what I like to call Saturday Night Fever...

No tight pants wearing John Travolta or The Bee Gees singing Staying Alive, but I strive; believe a brotha!!

It's tight!! who understands the high voltage of the force field when they arrive at the gate? 

It's tight!! domestic and foreign lands vote against politicians that arrive with fate..

It's tight in these hoods!! they want you to yield like a so called drunk Tiger Woods even though it's pain medicine..

Insight from the deliberate falsehoods? this good word rebuked them and those as the funk blessed those in the hoods / city and the field like it was Deutoronomy 28 :3!! it's pain medicine..

Per Ron Carter I Can't Give You Anything  (But My Love); the response will be jazz funk for my people!! check out the players and the track!!

Word!! don't start with a brotha!! I told you it's all love, as we bring it back!!

• Alto Saxophone – David Sanborn, Phil Woods
• Bass, Arranged By – Ron Carter
• Drums – Jimmy Madison
• Electric Piano – Don Grolnick
• Flute – Hubert Laws
• Guitar – Eric Gale
• Organ – Richard Tee
• Percussion – Arthur Jenkins, George Devens, Ralph MacDonald
• Tenor Saxophone – Michael Brecker
• Trombone – Barry Rogers
• Trumpet, Flugelhorn – Alan Rubin, Randy Brecker

CBS Jazz All-Stars – Project “S”

Digital Crate Digging Continues per Music Monday!! We’re listening to none other than The  CBS Jazz All-Stars with a track called Project “S”..

The CBS Jazz All Stars consisted of cream of the crop jazz musicians such as Anthony Williams, Arthur Blythe, Bobby Hutcherson, Cedar Walton, Dexter Gordon, Eric Gale, Gerry Brown, Hubert Laws, Jimmy Heath, John Lee , Percy Heath, Richard Tee, Rodney Franklin, Stan Getz, Willie Bobo, Woody Shaw

Ladies and gentlemen? that’s an all star line up!! Check out the track!!
 
CBS Jazz All-Stars – Project “S” | Whats Really Going On?

Hubert Laws – I Had A Dream

Digital Crate Digging Continues per Saturday Night Fever!! We’re listening to this smooth track from Hubert Laws called I Had A Dream. Check out the players and the track..

• Cello – Alan Shulman, George Ricci
• Drums – Steve Gadd
• Flute – Hubert Laws
• Keyboards – Don Grolnick
• Percussion – Ralph MacDonald
• Producer – Creed Taylor
• Trumpet – Randy Brecker
• Bass – Doug Bascomb
• Clavinet, Piano – Bob James

 
Hubert Laws – I Had A Dream | Whats Really Going On?

Lalo Schifrin – Quiet Village (Cha Cha Cha)

Sunday Jazz Continues!! We’re checking out some jazz funk from Lalo Schifrin with a track called Quiet Village (Cha Cha Cha). Check out the players and the track..

• Alto Saxophone – Joe Farrell
• Arranged By, Conductor – Lalo Schifrin
• Backing Vocals – Patti Austin
• Baritone Saxophone – Pepper Adams
• Bass – Anthony Jackson
• Drums – Andy Newmark
• Engineer, Mastered By – Joe Jorgensen
• Flute – Hubert Laws, Joe Farrell
• Guitar –  John Tropea
• Keyboards – Lalo Schifrin
• Percussion – Carter Collins*, Sue Evans
• Producer – Creed Taylor
• Trombone – Barry Rogers, Billy Campbell, Wayne Andre
• Trumpet – Jon Faddis

 
Lalo Schifrin – Quiet Village (Cha Cha Cha) | Whats Really Going On?

Patrice Rushen ‎– Kickin Back

Digital Crate Digging Continues…your dude is chilling out. I’m taking  the advice of Patrice Rushen ‎– I’m Kickin Back. This is from her Before The Dawn  album. Check out the players and the tack..

• Bass – Charles Meeks
• Drums – Ndugu
• Electric Piano, Piano, Synthesizer, Clavinet, Tambourine, Cabasa, Remix – Patrice Rushen
• Flugelhorn – Oscar Brashear
• Flute – Hubert Laws
• Guitar – Lee Ritenour
• Percussion – Nate Alfred
• Saxophone [Tenor] – Hadley Caliman
• Trombone – George Bohannon
• Trumpet – Oscar Brashear

Patrice Rushen ‎– Kickin Back | Whats Really Going On?

Ron Carter ‎– Anything Goes

 Digital Crate Digging Continues on a #FlashbackFriday; it's going down like this!!

It's the weekend baby!! let the music play!! we're playing the sounds like this!!

Posting around the time of the  Lunar Eclipse – Full Moon in Pisces  :  so how will some act?

Some still talk of  #birtherism   like Trump but I wasn't working with them!! some don't know how to act...

I did have some work for them; beats will thump,  but some already know hoe the story goes...

I did have some work for them; beats will thump!! check out the players and the track per  Ron Carter ‎ with  Anything Goes!! 

• Bass, Arranged By – Ron Carter
• Drums – Steve Gadd
• Electric Piano – Don Grolnick
• Flute – Hubert Laws
• Guitar – Eric Gale
• Organ – Richard Tee
• Percussion – Arthur Jenkins, George Devens, Ralph MacDonald
• Tenor Saxophone – Michael Brecker
• Trombone – Barry Rogers
• Trumpet, Flugelhorn – Alan Rubin, Randy Brecker
• Vocals – Maeretha Stewart, Marilyn Jackson, Patti Austin

Random Thoughts From A Brotha: Ron Carter ‎– Anything Goes

Roy Ayers / Wave

 Digital Crate Digging Continues; we're checking out this smooth soul / jazz from  Roy Ayers with a track called Wave. Check out the players and the track.

• Alto Saxophone – Gary Bartz
• Bass – Miroslav Vitous 
• Drums – Grady Tate
• Flugelhorn, Trumpet, Arranged By – Charles Tolliver
• Flute – Hubert Laws
• Piano – Herbie Hancock
• Producer, Liner Notes – Herbie Mann
• Vibraphone – Roy Ayers

 Random Thoughts From A Brotha: Roy Ayers / Wave