Ronnie Foster – Funky Motion

Digital Crate Digging Continues!! check us out as we handle this Throwback Thursday type of business…

The saga / struggle continues aka life goes on; check us out as we go back to the future!! my constituents know what the deal is…

….a retro- futuristic mystic back with it; what? the future funk!! these times demand it..

O- Metro aka O- City aka O-Dizzle watched plans fizzle; now like Rev Al Sharpton mentioned at the George Floyd memorial serviceAmerica has it’s knee on our neck?

O- Metro aka O- City aka O-Dizzle watched plans fizzle; now like Rev Al Sharpton mentioned at the George Floyd memorial serviceAmerica has it’s knee on our neck?

From the get go? it’s been like that all the way back to the middle passages!! now we’re in the heart of a hostile territory where rights are null and void?  plus this Covid -19? your dude is trying to avoid!! is there any respect?

Didn’t let go, we slide through these portals / passages celebrating life in honor of George Floyd / Ahmaud Arbery / Breonna Taylorsetting this O-Dog Day Party off…

..we’re listening to this classic / supreme funk from Ronnie Foster called Funky Motion!! check out the players and the track!! they’re going off!!

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Ronnie Foster - Funky Motion

Random Thoughts From A Brotha: Ronnie Foster - Funky Motion: Digital Crate Digging Continues on a Saturday afternoon; we usually have an Afternoon Jazz thing going... We're trying to follow those...

Idris Muhammad - Loran's Dance

Digital Crate Digging Continues per Music Monday, in conjunction with What  I Listened To At Work

...I had rough days on the 9 to 5...a lot of times I had to go to the hooptie just to chill out

...turned on WCLK 91.9..the Jazz Of The City...here in Atlanta...they played this song...Loran's Dance by Idris Muhammad...(Grover Washington has a version of this song...he even plays on this) ..soon everything was alright!! it was so nice I had to listen to it again..check out the players and the track...

• Bass – Gary King
• Drums – Idris Muhammad
• Engineer – Rudy Van Gelder
• Guitar – Joe Beck
• Keyboards, Arranged By, Conductor – Bob James
• Percussion – Ralph MacDonald
• Photography By – Duane Michals
• Producer – Creed Taylor
• Soprano Saxophone, Tenor Saxophone – Grover Washington, Jr.
• Trumpet, Flugelhorn – Randy Brecker

 

Joe Farrell - Penny Arcade

 Sunday Jazz Continues!! We're listening to some jazz funk from Joe Farrell with a track called  Penny Arcade!! Check out the players and the track!!

• Bass – Herb Bushler
• Congas – Don Alias
• Drums – Steve Gadd
• Guitar – Joe Beck
• Piano – Herbie Hancock
• Tenor Saxophone, Soprano Saxophone, Flute, Piccolo Flute – Joe Farrell

 
Random Thoughts From A Brotha: Joe Farrell - Penny Arcade

Joe Farrell - Too High

 Sunday Jazz Continues....this song here is so funky!!! it's a rendition of Stevie Wonder's Too High by Joe Farrell a saxophonist from Chicago who recorded on CTI Records..plus was a former member of Return To Forever with Chick Corea
...on Too High Herbie Hancock helps out with the piano...Herb Bushler on bass..Steve Gadd on drums....and Joe Beck on guitar...so funky!! Check it out!!
 
Random Thoughts From A Brotha: Joe Farrell - Too High

Joe Farrell - Canned Funk

Sunday Jazz Continues!! We're checking out some jazz funk from Joe Farrell  with a track called Canned Funk, from his album of the same name!! Check out the players and the track..

• Bass – Herb Bushler
• Congas, Percussion – Ray Mantilla
• Drums – Jim Madison
• Guitar – Joe Beck
• Tenor Saxophone, Soprano Saxophone, Baritone Saxophone, Flute – Joe Farrell

Joe Farrell - Cloud Cream

Digital Crate Digging Continues; we're checking out this smooth track from Joe Farrell called Cloud Cream. This is from his Penny Arcade album released in 1974. Check out the players and the track..

• Bass – Herb Bushler
• Congas – Don Alias
• Drums – Steve Gadd
• Guitar – Joe Beck
• Piano – Herbie Hancock
• Tenor Saxophone, Soprano Saxophone, Flute, Piccolo Flute – Joe Farrell

Joe Beck- Cafe Black Rose

 Sunday Jazz Continues; we're checking out this jazz funk from guitarist Joe Beck  with a track called Cafe Black Rose. Check out the players and the track..

• Alto Saxophone – David Sanborn
• Cello – Charles McCracken, George Ricci, Jesse Levy
• Drums – Chris Parker 
• Electric Bass – Will Lee
• Electric Piano, Organ – Don Grolnick
• Guitar – Joe Beck, Steve Khan
• Percussion – Ray Mantilla
• Violin – Charles Libove, David Nadien, Frederick Buldrini, Harold Kohon, Harry Cykman, Harry Lookofsky, Joe Malin, Max Ellen, Peter Dimitriades 

 
Random Thoughts From A Brotha: Joe Beck- Cafe Black Rose

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

 
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