RIBS TPTD: ‘Sax Appeal’ 3 – Coltrane, Turrentine & Grover, part 2

April 24, 2009 by tgrundy · 1 Comment
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A couple of weeks ago I featured these three as a part of the RIBS ‘Sax Appeal’ theme going on during this month of April. At the time I had planned to do a second mix because there were too many songs I wanted to use but they would not fit into just one mix. So here is some more from the sax masters that I consider the “Big 3” of the instrument:

John Coltrane: Starting in bebop and hard bop, Coltrane later pioneered free jazz. He influenced generations of other musicians, and remains one of the most significant tenor saxophonists in Jazz history.

Stanley Turrentine: Stanley William Turrentine was one of the most distinctive tenor saxophonists in jazz. Known for his big, warm, sound, “The Sugar Man” or the original “Mr. T” found inspiration in the blues and turned it into a hugely successful career with a #1 hit and four Grammy nominations — first in R&B and then in Jazz.

Grover Washington, Jr.: Considered by many to be one of the founding fathers of Smooth Jazz, throughout the 1970s and 1980s, Grover made some of this genre’s most memorable hits, including “Mr. Magic”, “Black Frost”, and “The Best Is Yet To Come”.

So… a second helping of C, T & G as we present to you…

“Sax Appeal 3 - Coltrane, Turrentine & Grover, part 2″

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Playlist: (song - artist - album [time])

Afro Blue - John Coltrane – Afro Blue Impressions [10:50]
Vera Cruz - Stanley Turrentine – The Sugar Man [4:58]
No Tears In The End - Grover Washington, Jr. – All The King’s Horses [3:48]
Giant Steps - John Coltrane - The Last Giant-The John Coltrane Anthology [4:45]
Sara’s Dance - Stanley Turrentine – Never Let Me Go [6:14]
It Feels So Good - Grover Washington, Jr. – Feels So Good [8:15]
Blue Train - John Coltrane - Blue Train [10:44]
I Could Never (Repay Your Love) - Stanley Turrentine – Don’t Mess With Mister T [8:22]
Just The Way You Are - Grover Washington, Jr. – Reed Seed [4:46]
Autumn Serenade - John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman – John Coltrane And Johnny Hartman [4:20]
Impressions – Stanley Turrentine – Sugar [14:14]

Have you missed any of the RIBS mixes we’ve posted? If you have there is now an easy way to catch up on what we’ve been up to. Just go check out the new RIBS Archives Page to see a very easy to read listing of every post (and music mix) we’ve uploaded to the site.

Enjoy!

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RIBS TPTD: “Jazz 101″ - An Introduction To Jazz, Lesson #1…

April 12, 2009 by tgrundy · 8 Comments
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Hey Good People!

Intro to Jazz

Surprise! A rare weekend treat from the RIBS kitchen today. First, before we get to our classroom session, let me give you a little bit of background on what this is all about…

As I hope you are aware, April is Jazz Appreciation Month (JAM) and all month long the great American art form known as jazz is being celebrated with a variety of events all over the country. Additionally, many online music enthusiasts are writing and talking about jazz a lot on their sites this month. One post that caught my eye was from my home girl, Vivrant Thang, over on her excellent site, Songs In The Key Of Life. In a post entitled, “All That Jazz: In Celebration of Jazz Appreciation Month”, she wrote:

I don’t talk about my love for jazz enough on this blog so I figure jazz appreciation month is the perfect time to do so. I have to admit that my knowledge is lacking. Mama Vivrant Thang was never really into jazz so it wasn’t played much around the house.
The number of jazz albums in my collection is unusually slim. Time for my collection to reflect it. Question is - where to start?
Jazz lovers, help me out. What do you consider the essential albums any jazz lover should have in their collection?

Now, when a person bares their soul like this and feels compelled to publicly share such an awful secret with the world well… how can you not reach out and help them? Hmmmm? {smile}

Seriously though, in addition to putting in my 2 cents as a comment on the site, Vivrant Thang’s post got me to thinking…

What artists and what songs WOULD a person choose to initially introduce someone to jazz???

I mean I know what I like and several songs came immediately to mind, but I continued to wonder what combinations other jazz fans would choose as an introduction to jazz. Well, since my curiosity had gotten the best of me, there was only one thing to do…

Twitter to the rescue.

Yep. I decided to post the question on Twitter and see what kind of responses “the crew” would come up with. To make a long story short we had a very interesting couple of days of conversation with a boatload of great suggestions for a playlist of songs that would be perfect for an “Introduction to Jazz” playlist. AAMOF, we started calling the tweets “Jazz 101″ and used the #jazz101 hashtag on most of the repsponses/replies so it would be easy to search for parts of the conversation you may have missed. (click the link to open a new window showing you the “Jazz 101″ conversation via Twitter Search)

And… that’s the backstory of today’s playlist.

Now, let’s talk about the “frontstory”, the music itself and some suggestions for “getting into jazz” and becoming a bonafide jazz aficionado.

When I was thinking about writing this “introduction to jazz” post I originally considered trying to answer the question” “What is jazz?” After a little research and careful consideration I quickly abandoned THAT idea. Ha! Even the folks who play and/or make their livelihood from this music have not definitively defined it yet after all these years, what made me think I could? {smile} However, researching the answer to the “What is jazz?” question IS fascinating in and of itself. The Wikipedia entry for Jazz is a good starting point, IMO.

Basically, the best way to get into jazz is to listen to it (no real earth shattering revelation there, eh? {smile}) The question is, of course, “where to start?” For my money, and the suggestion I always make, is to start with what many folks consider (even to this day, 50 years after it was first recorded) to be the finest jazz album ever made:

Miles Davis’ “Kind Of Blue” (and, fittingly, the first song on the playlist comes from this gem; more on that later)

AAMOF, it’s probably a very good idea to start one’s appreciation of jazz with the recordings produced during the 50s (Cool Jazz and Modal Jazz) and the early-to-mid 60s (Soul Jazz and Latin Jazz) as this is a period in which many of the finest and most listenable (IMHO) jazz recordings were made. From there you can go back to the Bebop jazz era (1940s) or the Swing jazz era (1930s) or push forward into the Fusion jazz era of the late 60s/70s or the Smooth jazz era of the 1980’s and beyond.

Also, let me repeat something I wrote in the post comment on Vivrant Thang’s website which some of you may find works well as a springboard into the genre. Begin your jazz education by starting on an instrument by instrument basis: pick an instrument and then pick the most prominent artist (opinions vary greatly here, of course) on that instrument and collect several of their works first. My own personal instrument/artist list suggestions:

Trumpet - Miles Davis
Saxophone - John Coltrane
Guitar - Wes Montgomery
Vibes - Lionel Hampton
Big Band - Count Basie (I know that’s not an instrument, but the Count is essential!)
Drums - Max Roach
Keyboards - Duke Ellington or Herbie Hancock

Let me make one more point that I think is essential to appreciating jazz before we get into the playlist. In addition to the sound of the music, true fans of jazz also pay particular attention to the personnel that are involved in the performance/recording session of a jazz concert or album. It’s one of those little things that, while not exclusive to jazz, is something that has greater importance to fans of jazz as opposed to other musical genres. For example, not only is it important to know that Miles’ “Kind Of Blue” is perhaps the best jazz album of all time, but to fans of jazz it is equally important to note of the fact that this was Miles’ sextet ensemble with, in addition to Davis on trumpet, pianist Bill Evans, pianist Wynton Kelly (on track #2, Freddie Freeloader only), drummer Jimmy Cobb, bassist Paul Chambers, and saxophonists John Coltrane and Julian “Cannonball” Adderley.

Also, before I let you go, I wanted to say a few things about the songs that make up this first playlist. The first thing is… “Yes!” there will, at the very least, be a Lesson #2 “Jazz 101″ mix here on RIBS. Although when I came up with the idea for this ‘jazz intro’ playlist I was originally thinking of it in singular terms, there have so many great suggestions from the crew on Twitter and some other folks I’ve discussed this with that I just have to make more than one mix in order to do the subject justice.

As for this initial selection of songs the goal was to present a cross section of songs, instruments and styles that were some of the best (subjective, I know!) examples of the beauty and variety of that thing called jazz.

As I’ve already mentioned, for me it doesn’t get any better than Miles’ “Kind Of Blue”, and the first track from that album, So What, gets us started. That leads us quite smoothly into Stolen Moments (my second favorite jazz composition behind So What) by saxophonist, composer and arranger Oliver Nelson from his 1961 breakthrough album “The Blues And The Abstract Truth”. These two are fine examples of the softer, melodic sound of jazz that is so pleasing to ones ears.

Duke Ellington and Count Basie give us two familiar jazz standards, Take The ‘A’ Train and April In Paris respectively, that are prime examples of the Swing style of jazz popular in the late 1930s through the 1940s . You may also hear Swing jazz referred to as “Big Band” jazz so named as much for the size of the bands that played it (approximately 12 to 25 musicians) as for the big, uptempo sound it had. Swing was THE dance music back in its heyday and was broadcast nightly coast-to-coast across America for years.

Sometimes when you think about jazz music much of the thought process centers around instrumental music, however jazz is as much a medium for vocalists as it is for instrumentalists. In order to provide a taste of the lyrical side of jazz our playlist includes three of the best, Nina Simone with My Baby Just Cares For Me; Sarah “Sassy” Vaughan with the melancholy, bluesy Black Coffee and one of my all time favorite singers (ooooh, I just luv this woman’s voice!) Ms. Nancy Wilson and her version of In The Heat Of The Night.

If you are going to introduce someone to the jazz guitar and the jazz saxophone there are few better to start with than Wes Montgomery (guitar) who gives us Four On Six and John Coltrane (saxophone, often referred to as just “Trane” by jazz fans) with his classic rendition of My Favorite Things. Far from the first ones to play these instruments, each man is considered one of the most innovative artists in jazz and has been a major influence on all who have come after them.

To round out and finish up our first lesson we take you home with three more jazz standards (and personal favs)… Red Clay from trumpet extraordinaire Freddie Hubbard, Maiden Voyage from the versatile master of all things keyboards Herbie Hancock, and Take Five from pianist and jazz icon Dave Brubeck.

Whew! OK, I hope I haven’t worn you out with all that “talk”. Time for our “Jazz 101″ class to begin. Face forward, eyes up front and make sure to take extensive notes as we present to you…

“Jazz 101 - An Introduction to Jazz, Lesson #1″

RIBS TPTD: Jazz 101 - An Introduction To Jazz 1

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Playlist: (song - artist - album [time])

So What - Miles Davis - Kind of Blue [9:25]
Stolen Moments - Oliver Nelson - The Blues and the Abstract Truth [8:47]
Take The ‘A’ Train - Duke Ellington - Never No Lament: The Blanton-Webster Band [2:52]
April In Paris - Count Basie and His Orchestra - April in Paris [3:51]
My Baby Just Cares For Me - Nina Simone - Little Girl Blue [3:38]
Four On Six - Wes Montgomery - The Incredible Jazz Guitar of Wes Montgomery [6:17]
My Favorite Things - John Coltrane - The Last Giant: The John Coltrane Anthology [13:40]
In The Heat Of The Night - Nancy Wilson - Welcome to My Love [2:34]
Black Coffee - Sarah Vaughan - The Divine Sarah Vaughan: The Columbia Years 1949 - 1953) [3:18]
Red Clay - Freddie Hubbard - Red Clay [12:11]
Maiden Voyage - Herbie Hancock - Maiden Voyage [7:57]
Take Five - Dave Brubeck - Time Out [5:26]

Enjoy!

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RIBS TPTD: ‘Sax Appeal’ 2 - Coltrane, Turrentine & Grover…

April 9, 2009 by tgrundy · 4 Comments
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A little late again this week, mucho problems with the ol’ Internet service on the home front this week {sigh}…

BUT, here (finally) is Part II of our month long look at the saxophone (we call it ‘Sax Appeal’ Month) and the many artists that have mastered this sweet sounding instrument.

Now in last week’s initial ‘Sax Appeal’ playlist, we gave you a wide variety of players from past to present, from Jazz to Funky Soul. Today however, we focus exclusively on the Jazz side of things with three of the best to ever blow the horn:

John Coltrane: Starting in bebop and hard bop, Coltrane later pioneered free jazz. He influenced generations of other musicians, and remains one of the most significant tenor saxophonists in Jazz history.

Stanley Turrentine: Stanley William Turrentine was one of the most distinctive tenor saxophonists in jazz. Known for his big, warm, sound, “The Sugar Man” or the original “Mr. T” found inspiration in the blues and turned it into a hugely successful career with a #1 hit and four Grammy nominations — first in R&B and then in Jazz.

Grover Washington, Jr.: Considered by many to be one of the founding fathers of Smooth Jazz, throughout the 1970s and 1980s, Grover made some of this genre’s most memorable hits, including “Mr. Magic”, “Black Frost”, and “The Best Is Yet To Come”.

Time to let these three sweep you up on a sax-i-fied cloud of sound as we present to you…

“Sax Appeal 2 - Coltrane, Turrentine & Grover”

RIBS TPTD: Sax Appeal 2 - Coltrane, Turrentine & Grover

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Playlist: (song - artist - album [time])

My One And Only Love - John Coltrane And Johnny Hartman - John Coltrane And Johnny Hartman [4:57]
Don’t Mess With Mister T - Stanley Turrentine - Don’t Mess With Mister T [9:51]
Trouble Man - Grover Washington, Jr. - Soul Box [15:45]
In A Sentimental Mood - John Coltrane [4:17]
Sugar - Stanley Turrentine - Sugar [10:03]
Masterpiece - Grover Washington, Jr. - Soul Box [13:15]
A Love Supreme (Part One Acknowledgment) - John Coltrane [7:52]
Love Hangover - Stanley Turrentine - The Man With The Sad Face [3:49]
Time Out Of Mind - Grover Washington, Jr. - Time Out Of Mind [5:05]
Cousin Mary - John Coltrane - The Last Giant [5:48]

Enjoy!

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RIBS TPTD: Great Sax - ‘Sax Appeal’ 1…

April 2, 2009 by tgrundy · 6 Comments
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Here’s an idea I’ve been thinking about for a while and finally decided to run with. April has been designated ‘Sax Appeal’ month here on RIBS. All month long the RIBS kitchen will be cooking up playlists from the artists that play my favorite instrument: the saxophone.

Invented by Adolphe Sax in 1841, the instrument initially gained popularity in the niche it was designed for: the military band. As a matter of fact, it’s use in orchestral music (another niche Adolphe Sax had hoped for the instrument) was initially shunned. However, as we well know, it has now found a home in all types of music: Orchestral, Jazz, Rock and R&B.

So, the month of April around here is gonna be “sax month”. I hope you are looking forward to some great sax (doesn’t everyone? {smile}) over the next few weeks as you’ll be hearing from folks like:

Grover Washington, Jr
Candy Dulfer
Illinois Jacquet
John Coltrane
David Sanborn
Junior Walker
King Curtis
Sonny Stitt
Euge Groove
Stanley Turrentine

…and a whole host of others, as we present to you…

“Great Sax: Sax Appeal 1″

RIBS TPTD: Sax Appeal 1
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Playlist: (song - artist - album [time])

Summer Song - Grover Washington, Jr. - Live At The Bijou [7:35]
Allright - Candy Dulfer - For The Love Of You [4:28]
Caliente! - Gato Barbieri - Caliente! [5:09]
Boogie Down - Jr. Walker & The All Stars - Jr. Walker & The All Stars [5:04]
Another Star - Najee - Songs from the Key of Life [4:47]
Always There - Ronnie Laws - Pressure Sensitive [4:53]
Morning Salsa - David Sanborn Band - Promise Me The Moon [6:05]
Me & Me Brudder - Houston Person - Suspicions [3:26]
In The Midnight Hour - King Curtis - The Platinum Collection [2:39]
Ascension - Kirk Whalum - For You 5:14]
Walkin’ - Sonny Stitt - Verve Jazz Masters 50 [5:24]
Midnight And You - Stanley Turrentine - Pieces of Dreams [4:38]
Mercy, Mercy, Mercy - Cannonball Adderley - Mercy, Mercy, Mercy! [5:10]
Smile - David Sanborn - Sanborn 5:24]
Mister Magic - Grover Washington, Jr. - Mister Magic [9:00]
Sittin’ On The Dock Of The Bay - King Curtis - The Platinum Collection [2:43]

Enjoy!

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RIBS TPTD: “Double Triple”-More Marvin, More Teddy, More Luther…

March 26, 2009 by tgrundy · 3 Comments
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As the saying goes, “So nice, I had to do it twice!”

Man, I’ve been waiting all week to share this one with you! Last week when I posted the first Marvin/Teddy/Luther mix (fast jams), I called it one of my 5 best. After jamming to it almost non-stop all week (in the car, at work, at home, in my dreams while I’m sleeping {smile}) I still feel that way. BUT… as good as these three are at funking it up, the real test was to lay down a mix of their slow, mellow, sensual melodies. I mean, which of us at one time or another when THAT moment was just right hasn’t thought to ourselves, “put on some Marvin” (or Teddy, or Luther)? I KNOW you know what I’m talkin’ ’bout! {smile}

The only problem, of course, with trying to make a slow jams playlist from this trio is that there is no way to do it justice in a single mix that would fit on one CD with only 80 minutes of audio recording time. So that is the main reason for the two entrees being served up from the RIBS kitchen today, something I like to refer to as a “Double-Triple”. Truthfully, with the vast catalog that Marvin, Teddy and Luther have given us, I could have easily made 2 or 3 MORE mixes to share with you today.

It goes without saying that these three are masters of the craft of sweet, soul music. Their stylings are very different from one another, each having a sound that is uniquely his own, yet separately and together they have established the standard by which all who come after them are judged by.

Time to sit back, relax, snuggle wit-cho-baby (don’t try this at work though; LOL!) and listen to the masters show us how it is done as we present to you parts 2 and 3 of…

“Marvin, Teddy & Luther (slow #1)”

RIBS TPTD: Marvin, Teddy & Luther (slow #1)
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Playlist: (song - artist - album [time])

I Want You [Intro Jam] - Marvin Gaye - I Want You (Deluxe Edition) [1:40]
Sexual Healing - Marvin Gaye - Midnight Love [4:09]
Is It Still Good To Ya - Teddy Pendergrass - TP [4:39]
Promise Me - Luther Vandross - Forever, For Always, For Love [4:43]
You Sure Love To Ball - Marvin Gaye - Let’s Get It On (Deluxe Edition) [4:44]
Pretty Flower - Teddy Pendergrass (HM & the BN) - To Be True [5:40]
A House Is Not A Home - Luther Vandross - Never Too Much [7:07]
Distant Lover - Marvin Gaye - Let’s Get It On (Deluxe Edition) [4:16]
I Miss You - Teddy Pendergrass (HM & the BN) - Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes Greatest Hits [8:37]
I Can Make It Better - Luther Vandross - One Night With You: The Best Of Love [5:36]
Your Precious Love - Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell - Anthology [2:58]
Feel The Fire - Teddy Pendergrass & Stephanie Mills - TP [5:36]
If This World Were Mine - Luther Vandross & Cheryl Lynn - Love, Luther [5:24]
Please Stay [alternate mix] - Marvin Gaye - Let’s Get It On (Deluxe Edition) [3:52]
The Whole Town’s Laughing At Me - Teddy Pendergrass - Right Stuff [4:30]
Make Me A Believer - Luther Vandross - Busy Body [5:26]
Just To Keep You Satisfied - Marvin Gaye - Anthology [4:14]

WAIT! Don’t leave just yet, you have GOT to check out the second slow mix too!

“Marvin, Teddy & Luther (slow #2)”

RIBS TPTD: Marvin, Teddy & Luther (slow #2)
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Playlist: (song - artist - album [time])

Let’s Get It On - Marvin Gaye - Let’s Get It On (Deluxe Edition) [4:51]
Hope That We Can Be Together Soon - Teddy Pendergrass (HM & the BN) - To Be True [3:43]
I’m Only Human - Luther Vandross - The Ultra Selection [5:27]
You are Everything - Marvin Gaye & Diana Ross - Diana and Marvin [3:10]
Yesterday I Had The Blues - Teddy Pendergrass (HM & the BN) - Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes Greatest Hits [7:33]
Superstar/Until You Come Back To Me - Luther Vandross - Always & Forever: The Classics [9:18]
Since I Had You - Marvin Gaye - I Want You (Deluxe Edition) [4:05]
Turn Off The Lights - Teddy Pendergrass - Teddy [5:58]
Going In Circles - Luther Vandross - Songs [5:11]
After The Dance - Marvin Gaye - The Master 1961-1984 [5:10]
Love TKO - Teddy Pendergrass - Ultimate Collection: Satisfaction Guaranteed [4:53]
Love Won’t Let Me Wait - Luther Vandross - Any Love [7:19]
If I Should Die Tonight - Marvin Gaye - Let’s Get It On (Deluxe Edition) [3:59]
Come Go With Me - Teddy Pendergrass - Ultimate Collection: Satisfaction Guaranteed [5:48]
Any Day Now - Luther Vandross - Luther Vandross [5:11]
Trouble Man - Marvin Gaye - Trouble Man [4:54]

Enjoy!

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RIBS TPTD: Marvin Gaye, Teddy Pendergrass & Luther Vandross (fast)…

March 20, 2009 by tgrundy · 6 Comments
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Well… it’s a day late (sorry ’bout dat) but I think it is definitely worth the wait! AAMOF, I have been grooving to this one on the commute back and forth to works all week long and I think this is one of my 5 best playlists. Of course, I am very interested in your opinion on that and whether you agree with me (or not! [smile]).

I know I really don’t have to introduce our trio of artists today. If you are any kind of fan of Soul/R&B music I am quite sure you just might have heard of at least one of these three fellows once, maybe twice before {smile}. These three, IMHO, are the torch bearers of that sweet, soulful, “let’s turn the lights down low and snuggle close to each other” R&B sound. While it certainly didn’t originate with Marvin (there were many before him, such as Sam Cooke and Jackie Wilson for example) I think that he (Marvin) took it heights that it had never seen before. And then it was passed to Teddy. And then it passed over to Luther. My question now is though, who’s holding the torch today? My initial thought is no one. Maybe you disagree, leave me a comment and let me know.

“Marvin, Teddy & Luther (fast)”

RIBS TPTD: Marvin, Teddy & Luther (fast)
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Playlist: (song - artist - [time])

Come Get To This-Alternate Mix - Marvin Gaye [3:08]
Ain’t No Mountain High Enough - Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell [2:26]
The More I Get, The More I Want - Teddy Pendergrass [4:26]
I Gave It Up (When I Fell in Love) - Luther Vandross [6:19]
How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You) - Marvin Gaye [2:59]
Don’t Leave Me This Way - Teddy Pendergrass (HM and the BN) [6:06]
’til My Baby Comes Home - Luther Vandross [5:32]
I Heard It Through The Grapevine - Marvin Gaye [3:17]
You Can’t Hide From Yourself - Teddy Pendergrass [4:08]
I Wanted Your Love - Luther Vandross [5:42]
Rockin’ After Midnight - Marvin Gaye [6:04]
Only You - Teddy Pendergrass [5:06]
She’s A Super Lady - Luther Vandross [5:05]
Ain’t Nothing Like The Real Thing - Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell [2:17]
Satisfaction Guaranteed - Teddy Pendergrass (HM and the BN) [3:30]
I’ve Been Working - Luther Vandross [6:35]
I Can’t Leave Your Love Alone - Teddy Pendergrass [4:46]
Got To Give It Up, pt 1 - Marvin Gaye [4:13]

Enjoy!

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RIBS TPTD: “Flight Time” More Sky High Jazz (Mizell Brothers)

March 12, 2009 by tgrundy · 2 Comments
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A week ago I posted a Jazz mix, “Sky High Jazz, Too (Mizell Brothers)”, featuring artists produced by Larry and Fonce Mizell and their Sky High Productions company. This era (mid 70s to early 80s) was my introduction to the wonderful rhythms and musical diversity of the great American art form known as Jazz and the Mizell produced albums from that time have a special place in my heart.

This week I continue the in the same theme and we delve once again into the Mizell Brothers’ catalog with another collection of “Sky High” music. Today’s playlist is heavily populated with Donald Byrd cuts, having five of my favorites from him in addition to selections from the other usual suspects: Bobbi Humphrey, Gary Bartz, Johnny Hammond, A Taste Of Honey, The Blackbyrds and Rance Allen.

OK, it’s kick back and relax time as the sounds of the Mizell Brothers continue to flow forth from the RIBS kitchen as we present to you…

“Flight Time-More Sky High Jazz (Mizell Brothers)”

RIBS TPTD: Flight Time-More Sky High Jazz
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Playlist: (song - artist - album [time])