Jazzy D's Soul Notes

Another sunny morning. Just finished all the reports for the visits yesterday. As I write I am listening to a CD of the music of Galina Ustvolskaya - another composer discovered through the pages of Wire.

Whipped around the flat with the hoover this morning. Then had a few more coffees reading a book by Jeremy Paxman called "The English". I am bound to disagree with him at some point but so far just read the first chapter. I have four books on the go at the moment including essays by Jonathan Franzen.

There are also books I love dipping into such as The Wire Primer book, books on jazz, an art book on Impressionist paintings. I suppose a fertile mind keeps you busy and ageless lol!!

Might have a chili-based dish for lunch. Undecided as of yet. Or I might pop into town and pop into my local. Decisions decisions.

She is me homie gal. So more skank and grooves from her -

M.I.A. - Rewear It



Okay played it before but what a track!
M.I.A -Bad Girls




M.I.A. - Bring The Noize



Just love her shit and she is ab fab gorgeous too!

More strange pulsating beats from the man in the know -

Supersilent - 12.4



( More music here )

More grooviness from the archives -


Ebo Taylor - Love And Death



The Positive Force with Ade Olatunji - The African In Winter



Salah Ragab and The Cairo Jazz band - Neveen



Wganda Kenya - Tifit Hayed





Enjoy

Some jazz flavoured tunes today - all in a blue note mode -

Us3 - Eleven Long Years



Donald Byrd - Steppin' Into Tomorrow



Horace Silver - Filthy McNasty



Grant Green - Sookie Sookie



And finally -

Herbie Hancock - Blind Man, Blnd Man

Just the one track this morning as i will out early today. So another fine track from Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds with fellow Aussie Kylie Minogue - Where The Wild Roses Grow. Taken from the Murder Ballads CD.

Did i tell you  before that i met him in the street in Hove many years back as he was once , and maybe still is, a resident of Hove, actually.



Enjoy.

Sewing the disturbing Anselm Kiefer painting on cmcmck blog reminds me of the Steve Reich classic i had on the Nonesuch label, Different Trains, second movement, During The War.


As played by the excellent Kronos Quartet. Enjoy

These are the CDs i found in Hythe for a quid each -

Orbital - Snivalization (Internal)
Erikah Badu - Baduism (Universal)
Norah Jones - Come Away With Me (Capitol)
Brahms - Symphony Bp 3 / Alto Rgapsody - Houston Symphony / Christoph Eschenbach (Virgin)

I finally have the Badu album which has been on my wants list for a very long time.

So as promised , the playlist from last night's DJ gig at the Northern Lights eaterie and pub. It was a quiet night with no more than twenty customers at any one time but it allowed me to play a very eclectic mix of music that veered all the way from jazz to folk via pop and soul music.

I had two people inquire as to what two tracks were, specifically the Bonnie Dobson tune and the classic funk tune by Kool And The Gang.

Here is the playlist -

D'Angelo – Brown Sugar
Captain and Tenile – Song For My Father
Roy Ayers – End of Sugarman
Bishop Norman Williams – Hip Funk
Pharoah Sanders – Rejoice
Della Reese – It Was A Very Good Year
Lalo Schifrin – Rhythm-A-Ning
Jon Lucien – Listen Love
Stan Getz & Charlie Bird – Desifinado
Eden Ahbez – The Wanderer
Bonnie Dobson – Winter's Going
Donovan – Get Thy bearings
Linda Perhacs – Chinacum Rain
Nancy Priddy – Ebony Glass
Heaven and Earth – Feel The Spirit
The Free Design – An Elegy
Bill Withers – Ain't No Sunshine
Dinah Washington – September In The rain
Bob Marley & The Wailers – Small Axe
Donny Hathaway – To Be Young Gifted And Black
Hamish Imlach – Black Is The Colour
Isaac Hayes – Hyperbolicsyllabicsesquedallymystic
Blue Mitchell – Granite And Concrete
Benny Golson – Killer Joe
Cal Tjader – Cuchy Frito Man
Blue Sharks – Mongo
Bobby Graham – Softly As In The Morning Drums Rise
Billy Joe Young – The Push
Cannonball Adderley Quintet – Walk Tall
Curtis Davis – Your Love & My Money
Andrew White – Who Got Da Funk
Flow Dynamics – Superjam
Mr. Lif – Enter The Colossus
Afrique – Hot Mud
Nina Simone – Feeling Good
The O'Jays – Don't Call Me Brother
Ohio Players – Skin Tight
Kool And The Gang – Spirit Of The Boogie
Kraftwerk – Trans Euroe Express
Bjork – Play Dead
Massive Attack – Angel
Elbow – High Ideals
Laura Nyro – Oh Yeah Maybe Baby
Geri Halliwell – I Was Made That Way
Emma – Tomorrow
Elvis Costello & The Roots – Walk Us Uptown
Groove Armada – Suntoucher
Mr Scruff – Shrimp
Basement Jaxx – Romoe
Frank Sinatra – Come Fly With Me



Told you it was a mixed bag

I suppose it is time to do my best finds ot the year music wise , as many seem to be doing their top ten or whatever. Spot has put The Arctic Monkeys "AM" album at the very top of his list. My list does not totally consist of current music and comes from all decades. These are CD's that for some reason i have missed before, or are just new to me. Here is my top ten -

1/  Supersilent - 6 (Rune Grammofon)
      Awesome minimalist electronic jazz splattered grooves that grow organically and weave into your brain.

2/ Ennio Morricone - Mondo Morricone (Colosseum)
      Superb collection of less well known music from the soundtrack maestro

3/ Antonio Vivaldi , Forma Antiqva, Uri Caine - The Four Seasons (Winter & Winter)
        The famous and somewhat overplayed seasons done afresh on baroque instruments with much gusto and vivacity.

4/ Nico Muhly - I Drink The Air Before Me (Decca)
         Better than Glass and Reich i think, modern minimalist classical music that goes somewhere.

5/ Basement Jaxx - Rooty (XL Recordings).
          How i missed this one when it came out is unfathomable, but glad i got it now.

5/ Groove Armada - Goodbye Country Hello Nightclub (Pepper Records)
          I knew of them but this is the first album i have by them, and it is a chilled out sublime groovefest.

6/  Nitin Sawhney - Human (V2 Recordings)
          Fusion and ambient grooves meet Asian flavours and hints of the sub-continent.

7/ Jon Lucien - Love Everlasting , The Very Best Of Jon Lucien (BMG)
          A superb collection of the finest vocal jazz from this great man.

8/ Laura Nyro - Walk The Dog And Light The Light (Columbia)
          My first album by her, and hence some catching up to do. This is a wonderful start.

9/ The Pussycat Dolls - PCD (A&M)
            It was Ian who got me into this excellent pop confection. Hardly a bad track and some great covers.

10/ Various Artists - Wild Cool And Swingin' (Capitol)
            A cool compilation of swinging late fifties and early sixties jazz vocal grooves