Next project from pedal pusher finger wiggling keyboard master Rory More.īeen the soundtrack to my weekend and the perfect tonic to wash away the working week blues. Rory More – Looking For Lazlo – Sudden Hunger LP Funk Soul Hip Hop Electro and buckets of percussion all fused together to bring the party. You can get right behind the whole recording and enjoy the presence of this masterful group. You can’t help but sing along, bounce up and down and become one with the crowd. Now I’ve heard that their Saturday Night Live From Washington D.C from 1983 is better but I don’t have that but can’t image it can be far removed from this performance and it doesn’t have the final megaton Drop The Bomb which is crazy brilliant.
If you’re ever feeling down or instantly want to be in a party mood, this record is dug from the record shelf with one precise quick movement and placed on the deck, turning the volume to full throttle.
Trouble Funk – Say What! – 4th & Broadway Records – Recorded Live In London 1986 Then it’s got to be the one and only Trouble Funk. It’s only an idea and if I went through it properly, maybe I’ll come up with another.īut for a full on in your face bombastic “live” experience with energy in abundance, full crew of musicians blasting horns, sweaty vocals, pounding beating percussion and enough funk to propel you into the realms of outerspace. prog rock too, well theres gotta be some crazy shit going on in there for sure? Sure the jazz world is filled with classic performances. Off the top of my head I don’t know of any reggae or soul records being in my collection. I don’t own many I freely admit, tending to steer clear of them or being a bit gutted when I’ve gambled on a record to only read on the back that it was recorded at a live performance. I can see the “live” concept of a recording being a different buzz to many differing ears. Say it be a little rough round the edges, or a faster tempo, different drummer, maybe even a full orchestra. But this could go along way for some in enhancing that tune, to feel and hear a different version to what you have always loved. Other reasons against could be the tracks you’re used to, sounding less than vibrant or lacking in the arrangement they would receive in the studio. If you’re not there then how can you truly feel it’s presence? or is that the point? To feel like you are apart of recording, to be a member of the audience. To be honest I’ve had a love hate relationship with the “live” recording. Michael Longo – What’s Going On – Groove Merchant 1974Īn impossible task would you say? Yeh of course it is but thinking about it I believe I can just do it only for atmosphere on full absolute and total power! Jimmy Smith – Groove Drops – Verve Records 1969Ĭharles Tolliver – The Ringer – Polydor 1969 Louis Hayes Group – Dance With Me – Gryphon Productions 1979 Jeremy Steig – Cakes – Capitol Records 1970Ĭharles Earland – Milestones – Prestige 1971Īl Jarreau – My Favorite Things – Happy Bird 1983 Ron Jefferson – Happy Medium – Catalyst Records 1976 John Betsch Society – Ode To Ethiopia – Strata East 1974Ĭedar Walton – Latin America – CBS 1980 Joe Lee Wilson – Come And See – Inner City Records 1977įreddie Hubbard – Backlash – Atlantic 1967
Will upload a select few over the next few months. The quality isn’t too bad! I did wonder whether to just re-record the tracks again but think it would defeat the object of storing the mix in a different format before my trusty cassette tape player gives up the ghost!. There were over 30 mixtapes with the original ones under the name A Mikekee Music Mix Production or later Arise And Shine Productions.
Plus in my short lived Art and Craft shop and at a few record fairs and market stalls.
This one was called The Jazz Men and was part of a series of tapes I used to sell in a few record shops in Bournemouth, Flying Records and Six Gun Sound. I’ve started randomly digitizing some of them. Going through a couple of boxes filled with a huge amount of my old cassette tapes.