This Classy Joint

Ok, so I know tepid jazz funk is not a very fashionable sound right now, but I've had a soft spot for it for a long time. All instrumental, all more or less groovy groovers. Jam it at your next dinner party.

 

This Classy Joint by Vg- on Mixcloud

johnny pate - you're starting too fast
kenny burrell - burning spear
mikis theodorakis - serpico
freddie robinson - smoking
deodato & donato - nightripper
david newman - foxy brown
charles earland - one for scotty
monk montgomery - little os
baden powell - coisa no
ulysses crockett - resurgence
dave pike - sweet tater pie
silhouettes - red snow
young holt unlimited - bumpin' on young street
morning, noon & night - time
jay dees - ILSP
ran blake - spiral
julian priester - love, love (excerpt)
randy weston - in memory of
mike longo - wyyowa
charlie mariano - F minor happy
gary saracho - sr baker pt. 1
mongo - promised land
steve reid - lions of juda
ron cremisio - RCQ
sky caps - el bote

Espresso Bongo Jazz Party

Part A

cannonball adderly
joe harriott - southern horizons
donald byrd - hank's tune
charles mingus & lee konitz - ESP
sam jones - unit 7
ken jones - room 43
teddy charles - lupe garoue
charles bell quartet - happy funky
bennie green - people will say we're in love
panama francis - desdemona's lament
jackie ivory - freddie the freeloader (miles davis)

Part B

sonny stitt - in the bag
jack mcduff - silk'n soul
max roach - drum conversation
rod levitt - jelly man
george shearing quintet & 4 woodwinds - dialogue for two pianos (gary burton)
dollar brand - which way?
stanley cowell - ibn mukhtarr mustapha
piano, drums & gulls (white label 78)
france gall - le coer qui jazze
james booker - big nick
james petrillo
reuben siggers - pause... for the cause


Byrd's Eye View (Transition TRLP 4): Donald Byrd (tp); Hank Mobley (ts) ; Horace Silver (p) ; Doug Watkins (b) ; Art Blakey (d). Cambridge, MA December 2, 1955

Wistful Thinking

Sauter- Finegan Orch.
Mess Group- The Beginning (At the Perished Mountaineer's Hotel)
Terry Riley - journey
Tones On Tail - rain
Salon de Musique
Khmensayok (Thailand 1959, rec. Kaufman)
Atrium Musicae de Madrid – hymne au soleil
Kraus & Bird - gnossienne
Columbia University Group for Contemporary Music – yo ko (c. Chou Wen Chung)
Austin Wells – west of eden
John Gavanti
Nicols-Cooper-Leandre
Open Sky – spirit in the sky
Pyramids - reaffirmation
Sonny & Linda Sharrock - gary's step
Beggars Opera -nimbus
Francoise Hardie - il est trop loin
Renderers – I can hear the devil call me
Hedy West - shady grove
Grayson & Oberheim - homage to Bach
JI Ivey - pinball (University of Toronto EMS 1965)
Reuben Siggers – ebb tide