– The Dynamites Featuring Charles Walker – In Session at KDHX – 2008 – Diving into Thursday Night Funk with The Dynamites featuring Charles Walker, live in session at KDHX in St. Louis. Recorded on January 10, 2008. Walker, whose career has gone back to the 60’s, hooked up with
– Sly and The Family Stone – Woodstock Festival – August 16, 1969 – soundboard Jumping into the classics this Friday. Sly & The Family Stone, during their appearance at the fabled Woodstock Festival on August of 1969. One of the truly revolutionary bands to mash-up Soul, Funk and Rock,
The Meters this morning – diving into a big vat of Funk at The Kingfish Lounge in Baton Rouge on October 1, 1976. From their website for a bit of history: In their 25-year history, The Meters have grooved their way around the globe. They have toured with such talents
It occurred to me that I haven’t been playing nearly enough Funk on the Morning Soundbooth (perfect wakeup music, if you ask me). So I’m hoping to remedy that with a taste of New Orleans this morning, by way of the legendary Ivan Neville and his band Dumpstaphunk, recorded in
Coleman Hawkins Quartet – Metropol Restaurant, Oslo Norway – 1963 – NRK (Norwegian Radio-TV) – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Coleman Hawkins for this first day of Daylight Savings Time. A short, but extremely sweet set as recorded by the Norwegian Radio-TV network NRK at The Metropol Restaurant/club in Oslo
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Brother Jack McDuff – Ain’t It – 1968 – Chess Records Easing into something a little more contemporary (if the 60s are contemporary . . .) with the legendary Brother Jack McDuff and a single he cut for Chess Records in
Click on the link here for Audio Player – PBS Jazz Set: Lonnie Liston Smith – circa 1973 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Since we’re sticking around in the 70s so far today, I thought I would keep it going with an appearance by Lonnie Liston Smith from 1973. Smith,
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Cannonball Adderley Quintet – in concert at l’Olympia – October 25, 1972 – Radio France The legendary Cannonball Adderley and his Quintet this weekend, broadcast by the ever-present/ever-dependable Radio France from a concert given on October 25, 1972. Classic lineup, including
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Miguel – live at Malmö, Sweden – recorded live by Sveriges Radio P3 – August 5, 2013 Over to Malmö Sweden tonight for a mini-concert by West Coast native Miguel, recorded by Sveriges Radio in January of this year and broadcast
Click on the link here for Audio Player George Duke Band, live at Philharmonie Hall, Berlin – November 3, 1977 – RBB Radio Berlin With the sad news (again) today of the passing of one of the great Jazz/Funk/Fusion keyboard players, George Duke, I thought it would only be fitting
