Actually, it was recorded at the legendary jazz venue Caf?? Montmartre here in Copenhagen. You're probably thinking of the area called Montmartre in Paris.
haha... oops... yeah, i meant Copehagen and i did confuse it w/ Montmartre area in paris.
Summer of '03, bought Wax poetics, bought Nite Liters "Analysis", lit up a cigarette during the moving-in phase of my friend's cluttered condo, sat on the damn ground, with a laptop on top of a drawer, listened to the record, and had my mind blown. This was at the peak of my mp3 downloading, obsessive ebay scouring, grail note-taking stage. I'm not a Funk 45 guy, but I've found other similar stuff enjoyable, most notably the Fatback Band.
Being the oldest kid in my family I didn't have any older sibling influences, luckily my dad had this Seeds record in his collection to set me off in the right direction when I was 16 years old.
My brother was a Dj when I was younger. He all the 12's on Profile, SugarHill, West End, Cutting Edge, Patrick Adams stuff,Def Jam, Island etc. The raer blowfly albums, Ice-t albums, movie sdtk's made me give into more records.
First Jazz record I ever bought and it was a good choice.
this caused more hip-hop records
I had absolutely no idea about hip-hop when I bought this. The dude in the record store told me that hip-hop sucks, but this record is something he can get by with. I liked it and tried to find equally good records from there on, which was pretty difficult.
That's funny, this is another one....I used to ear 'Compared To What' all the time on WPFW in DC, on some morning jazz show, then I found that LP at the thrift store and realized that it was off this record. And I still play it regularly, and will often reccomend it to newbies to funky jazz.
any tapes of the band lying around? yeah - when there's another metalstrut thread I'll post.....
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Hey,
I gotta say, I knew I heard something special when I heard:
and
These two LPs are the earliest I remember listening to (at about 5-6 years old), but pop picked out these joints through the Columbia Record Club. Really, this is an awkward question since I was always inundated with music since birth. Pops played Brubeck and Blakey around the crib, and the Gospel records I grew up with were If we count when I started buying records, I'd have to say:
First record I got was KISS Alive II....on tape because I couldn't afford the double vinyl set back then. My father brought it home with him after work because I wasn't allowed to go into town on my own at that age (10). This is the record that got me into music like I am now.
These two created entire new sections in my collection and got me to travel the world looking for more sounds like them:
A lot of the selections on those Luv N Haight comps probably feel dated now but they were a revelation for me too when I first heard them at KALX back in the mid 90s. Really well done stuff...props to McFadden.
For me lack of cash made me buy less cd's and more records. I would go to thrift stores and for a few bucks I would have new (old) stuff to check out. Which led me to buy more stuff...and so on. In yo face volume 1/2 and blue break beats didn't hurt either. I gotta say soulstrut hasn't hurt either. The one drawback I'm less likely to pick up a reissue because I want the og.
These two created entire new sections in my collection and got me to travel the world looking for more sounds like them:
A lot of the selections on those Luv N Haight comps probably feel dated now but they were a revelation for me too when I first heard them at KALX back in the mid 90s. Really well done stuff...props to McFadden.
These two created entire new sections in my collection and got me to travel the world looking for more sounds like them:
A lot of the selections on those Luv N Haight comps probably feel dated now but they were a revelation for me too when I first heard them at KALX back in the mid 90s. Really well done stuff...props to McFadden.
The first two volumes of this were huge for me.
and so were the whole LnH series Deja Vu, Brotherhood, Evolution et al
what's more, the McF's made sure the artists got their fair share
no contest IMO and a lot of this is based on taste.
I am not up on their releases these days, but back then, this alone put Soul Jazz in a different league imo.
agreed, great comp IMO back then LnH and SJ were in the same space, at times competing on the same track e.g. Eddie Russ Lope Song within weeks of each other
Whilst LnH remained truer to the slick release of top class funk/jazz grooves, IMHO Soul Jazz with its punkier attitude has embraced a move towards some quirky issues, eg 'In the Beginning there was Rhythm' which opens up whole new fields for people who trust the label
no contest IMO and a lot of this is based on taste.
I am not up on their releases these days, but back then, this alone put Soul Jazz in a different league imo.
agreed, great comp IMO back then LnH and SJ were in the same space, at times competing on the same track e.g. Eddie Russ Lope Song within weeks of each other
Whilst LnH remained truer to the slick release of top class funk/jazz grooves, IMHO Soul Jazz with its punkier attitude has embraced a move towards some quirky issues, eg 'In the Beginning there was Rhythm' which opens up whole new fields for people who trust the label
Still for LnH big time though
London Jazz Classics vol. 1 meant the world to me when it first came out.
big cosign .. really fell into jazz , lots of Miles recordings.
also Live Evil with the amazing work of Michael Henderson. outa sight. after hearing his bass playin i eventaully found stark reality and stark reality sparked a fuse in every direction of music. all of a sudden Can and Isaac Hayes were being played one after another, then East of Underground made me get heavily into lots of soul music i had no idea existed
also herbie hancock - headhunters turned me onto to eventually play piano and get heavily into that eletric keyboad sound in albums
curtis/ live sparked my love of his rhtyhm guitar playin and trying to find that sound in other albums came naturally
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After this record I got into prog rock, rock, blues, country and more. Got to college and one very stoned night my freshman year I heard this:
This started me down the road to jazz, funk and everything else. Now 15,000 records and my own record store later here I am.
white album? john cage? (picture not showing up-related)
these two records turned me into a 60s Jazz freak a dozen years ago...this is the sound for me when it comes to jazz...
Huh--shows up for me.
Lou Donaldson, Hot Dog.
I'd been dabbling for a few weeks at that point, but this was the record that really started it.
haha... oops... yeah, i meant Copehagen and i did confuse it w/ Montmartre area in paris.
THANKS!
I'm a vanguard in many areas. Orge Tones is the shit!!!!
Being the oldest kid in my family I didn't have any older sibling influences, luckily my dad had this Seeds record in his collection to set me off in the right direction when I was 16 years old.
The raer blowfly albums, Ice-t albums, movie sdtk's made me give into more records.
well cotDAMN g*****s! that's a wig or that's really your doo-wop? circa what era?
i knew you was a headbanger and all, hommie,but cotDAMN!
First Jazz record I ever bought and it was a good choice.
this caused more hip-hop records
I had absolutely no idea about hip-hop when I bought this. The dude in the record store told me that hip-hop sucks, but this record is something he can get by with. I liked it and tried to find equally good records from there on, which was pretty difficult.
ain't nothing fraudulent here!!! photo taken in 1985.
the live steez
That's funny, this is another one....I used to ear 'Compared To What' all the time on WPFW in DC, on some morning jazz show, then I found that LP at the thrift store and realized that it was off this record. And I still play it regularly, and will often reccomend it to newbies to funky jazz.
I gotta say, I knew I heard something special when I heard:
and
These two LPs are the earliest I remember listening to (at about 5-6 years old), but pop picked out these joints through the Columbia Record Club. Really, this is an awkward question since I was always inundated with music since birth. Pops played Brubeck and Blakey around the crib, and the Gospel records I grew up with were
or
Peace,
Big Stacks from Kakalak
My father brought it home with him after work because I wasn't allowed to go into town on my own at that age (10).
This is the record that got me into music like I am now.
A lot of the selections on those Luv N Haight comps probably feel dated now but they were a revelation for me too when I first heard them at KALX back in the mid 90s. Really well done stuff...props to McFadden.
The first two volumes of this were huge for me.
and so were the whole LnH series
Deja Vu, Brotherhood, Evolution et al
what's more, the McF's made sure the artists got their fair share
time for a LnH vs Soul Jazz debate.....
no contest IMO and a lot of this is based on taste.
I am not up on their releases these days, but back then, this alone put Soul Jazz in a different league imo.
agreed, great comp IMO
back then LnH and SJ were in the same space, at times competing on the same track
e.g. Eddie Russ Lope Song within weeks of each other
Whilst LnH remained truer to the slick release of top class funk/jazz grooves, IMHO Soul Jazz with its punkier attitude has embraced a move towards some quirky issues, eg 'In the Beginning there was Rhythm' which opens up whole new fields for people who trust the label
Still
London Jazz Classics vol. 1 meant the world to me when it first came out.
Many such as Earth Wind and Fire and others posted set it off as well.
also Live Evil with the amazing work of Michael Henderson. outa sight. after hearing his bass playin i eventaully found stark reality and stark reality sparked a fuse in every direction of music.
all of a sudden Can and Isaac Hayes were being played one after another, then East of Underground made me get heavily into lots of soul music i had no idea existed
also herbie hancock - headhunters turned me onto to eventually play piano and get heavily into that eletric keyboad sound in albums
curtis/ live sparked my love of his rhtyhm guitar playin and trying to find that sound in other albums came naturally