That piano trio funk
The_Hook_Up
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..sometimes it is the only thing that will do, perfectly balanced, no horns or guitar solos just pure groove, you know?...here are a few favorites outta my collection...post your fave piano trio groovers...I wanna listen to this stuff all dayRoy Meriwether-Nubian Lady[/b]Gene Harris-Still Im Sad[/b]an electric piano and an added percussionist is ok as wellMichael Sardaby-Welcome New Warmth[/b]
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All day.
I'm a sucker for that lush e-piano sound.
I also HEART this stuff...but one of the Don Walker LPS has a little too much Hamronica for my taste.
any chance for Mp3s of these? I was hoping this thread could be a big piano trio funk Mp3 share...
welcome to warmth fits that description
Into The Woods
Poor Wayfaring Stranger
The rest of the LP is not that remarkable. Sorry for the recurring surface noise in those mp3s. My copy has a slight warp
This isn't a trio but...
And I just got this off The Mack and am
HOw is that no one's shown Ramsey Lewis a lick of love yet?
are not the complete posts not showing up? Ramsey is in the second post...and the Michael Sardaby tune mentioned a few posts down has the audio posted in my original post...
Olinga
YES
Which can be found here... scroll down to volume 2...
me-deixa-joao-donato.mp3 - 3.28MB
Something must be wrong with your system, Ras. The right channel is missing in that recording. The horn section is gone.
Funky16 - that ChaCha Hogan track was nice. I love loud tambourines.
yeah on purpose, to get that stricktly trio sound!!
In the last weekend I picked up a 45 called 'JC's Grit Gitter' by JC Heard on Sir-Rah. I haven't gotten it yet to give it a close listen (I only heard a clip online), but if it's not the same backing track as the Hogan side, it's certainly the same song. The tune was co-written by Jack Ashford of the Funk Brothers, thus the tambourine.
A trio? I'd love to see something written about this group...some unearthed reels would be a pretty good look, too!!
Off topic but your mixes are great. Props.
yeah i don't know about the trio business, but definately piano funk. ug, i wish i had it. cosign on some press for these guys.
Thanks O!
BTW does anybody have a spare of this for me?
"If I Were A Carpenter"
http://www.sendspace.com/file/linoo3
before they were called Smithstonian, they were called Black Blood and the Chocolate Pickles...they released one 45 that I know of, an earlier version of "Mississippi Mud"
- Ray Bryant "Up Above The Rock"
- Romeos "Precious Memories" (imagine somebody trying to play like Ramsey Lewis on an out-of-tune barrelhouse piano and you got "Precious Memories"...that out-of-nowhere cha-cha bridge is genius, you think it would kill the somber mood, and it does, but it works! underrated classic)
- Packers "Hole In The Wall"
- Young-Holt Trio "Wack Wack"
- Ray Charles "Booty Butt"
- Don Shirley "Water Boy"
- Martin Denny "Quiet Village" (which actually sounds good next to all these other folks with a Ramsey Lewis-ish sound)
This song is my personal road rage cure. I'm in the car feeling like shooting people and then this song comes on my tape deck and I want to smile at people as they drive past.