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Paulo Moura

Published on July 21, 2010 in Artists. 0 Comments Tags: bossa nova, Brazil, Brazilian roots album, chorinho, clarinetist, classical, instrumentalist, jazz, Latin Grammy, Latin instrumental album, Paulo Moura, samba, saxophonist, Sergio Mendes.

Some days ago Paulo Moura passed away. He was a Brazilian clarinetist and saxophonist. His style ranged from jazz, chorinho, samba and bossa nova to classical music.

He won a Latin Grammy in 2000 for best Brazilian roots album and was nominated in 2004 for best Latin instrumental album.

In 1962, he played with Sergio Mendes’ group at the historic Bossa Nova night at Carnegie Hall that helped launch the genre’s mass appeal. Moura was considered by many critics to be one of Brazil’s greatest instrumentalists.

Listen to some of his songs.
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The Indo British Ensemble

Published on May 13, 2010 in Artists and Innovation in music. 0 Comments Tags: 1969, Curried Jazz, East meets West, fusion, Indo-British Ensemble, jazz, jazz musician, London, Mark Sutton, music.

Mark Sutton, a jazz lover who owned his own recording studio in Soho, gathered together the best session jazz musicians in London to record a series of indo jazz music fusion music. The result was the Indo-British Ensemble and their album Curried Jazz from 1969.

A great East meets West jazz experiment.

Listen to 2 tracks:

Lalit

Yaman

Verbal Headlock

Published on April 15, 2010 in Artists, New releases and Record Labels. 0 Comments Tags: album, Amsterdam, art director, avant composition, Christian Borstlap, Clutchy Hopkins, field recording, film director, fun, jazz, multi-instrumentalist, pseudonym, The Story Teller, Ubiquity Records, Verbal Headlock, video.

Nobody knows who Clutchy Hopkins is. But supposedly, he is a multi-instrumentalist who recorded under various pseudonyms throughout his entire musical career; his recorded output consists of everything from field recordings of his travels to avant compositions, to jazz to funk.

From his latest album The Story Teller on Ubiquity Records is the track Verbal Headlock. The video is directed Christian Borstlap, an Amsterdam based art director and sometimes film director.

http://www.vimeo.com/10875088

Coke bottle music

Published on April 15, 2010 in Artists, Innovation in music and Musical instruments. 0 Comments Tags: Al Di Meola, Arto Tunçboyacıyan, avant garde, bottle, Chet Baker, coke bottle, folk artist, jazz, Joe Zawinul, tambourine, Turkish-Armenian, voice.

Turkish-Armenian artist Arto Tunçboyacıyan, plays a coke bottle. He uses the bottle as a supplement to the voice and at the mean time plays the tambourine.

Arto Tunçboyacıyan is famous avant-garde folk artist and appeared on more than 200 records in Europe before arriving in the United States, where he went to work with numerous jazz legends including Chet Baker, Al Di Meola and Joe Zawinul.

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Same Old Same Old

Published on April 15, 2010 in Artists, New releases and Video clip. 0 Comments Tags: EP, How It Is, jazz, London, Louise Golbey, musician, Ras Kwame, Same Old Same Old, singer, songwriter, soul, UK, video.

The next big female singer from the UK is…Louise Golbey. She’s a singer, songwriter and musician from London and she sings contemporary soul with a twist of jazz.

Watch her brand new video Same Old Same Old featuring Ras Kwame, from the EP How It Is.

Turkish psychadelic funk

Published on April 10, 2010 in Record Labels. 0 Comments Tags: album, avant garde, Bollywood, Dolana, Finders Keeper, folk, funk, Genclik ile elele, jazz, Lollywood, Lorke, movie, musak, Mustafa Özkent, psychedelic, record, Record Labels, song, soundtracks, Turkish psychadelic funk.

If you like Bollywood Soundtracks, Lollywood songs, primitive Turkish psych, Japanese choreography records, Welsh freak beats, drugsploitation operatics, Czechoslovakian vampire soundtracks, and 60’s bubblegum folk visit the Finders Keeper site.

Finders Keepers, is new British record label, 40 years in the making, introducing fans of psychedelic / jazz / folk / funk / avant-garde and whacked-out movie musak to a lost world of undiscovered vinyl artifacts from the annals of alternative pop history.

One of my favourite albums is Genclik ile elele by Mustafa Özkent. Listen to Lorke and Dolana, Dolana and play it loud! Continue reading ‘Turkish psychadelic funk’

Tommy T

Published on April 5, 2010 in Artists, New releases and Record Labels. 0 Comments Tags: Addis Ababa, album, bass, Easy Star All-Stars, Easy Star Records, Ethiopia, Ethiopian music funk, Ethiopian singer, Eugene Hutz, Gigi, Gogol Bordello, gypsy punkband, jazz, Michael Goldwasser, Pedro Erazo, record, reggae, remix, solo album, song, the Prestor John Sessions, Tommy T.

For the past three years, Tommy T has been the bass player for gypsy punkband Gogol Bordello. Tommy T (Thomas T. Gobena) was born and raised in in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia,. He has released his first solo album entitled The Prestor John Sessions on Easy Star Records. The music on this album range from Ethiopian music to funk, reggae and jazz.

The album is a collection of 11 songs including a remix featuring fellow Gogol Bordello band mates Eugene Hutz and Pedro Erazo and mixed by Michael Goldwasser of the Easy Star All-Stars. The record also features two collaborations with Gigi, one of the most popular modern Ethiopian singers.

Beyond Fasiladas
The Response – feat. Gigi

Alex Cuba

Published on April 3, 2010 in Artists and Video clip. 1 Comment Tags: acoustic, African influences, Agua del Pozo, Alex Cuba, Alexis Puentes, Canada, Cuba, duet, funk, jazz, Juno awards, Latin, Mi Plan, Nelly Furtado, pop, Si pero No, song, soul.

Born and raised in Cuba, Alexis Puentes (Alex Cuba) moved to Canada in 1999 and won world album of the year at the Juno awards in 2006 and 2008, Canada’s version of the Grammy’s.

His music reflects primarily Latin and African influences, but with a mix of soul, funk, jazz and pop.

I love Si pero No, a calm acoustic Cuba song, Agua del Pozo and Mi Plan a duet with Nelly Furtado.

Viva Tirado

Published on March 16, 2010 in Artists and Classics. 0 Comments Tags: 1970, band, blues, debut, El Chicano, funk, hit, jazz, Latin, Los Angeles, R&B, release, rock, salsa, soul, Viva Tirado..

One of the best and most successful bands of East Los Angeles was El Chicano, a Latin R&B/brown-eyed soul band, whose influences can be found in rock, funk, soul, blues, jazz, and salsa. El Chicano broke out into the national music scene with the release of their 1970 debut smash Viva Tirado.

Souljazz Orchstra – Soulfull afro-jazziness

Published on March 2, 2010 in Artists, New releases and Video clip. 0 Comments Tags: afro jazz, Canada, jazz, raw grooves, Rising Sun Ottawa, soul, Souljazz Orchestra.

Rising Sun is the Souljazz Orchestra’s first all-acoustic afro-jazz album, on Strut Records.

Since their creation in 2002 in Ottawa, Canada, the Souljazz Orchestra have become one of my favourites. Raw grooves of the ‘60s and ‘70s mixed with soul and jazz.

Soulfull afro-jazziness!

Tag Archive for 'jazz'

Paulo Moura

The Indo British Ensemble

Verbal Headlock

Coke bottle music

Same Old Same Old

Turkish psychadelic funk

Tommy T

Alex Cuba

Viva Tirado

Souljazz Orchstra – Soulfull afro-jazziness

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