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Swing to bop tenor saxophonist Harry Allen breezes along in style with his rounded and literate sound on yet another album, this time of New York City - inspired show tune standards played with heart and easygoing feeling. Several tracks feature the excellent trombonist John Allred, who by now should be garnering more attention as a Top Five performer on his instrument in the mainstream jazz

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When the U.K.'s Suss'd label picked up the Salsoul catalog and repackaged and re-released just about all that it possibly could, this compilation was one of the more unique ones of the bunch. When Northern Soul Met Disco helps maintain the link between the U.S. and England, selecting tracks that were more soul than disco -- and therefore more likely to be embraced by the small sector of soul fans

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Hypnotic Brass Ensemble — an eight-strong cohort of horn-playing brothers (plus one unrelated drummer) who take their stylistic cues from jazz, funk, hip-hop, and various strains of world music — started out playing on the streets of Chicago, New York, and elsewhere, selling their self-released CDs and gradually building a loyal following and an international profile. The youngest of some 23

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Spring is definitely the Evans Brothers (Soulive) season and 2012 will be their year. We've just reviewed Alan Evans trio album and Lettuce new record; a new Soulive comes this June. And now it's Neal Evans' turn with this exciting and surprising solo release. Don't expect orgiastic jam in the manner of Soulive nor old-school funk the Lettuce way. Neal.'s Bang is all about weird break beats ('

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Blue Note Records' Droppin' Science is a unique collection of the legendary label's classic late 60s through mid-70s jazz-funk tracks, all of which have featured prominently as samples in some of the greatest hip hop cuts of the late 80s, 90s and beyond. Hip hop artists ranging from Dr. Dre to the Beastie Boys and A Tribe Called Quest have sampled Blue Note grooves by such jazz greats as Lou

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23 track compilation featuring rarities, classics and previously unreleased tracks from Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings, The Budos Band, Binky Griptite, Lee Fields, Antibalas and more. www.amazon.com www.daptonerecords.com 1. Binky Griptite - Introduction (0:51) 2. Sharon Jones And The Dap-Kings - I'm Not Gonna Cry (3:21) 3. The Budos Band - Up From The South (3:28) 4. Naomi Shelton

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“Philly Re-Grooved – The Tom Moulton Mixes – Volume 2: The Master Returns”. Once again Tom goes back to the golden age of 70’s Philly and shows his skills on key tracks from First Choice, Quickest Way Out, Ultra High Frequency, Moment Of Truth, Loose Change, TJM and Terry Collins to create another masterpiece and perfect companion to Volume 1. As per usual Press and Radio interest will be huge

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Recorded at Melbourne’s home of funk and soul, Hope Street Studios (The Cactus Channel, Bombay Royale,) Papa Chango’s The Matador is the soundtrack to ”the film yet to be filmed.” Inspired by 70’s ethio-jazz and afro-funk sounds, The Matador will take you on a sonic journey over barren plains and rugged terrain, all the while ensuring your feet don’t leave the dancefloor. For this release, Papa

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Hot on the heels of the covers project released earlier this year, Mountain Mocha Kilimanjaro return with their third original album, Perfect Times. The dozen tracks on featured include the A-sides of the Six Mocha Shots released over the second half of 2011 in addition to six previously unreleased titles, with all the songs on CD release for the first time. There's a really strong start to

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This mind-blowing new release confirms the MarchFourth Marching Band as one of the most original and powerful ensembles on Planet Brass. With heavy guitars and extra vocals, the Portland 14-piece act adds some new and powerful spices to their "Fela-meets-The Rebirth Brass Band-and-the-Shim-Shamettes-in-a-circus" sound and show: garage, ska, afro-latin, blues, jazz and everything in between.

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Credited with revitalizing the brass band tradition in New Orleans, The Dirty Dozen Brass Band has spread their music to the world - in more than 30 countries on five continents. Timed with their 35th Anniversary, 20 Dozen contains the first new original music from the band since 1999 and is their first release in over 5 years. Among the tracks included is a cover of Rihanna's global #1 smash,

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The Filthy Six are different from your average organ jazz band. Six jazz players who look to the blueprint of the late 60s organ and saxophone groups for inspiration and are confident and, perhaps more importantly, skillful enough to give us something more than a respectful pastiche. www.discogs.com 1. Midnight Boogaloo (5:21) 2. Down Frenchmen St (5:58) 3. Prattle In Seattle (5:16)

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The Second Volume of Nu Funk in Wagram's "nu" Compilation Series (Companion Volumes Include Nu Jazz (1 and 2), Nu Pop and Nu Soul. The Double Disc Selection Includes Slammin' Tracks from the James Taylor Quartet, Jamie Lidell, Les Mcdonald, Nuyorican Soul, Llorca (With Stefan Frank), Mr. President, Quantic and many more. www.allmusic.com CD1: 1. Breakestra Feat. Chali 2NA, Soup, Double K,

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The Rolling Stones' classic 1971 album re-grooved by Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings, Aloe Blacc & Joel Van Dijk, Black Joe Lewis, The Bamboos, Naomi Shelton & The Gospel Queens, Alice Russell, The Sugarman 3 and more!  www.soundcloud.com 1. Alice Russell - Brown Sugar (3:02) 2. Black Joe Lewis & the Honeybears - Sway (4:24) 3. Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings - Wild Horses (5:32) 4. The

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US guitarist Charlie Hunter learnt the ropes in the 1980s, pulling eagerly from blues, rockabilly, funk, soul and jazz. Then, picking up on the craze in hip hop, he teamed up with Michael Franti in Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy. Next Hunter leaned in a purer direction - his '95 CD Bing!Bing..Bing (Blue Note) was almost straight-ahead jazz. But then the stylistically-frozen, guitar-dominated

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Once will not hurt, forget rock and pop and discover Cucumber and electro funky soul groove jerk straight out of film music from the 60's. The band consists of John Cyril, Marie Julie Arnal, Christophe Vaillant, Vaillant and Olivier, has just released The French Job, his first album whose influences sixties vintage electro and instrumentation could both evoke David Holmes, Lalo Schifrin, the

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Wow. How’s that for an archival release? DJ Shadow AKA sampling’s Vito Corleone has announced that he will be unravelling a collection of tunes from the immediate pre-Endtroducing… era. That’s sort of like Michelangelo telling us exactly how he painted the Sistine Chapel. Or like MJ sending out his former training schedule to all his e-mail-contacts. While that might be a tiny bit of stretch, it’

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Funk emerged in the 1960s, a scorching sound that amped up the spirit of R&B and became the precursor to hip-hop. While major artists topped the charts with funk hits throughout the '60s and '70s, What It Is! celebrates the smaller ones – the heady, groove-monstrous strain of gutbucket funk that remains a major force in American music. A four-CD, 91-track compendium that would take

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With six albums under his belt, a raft of accolades and well over a decade of producing genre-splitting music, Andrew Spraggon’s work as Sola Rosa has cemented him as one of the world’s most exciting and versatile producers. From a humble, self-released one man project, Sola Rosa has grown to a live collective of international repute. Successfully melding hip hop, reggae, jazz, latin, soul and

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2012 sophomore album from the Australian band. Their debut album, Flight Of The Ancients (2011), was a critical and commercial success story, lauded as a truly original blend of the sounds of 1970's West Africa, Ethiopia and the pioneering and progressive avant-garde jazz artists of the same period. Flight Of The Ancients went onto be nominated for several music awards, including the 25th Aria

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Afro Latin Vintage Orchestra's new album Last Odyssey finds the French band in fine form, creating music with Jazz as it's foundation laced with strains of Ethio and Nigerian Funk combined with Latin Percussion and rhythms. By taking the "heaviest" elements from each genre and distilling it down to it's most potent form, the band's true identity is revealed and sets them apart from their

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CD1: 01. Brenda Boykin - Hard Swing Travellin' Man (04:53) 02. Club Des Belugas - Habana Twist (03:58) 03. Nekta - No Need To Rumble (03:53) 04. Mister Scruff - Get A Move On (03:25) 05. Lizzy Parks - All That (Natural Self Remix) (03:45) 06. Jojo Effect - The Beat Goes On (05:13) 07. Una Mas Trio - Clear As Water (Hidden Jazz Quartett Remix) (04:09) 08. Uptown

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Free Radicals' helter-skelter hybrid is a vast extension of drummer/producer Nick Cooper's previous work in the ska/funk/rock outfit Sprawl and the free-form jazz collective Necessary Tension. The Radicals' amorphous ideal was realized in the late '90s at No Tsu Oh, a 24-hour pawnshop/cafe in downtown Houston where the group would set up well after midnight and play until dawn. Everyone from

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A quick listen to this new BBE compilation got us to think this was just another sunday afternoon music dish. How wrong were we. This double snpashot of New-York's 1970s jazz/funk/soul/latin/proto-disco scene is much more than a 30-tracks cocktail compilation. Basically it's "Spinna and BBE are bringing you the Funk, Soul and Jazz of the legendary Perception Label!" and the result is just as

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SETENTA is a Parisian Latin Funk combo of seven musicians. In 2006, Osman had the original idea to drive jazz funk musicians into latin musical vocabulary. After few successful live exhibition where they took on the “Maestros” Tite Curet ,Cheo Feliciano, they decided to work on original latin funk fusion recording session. They looked for a unique sound, a mix between seventies analogic

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