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Melba Moore - The Other Side of the rainbow

Now is the time to get rid of your Melba Moore Vinyls.

Funky Town Grooves have decided to put the Melba Moore reissues all up for presale now to their loyal customers that order directly from their website, the interest for these titles has been incredible and they feel that they will sell out very quickly. You will benefit from only paying the cheaper combined postage rates if buying all the titles, and FTG will ship the titles as they arrive - see below

What A Woman Wants & Other Side Of the Rainbow - Jan 28th 2011
Never Say Never & Read My Lips - Feb 28th 2011
A Lot Of Love - March 25th 2011

All CDs are Remastered & Expanded from The Original Studio Master Tapes

Click here to preorder those Melba Moore CD at Funkytowngrooves.com

I just came back from my yearly holiday and read very sad news that my all time hero George Duke has passed away at age 67. Duke reportedly had been battling Lukemia. This is a great loss for all the fans out there. May George Duke rest in peace.

Free Soul Jazz CD Claim your FREE 13 track Smooth Jazz compilation ’13 for the holidays 2012'featuring Chris Standring, Marc Antione, Paul Brown , Shilts and other great artists when you purchase a smooth jazz album from Soul Brother whilst stocks last. Orders can be placed on line, over the phone or collected in store. limited to one FREE CD per customer. **Please mention the offer when you order**

We've only got 20 of these so be quick!

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On July 11, 2011 at 7PM Pacific Time Kashif will be featured on TV One Unsung. The show is about one of his favorite singers, Evelyn "Champagne" King. Pass this along to other Kashif fans that you know. Enjoy!

The Single BOOGIELAND (out now) : an amazing SOUL/DISCO/FUNK/POP hymn. Extract of the concept Album to come soon.

Discover the Video MOONSHOES playing with SOUL TRAIN. Mythical and irresistible line dance images of the 70’s, never published before, of this incredible show.

The Album BOOGIELAND : a journey in Blaxploitation, recorded in his own studio by multi-instrumentist Gilles Paulet, a musical Disco monk, a dignified new figure and spokesman of this blue-eyed soul. Bringing the 70’s back to life with this music which could be the imaginary original theme of a movie. Simply to please those who enjoyed : Earth Wind & Fire, Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder, Deodato, Isaac Hayes, The Jacksons, Curtis Mayfield, Quincy Jones, KC & the sunshine band, Crusaders… Are they good enough for you ?! Produced, composed, performed, arranged, recorded & mixed by Gilles Paulet.

Check it out on.

http://www.myspace.com/mymoonshoes
http://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/moonshoes/id285499410
http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=tzFWg4sizsI

Eugene Record of The Chi-Lites died on 22th of July. Eugene, a member of the Chi-Lites, was responisble for a lot of Chi-Lites hits like 'Oh Girl', 'Have You Seen Her'. Eugene Record also recorded two solo albums in the late seventies. The number 'Fan the Fire' is one of my favorites. After his solo career he returned to the Chi-Lites for recording more albums. Eugene died from cancer. He was 64.

Mamas Gun will be releasing his new single ‘Only One (Featuring Beverley Knight)’ on January 9^th 2012.

The track is taken from Mama’s Gun latest album ‘The Life And Soul’ which was released in the summer of 2011. The video for the single which sees the band and Beverley Knight perform the track live at Kensaltown Studios in London.

Click here to see the Video of Only On on Youtube
Digital stream - http://soundcloud.com/mamas-gun/09-only-one

Mamas Gun will be playing the Jazz Café, London on January 20^th 2012.

www.mamasgun.co.uk
www.facebook.com/MamasGun
www.myspace.com/mamasgun

www.twitter.com/mamasgun_uk

HAPPY NEW YEAR ANO NOVO FELIZ _NOUVELLE_{ANNÉE HEUREUSE} NUOVO ANNO FELICE GLÜCKLICHES NEUES JAHR _{GELUKKIG NIEUW JAAR} FELIZ AÑO NUEVO

Entertainer, Music Producer Ernesto Phillips Dies at 50

Thursday, April 1, 2004; Page B06

Ernesto McKenzie Phillips, 50, a Columbia resident who was a musician in pop rhythm-and-blues groups and then produced a series of local entertainers, including singers Toni Braxton and Kimberly Scott, died March 25 at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore after a stroke. He had hypertension.

Mr. Phillips, a native Washingtonian, was raised in Crownsville and graduated from Arundel High School in Gambrills. He was a self-taught guitarist, and during high school he attended the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore to study trumpet.

He was a graduate of Anne Arundel Community College and attended Howard University, where he intended to study medicine as his father -- a psychiatrist -- had. He decided instead to make music his career.

With his four brothers -- George, Lloyd, Orlando and Gregory -- Mr. Phillips formed Licyndiana, an R&B group named after his mother and his sisters. Ernesto Phillips sang and played guitar. He also wrote songs and did production work.

Singer Renee Diggs, who was Mr. Phillips's longtime companion, and musician-songwriter Kayode "Ky" Adeyemo later joined Licyndiana.

Mr. Phillips had greater success as leader, co-producer and primary songwriter of a successor pop R&B band called Starpoint, which included the same members except for Lloyd.

The band toured nationally, opening for such performers as Luther Vandross, and appeared on "Soul Train," "Solid Gold" and other television programs. Its album "Restless" (1986) sold more than 500,000 copies, according to news reports, and included the hit song "Object of My Desire."

At the 1990 Washington Area Music Awards, Starpoint was named best R&B/urban group. Mr. Phillips, on guitar, was named best instrumentalist.

The group disbanded about 1990 as members went in different directions professionally. Until his death, Mr. Phillips worked as a producer. He owned and operated Longevity Records and Pearl Studios, both in Columbia.

"I pledged that once we made it, I was going to prove there is a lot of talent in this area," he told The Washington Post in 1995.

His best-known find is Braxton, the Grammy Award-winning singer whom he met through a friend.

In recent months, he worked as a counselor for teenagers at Sheppard Pratt psychiatric clinic in Ellicott City.

Survivors include his mother, Ana Phillips, of Columbia; four brothers, George Phillips and Lloyd Phillips, both of Columbia, and Orlando Phillips and Gregory Phillips, both of Annapolis; and two sisters, Diane Laguerre of Elk Ridge, Md., and Lisa Phillips of Columbia.

You can now register at The Ultimate Black Music Database to become a member.

As a member of The Ultimate Black Music Database you have the availability of creating a adobe PDF file of your favorit artist. Each PDF page can consist of eight albums of the artist including album, year, track and writer information.

To create a PDF file, login into the website and find the artist. On the artist page you see on the right upper corner a PDF icon.

As a member you have more features in the future such as a webstream, samples etc.

Mark

Release Date / Sortie: December 31st 2011 / 31 Décembre 2011 More infos and Order / Plus d'infos et Commande

TRACKLIST

1 FROM E TO U
2 TAKE YOUR TIME FEAT. CARMEN
3 BABY C'EST LA VIE
4 MISS PERFECTION
5 BOOGIE IN MUSKOGEE
6 SHAKE YOUR BODY FEAT. LLOYD POPP
7 GET FUNKY TONIGHT
8 SET ME ON FIRE FEAT. NICOLE « MARSHEL » WILLIAMS
9 NO INSECURITIES FEAT. TEREZA LA QUEEN
10 SUNNY DAYS
11 THANKS TO MUSIC FEAT. 4TRE
12 BUMP IT UP FEAT. CASUAL & DYNAMITE D
13 WEST COAST BOMB TONY G & ENOIS SCROGGINS FEAT. KOKANE, DRE'STA, B.G KNOCC OUT, DIRTY RED
14 DESPAIR FEAT. QUICTAMAC
15 ON POINT FEAT. AUGUSTUS THE MAC
16 TICK TOCK FEAT. SLIP CAPONE & DYNAMITE D
17 I GOT THAT FIRE FEAT. ECAY UNO, C-BAND & DON-IS
18 PRAY FEAT. TWEED CADILLAC
19 UNDER THE SUN FEAT. XL MIDDLETON & DYNAMITE D
20 THE DOG'S IN TOWN FEAT. DELAGODO

TODO IS THE LAST DAY TO SOLVE THIS PUZZLE TO WIN A CD FROM FUNKYTOWNGROOVES.COM. This month FunkTownGrooves.com will give away 5 CDs a week. To win these CDs you must fill in the Crossword and put together a word from the orange entries. Send the solution and the name of the CD of your choice and your postal address to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. FunkyTownGrooves will pick at random five winners. Next week we announce the winners on soulandfunkmusic.com.

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Bloodstone - Party / Blue Magic - Welcome Back / Skyy - From The Left Side / First Circle - Boys Night Out / Fonzi Thornton - Pumpin' / Tease - Tease / JM Silk - Hold On To Your Dream / James "DTrain" Williams - In Your Eyes / James "DTrain" Williams - Miracles Of The Heart

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