Soul And Funk Music Album Reviews, Reissues and New Releases Of Various Labels
CD Reissue of Main Ingredient Feat. Cuba Gooding - Ready For Love
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The Main Ingredient was formed in Harlem in 1964 as a trio called the Poets, composed of lead singer Donald McPherson, Luther Simmons, Jr., and Panama-born Tony Silvester. In 1966 they were signed to RCA and after a couple of singles with small success they changed their name in The Main Ingredient. Unfortunately Donald McPherson who had taken ill with leukemia, passed away unexpectedly. Silvester and Simmons regrouped with new lead singer Cuba Gooding, who'd served as a backing vocalist on some of their previous recordings and had filled in on tour during McPherson's brief illness. |
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Dutch Multi Award Winning Trumpet Player Rik Mol Presents New Album
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At only twenty-five years of age, Rik Mol is touted as one of Europe’s leading trumpet players. He has gleaned many awards for his music. Mol has also had the privilege of Trumpet player, producer and bandleader Rik Mol has been busy composing in his creative kitchen. As a “master chef of muse” this versatile artist has created another delicious musical dish! Rik’s latest release is Funk on Me. The album is a winning recipe as his fans feast on a superb blend of funk, pop, soul and jazz.performing with the likes of Basement Jaxx, Steve Lukather, and Candy Dulfer. However, Rik’s new recipe for Funk on Me is different from his previous releases. He has spiced up this album with generous helpings of pop, soul, funk and jazz in an exquisite and eclectic mix of genres. |
Whynd Chymes CD reissue of Arrival
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The Mississippi based funk band Wynd Chymes formed in the 70’s. They released an obscure 7” single ‘Baby you’re the one’ on the imprint ‘Lotus Land’. This was a demo and apparently the catalyst for getting them signed to RCA Victor Records. In 1978, just with a record deal in the bag, Alexander O’Neal left the group to focus on his solo with the producers Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis of Flyte Tyme Productions. The album ‘Arrival’ was produced by Anthony A. Lockett, a member of Cameo and contains great disco funk tracks as ‘Arrival’, ‘Checking out your stuff and ‘Do it (fun in the sun)’. One ballad was released on 12 inch: ‘Sending my love’. Wynd Chymes – Arrival is a typical collectors album, which is now released for the first time on CD. |
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George Duke is back with a brand new Album "Déjà Vu"
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When keyboardist-composer-producer George Duke made a return trip to the heyday of funk on his 2008 recording, Dukey Treats, he reminded his fans and the music press of exactly what made the good old stuff so good. DownBeat called it "a wild and crazy album, especially if you're nostalgic about the guitar-scratching, double-clutching rhythms of James Brown and George Clinton and the bedroom ballads of Stevie Wonder and Aaron Neville." The Philadelphia Enquirer called it simply "a valentine to funk." Duke returns to that same wellspring for Déjà Vu. The album revisits the synthesizer sound that characterized some of his most memorable recordings from the golden age of funk and soul. |
CD reissue of Pleasure's Give it up from 1982
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Jazz-Funk band Pleasure are Bruce Carter on drums, Sherman Davis and Randy Hall on vocals, Donald and Michael Hepburn on keyboards, Douglas Lewis on guitar and Nathaniel Phillips on bass. Guests are Pat Gleeson and Kashif on synthesizers, Pete Escovedo Jr. and Jimmy Maelen on percussion, plus background vocals. The album was first released in 1982 on RCA Records and produced by Robert Wright and Pleasure. This album is never released on CD before. The tracks are digitally remastered from original mastertapes!
Great classic funky tracks are Give it up, Sending my love. Other outstanding tracks are Whats it gonna be, take it to streets and the instrumental "Stone Love". In short a must have CD. |
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Jeff Lorber new CD release 'Now Is The Time'
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More than three decades after his earliest recordings, keyboardist and composer Jeff Lorber has come full circle. His new recording, Now Is The Time, delves back into his early catalog and reinvents some of the most compelling compositions from the Jeff Lorber Fusion heyday. As a result, the artist once again makes a bold statement in the evolution of jazz. "We all had a vision of what we wanted this record to be," says Lorber, who points to a recent European tour with many of these same musicians - and the positive response that resulted from it - as the primary catalyst for the album. "We wanted a return to the sound of the Jeff Lorber Fusion, but informed by everything I've learned since then. All of a sudden, people seem to be interested in hearing that again. They're ready to hear musicians who can really play, really stretch the envelope with their technique, with their songwriting, and with harmonic structure." |
Alexander O'Neal is back with a new album after 8 Years of silence.
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Alexander O' Neal is back with his brand new album '5 Questions The Journey'. I think it was worth waiting for. It contains some uptempo tracks and a lot of down tempo songs. I've marked 6 songs as favorite. "I Found True Love", "I Can't Wait", "Love Don't Love Nobody" are my most favorite 5 out 5 stars. This is a great album check the sound samples on amazon. |
GROOVE STU the versatile architects of "Urban Soul Movement"
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Combining R & B, Hip-Hop, Reggae, Jazz/Funk and old style soul in heretofore unheard of combination's, Baltimore's GROOVE STU are the versatile architects of "Urban Soul Movement." Not content to construct songs on the foundation of one genre, GROOVE STU sews a million threads of rhythmic inter-connectivity with ethereal hooks that still seem to cook the sidewalks with passion and distinctiveness. While hip-hop energy percolates through the seams of each track, GROOVE STU's expert instrumentalists ground each song with a bed of funk worn musicality. Groove Stu has been exposing audiences to their musical flavor throughout the East Coast. Like Tribeca Blues, Soul Cafe & Le Bar Bat in New York. |
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