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Monday Music: Lou Donaldson – “Turtle Walk”

LISTEN: Lou Donaldson – Turtle Walk From “Hot Dog” : 1969 : Blue Note Records (Out-of-Print) As funky as Lou Donaldson’s albums were in the late 1960′s with Blue Note, he really turned up the heat on “Hot Dog”. How could he not when the record features such future soul-jazz legends as Idris Muhammed (still [...]

Category: Listening Room

Tags: Blue Note, Charles Earland, Idris Muhammad, Lou Donaldson, Melvin Sparks, Soul-Jazz

Gilles Peterson – “Donald Byrd Tribute Mix” Parts 1 & 2

Last week we talked about the passing of Donald Byrd and all the greatness he left behind, and now the legendary Gilles Peterson (who has been doing this stuff before many of today’s top DJs were even born) has put together two tribute mixes to the man – the first one devoted to his early [...]

Category: Listening Room

Tags: Blue Note, Donld Byrd, Gilles Peterson, Jazz, Jazz-Funk, Soul-Jazz

Robert Glasper Experiment – “Black Radio Rediscovered: The Remix EP”

LISTEN: Robert Glasper – The Consequences Of Jealousy (feat. Meshell Ndegeocello) [Georgia Anne Muldrow's Sassy Geemix] (from Soundcloud) Maybe my favorite release from this year is Robert Glasper’s genre expanding “Black Radio” – a forward thinking album combining elements of jazz, hip-hop, r&b and soul. Now Blue Note has released a remix EP aptly titled [...]

Category: New Music

Tags: ?uestlove, Blue Note, Erykah B, Georgia Ann Muldrow, Hip-Hop, Jazz, Meshell Ndegeocello, Mos Def, Pete Rock, Robert Glasper, The Roots