Jazzfunk recommendations

[Gray]

Jazzfunk / Soul / Disco fans, name your best. Don't worry about your selections being too commercial or too heavy.

12", Instrumental, whole albums, LP tracks, if you love them, name them please.

None of us have heard everything (and never will of course) but let's find some of what we've missed.

 

[Alantiggger]

Jazzfunk / Soul / Disco fans, name your best. Don't worry about your selections being too commercial or too heavy.

12", Instrumental, whole albums, LP tracks, if you love them, name them please.

None of us have heard everything so let's find out what we've missed.

Haircut 100 would be a decent place to start with.

See here : http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Very-Best-Jazz-Funk/dp/B00000JOYZ

 

[Vladimir]

Jamiroquai Live In Verona

From that performance: Jamiroquai - Little L

 

[Gray]

Thanks Alantigger and Vladimir - even at past 1.30 in the morning, you've come up with gooduns to start us off.

That album you linked to Alantigger, I borrowed from the library. Perhaps I should've kept it and paid the fine - see the 'new' price on your link? 'From' £46.22!

And Vlad, Jamiroquai - great (but then I would say that, I'm biased)

 

[Vladimir]

Thunderball - Scorpio Rising, sample track here.

 

[plastic penguin]

I'm probably one of the biggest soul/funk fans on here. Nearly half of my collection is made up of countless Funk, Soul, Disco....

Really depends what your preference is. A few examples as follows:

T-Connection 'On Fire'. Absolute great track. have heard the album but not for years, but the 12" single is superb.

Funkadelic - One Nation Under a Groove. Superb album.

Level 42's self titled first album. Immensely soulful.

Dan Hartman - Instant Replay. A songwriter and producer who jumped on the disco/funk bandwagon. Very good.

The Real Thing. Very good.

As Vlad suggested Gil Scott-Heron. Probably the first, as we know it, Rapper with his spoken word songs. Good but you need to be in the mood.

Recently I purchased an album 'This Time Around' Otis Clay. A real throwback to the 70 (Al Green, Marvin Gaye...). Superb.

 

[basshound]

Try Ronnie Laws, Every Generation is my favourite .

 

[DocG]

Two suggestions:

1/ Tower of Power: Diggin' on James Brown. Always makes me cranck up the volume (and grin).

2/ Maceo Parker's version of Stevie Wonder's I Wish (from the Soul Classics album, with the incredible Christian McBride on bass and the maybe even more incredible Cora Coleman-Dunham on drums -- that drum solo *wacko*)

 

[his dudeness]

pushin on-quantic soul orchestra

kings of funk-keb darge

high havoc-corduroy

whole lotta live-jtq

sly and the family stone-collection

*music2*

 

[BIGBERNARDBRESSLAW]

Lonnie Liston Smith - Expansions

Deodato - Also Sprach Zarathustra (2001 Theme)

The J.B's - Hot Pants Road

Baby Huey - Listen To Me

Johnny Harris - Stepping Stones

Johnny Otis Show - Watts Breakaway

Marie Queenie Lyons - Fever

Spanky Wilson - Sunshine Of Your Love

Chico & Buddy - Can You Dig It

Sir Joe Quarterman & Free Soul - (I Got) So Much Trouble In My Mind

Gil Scott-Heron - Lady Day & John Coltrane

Rose Royce - Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is

Ripple - I Don't Know What It Is, But It Sure Is Funky

Bobby Womack - Across 110th Street

Curtis Mayfield - (Don't Worry) If There Is A Hell Below, We're All Gonna Go

Dramatics - Get Up And Get Down

Mongo Santamaria - Cloud Nine

Pucho & His Latin Soul Brothers - Got Myself A Good Man

There's a million more from where they came. Just ask.

 

[ChrisIRL]

Booker T and the MGs : Melting pot.

 

[Vladimir]

Booker T. & the M.G.'s - Green Onions

William DeVaughn - Be Thankful for What You Got

Curtis Mayfield - Move On Up

The Temptations - Papa Was A Rolling Stone

George Benson - Give Me The Night

Fat Larry's Band - Act Like You Know

Oliver Cheatham - Get Down Saturday Night

Chaka Khan - Ain't Nobody

Earth Wind & Fire - September

Donna Summer - Hot Stuff

 

[furball1]

SOS Band

Loose Ends

Change

52nd Street

Joyce Sims

and last but not least the rare classic - Barbara Fowler - Come and get my lovin'

 

[Vladimir]

Valerie Dore - The Night (I dare you find a fake drummer with better hair style)

Giorgio Moroder - The Chase

 

[keeper of the quays]

Brilliant song! Superfunky!

 

[drummerman]

Jazz funk ... has to be EW&F.

 

[Gray]

Try Ronnie Laws, Every Generation is my favourite .

Basshound, of all his tracks, Every Generation is my favourite as well.

I bet you've played it many times like me and if you don't start off at high volume, it needs to be up from 2 minutes in to catch that sax break and beyond - one of those songs that can truly bring tears to your eyes. Great for your hi-fi and you.

 

[fizzle]

Brand New Heavies - Never Stop

 

[Pedro2]

EW&F

George Duke

Crusaders

Brothers Johnson

 

[Gray]

EW&F

George Duke

Crusaders

Brothers Johnson

Love 'em Pedro2. Every one of those have done some outstanding tracks.

 

[The_Lhc]

Medeski, Martin and Wood are frequently described as jazz/funk fusion although they can get rather more jazz than funk at times, it's a funkyish jazz rather than a jazzy funk imo.