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By Larry, September 3, 2015 11:39 am

Crossing the Pond – An Hour of Transatlantic Organ Heavies!
Dave Russell with the Wright Sounds – Harlem Shuffle Pt2 (Jemal)
New London Rhythm and Blues Band – Soul Mate (Vocalion)
Casey and the Pressure Group – Powerhouse (Wizdom)
Andre Brasseur – Pow Pow (MFP)
Bob Kuban and the In Men – Batman (Musicland USA)
Dave Baby Cortez – Popping Popcorn (Okeh)
Four Instants – Watermelon Man (Society)
The Pop Ups – Lurking (HBR)
George Semper – Get Out Of My Life Woman (Imperial)
Cocktail Cabinet – Breathalyser (Page One)
Merritt Hemmingson – The Letter (RCA)
Trudy Pitts – Bucket of Soul (Prestige)
Troy Thompson Band – 1-2-3 (Dee Dee)
Donald Seward – Studio B Funk (Revolution)
Inez and Charlie Foxx’s Swinging Mockin Band – Shimmy (Dynamo)
Graham Bond Organisation – Wade In the Water (Ascot)
Wynder K Frog – Dancing Frog (UA)
Shotgun Express – Curtains (Columbia UK)
Brother Jack McDuff – But It’s Alright (Atlantic)
Wildare Express- Why Am I Treated So Bad (Brunswick)
Mohawks – Ride Your Pony (Pama)
Ross Carnegie – Cool Dad (El-Con)
James Brown – Shhhhhhhh (For a Little While ) (King)

Listen/Download – Crossing the Pond: An Hour of Transatlantic Hammond Heavies! MP3

Greetings all.

The end of the week is upon us, which mean that it’s Funky16Corners Radio Show time! Join me this and every Friday night at 9PM on Viva Radio for the best in funk, soul, jazz and rare groove – all on original vinyl! If you can’t be there at airtime you can always subscribe to the show as a podcast in iTunes, listen on your mobile device via the TuneIn app, or grab yourself an MP3 here at the blog.

Frequent fliers here at Funky16Corners know that I have a Hammond organ jones, and it has been quite a while since it has evidenced itself – in mix form, anyway – here on the blog.

So, I sat down, dug through the crates and whipped together a delicious meringue of Hammond (and other) organ sides for your delectation entitled ‘Crossing the Pond: An Hour of Transatlantic Hammond Heavies!“.

The catch -as they say – is that the music in question is split right down the middle, with about half of it originating overseas. Most of the foreign stuff is from the UK, but you also get groovers from Holland, Sweden, Belgium and right over our Northern border in Canada.

There are a couple of old faves, some folks that have appeared here at the blog in single posts,and a couple of very cool records/performers that have never appeared here in any form.

You get an hour of the good stuff to keep your ears (and hopefully your feet) busy, so dig in and I’ll see you all on Monday.

Keep the faith

Larry

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By Larry, August 18, 2015 11:33 am

Brother Jack McDuff and David Newman

Listen/Download – Brother Jack McDuff Quintet feat. David Newman – But It’s Alright MP3

Greetings all.

I thought we’d get over the hump this week with some of that Hammond organ goodness bubbling up from my crates.

Brother Jack McDuff is one of the true greats of the classic era of soul jazz Hammond (mid-50s to early 70s). He is joined on today’s selection by legendary reedman David ‘Fathead’ Newman, with whom he recorded the 1968 LP ‘Double Barrelled Soul’.

Their version of JJ Jackson’s 1966 hit ‘But It’s Alright’ is – if not a complete deconstruction – a slightly avant garde approach to a familiar soul hit, with just enough edge to catch your ear, but not so much as to leave you shaking your head.

Opening with an odd organ fillagree, the fray is soon joined by the horn section, laying down an unusual, Thelonious Monk-esque riff, over which Brother Jack solos with confidence.

When the song starts out, it might take a new listener a second or two to wrap your ears around what’s going on, but once you do, there’s a funky drive shaft that keeps things moving forward.

While I wouldn’t go as far as to say that this enters Larry Young territory, there is some of that kind of thing at work here, which makes the record work as jazz, as well as a mod jazz groover.

I like it a lot, and I hope you do too.

See you all on Friday.

Keep the faith

Larry

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By Larry, July 26, 2015 12:05 pm

Grant Green

Listen/Download – Grant Green – Ain’t It Funky Now Pt1 MP3

Listen/Download – Grant Green – Ain’t It Funky Now Pt2 MP3

Greetings all.

I thought it would behoove us all to get the week started on one of those heavy (but not too heavy), funky, head-nodding grooves.

Grant Green, six-string ninja, old-school jazzer, new(er) school jazz funker was one of the true greats of the post-bop into soul jazz era and a mainstay of the Blue Note stable, as both leader and sideman.

His sounds have appeared here at Funky16Corners many times over the years, both in highlighted posts and as part of mixes.

Today’s selection is the two-part 45 version of Green’s cover of James Brown’s ‘Ain’t It Funky Now’ that appeared on his 1970 ‘Green Is Beautiful’ LP.

You already know that any Blue Note ish in this vein is going to be good, but there’s something exceptional about this track, that being the drums of the mighty Idris Muhammad.

This is not to say that Mr Green and the rest of the band aren’t in fine form (especially Claude Bartee working it out on what sounds like a Varitone sax), but that the drums are hitting hard and exceptionally funky, and doing so in an almost weirdly relaxed way.

Idris is deep in the groove, and managing to be supremely funky without doing anything flashy. The way he comes back in at around 1:00, and then drops a couple of bombs right before the guitar solo is a thing of beauty.

Emmanuel Riggins keeps things pumping along on the organ, and the percussion, by Candido (on the congas) and Richie Landrum (bongos) is spot on.

This is a very tasty 45, indeed, and I dare you to listen without starting to move.

I hope you dig it, and I’ll see you all on Wednesday.

Keep the faith

Larry

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By Larry, July 23, 2015 3:09 pm

Gene Ammons

Listen/Download – Gene Ammons – Chicago Breakdown MP3

Greetings all.

The end of the week is here, and so then is the Funky16Corners Radio Show, which you can dial up each and every Friday night at 9PM on Viva Radio. If you cannot be there to dig it at airtime, you can subscribe to the show as a podcast in iTunes, listen on your mobile device via the TuneIn app, or grab yourself an MP3 here at the blog.

With the weekend coming up, and the summer heat in the air, what better way to get your groove on than with some sublimely funky soul jazz.

The mighty Gene ‘Jug’ Ammons was not only a master of the genre, but also a second generation legend (his father was the boogie woogie virtuouso Albert Ammons).

Ammons worked as one of the preeminent soul jazz tenor men from 1952 to his untimely death at the age of 49 (from cancer) in 1974.

‘Chicago Breakdown’ was recorded for his 1971 Prestige LP ‘My Way’ with a gang of heavies that included Idris Muhammad on drums, Chuck Rainey on bass, Roland Hanna on electric piano and Ted Dunbar on guitar.

‘Chicago Breakdown’ is credited to the album’s producer/arranger Bill Fischer, and the band lays down a very nice, mid-tempo, but still heavy groove. The bass is especially thick, and Hanna’s keyboard adds flavor all the way through.

I’ll ask you to slap on your headphones and focus in at around :45, where Ammons starts to solo, and Dunbar’s guitar is comping in the deep background (it sounds like he’s across the room) and the interplay between the sax and rhythm guitar is something to behold.

This is as tasty a piece of funky jazz as you’re likely to find on 45, so go out and get you some.

I’ll see you on Monday.

Keep the faith

Larry

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By Larry, July 9, 2015 11:55 am

Donny Hathaway

Listen/Download – Donny Hathaway – The Ghetto MP3

Greetings all.

The end of the week os upon us, and so I will remind you once again that Friday nights at 9PM is Funky16Corners Radio Show time. You can listen on Viva Radio, or you can subscribe to the show as a podcast in iTunes, listen on your mobile device via the TuneIn app, or grab an MP3 here at the blog.

What better way to wind your way into a sultry summer weekend than with a superior groove from the mighty Donny Hathaway.

Donny Hathaway, was for a long time, more of a name than a sound for me, i.e. I knew who he was, and I saw all the artists that namechecked him as an influence and a giant of soul, but all I ever really knew were is duets with Roberta Flack.

Then, right around the time I started digging into Richard Evans and the Soulful Strings, I started to notice Hathaway’s name in the credits of those albums (his ‘Valdez In the Country’ having become a favorite of mine), as songwriter and keyboardist, and with my curiosity piqued, I started picking up his albums where I could.

Donny Hathaway was the first black singer/songwriter that I “got”, eventually filing him with Bill Withers, and later on guys like Lou Bond. He was a prodigiously talented vocalist, songwriter and performer who – after his tragic death in 1979 – left us with a painfully brief discography.

His first solo album was 1970’s ‘Everything Is Everything’, which mixed his covers of tunes by Ray Charles, Nina Simone and Errol Garner, with his own originals (some in collaboration with Leroy Hutson). The sound of the album mixes straight ahead soul, gospel, and soul jazz (there’s definitely a Les McCann vibe), and Hathaway is joined by many of his Chess/Cadet sessioners like Phil Upchurch and Morris Jennings, as well as heavies like King Curtis (which whom Hathaway had recorded).

‘The Ghetto’, which sits in the middle of side two, is a slow, groovy number led by Hathaway’s voice and electric piano, with drums and Latin percussion keeping things moving. The vocals are (for the first half of the record) little more than a repeated chant of the title, with Donny coming in a little more in the second part.

An edit of the track grazed the R&B Top 20 in the beginning of 1970 (though it wasn’t his first hit, having been preceded by his 1969 duet with June Conquest (as June & Donnie) ‘I Thank You Baby’ which had almost made it into the R&B Top 40.

While it may not be the deepest thing he ever laid down, it’s a very nice groove indeed, and one that I’m sure will have you nodding your head.

I hope you dig it, and I’ll see you all on Monday.

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Don’t forget the drawing for 2015 Allnighter Donors (open until the end of next week).

The good folks at Secret Stash Records have sent along some very groovy promos as incentives for you good folks to donate to the 2015 Allnighter/Pledge Drive.

We have two pairs of two 2-record sets comprised of rare and unreleased material from the legendary Chicago soul labels Mar-V-Lus and One-Derful Records!

At the end of next week I will randomly select two winners from the list of this year’s donors to receive these incredible prizes. All you need to do (unless you’ve already kicked in, in which case you’re already eligible) is click on the Paypal button and donate at least $5.00USD to be entered for a chance to win.

All the names will go into a hat and one of the little Corners will select the winners, who will be announced in this space on Monday, as well as notified via e-mail.

So get to clicking!

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Keep the faith

Larry

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By Larry, May 31, 2015 11:09 am

Judy Clay

Listen/Download – Judy Clay – It Takes a Lotta Good Love

Listen/Download – Judy Clay – You Can’t Run Away From Your Heart

Greetings all.

What better way to start off the week, than with a very solid slice of Memphis soul?

I’ve been a fan of Judy Clay for a years. Most of that time, I only really knew her late-60s duet work with the mighty Billy Vera, like ‘Country Girl, City Man’ and ‘Storybook Children’, and her duets with William Bell, like ‘Private Number’.

She got her start in the the famed gospel group the Drinkard Singers, alongside Cissy Houston and Dionne and Dee Dee Warwick, moving into the world of secular music in 1961 for the Ember label.

Clay spent the next few years recording for Ember, Choice, Scepter, and Lavette, before landing at Stax in 1967.
The two songs you see before you today represent both sides of her amazing debut single for Stax.

‘It Takes a Lotta Good Love’, co-written by Al Bell and Booker T Jones, and produced (both sides) by Isaac Hayes and David Porter, is a soulful powerhouse, with a punchy, radio-friendly arrangement, and a wonderful vocal by Clay. This is one of those records that just kind of kicks you in the ass and makes you wonder why it wasn’t a hit.

Interestingly enough, I can only find one chart reference to ‘It Takes a Lotta Good Love’, and the station was also playing the flipside, ‘You Can’t Run Away From Your Heart’.

A killer Hayes/Porter ballad, with a beautiful melody, and an incongruous, yet perfect guitar opening, had a little more success than its flipside, showing up in four different markets. The performance is a testament to the fact that Judy Clay should have had a bigger career. She maneuvers from her very solid middle range, into high notes and back again with perfect control, and brings a lot of gospel flavor into her delivery.

She had her last hit in 1970, and spent the next decade performing as a backing singer for a variety of performers, including Ray Charles and Wilson Pickett.

She passed away following a car accident in 2001.

I hope you dig the tunes, and I’ll see you on Wednesday.

Keep the faith

Larry

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By Larry, April 23, 2015 11:04 am

Mickey Fields

Greetings all.

The end of the week is here, and so is the Funky16Corners Radio Show, which comes to you each and every Friday night at 9PM on Viva Radio. If you can’t be there at airtime, you can always subscribe to the show as a podcast in iTunes, listen on your mobile device via the TuneIn app or grab yourself an MP3 here at the blog.

Today’s selection qualifies as one of the very first funky 45s I ever scored.

‘Cracker Jack’ by Mickey and His Mice was a minor regional (Baltimore/DC) hit in 1970 and as a result is plentiful and cheap on the east coast (and probably everywhere else as well).

Opening with some thick, sticky bass, guitar and back and forth spoken word ish, it soon opens up into a funky organ/sax led instrumental jam.

It’s fun, funky and danceable, and as is so often the case, would be sweated heavily if it were rare, but since it isn’t, it’s neglected.

The backing track was recycled (also on the Marti label) as ‘Doin’ the Crackerjack’ by Changes, a much rarer and more expensive 45.

That said, I had no idea that the Mickey Fields listed on the label was the same guy who recorded an album with Richard ‘Groove’ Holmes (that I already happened to have a copy of!).

By all accounts, Fields had the chops to make it on the national scene, yet chose to remain in Baltimore where he was an important part of the local scene as a leader, sideman and mentor.

The other record I mentioned was ‘The Astonishing Mickey Fields’, a 1969 session. It is mainly a jazz date, but the version of the Doors’ ‘Light My Fire’ is very groovy indeed, and I’m including it here.

I hope you dig the tracks, and I’ll be back on Monday with some more.

Keep the faith

Larry

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By Larry, April 19, 2015 10:39 am

The Souljers (above), The Mixtures (below)

Greetings all.

I hope the new week finds you all well.

Today’s selection is a bit of mystery record.

Not that we don’t know who it is – that would be the Souljers (aka the Soul-Jers) – but that the story attached to the group is composed of little more than loose ends.

What we do know is this, the song ‘Chinese Checkers’ was originally recorded by none other than Booker T and the MGs in 1963 and appeared as the flipside to ‘Plum Nellie’.

The Souljers version of the song was released on the legendary East LA Rampart label in 1966.

As to who the Souljers/Soul-Jers were, I think the cats in the picture above are Delbert Franklin and Phil Tucker, who recorded the ‘Soul-Jers’ 45 ‘Gonna Be a Big Man’ and ‘Crazy Little Things’, which is a soul vocal.

If you do a little digging, it appears that the Souljers ‘Chinese Checkers’ is in fact a re-release of the Mixtures (another Rampart/East LA group) 1963 recording of the song from a few years earlier. In fact, both ‘Chinese Checkers’ and its b-side ‘Poochum’ appeared on two different Mixtures 45s on the Linda label!

Even weirder, is the fact that the label of the Souljers 45 indicates that both tracks were from an album called ‘Move Over Ramsey’, which never appears to have been issued.

How the Mixtures tracks ended up being reissued on Rampart as the Souljers is something of a mystery, though their Linda 45s are listed as Faro productions, and Faro and Rampart were both owned by impresario Eddie Davis, and Delbert Franklin appears to have been a member of both groups as the sax player.

That said, ‘Chinese Checkers’ is a groovy track, following the mellow electric piano groove of the original, and adding in some vocal interjections and handclaps, giving it that ‘live in the studio’ feel.

I hope you dig it, and if you have any info to add that will help unravel the mystery, please let me know.

See you on Wednesday.

Keep the faith

Larry

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By Larry, April 5, 2015 9:40 am

Marie Knight

Listen/Download – Marie Knight – Cry Me a River

Greetings all.

Welcome to another swinging week here at the Corners.

I have to send out thanks for today’s selection to my friend Mike Schaefer who turned me on to this record a while back.

Though I had a record of hers (a duet with Rex Garvin) I had no idea who Marie Knight was until I heard her epic 1965 version of the old standard ‘Cry Me a River’.

Knight who started out as a gospel singer, touring with Sister Rosetta Tharpe among others, she moved into secular R&B and soul by the end of the 1950s (on the aforementioned ‘Marie and Rex’ 45 ‘I Can’t Sit Down’ which edged into the Pop Top 100).

When Mike posted ‘Cry Me a River’ I was blown away by Knight’s huge, powerful voice, and set out to find myself a copy of the record right away.

What I soon discovered was that Knight also recorded the original version of one of my favorite Manfred Mann records, ‘Come Tomorrow’ for Okeh in 1961. That record – which took a lot longer and a lot more money to bag – will be featured sometime soon.

‘Cry Me a River’, which has been recorded countless times by all kinds of singers, was high on my list of tunes I never really needed to hear again…until I heard Marie Knight sing it.

The arrangement – by Bert Keyes – takes the song at a slow, but powerfully delivered pace, with lots of space for Knight to tear into the lyric.

It majes sense that this record was a Top 40 hit in 1965, because I can’t imagine it making the same impact a year later. It has the kind of sound that just about out the door by mid-decade.

What makes it unique, aside from Knight’s vocal, is the small touches, like the lead guitar that snakes in and out of the arrangement, and the chorus of backup singers that sounds like an actual church choir.

It is a uniquely powerful recording, and a big fave of mine.

I hope you dig it, too.

See you on Wednesday.

Keep the faith

Larry

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By Larry, March 31, 2015 11:08 am

Tarik Thornton – Scattered, Covered, Smothered and Diced

Ahmad Jamal – M*A*S*H Theme
Art Jerry Miller- Finger Lickin’ Good
Odell Brown & The Organizers – The Look Of Love
James Brown- Spinning Wheel
Lena Horne – Rocky Raccoon
Lonnie Smith- Move Your Hand- Part 1
Joe Williams & The Jazz Orchestra – Get Out My Life Woman
Brother Jack McDuff- Theme From The Electric Surfboard
Bobbi Humphrey- Harlem River Drive
Gene Ammons- Jungle Strut
Charlie Earland- Sing a Simple Song
Billy Cobham- Crosswind
Walter Wolfman Washington & Solar System – Good & Juicy
(Bonus Cut) Dejan’s Olympia Brass Band of New Orleans – Tuba Fats & Drums

Listen/Download – Tarik Thornton – Scattered, Covered, Smothered and Diced 46MB/Mixed MP3

Greetings all.

This is a very fortuitous week indeed, since thanks to a communique from my man Tarik Thornton (veteran of many Funky16Corners pledge drives and guest spots) we have the second brand new mix of the week!

If you have sunk your ears into any of his previous mixes, you know that Tarik has deep crates and excellent taste, and both are on display in ‘Scattered, Covered, Smothered and Diced’. Here you get just about 40 minutes of very tasty soul jazz and jazz funk, well mixed and served up hot.

I’m digging this one for the second time as I write this, and I think you’ll be giving it repeated plays as well.

I hope you dig it, and I’ll be back on Friday.

Keep the faith

Larry

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By Larry, March 22, 2015 10:46 am

Lou Johnson

Greetings all.

I hope you all have your Hammond groove pants on.

I first heard Ross Carnegie’s ‘Cool Dad’ (like so many other organ classics) on the legendary ‘Vital Organs’ comp, though it took me something like 15 years before I got around to filing a copy of the OG 45.

Carnegie was a pianist/organist working out of the New York area who is best known (to record collectors, anyway) for a series of self-released 45s he put out between the mid-60s and the late 70s.

‘Cool Dad’ , which I haven’t been able to date exactly, but I’d be willing to bet came out sometime in the mid-to-late 60s, is a hard-charging soul groover, with some especially heavy (and well recorded) drums, pulsing bass, tastefully applied horns, and – of course – Mr Carnegie’s wailing Hammond organ.

The flipside ‘Win. Lose or Draw’ is slightly ‘cooler’, featuring a reapeated figure delivered by the flute and trumpet in unison, before the flute steps out front to solo, followed of course by the Hammond.

Though I’ve seen this 45 billed as funk (I suspect the drums have something to do with that), it really hews closer to classic-era Hammond soul jazz, like Wild Bill Davis’s ‘Breaking Out’ and Hank Marr’s ‘White House Party’, which is a groovy thing since those are two of the finest platters to emit the sound of the organ.

As I mentioned when I wrote up his later ‘Open Up Your Mind’ 45 back in 2010, Carnegie worked as a bandleader,music educator and later became well-known in the area as the pianist in residence at the White Plains location of the Nordstroms department store.

‘Cool Dad’ b/w ‘Win Lose or Draw’ is probably the most expensive of Carnegie’s 45s, running between 40 and 100 bucks, but if you pull down the ones and zeroes and give it a listen, I think you’ll agree that it’s worth every penny.

I hope you dig it, and I’ll see you on Wednesday.

Keep the faith

Larry

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By Larry, March 17, 2015 12:05 pm

Willie Bobo

Greetings all.

I thought I’d whip a little Latin jazz/boogaloo on you to usher you over the hump.

One would assume that most of you were already familiar with the music of the mighty Willie Bobo.

Though Bobo came up as a percussionist with leaders like George Shearing, Cal Tjader and Mongo Santamaria, he made his biggest mark as a solo artist.

His 1960s Verve recordings are not only excellent, but were popular enough that they are still fairly easy to track down.

His cover of Len Barry’s ‘1-2-3’ (rendered here as ‘1-2-3 (Uno Dos Tres)’ was the title track from Bobo’s 1965 LP of the same name.

Taken at a brisk pace, with some tasty horns and the sinuous of guitar by Gabor Szabo, it’s not hard to imagine a discotheque full of swingers grooving to this one.

Grab yourself a copy of the 45, and you also get the mighty ‘Fried Neckbones and Some Home Fries’ on the flip.

If you haven’t got any Bobo heating up your crates, get out there and start digging. You will not regret it.

I hope you dig the sounds.

See you on Friday.

Keep the faith

Larry

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