{"id":2075,"date":"2011-12-13T16:07:11","date_gmt":"2011-12-13T21:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/funky16corners.lunarpages.net\/?p=2075"},"modified":"2012-02-21T14:49:22","modified_gmt":"2012-02-21T19:49:22","slug":"dizzy-gillespie-soul-kiss-pt1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/?p=2075","title":{"rendered":"Dizzy Gillespie – Soul Kiss Pt1"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Listen\/Download – Dizzy Gillespie – Soul Kiss Pt1 <\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/del><\/p>\n

Greetings all.<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n

I hope the middle of the week, aka dio del humpo<\/em> finds you all well.<\/p>\n

If you fall by Funky16Corners<\/strong> on the reg, you already know that I often find myself in a jazz bag, but even the most devoted might be surprised on how deep that bag really is.<\/p>\n

Thanks to my father, a musician and a fan, I\u2019ve been hearing jazz my entire life, from Dixieland, to Chicago style, West Coast cool, and hard bop (in my parents house) and adding post bop, fusion and free jazz in my adulthood.<\/p>\n

There was even a period in my late 20s to my early 30s where I listened to little else.<\/p>\n

There are often jazz and jazz-related features here on Funky16Corners (and on the radio show) but those are generally restricted to the groove-based and the funky.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m not here to tell you that I\u2019m going to start rhapsodizing about my deep and abiding love for Clifford Brown<\/strong> and Thelonious Monk,<\/strong> or that I\u2019m going to start another blog, because I\u2019m not (insane<\/em>), but rather to preface the inclusion of another groovy, funky track, that happens to have been made by one of the most prominent innovators in the history of jazz.<\/p>\n

It has been discussed here before, but to reprise briefly, there are two kinds of jazzers you will find here at Funky16Corners, those who\u2019s career is rooted almost exclusively in soul jazz\/groove, in that those sounds were their figurative bread and butter, and old school players who found themselves on the margin as the 60s arrived and took a detour into a more contemporary sound in an effort to stay current.<\/p>\n

John Birks \u2018Dizzy\u2019 Gillespie<\/strong> found himself in 1971 teetering on the border between those two groups.<\/p>\n

It was Gillespie, who along with Monk, Charlie Parker, Kenny Clarke<\/strong> and many others verily gave birth to Bebop in the 1940s.<\/p>\n

Dizzy had the extra added benefit of also being a hepcat supreme, becoming in essence the face of the movement with his beret, goatee and hip lingo. People might have heard of Parker or later (much later<\/em>) Monk, but they knew what Dizzy looked like, and in the earliest days of the spread of electronic media, that meant that for many, he was THE face of modern jazz.<\/p>\n

I was lucky enough to see him twice in the late 70s and early 80s.<\/p>\n

The tune I bring you today was recorded in 1971, when keyboardist Mike Longo<\/strong> was working in Dizzy\u2019s band.<\/p>\n

While there were old school boppers like James Moody<\/strong> on the session, you also had Longo, Bernard Purdie<\/strong> and Phil Upchurch<\/strong> as well.<\/p>\n

The sound of \u2018Soul Kiss\u2019 is about soul jazzy as Dizzy ever got, and it\u2019s not hard to see cuts like this as his bid to stay in the rapidly evolving game.<\/p>\n

The groove is hard, the organ wails, and the only indication the listener gets that Gillespie was involved are the short, sharp trumpet bursts in the chorus.<\/p>\n

The album that it comes from \u2018The Real Thing\u2019 is a very funky affair, especially for Gillespie, and as a result it is sweated heavily by the crate digging set.<\/p>\n

I have yet to find a vinyl copy of the LP, but the 45 I bring you today will do for now.<\/p>\n

I hope you dig it, and I\u2019ll see you all on Friday.<\/p>\n

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