{"id":668,"date":"2010-06-20T16:21:20","date_gmt":"2010-06-20T21:21:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/funky16corners.lunarpages.net\/?p=668"},"modified":"2015-02-04T14:00:25","modified_gmt":"2015-02-04T19:00:25","slug":"funky16corners-radio-v-86-elektrik","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/?p=668","title":{"rendered":"Funky16Corners Radio v.86 – Elektrik"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Funky16Corners Radio v.86 – Elektrik<\/strong><\/p>\n

Playlist<\/strong><\/p>\n

Stan Kenton & Orchestra \u2013 2002 Zarathustrevisited (Creative World)
\nFrank Wess \u2013 Wessward Ho (Enterprise)
\nLarry Willis \u2013 Out On the Coast (Groove Merchant)
\nGary Burton \u2013 Vibrafinger (Atlantic)
\nGary McFarland \u2013 On This Site Shall Be Erected (edit) (Skye)
\nJimmy Smith \u2013 Hang\u2019Em High (Pride)
\nPhil Upchurch \u2013 Elektrik Head (Cadet)
\nPete Jolly \u2013 Prairie Road (A&M)
\nHampton Hawes \u2013 Don\u2019t Pass Me By (Prestige)
\nNeal Creque \u2013 Jasmine (Cobblestone)
\nRoy Meriwether \u2013 Mean Greens (Capitol)
\nEddie Jefferson \u2013 Psychedelic Sally (Prestige)<\/strong><\/strong> <\/p>\n

You can check out this mix in the Funky16Corners Radio Podcast Archive<\/strong><\/a>
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Greetings all.<\/strong><\/div>\n

I hope the new week finds you well.
\nI was just sitting here in the Funky16Corners Record Vault and Podcasting Nerve Center<\/strong>, when I realized that in all the new equipment\/live mix\/pledge drive hysteria, it had been something like three months since the last \u2018regular\u2019 Funky16Corners Radio mix, i.e. one with the drops and the accompanying zip file and the whole \u2013 as they used to say in the olden days \u2013 \u2018shooting match<\/em>\u2019, and as a result, I felt that I should get my \u2013 as they still say today \u2013 shit <\/em>together, dip into the digimatized stock and get something going.
\nSo, I did.<\/strong>
\nThings being what they are, that being busy, both with the real world moves and the blog stuff, the old Funky16Corners mix schedule (as it was) has been stretched out somewhat. This has not however resulted in a lack of content, in fact the net result has been more music, with the Soul Club mixes (expect more of those from myself and guest selectors in the coming months) and the recent addition of archived\/MP3 versions of the show I do weekly for Viva internet radio. <\/a>As a result there\u2019s probably more to listen to here than any sane person could digest, so dig in, slap some of the good stuff on your portable MP3 delivery device and stuff it in your ears (as time allows).
\nThat said, I have whipped up a new mix, and I think you\u2019ll dig it.
\nFunky16Corners Radio v.86 \u2013 Elektrik<\/strong> is both jazzy and funky, with lots of the good stuff you\u2019ve come to expect as part of the Funky16Corners Radio experience, with a perfect vibe for a warm summer night.
\nThings get started with something that surprised even me, that being Stan Kenton’s funky, fusion-y take on Deodato\u2019s <\/strong>reworking of Strauss\u2019s<\/strong> \u2018Also Sprach Zarathustra\u2019, cleverly titled \u20182002 Zarathustrevisited\u2019 (Oh, Stan\u2026<\/em>.), wherein the often overwrought master of heavily brassed West Coastery lets his sideburns grow in and hands the baton over to the younger cats in the band. Unlike similar sounds emitting from the Woody Herman<\/strong> organization, I have little faith that the man with his name on the bandstand had much to do with this one, and as a result, it is very groovy indeed.
\nFrank Wess<\/strong> works a very cool, vaguely trippy (heavily echoed) and somewhat funky sound with \u2018Wessward Ho\u2019. Alongside his most excellent flute work, there\u2019s plenty of vibes, wah wah guitar and clavinet to being up the soulful quotient. If you can get your hands on a copy of the 1970 \u2018Wess to Memphis\u2019 album, do so, because unlike so many of his hard bop contemporaries, Wess was able to work very well in a more modern bag.
\nI\u2019ve featured tracks by pianist Larry Willis <\/strong>in a couple of previous mixes, and for good reason too, since he was a master of a certain extra-hot, era-specific, electric piano sound. The tune \u2018Out On the Coast\u2019 take the soul jazz vibe and funks it up without drifting into the land of fusion. It\u2019s serious enough to be jazz, but with enough get down in it to work as funk.
\nIf you\u2019re familiar with some of the more ethereal work of vibist Gary Burton<\/strong> you may find \u2018Vibrafinger\u2019 to be a somewhat jarring experience. Here, instead of the soothing chimes of the vibraphone, Burton offers up a heavily treated, electrified and distorted sound, accompanied by some heavy guitar and drums.
\n\u2018On This Site Shall Be Erected\u2019 is an edited (by me<\/em>) version of the first track on Gary McFarland\u2019s<\/strong> concept album \u2018America the Beautiful\u2019. Thanks no doubt to the fact that he was co-owner of the label, his work for Skye Records is at times very far out, ranging from his soft and mellow vocalizing alongside his vibes, to heavier orchestral work, which, like this track, sometimes got funky. With guitar by Eric Gale<\/strong> and drums by Bernard Purdie,<\/strong> \u2018On This Site Shall Be Erected\u2019 moves from a brief avant garde section, directly into a few short minutes of big band funk.
\nThough you\u2019re probably familiar with the Booker T and the MGs<\/strong> version of the movie theme \u2018Hang\u2019Em High\u2019 (a Top 10 hit in 1968), you\u2019ll probably dig Jimmy Smith\u2019s <\/strong>long-form take on the tune from the \u2018Black Smith\u2019 album. You get to hear Jimmy work the Hammond alongside a piano (almost the whole time) and he does a predictably great job.
\nNext up is something a little spacey from the king of Chicago studio axemen, Mr. Phil Upchurch<\/strong>. \u2018Elektrik Head\u2019 from his 1969 LP \u2018The Way I Feel\u2019 sees Upchurch getting all up inside the echoplex, managing to be jazzy, soulful and passably psychedelic all at the same time.
\nThings mellow out a little bit \u2013 yet remain funky \u2013 with \u2018Prairie Road\u2019 by pianist Pete Jolly<\/strong>. A track from the largely improvised and wholly excellent \u2018Seasons\u2019 album, it features Jolly on the electric piano, and none other than Paul Humphrey<\/strong> on the drums. If you can score this on vinyl, good for you (it took me a while). If you can\u2019t, grab it in reissue because it really has to be heard in its entirely. GREAT record.
\nHampton Hawes <\/strong>was featured in the electric piano mix earlier this year. \u2018Don\u2019t Pass Me By\u2019 is another fantastic cut from his 1972 \u2018Universe\u2019 album.
\nNeal Creque<\/strong> is another great, underrated musician and composer who is better known for his work as a sideman (with Mongo Santamaria<\/strong> among others) than for his solo work (probably because there\u2019s not a lot of it\u2026). \u2018Jasmine\u2019 is from his 1972 \u2018Contrast\u2019 album, and features some West Indian flavor mixed in with the funky jazz, sounding like a younger, hipper cousin to Sonny Rollins\u2019<\/strong> \u2018St Thomas\u2019.
\nRoy Meriwether<\/strong> recorded a fair amount of major label jazz sides, but it\u2019s his private press stuff that is sweated the hardest by the collectors and beat diggers. His version of Eddie Harris\u2019s \u2018<\/strong>Mean Greens\u2019 appeared on his Capitol LP \u2018Soul Knight\u2019. He takes the tune at a faster, more aggressive pace than Harris did on his OG.
\nThis edition of the Funky16Corners Radio thang closes out with a very groovy track by the father of vocalese, Mr. Eddie Jefferson<\/strong>. I wish I could say I had a copy of the rare 45 of Jefferson\u2019s version of Horace Silver\u2019s<\/strong> \u2018Psychedelic Sally\u2019, but I\u2019ll settle for the LP. Not very psychedelic, but quite funky, this sees Jefferson in a very modern bag.
\nI hope you dig the sounds, and I\u2019ll be back later in the week with something cool.<\/p>\n

Peace<\/strong><\/p>\n

Larry<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Funky16Corners Radio v.86 – Elektrik Playlist Stan Kenton & Orchestra \u2013 2002 Zarathustrevisited (Creative World) Frank Wess \u2013 Wessward Ho (Enterprise) Larry Willis \u2013 Out On the Coast (Groove Merchant) Gary Burton \u2013 Vibrafinger (Atlantic) Gary McFarland \u2013 On This Site Shall Be Erected (edit) (Skye) Jimmy Smith \u2013 Hang\u2019Em High (Pride) Phil Upchurch \u2013 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[58,11,14,15,19,49,30,12,13],"tags":[36,163,167,27,164,165],"class_list":["post-668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cover-songs","category-funk","category-funky16corners","category-funky16corners-radio","category-jazz","category-jazz-funk","category-lp-tracks","category-soul","category-soul-jazz","tag-electric-piano","tag-funk","tag-funky16corners-radio","tag-hammond-organ","tag-soul","tag-soul-jazz"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pMKgo-aM","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=668"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5466,"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668\/revisions\/5466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}