{"id":685,"date":"2010-07-01T20:57:51","date_gmt":"2010-07-02T01:57:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/funky16corners.lunarpages.net\/?p=685"},"modified":"2012-08-03T16:22:02","modified_gmt":"2012-08-03T21:22:02","slug":"pete-jolly-springs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/?p=685","title":{"rendered":"Pete Jolly – Springs"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Listen\/Download – Pete Jolly – Springs <\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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

I hope you\u2019re all good and ready to crash into what promises to be a slamming holiday weekend.
\nAssuming that the weather holds out the fam and I will be down at the Asbury Park boardwalk for the third year in a row to groove on the fireworks this Sunday.
\nI\u2019m really starting to feel the summer in a positive way. The humidity has departed (a temporary state of affairs, but you take it where you can get it) and the sun has been shining on a regular basis, so the time is right for some summery sounds.
\nBefore we get rolling I have a couple of pieces of business to take care of. First, beginning with next week’s podcast, yours truly has been asked to contribute a funky track each week to the Gentleman’s Guide To Midnite Cinema<\/strong><\/a> podcast, which, if the title wasn’t explanation enough, concerns itself with the world of film, with a concentration on genre flicks. You should fall by their web site and check things out (you can also access the episodes via iTunes).
\nSecond, you should make sure to check out this week’s edition of the Funky16Corners Radio Show <\/strong><\/a>on Viva internet radio for more of the good stuff. It runs every Friday night at 9PM EST and is archived here as a downloadable MP3 file the following day.
\nI featured a track from pianist Pete Jolly\u2019s<\/strong> \u2018Seasons\u2019 album in a couple of different Funky16Corners Radio mixes, but the cut I bring you today is, as the kids say, that real shit.<\/em>
\n\u2018Seasons\u2019, recorded in a single 1970 session, and largely improvised in the studio is as close as any album comes to being the perfect, groove oriented electric piano album.
\nProduced by Herb Alpert<\/strong> and featuring a group that included Paul Humphrey<\/strong> on drums and Milt Holland<\/strong> and Chuck Berghofer<\/strong> on bass, \u2018Leaves\u2019 is something of a lost work of genius, and decidedly ahead of its time.
\nThe album is made up of a series of fairly brief cuts, arranged as a concept album of sorts, but unlike so many rock concept albums, weighted down with ponderous lyrics and \u2018meaning\u2019, \u2018Seasons\u2019 is entirely instrumental, which means all the concept you\u2019re forced to deal with is in the form of a musical feel. I suppose it\u2019s entirely possible that Jolly could have applied a completely different set of titles to the pieces and rewired the \u2018concept\u2019, but the whole thing works so well, you kind of find yourself forgetting all about any connective tissue and just letting yourself float away on the groove.
\n\u2018Springs\u2019 starts off with the sparest bits of percussion and bass until Jolly drops in with a ringing keyboard (according to Odub <\/strong>at Soul Sides<\/strong><\/a>, a Wurlitzer electric piano). I love how the bass, drums and piano all get stronger in the tiniest increments, almost to the point that you don\u2019t notice it happening unless you rewind and concentrate on one instrument specifically. What starts out as a whisper turns into a funky, nighttime groove, like closing your eyes and feeling a warm summer breeze move past.
\nJolly didn\u2019t record much else with this kind of a feel, which makes \u2018Seasons\u2019 all the more amazing.
\nYou should really get your hands on a reissue of \u2018Seasons\u2019. I think you\u2019ll find yourself listening to it in a loop, digging it a little deeper each time.
\nI hope you dig it, and I\u2019ll be back on Monday.<\/p>\n

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

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


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