Oouuh Yeah Feed me with playlists ...

[Com King]

Could you please post here your all time favourite funk, jazz, and jazz-funk songs?

[Com King]

Maybe I'm going to start with mine

Vicki Anderson - Message from The Soul Sisters
Weldon Irvine - We gettin' Down
Galt MacDermot - Coffee Gold
Reuben Bell - Superjock
Lyn Collins - Think
Bob James - Nautilus
James Brown - Blind Man Can See It
24 Carat Black - 24 Carat Black
Ingram - Mi Sabrina Tequana
Miles Davis - Tutu

[tony98]

I probably have dozens of favourites.be here's a few.
Wilbert Longmire - "Black Is The Colour"
Eddie Henderson - "Prance On"
Lonnie "Liston" Smith - "Expansions"
Backbyrds - "Walking In Rhythm"
Lee Ritenour - "Fly By Night"
Gil Scott-Heron - "The Bottle"
John Handy - "Hard Work"
Roy Ayers - "Love Will Bring Us Back Together"
Terry Callier - "Ordinary Joe"
Aaron Neville - "Hercules"

[Simon White]

Tuff one ! In no real order.......except maybe the first one...or two...



Trip To Your Mind - Hudson People
I Know You Got Soul - Bobby Byrd
The World Is A Ghetto (the instrumental version) - War
Expansions - Lonnie Liston Smith
Hook & Sling - Eddie Bo
Shante - Mass Production

[marmite7]

Love that Hudson People track!

You can also add for me................

Francine McGhee - Delirium

and a brass-filled Northern Soul instrumental (which for me also fits the bill), Mistura - The Flasher.

Cayenne - Roberto Who?
Carmen McRae & The Dave Brubeck Quartet - Take Five (The perfect jazz track!)

[Simon White]

Originally Posted by marmite7

Love that Hudson People track!

You can also add for me................

Francine McGhee - Delirium

and a brass-filled Northern Soul instrumental (which for me also fits the bill), Mistura - The Flasher.

Cayenne - Roberto Who?
Carmen McRae & The Dave Brubeck Quartet - Take Five (The perfect jazz track!)

Oohh yes marmite, Carmen and Dave very nice. Sad to see Carmen passed away recently.

Delirium..... is it Jazz/Funk or is its Disco ?.. nicely blurred lines there.

Have to say that 'The Flasher' is one of my least favourite tracks ever !


Have to add a few now... I love virtually any version of 'Coming Home Baby' but especially the one by The Soulful Strings, and I love 'Burning Spear' by them, plus any other version too !
And 'Afro Harping' and 'Action Line' by Dorothy Ashby.
And on a funk tip...'Never In My Life' by Lee Moses.....'Give A Damn' by Benny Gordon...

[marmite7]

Originally Posted by Simon White

Oohh yes marmite, Carmen and Dave very nice. Sad to see Carmen passed away recently.

Delirium..... is it Jazz/Funk or is its Disco ?.. nicely blurred lines there.

Have to say that 'The Flasher' is one of my least favourite tracks ever !


Have to add a few now... I love virtually any version of 'Coming Home Baby' but especially the one by The Soulful Strings, and I love 'Burning Spear' by them, plus any other version too !
And 'Afro Harping' and 'Action Line' by Dorothy Ashby.
And on a funk tip...'Never In My Life' by Lee Moses.....'Give A Damn' by Benny Gordon...

Morning Simon

I've got Norman Jay to thank for introducing me to to Carmen's duet with Mr Brubeck. If you haven't already heard of them (got them?), track down the whole "Norman Jay presents Good Times" double CD's...................they're so worth it. (Up to series 6 so far, with no shortage of tunes to continue for a while yet)

EG:

Good Times Vol 3 track list:

1. I Need It - Johnny Guitar Watson
2. Right On - Clarence Wheeler
3. Thinking About Your Love - Skipworth & Turner
4. Praisin' His Name - Jasper Street
5. Train To Skaville - The Ethiopians
6. Ring The Alarm - Tenor Saw
7. Looking At The Front Door - Main Source
8. If I Lost You - King Britt Vs Michelle Shaprow
9. Sunshower - Dr. Buzzards Original Savannah Band
10. You Can't Hide Love - Creative Source
11. California Soul - Tammi Terrell & Marvin Gaye
12. Live In Me - Rufus feat. Chaka Khan
13. I Really Love You - Heaven & Earth
14. My First Mistake - The Chi-Lites
15. Drop - Bushy
1. The Pressure Part 2 - Sounds Of Blackness
2. Love Foolosophy - Jamiroquai
3. I Wanna Be With You - Doc Severinsen
4. Stories - Full Flava
5. Love Stories -Jennifer Holiday
6. Wild Fire - John Holt & Dennis Brown
7. Unhooked Generation - Freda Payne
8. Sunday Morning People -Honey Cone
9. Dance Dance Dance -The Casualeers
10. Wish I Didn't Miss You - Angie Stone
11. Gotta Have Your Love - Virtual Suspects feat. Gwen McRae
12. You Dazzle Me - Dazzle
13. I Need You Now - Sinnamon
14. Walk In The Night - Jr. Walker And The All Stars
15. It's Great To Be Here - The Jackson 5

Essential holiday CD's and I'll be taking all 6 to Australia in 37 days

[Simon White]

The great things about collections like this is there a fewer restrictions to what you can put on it. If. for some reason you can't licence one track, you just replace it with another !

Originally Posted by marmite7

Morning Simon

I've got Norman Jay to thank for introducing me to to Carmen's duet with Mr Brubeck. If you haven't already heard of them (got them?), track down the whole "Norman Jay presents Good Times" double CD's...................they're so worth it. (Up to series 6 so far, with no shortage of tunes to continue for a while yet)

EG:

Good Times Vol 3 track list:

1. I Need It - Johnny Guitar Watson
2. Right On - Clarence Wheeler
3. Thinking About Your Love - Skipworth & Turner
4. Praisin' His Name - Jasper Street
5. Train To Skaville - The Ethiopians
6. Ring The Alarm - Tenor Saw
7. Looking At The Front Door - Main Source
8. If I Lost You - King Britt Vs Michelle Shaprow
9. Sunshower - Dr. Buzzards Original Savannah Band
10. You Can't Hide Love - Creative Source
11. California Soul - Tammi Terrell & Marvin Gaye
12. Live In Me - Rufus feat. Chaka Khan
13. I Really Love You - Heaven & Earth
14. My First Mistake - The Chi-Lites
15. Drop - Bushy
1. The Pressure Part 2 - Sounds Of Blackness
2. Love Foolosophy - Jamiroquai
3. I Wanna Be With You - Doc Severinsen
4. Stories - Full Flava
5. Love Stories -Jennifer Holiday
6. Wild Fire - John Holt & Dennis Brown
7. Unhooked Generation - Freda Payne
8. Sunday Morning People -Honey Cone
9. Dance Dance Dance -The Casualeers
10. Wish I Didn't Miss You - Angie Stone
11. Gotta Have Your Love - Virtual Suspects feat. Gwen McRae
12. You Dazzle Me - Dazzle
13. I Need You Now - Sinnamon
14. Walk In The Night - Jr. Walker And The All Stars
15. It's Great To Be Here - The Jackson 5

Essential holiday CD's and I'll be taking all 6 to Australia in 37 days

[tony98]

Here's some more old faves of mine.
Dee Dee Sharpe (Gamble) - "Comin' Home Baby"
Grover Washington Jr. - "Mister Magic"
Teena Marie - "Portugese Love"
Leon Huff - "I Ain't Jivin' I'm Jammin'"
Les McCann & Eddie Harris - "Compared To What"
Gary Bartz - "Music"
Sea Level - "Fifty - Four"
Arthur Adams - "You Got The Floor"
Sergio Mendes - "The Real Thing"
Donald Byrd - "Dominos"

[Com King]

I forgot 2 of my all-time favourites :

Gary Bartz MTU Troop - Celestial Blues
Donovan - Get Thy Bearings ( This song is the ultimate masterpiece, you have to listen to it if you don't know it)

[Keith RS]

I'm Exhausted!!!!!!
Return To Forever.............Romantic Warrior
Gato Barbieri.....................Europa
Donald Byrd......................Street Lady
Crusaders........................Chain Reaction
Pleasure.........................Sassafras Girl
Ronnie Laws....................Always There
Billy Cobham.....................Crosswinds
Herbie Mann.....................Hijack Your Love
Kool & Gang.......................Summer Madness
Herbie Hancock...................Butterfly
Miles Davis...................In A Silent Way
Roy Ayers.......................A Tear To A Smile
Deodato.......................Soulful Strut
Miles Davis.................Honky Tonk
Blackbyrds....................Blackbryds Theme
Issac Hayes...................Cafe Regio's
George Benson................Take Five
Horace Silver...............Jody Grind
John Coltrane...............Naima
Charles Mingus...............Goodbye Pork Pie Hat
Wes Montgomery.............A Day In The Life
Jazz Crusaders..................Freedom Sound
Miles Davis................Entire "Kind of Blue" LP
Dave Brubeck..............Blue a la Rondo Turk
Freddie Hubbard...........Intrepid Fox
Quincy Jones................Killer Joe

[Simon White]

Originally Posted by Keith RS

I'm Exhausted!!!!!!

Issac Hayes...................Cafe Regio's

MMMM NICE !

[Nano]

An obscure favorite of mine it's a funkydisco track called "Hideaway", by the group MYSTIC MERLIN. Circa 1981, great playing, melody and groove.

I can't make a list, it would be too long!