Acid Jazz Meets Free Soul by Toru Hashimoto and Hiroshi Yamashita ... From robingolding.com//index.php/b All in the annuls of Acid Jazz, that set of folklore which has still to be remastered before we defaulted to Trip Hop, Jungle, Coffee Table Breaks and Beep, bbbeep bbop bop, rave, little fluffy clouds and then House and now you never leave the house without house. AJFS, Acid Jazz Meets Free Soul, a double cd featuring the best of the hits, not the most chart topping hits but a nice selection of suave funk, lush chorused vocals and the then new jazz cool, it's a perfect representation of all...

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Melodesiac - What They Say From hypem.com/ RSL is a Boston Music Weblog Read the World over - Anecdotes, Insight and Musing from a Music Industry Outsider. Live This Way," the band's ode to the mistakes people make, is rife with middle eastern sounds, while the aptly titled " Latin One " revolves around an Afro-Cuban montuno, with eL moving in and out of Spanish over the beat.

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A chip off the old rock From Yorkshire Evening Post We played in Leeds pubs like The Yorkshire Hussar and Star & Garter, and even did a tour of American bases in France. We played the old Cavern in Liverpool and did a record, called Heart on My Sleeve, with Decca but they never released it. A remix of another song, It Could Happen To You, by the band's producer Clyde Ward who has worked with Leeds lass Corinne Bailey Rae, then became a hit on the Music Week commercial club chart getting to Number seven. Chichino play their next gig in aid of...

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Deep Blue Organ Trio From www.JazzWax.com/ Nearly all over-compensate on the instrument to show that they are the rightful heirs to Charles Earland, the father of the modern organ. Where Wild Bill Davis had given the organ a big-band feel in the 1940s and Jimmy Smith brought it down to size in the 1950s, soulful players like Shirley Scott, Jimmy McGriff, Brother Jack McDuff and Richard "Groove" Holmes added a funkier, percussive sound in the early 1960s. But by late in the decade, the jazz organ was on the ropes. That's why it's so...

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Tight Money From mog.com/Old_School_C Reuben Wilson was one of many soul-jazz organists to emerge in the late '60s, but he was one of only a handful of new organists from that era to be signed to Blue Note. In December 1966, Wilson relocated to New York, where he formed the soul-jazz trio the Wildare Express with drummer Tommy Derrick. On Broadway, Wilson's first album for Blue Note, was a quartet session featuring his old bandmate Derrick and was recorded in October of 1968. Wilson's contract with Blue Note expired after Set Us...

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