Quincy Jones - You've Got It Bad Girl (1973)

1. Summer In The City (feat. Valerie Simpson)
2. Eyes Of Love
3. Tribute to A.F.: Daydreaming/First Time Ever I Saw Your Face
4. Love Theme From The Getaway
5. You've Got It Bad Girl
6. Superstition
7. Manteca
8. Sanford & Son Theme (The Streetbeater)
9. Chump Change

Sweet funky Q for the 70s -- easily one of the coolest albums ever from Quincy Jones! The album's got a very heavy electric vibe -- one that's kind of a laidback take on the styles that Jones was forging in some of his 70s soundtrack work -- served up with massive work on the keyboards from Dave Grusin and Bob James, the latter of whom brings some of his own CTI vibe strongly into play! The basslines are great too -- often dipping, stepping, and turning wonderfully -- keeping things laidback and mellow, but always making for some sort of a groove, even on the slower tracks too. There's just a bit of vocals on the record -- handled by Valerie Simpson on two tracks, and Quincy on another -- but the main focus here is on the instrumentation, which is completely sublime. Titles include Quincy's great remake of "Summer In The City", an oft-sought sample track -- plus versions of "Superstition", "Daydreaming", and "You've Got It Bad Girl" -- and the great originals "Chump Change", "Love Theme From The Getaway", "Eyes Of Love", and "Sanford & Son Theme".

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Jazz Rhythm Case - Jazz Rhythm (2009)

01. Wait A Minute 05:49
02. Umbrella 05:53
03. Leaving (Always on Time Part II) 04:46
04. Try Again 05:01
05. No Scrubs 04:30
06. I'm Not A Girl, Not Yet A Woman 04:06
07. The Sweet Escape 05:28
08. Dilemma 05:30
09. Crazy in Love 05:09
10. No One 06:13

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Solomon Burke - Like A Fire (2008)

01. Like A Fire
02. We Don't Need It
03. The Fall
04. A Minute To Rest And A Second To Pray
05. Ain't That Something
06. What Makes Me Think I Was Right
07. Understanding
08. You And Me
09. Thank You
10. If I Give My Heart To You

When Solomon Burke sings, you can hear his smiling eyes — he's having a laugh at his detractors. Over the past half-decade, the 68-year-old soul titan defied the odds, re-emerging from commercial oblivion with a string of albums that showcase his genius for ragged-voiced ballads, and for pure blarney. You can hear the latter on Like a Fire's title track, where Burke delivers the most hackneyed rhymes — "burning in my soul" rhymes with "yearning to be whole" — with an endearingly hammy baritone rumble.
Like a Fire pairs the old master with younger guest stars (Keb' Mo', Ben Harper) on songs that emphasize Burke's uptempo side. Producer Steve Jordan gives the music a clattery, funky underpinning, and though the material isn't as strong as 2006's country-soul tour de force Nashville, Burke wrings maximum pathos and humor even from the weakest stuff. The highlight: A wonderfully blustery reading of the cocktail jazz standard "If I Give My Heart to You." It's proof that Burke could spend his sunset years enthroned on a Vegas concert stage.
JODY ROSEN

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Solomon Burke - The Chess Collection (2006)

1. Music To Make Love By (Part 1)
2. Let Me Wrap My Arms Around You
3. Come Rain Or Come Shine
4. You And Your Baby Blues
5. All The Way
6. Thanks I Needed That
7. Everlasting Love
8. Midnight And You
9. Music To Make Love By (Part 2)
10. Burning For Your Love
11. Night And Day
12. Everybody`s Got To Cry Sometime
13. I`m Going Back To My Roots
14. Precious Flower
15. The Do Right Song
16. Life Has Its Ups And Downs
17. Over And Over (Hugging And Loving)
18. I`ll Never Stop Loving You
19. I`m Having On That Late, Late Train
20. Love`s Paradise

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Mariah Parker - Sangria (2009)

1 Waterwheel
2 Sangria
3 Debajo de la Lluvia
4 First Flight
5 Between the Lines
6 Pente
7 Tenth Journey
8 Milo's Moment

When a CD is titled Sangria, one automatically assumes that there is going to
be a strong Spanish influence. Sangria wine, after all, is as
quintessentially Spanish as flamenco, bullfights, paella, the Prado Museum,
Pedro Almodóvar films, and scorching heatwaves in Sevilla. But the Spanish
influence isn't as strong on this early 2009 release as its title indicates.
Regardless, this is an excellent album from pianist Mariah Parker, whose work
is best described as world jazz. Parker brings a wide variety of influences
to Sangria, ranging from Indian and Middle Eastern music to Afro-Cuban salsa
and Brazilian samba. She obviously appreciates the Eastern-influenced
spirituality and mysticism of John Coltrane, Yusef Lateef, Pharoah Sanders,
and Lonnie Liston Smith, but her composing also contains elements of everyone
from Pat Metheny to Chick Corea. And while Spanish flamenco is an influence
on Sangria, it is only one of many influences. Sangria is an ambitious and
challenging album, although it is also relatively accessible. In some cases,
ambitious and challenging can mean abstract and ultra-cerebral, but melodic
Parker originals such as "Between the Lines," "Debajo de la Lluvia," "10th
Journey" and "Waterwheel" are fairly easy to absorb -- even if one isn't a
seasoned jazz listener. Parker, of course, didn't invent the idea of world
jazz; New Orleans pioneers like King Oliver and Jelly Roll Morton were
influenced by world music back in the 1910s and 1920s. But she keeps it
moving forward; Parker takes chances, demonstrating that the fusion of jazz
and world music still has plenty of possibilities after all these years --
and a global perspective serves Parker well throughout the rewarding Sangria.

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Death Valley Surfers - Last Dance Saloon (2008)

1. Folsom Prison Blues 3:36
2. Heart Breaking Days 2:47
3. Crossfire 3:28
4. My Little Sister's Gotta Motorbike 2:57
5. Kiss Baby 2:47
6. Hangover 3:12
7. She's A Knockout 3:39
8. Das Model 3:29
9. Black Velvet 3:52
10. Fetish Party 3:05
11. Buzz Buzz A Diddle It 3:42

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Judith Jones Band - Calling Back Yesterday (2007)

1 Dinner's in the Dog
2 Lake Charles
3 One Good Man
4 Drown In My Own Tears
5 Dead Man's Eye
6 Georgia
7 Drug Store Truck Driving Man
8 Mountain
9 Turtle Blues
10 Calling Yesterday Back
11 Road to Ruin
12 Favourite Place

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Kitty, Daisy And Lewis - Kitty, Daisy And Lewis (2008)

01 Going Up the Country
02 Buggin' Blues
03 Polly Put the Kettle On
04 Honolulu Rock-a Roll-a
05 I Got My Mojo Working
06 Mean Son of a Gun
07 Hillbilly Music
08 Mohair Sam
09 Ooo Wee
10 Swinging Hawaii

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