Jimmy McGriff - Electric Funk

Year : 1969
Label : Blue Note
Genre : Jazz
Style : Soul Jazz, Funk/Soul

The grooviest album of one organ master recorded in association with Horace Ott, featuring Stanley Turrentine, Blue Mitchell and studio drummer Bernard Purdie. One of the most Jazz album sampled which include huge grooves Back on The Track and cover pop Spinning Wheel. Tracks 1 to 3, 7 & 9 composed by Horace Ott, 4 to 6 by Jimmy McGriff. Produced by Sonny Lester, all tracks arranged by Horace Ott.

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Stanley Turrentine_tenor saxophone

01. Back On The Track
02. Chris Cross
03. Miss Poopie
04. The Bird Wave
05. Spear For Moondog, Part 1
06. Spear For Moondog, Part 2
07. Tight Times
08. Spinning Wheel (D.C. Thomas)
09. Funky Junk

Takeo Yamashita - Lupin The 3rd (Original BGM Collection)

Year : 1980
Label : Nippon Columbia
Genre : Jazz, Stage & Screen
Style : Jazz Funk,

The original score of the first Lupin The 3rd TV serie broadcast from 1971 to 1972, composed by pianist Takeo Yamashita and revisited by himself. Based on the original master tapes, the album includes new recordings featuring flutist Minoru Muraoka and singer Charlie Kosei, frontman of japanese short-lived psychedelic rock band "The Helpful Soul". Titles include the classic opening and ending themes starring Charlie Kosei, killer grooves "Afro Rock Theme", "Disco Plays Lupin", "Rock Theme No.1", scat songs "Afro 'Lupin '68'", "Nice Guy Lupin-Two Beat", "Scat Theme" and brazilian tunes "Samba Crazy", "Medium/Slow Samba". All tracks composed by Takeo Yamashita.

MUSICIANS : Charlie Kosei - vocal - Takeo Yamashita - keyboards - Minoru Muraoka - shakuhachi - Susumu Hashimoto & Shigeki Ikeno - synthesizer, electric piano - Yuji Karaki & Youichi Tamura - guitar - Ken Sato - bass - Taketoshi Igarashi - drums - Yoshiro Hiroshi - vocal, scat

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Kimiko Kasai - Butterfly

Year : 1979
Label : CBS
Genre : Jazz
Style : Jazz Funk

Japanese jazz songstress Kimiko Kasai meets Herbie Hancock (keyboards, vocoder) in joint project featuring members from the first incarnation of The Headhunters. The band is formed by bassist Paul Jackson, drummer Alphonse Mouzon, percussionist Bill Summers, saxophonist Benny Maupin and Webster Lewis in addition on keyboards. "Butterfly" consists of six compositions by Herbie Hancock, including two songs from his "Sunlight" album released previously (I Thought It Was You, Sunlight), "Tell Me A Bedtime Story" from "Fat Albert Rotunda" (1969), his jazz standard "Maiden Voyage" and the cover song "As" composed by Stevie Wonder. All tracks produced, mixed and recorded by David Robinson & Herbie Hancock at CBS studio in Tokyo.

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Wax Tailor - Tales Of The Forgotten Melodies

Year : 2005
Label : Lab'oratoire/Under Cover
Genre : Electronic, Hip Hop
Style : Trip-Hop, Downtempo, Jazzy Hip-Hop

Debut album by French independant Hip-Hop producer and cinema soundtrack lover J.C. Le Saoût released on his own label "Lab'oratoire". "Tales Of The Forgotten Melodies" mixes Downtempo and Trip-Hop including jazz & cinematographic samples. It features special guests, cello player Marina Quaisse on "Hypnosis Theme" & "Behind The Disguise", the american Hip-Hop band "The Others" on "Where My Heart's At" & "Walk The Line", and songstress Charlotte Savary on "Our Dance". Voices samples on "Hypnosis Theme" were extracted from "A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy" and "Alice" movies directed by Woody Allen. All cuts & beats by Wax Tailor.