jazzy diggin by Noray, featured on the very cool, downtempo album 1974-2010 A Tribute (In Memory of Nujabes), released on www.onryourecords.fr. A very good example of mixing with style, including elements of groove and jazz.
I would have love to share another fantastic tune called colors by Ash Day, featured on the same vinyl but last I looked, it is not available on Youtube (and no, for the life of me I won’t go looking for it on Dailymotion). So you have to go to your local vinyl store and catch the good vibes.
Les Mc Cann playing Love for Sale from the 1969 album Much Les. Got it on LP in near mint condition from the awesome Betino’s Record Shop in downtown Paris.
A few days ago, I’ve received a wonderful record from The Numero Group, one of my favorite labels. It’s called Light: On The South Side and it features a 2 LP gatefold vinyl and a 132 page hard back book.
The 2 LPs are a compilation of 17 tracks of the kind of funky Chicago blues that was played in Chicago’s South Side clubs in 1975-77 and the hard back book features some incredible pictures taken by Michael L. Abramson, a white guy in that massively black neighborhood. The pictures show the crowd, not the artists, that haunted those joints back in the day. There were some incredible cats and ladies in those places. The music is captured in a ‘raw’ fashion. You could hear a hiss now and then, some background noise and other details that makes you travel back in time without living the comfort of your sofa.
While most of the selection is very good, a few tracks stand out such as Andrew Brown’s You Made Me Suffer:
Such is the power of music and pictures. Together they can create the necessary conditions to make history real and restitute a long-gone atmosphere.
