We celebrate the 85th birthday of the great Miles Davis with some choice cuts.  Plus, music from David Durrah with Calvin Keys, Sadao Watanabe and more from the new Booker T. Jones & Azymuth Lps.

SOUL JUNCTION

WEDNESDAYS, 8PM-10PM

Cookin'. Workin'. Relaxin'. Steamin'.

May 25, 2011

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Playlist (Song/Artist/Album/Label):

"Crazy"  Booker T. Jones  The Road From Memphis  (Anti)

"Splash"  Miles Davis  Circle In The Round  (Columbia)

"Kijiji"  Sadao Watanabe  Sadao Watanabe  (CBS/Sony)

"Down In Black Bottom"  Cannonball Adderley Quintet  The Price You Got To Pay To Free  (Capitol)

"D Train"  Neal Creque  Contrast!  (Cobblestone)

"Aurora"  Azymuth  Aurora  (Far Out)

"500 Miles High"  Azymuth  Outubro  (Milestone)

"Back Seat Betty"  Miles Davis  We Want Miles  (CBS)

"Angelic Streams"  David Durrah featuring Calvin Keys  Angelic Streams  (QPSM)

"Bean Pie"  Sonny Phillips  Black Magic!  (Prestige)

"Don't Knock My Love"  Dennis Coffey featuring Fanny Franklin  Dennis Coffey  (Strut)

"Hard Groove"  Shamaizadeh  Persian Funk  (Secret Stash)

"Bootie Cooler"  Shuggie Otis  Here Comes Shuggie Otis  (Epic)

"Wili"  Miles Davis  Dark Magus  (Columbia)

"Just Test"  Byard Lancaster  Funny Funky Rib Crib  (Kindred Spirits)

"Judgement"  Andy Bey  Experience & Judgement  (Atlantic)

"Tweed Suit"  Natural Yogurt Band  Tuck In With...  (Now Again)

"In A Silent Way/Shhh/Peaceful/It's About That Time"  Miles Davis  Panthalassa (Columbia) ***Reconstruction & mix translation by Bill Laswell

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Tonight on Soul Junction:

Jamison Maley, host of The Needle's Eye on WPEB, joins us in the studio.  The man has deep, deep crates. 

Plus, a new album from original Funk Brother and guitar legend Dennis Coffey...! 

SOUL JUNCTION

WEDNESDAYS, 8pm-10pm.

May 4, 2011

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Playlist (Song/Artist/Album/Label):

“Chippin’”  Melvin Van Peebles  As Serious As a Heart Attack   (A & M)

“Saturday Night Special”  Lyman Woodard Organization  Saturday Night Special  (Strata East/Wax Poetics)

“Hihache”  Lafeyette Afro Rock  12 inch  (AlphaOmega)

“South Carolina”  Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson  From South Africa To South Carolina  (Arista)

“Let Me Down Easy”  Inez Fox  At Memphis  (Volt)

“Get It On”  Ebony Rhythm Funk Campaign  Reach For It  (Uni)

“Go On With Your Bad Self”  Consumer Rapport  7 inch  (Wing and a Prayer)

“Glue Fingers (part 2)”  Marcus Belgrave  Gemini  (Gem Eye/Universal Sound)

“You Owe It To Yourself”  J.J. Barnes   Born Again  (Perception)

“Seresta”  Michal Urbaniak Constellation  Super Constellation  (CBS)

“Miss Millie”  Dennis Coffey featuring Kings Go Forth  Dennis Coffey  (Strut)

“Peachtree Street”  Spirit of Atlanta  Burning of Atlanta  (Buddah)

“Heaven”  Matthew Larkin Cassell  The Complete Works  (Stonesthrow)

“Brown Rice”  Don Cherry  Brown Rice  (A & M)

“Bail Out”  D.J. Rogers  D.J. Rogers  (Shelter)

“Dust Cracks, Bugs and Roaches”  The Purpose  The Purpose of the Purpose Is the Blues  (ABC)

“Bend Your Head Low”  Geoffrey Stoner  Watch Out!  (Ovation)

“Flowers”  Dudley Perkins   7 inch  (Stonesthrow)

“Trouble Man”  Marvin Gaye  7 inch  (Tamla)

“Smilin’ Billy Suite (part 2)  The Heath Brothers  Marchin’ On!  (Strata East)

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Stay with GtownRadio.com after the debate for an hour of Soul Junction!

Spotlight tonight on the new issue of Wax Poetics, featuring music from George Benson, Billy Cobham, George Duke, Norman Connors, Lenny White, Weldon Irvine & more.  

SOUL JUNCTION

WEDNESDAYS, 8PM-10PM.

I'm paying taxes...what am I buying?  --Fred Wesley

Playlist (Song/Artist/Title/Label):

“Things Could Be Better”  Ernie & The Top Notes  7 inch  (Stonesthrow)

“Footin’ It”  George Benson   Shape Of Things To Come   (A & M)

 “In The Back, In The Corner, In The Dark”  Harold Land  Damisi  (Mainstream)

 “Mr. Clean”  Weldon Irvine  Liberated Brother  (Nodlew Music)

 “Bye Bye Blackbird”  Rahsaan Roland Kirk  The Case of the 3 Sided Dream In Audio Color  (Atlantic)

 “Carlos II”  Norman Connors   Love From The Sun  (Buddah)

 “Space Circus (parts 1 & 2)  Return To Forever  Hymn of the Seventh Galaxy  (Polydor)

 “Snoopy’s Search/Red Baron”  Billy Cobham  Spectrum  (Columbia)

 “Dukey Stick”  George Duke  7 inch  (Epic)

Tonight on Soul Junction:

A classic Harold Vick Blue Note session, pristinely reissued on the Parisian Heavenly Sweetness label!  Plus, music from The Dave Pike Set, more from the new Natural Yogurt Band & Vesa-Matti Loiri releases and gospel funk from T.L. Barrett & The Youth For Christ Choir.

SOUL JUNCTION

Wednesday, 8pm-10pm.

Givin' up food for funk.

April 20, 2011

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Playlist (Song/Artist/Album/Label):

"Mumbles"  Oscar Peterson Trio + Clark Terry  Oscar Peterson + One  (Mercury)

"Go Down Moses"   Grant Green  Feelin' The Spirit  (Blue Note)

"Owa Tagu Siam"  Jiggs Whigham   Hope  (Pausa)

"Diddy Wa Diddy"  Dizzy Gillespie  Portrait of Jenny  (Perception)

"There's Some Light Ahead"  John Klemmer  Waterfalls  (Impulse)

"Sunshine Superman"  Jerry Hahn  Moses  (Fantasy)

"4 + 20 (session 1A)"  Vasa-Matti Loiri  4 + 20  (Porter)

"We Gettin' Down"  Soul Village  7 inch  (Jazz Makossa)

"Tress-Cun-Deo-La"  Joe Henderson  Multiple  (Milestone)

"Pot Head"  Natural Yogurt Band  Tuck In With....  (NowAgain)

"Space Echo"  Natural Yogurt Band  Away With Melancholy  (NowAgain)

"Discern/Define"  Poets of Rhythm  Discern/Define  (Quannum)

"No Registration"  Janne Schaffer  Chinese  (Vertigo)

"Send Me The Yellow Guys" Dave Pike Set  Infra-Red  (MPS)

"Dr. Watts Hymn & The Disciples Prayer"  T.L. Barrett & The Youth For Christ Choir Like A Ship...Without A Sail  (Light in the Attic)

"Our Miss Brooks"  Harold Vick  Steppin' Out  (Blue Note/Heavenly Sweetness)

"Jesus Christ Superstar Medley"  Overton Berry Ensemble  T.O.B.E.  (Light in the Attic)

"Sweet Honey Bee"  The Hi-Fly Orchestra  7 inch  (Tramp)

"I Gotcha Opin"   Black Moon  12 inch  (Wreck)

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Wednesday night on Soul Junction:

The new Natural Yogurt Band double 10 inch has finally arrived!  Plus, mad Finnish jazz from Vesa-Matti Loiri, electric blues from Howlin' Wolf, & spiritual grooves from Terumasa Hino.

SOUL JUNCTION

Wednesdays, 8pm-10pm.

WEDNESDAYS IS HOT ON GTOWNRADIO.  Just sayin'.

April 13, 2011

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Playlist (Song/Artist/Album/Label):

"Swing Down Chariot"  Billy Preston  I Wrote A Simple Song  (A&M)

"Miss Priss"  Ken McIntyre  Introducing The Vibrations  (Inner City)

"Out On The Coast"  Larry Willis  Inner Crisis  (Groove Merchant)

"Uncle Funky"  Bobby Forrester  Organist  (Dobre)

"Tell Me"  Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings  7 inch  (Daptone)

"Tenor Man"  The Greyboy Allstars  West Coast Boogaloo  (Greyboy)

"Black & Brown Boogie"  Jose Mangual  Buyu  (Turnstyle)

"Gimme Shelter"  Cal Tjader  Agua Dulce  (Fantasy)

"Comin' Home Baby"  Vesa Matti Loiri  4 + 20  (Porter)

"I Like Your Stuff"  The Sidewinders  Flatfoot Hustlin'  (Jazzman)

"Tweed Suit"  Natural Yogurt Band  Tuck In With...  (NowAgain)

"Nervous"  The New Mastersounds  7 inch  (KayDee)

"Smokestack Lightening"  Howlin' Wolf  The Howlin' Wolf Album  (Cadet Concept)

"Big Nick"  The Tony Williams Lifetime  Turn It Over  (Polydor)

"Punk Funk"  McNeil & Niles   Thrust  (Chocolate Industries)

"Pretty Brown Skin"  Roy Ayers  Ubiquity  (Polydor)

"Be & Know"  Terumasa Hino  Fuji  (Catalyst)

"You're Goin' Miss Your Candyman"  Terry Callier  What Color Is Love  (Cadet)

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Stop by Soul Junction as we pay tribute to the great Melvin Sparks.  Plus, music from Volker Kriegel, Finnish funkiness and fusion from the Soul Investigators and Eero Koivistoinen , and electric blues from Muddy Waters.

Soul Junction

Wednesdays, 8pm-10pm.

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Playlist (Song/Artist/Album/Label)

"I Got To Have You"  Melvin Sparks  '75  (Westbound)***

"Moanin'"  Bobby Timmons  This Here Is Bobby Timmons  (Riverside)

"Incognito"  Eastern Rebellion   Eastern Rebellion III  (Timeless)

"Nica's Dream"  Sonny Greenwich   Evol-ution, Love's Reverse  (PM)

"Dynasty"  Stan Getz  Dynasty  (Verve)

"Eglise"  Overton Berry Ensemble  T.O.B.E.  (Light in the Attic)

"Between The Seasons"  Volker Kriegel   Lift!  (MPS)

"3rd Version"  Eero Koivistoinen  3rd Version  (Porter)

"Midnight BBQ"  The Soul Investigators  Home Cooking  (Timmion)

"Keep Reachin' Up"  Nicole Willis & The Soul Investigators  If This Ain't Love  (Mit-Wit)

"Charlie Brown"  Melvin Sparks  Sparks!  (Prestige)***

"People Sure Act Funny"  Lonnie Smith  Turning Point  (Blue Note)***

"Space Station"  John Patton  Soul Connection  (Nilva)***

"Hicky-Burr"  Caesar Frazier  Hail Caesar!  (Eastbound)***

"Black Talk"  Charles Earland  Black Talk!  (Prestige)***

"Donkey Walk"  Lou Donaldson  Everything I Play Is Funky  (Blue Note)***

"Super Bad"  Idris Muhammad  Black Rhythm Revolution  (Prestige)***

"Get Up With The Get Down"  Melvin Sparks  '75  (Westbound)***

***featuring Melvin Sparks

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Dr. Ranztron is on call this week, but tune in next week as we celebrate the life of funky guitarist Melvin Sparks , who passed away yesterday.  See you next Wednesday, 8pm-10pm for the next episode of Soul Junction !

On the next episode of Soul Junction:

More music from the Light in the Attic Overton Berry reissue.   Plus, music from Hal Galper, Roland Kirk, Mayer Hawthorne, Buddy Miles & a set of funky Beatles covers.  We'll also celebrate the lives of Joe Morello & Nate Dogg (together at last!).  Tonight...8pm-10pm.

March 16, 2011

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Playlist (Song/Artist/Album/Label):

"The Letter"  Al Green  Green Is Blues  (Hi)

"Mood Indigo"  Roland Kirk  Kirk In Copenhagen  (Trip)

"Summertime"  George Benson Quartet  It's Uptown  (Columbia)

"Far More Drums"  Dave Brubeck  Time Further Out  (Columbia)

"All Blues"  Jeremy Taylor  Reggae Interpretation Of Kind Of Blue  (Secret Stash)

"(Funky) Sunny"  Charlie Brown  Why Is Everybody Always Pickin' On Me?  (Contact)

"Blues Farm"  Ron Carter  Blues Farm  (CTI)

"Brother"  Emilio Santiago  Emilio Santiago  (Whatmusic)

"Jeremiah Pucket"  Eddie Fisher & The Next One Hundred Years   Eddie Fisher & The Next One Hundred Years  (Cadet)

"La Rue"  Cortex  Tropeau Bleu  (Underdog)

"Heartbreak Road"  Bill Withers  +'Justments  (Sussex)

"Something"  Charles Kynard  Wa-Tu-Wa-Zui  (Prestige)

"Hey Jude"  Overton Berry Trio  At Seattle's Doubletree Inn  (Light In The Attic)

"Revolution"  Soulive  Rubber Soulive  (Royal Family)

"Just Ain't Gonna Work Out"  Mayer Hawthorne  A Strange Arrangement  (Stonesthrow)

"Figure Eight"  Hal Galper  The Guerrilla Band  (Mainstream)

"Universal Mother"  Don Cherry  Hear & Now  (Atlantic)

"Spring Water"  Alphonse Mouzon  The Essence of Mystery  (Blue Note)

"Down By the River"  Buddy Miles  Them Changes  (Mercury)

"Drank Anthem"  Nate Dogg  St. Ides Malt Liquor DJ Drank Commercials Vol. 1  (Homies)

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