by SomehowJazz | Nov 14, 2016 | Favorite Albums |
Stevie Wonder – Songs In The Key Of Life (Tamla Motown / 1976) Stevie Wonder’s legendary “Songs In The Key Of Life”… What can you write about one of the greatest recordings of the 20th century? That it’s a double album of which...
by SomehowJazz | Oct 11, 2016 | Contemporary Jazz, Favorite Albums, Jazz Funk, Jazz Fusion |
Herbie Hancock – Man-Child (Columbia / 1975) One of the best jazz funk, fusion records of all times, “Man-Child” is the third album of the powerful Hancock trilogy that started with “Head Hunters” in 1973. With the addition of a horn...
by SomehowJazz | Sep 9, 2016 | Contemporary Jazz, Favorite Albums |
Prelude ( CTI / 1972 ) With this 1972 album, Deodato separates himself from his Brazilian background and sets his trademark artistic arrangement style, combining jazz and groove with symphonic orchestration. ” Prelude ” is the album that made him an...
by SomehowJazz | Aug 15, 2016 | Favorite Albums, Jazz Funk, Jazz Fusion |
Alphonso Johnson – Moonshadows ( Epic / 1976 ) “Moonshadows” This studio album released in 1976, is an important building stone of progressive funk music. Full of fresh and innovative ideas, it truly reflects the artistic spirit of the seventies. We...
by SomehowJazz | Jul 15, 2016 | Favorite Albums, Jazz Fusion |
Stanley Clarke – Stanley Clarke (Nemperor / 1974) A musical experiment blending jazz with rock elements, has become a showcase of instrumental mastery that set the standards of fusion, before the word was ever used as a musical term. Filled with extensive and...
by SomehowJazz | Jun 15, 2016 | Favorite Albums, Soul Jazz |
The Crusaders – Crusaders 1 ( Blue Thumb / 1972 ) This album was already a soul jazz treasure when it came out in 1972. A rare recording of which all pieces are favorites, and we rotate almost all of them in Somehowjazz. It’s a kind of debut album after...
by SomehowJazz | May 15, 2016 | Favorite Albums, Jazz Funk, Jazz Fusion |
Eddie Henderson – Sunburst ( Blue Note / 1975 ) A sunburst of fusion tightly played by geniuses at the peak of their career, featuring a harder, spacier music with free, emotional soloing based on intelligent structures. Eddie Henderson, Bennie Maupin and Julian...
by SomehowJazz | Apr 15, 2016 | Contemporary Jazz, Favorite Albums, Jazz Funk, Jazz Fusion |
Jaco Pastorius – Jaco Pastorius ( Epic/Legacy / 1976 ) The self-titled first solo album of Jaco Pastorius was produced by Bobby Colomby, who wanted to introduce a young talent. With the collaboration of a lineup of extraordinary musicians and new compositions,...
by SomehowJazz | Mar 15, 2016 | Favorite Albums, Jazz Funk |
George Duke – Feel ( Basf MPS / 1974 ) This is the beginning of George Duke’s unique style, the album in which he started “experimenting” as he calls it himself, with synthesizer orchestration. While playing with the huge capacity of electronic...
by SomehowJazz | Feb 15, 2016 | Contemporary Jazz, Favorite Albums |
New Faces ( GRP / 1985 ) Young musicians by his side, a fresh take on some old, well known originals, two new groovy pieces, and Dizzy Gillespie re-emerges from the old ‘bop legend’ category, capturing a jazz funk loving younger generation. Gillespie adds...
