What it is, is funky! When the acid jazz scene ruled the world it looked for its inspiration in places that other jazz fans tended to overlook. The soul jazz of the late 60s and early 70s. The music of lounge bars and small clubs that fuelled the night life of black America. This compilation brings together ten examples of the sound and is a high quality listen from start to finish.
In the post-bebop world jazz was often condemned as an intellectual music aimed at the head not the feet, but a strain of the music was always for dancing, coming straight from the legacy of the big bands, and always tipping its head to what was going on in the R&B charts. The tracks included here all stay true to that legacy.
SIDE ONE
1.SIX MILLION DOLLAR MAN THEME –Richard "Groove" Holmes
2.SUPER STRUT - Cookin' Bag
3.WORK SONG - The Pazant Brothers
4.PEACE & LOVE - Lonnie Liston Smith & The Cosmic Echoes
5.SKULL SESSION - Oliver Nelson
SIDE TWO
1.MAMA SOUL - Harold Alexander
2.HEAD START - Bob Thiele Emergency
3.THEME FROM THE MEN - Joe Bataan
4.PUT IT WHERE YOU WANT IT - Pretty Purdie
5.DRIFTING - Chucky Thurmon & Pharris Wheel