One of my favorite track from great Curtis Mayfield. I like your version with a different rythm and the jazz solos ! Nice !

One of those tracks you wish were 5 times longer

Original version of this track appears on their 1983 album 
"The Music Band - Jazz" 

Enjoy

War - Koronos (Is It For Real) (Ole Smokey's Inst Chant)

original live Jazz Funk Acid Jazz Tape from 1991 Cap Creus club

Ltj Jazz Funk Tape - Cap Creus 1991

(226). BoM - Best Music For Dating In A Ghost Town 5

(Mix) 226. BoM - Best Music For Dating In A Ghost Town 5 (Jazz, Soul, Library, Exotic)

'Billy and Bob Thiele Jr have been working together for some time, writing songs for amongst others Ray Charles, Joe Cocker and Axwell from the Swedish House Mafia.

During 2020 - lockdown and the protests around George Floyd and on behalf of BLM - the pair started working on an album of politically relevant covers from soul music’s past.

It was something that should have just been a diversion but the results were stunning and an album’s worth of material was recorded featuring amongst others Jeff Parker, Joel Ross, Theo Croker, Pino Paladino, James Gadson and Linda May Oh.

Bob and I had been working on the Flying Dutchman catalogue - Bob working with his father’s legacy for the first time - and he felt that this record could sit proudly and appropriately alongside that catalogue and that it should be the first new release on Flying Dutchman since 1976. Myself and Ed offered to release it on Flying Dutchman via Acid Jazz, a collaboration between two classic labels.

The first fruits were this stunning version of Curtis Mayfield’s ‘We The People Who Are Darker Than Blue’, where Billy is accompanied by The Larry Golding Trio and Blue Note Records recording artist and very special saxophone talent Immanual Wilkins.' 

- Dean Rudland, August 2022

Billy Valentine - 'We The People Who Are Darker Than Blue' (45 Version)

(237). BoM - Dusty Japanese Grooves Mix

(Mix) 237. BoM - Dusty Japanese Grooves Mix (70`s, 80`s, Funk, Disco, Jazz)

as a beat producer he is known to many under the synonym MIDAN. his latest album "botanicals" was released recently. as a dj, the cologne native is known under the name NADIM. for the mojo club he has exclusively put together a driving disco set.

https://www.instagram.com/nadimbrah

uncompromising turntables 

mojo in the mix feat. NADIM

New mixtape series with dusty grooves strictly from vinyl. Listen to the first episode with a bag full of rough, moody & dirty Rhythm 'n' Blues 45's. Dig this!

Listen to Vol. 2: https://soundcloud.com/soulbrigada/soulbrigada-pres-dusty-wax-vol-2

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SoulBrigada pres. Dusty Wax Vol. 1

mojo essentials - samstags ab 23 uhr - mojo club, hamburg, reeperbahn1:  jazz is looking good on the dancefloor. und immer mehr - aus wurzeln ist ein beachtlicher baum gewachsen. essentiell, nicht altbewährt. es bleibt kompromisslos und geht zurück in die zukunft - mit der gehörigen portion soul.

mojo essentials mixtape 022 by MASTER QUEST 

mojo essentials mixtape 022 by MASTER QUEST

A DJ Eldon -Rare Grooves and Nu Jazz mix for the Lounge

Dj Eldon -  Jazz - Nu Jazz Mix

After a long break it's time for a new edition of the 'Afreaka' mixtape-series! With the fourth volume we celebrate the start of the new vinyl only record label called 'Matasuna Records'.
On the debut release 'Afreaka' (MSR001) you'll hear four stunning reworks from Voodoocuts (Berlin) and SoulBrigada (Zurich). Afrofunk & -disco at it's best! More info: https://soundcloud.com/matasunarecords

Listen & dl the previous Afreaka mixtapes:

• Vol. 1: https://hearthis.at/soulbrigada/soulbrigada-pres-afreaka
• Vol. 2: https://hearthis.at/soulbrigada/soulbrigada-pres-afreaka-vol-2
• Vol. 3: https://hearthis.at/soulbrigada/soulbrigada-pres-afreaka-vol-3

Matasuna Records

SoulBrigada pres. Afreaka Vol. 4

ReJazz “Quiet Nights” (Nicola Conte “Out Of The Cool” Version)
Isabelle Antena “Omerta Bossa” (Nicola Conte Version)
Marco Di Marco “Take Off” (Nicola Conte Remix)
Nicola Conte presents Rosalia De Souza “Maria Moita”
Nicola Conte “Bossa Per Due”
Nicola Conte “Kind Of Sunshine”
Nicola Conte meets Aldeano Romero “Tema De La Onda”
Gabin “Into My Soul” (Nicola Conte Jazz Combo Version)
Truby Trio “High Jazz” (Nicola Conte Remix)
Nicola Conte “Like Leaves In The Wind”

Nicola Conte Bossa Session

www.acidjazz.co.uk

Formed back in the heady days of 1987 at the start of the ‘acieed’ explosion, Acid Jazz was the first of the groundbreaking new indie labels and paved the way for the likes of Mo Wax, Wall Of Sound and Talkin' Loud…

Initially a simple bedroom operation established by Eddie Piller and Gilles Peterson, within three months of the first 45 release (Galliano’s Frederic Lies Still), the label had grown rapidly, acquired premises in London’s east end and laid out a unique manifesto of alternative club sounds – jazz, street-soul, funk, latin, reggae and jazz poetry all put in an early appearance. Galliano, Chris Bangs, The Night Trains, The Last Poets, A Man Called Adam and Snowboy & The Latin Section were amongst the first wave of label signings and they all appeared live at groundbreaking jazz themed nights at London clubs like the WAG in Soho and Camden’s legendary Dingwalls.





By ’89, Peterson had left the label to establish his own Talking Loud imprint and Piller soon moved the operation to Denmark Street, London’s original Tin Pan Alley, into the former EMI music office. The next wave of signings included D Influence, Jamiroquai and The Brand New Heavies. Chart success quickly followed as the label spread its numerous tentacles around the world. The sound of the label became the name of choice for the scene that had established in its wake and by the early ’90s, Acid Jazz was booming out of a succession of speakers from Sweden to Singapore, Hamburg to Hobart, Shibuya to Sheffield and everywhere in between. International tours followed as the label expanded through the 90′s, gradually increasing their musical influences to include daisy-age hip hop, garage psyche and trip hop.





By the mid-90′s Acid Jazz had revived the careers of legends like Terry Callier, Brian Auger and Gregory Isaacs, established three subsidiaries (Focus, All Seeing Eye and Roots to cater for progressive indie, drum and bass and roots and culture respectively) and signed yet another wave of successful independent artists which included the likes of Corduroy, Mother Earth, The Humble Souls, Goldbug and a dozen more.





In 1994, the label took the plunge and opened the first ‘non-house’ based night club in London. Based on the site of the Bass Clef, a down-at-heel and eventually semi-derelict jazz club in Hoxton – perched precariously amidst the second world war bomb sites, derelict buildings and culture-free zone, the club was credited with paving the way for the whole Hoxton/Shoreditch explosion of the late nineties. Indeed, the club was rarely less than full seven nights a week hosting events from the likes of Goldie’s Metalheads, Talvin Singh, Coldcut, Ab-ashanti, Athletico and the label’s own Magic Bus. The Blue Note closed its doors at the end of the decade and Acid Jazz went back to what they do best: releasing records.

Jumping forward to 2014 and we find the label firmly ensconced in their office at the top of Brick Lane and after celebrating their 25th Anniversary the label is as vibrant and vital as ever. The current roster includes the critically acclaimed, prog folk fusions of Matt Berry, new indie hopefuls Dexters, the soul meet the Streets stylings of New Street Adventure and ex Bluetones lead singer Mark Morriss, whilst the highly acclaimed Rare Mod series has discovered and released previously unknown works by everyone from The Riot Squad featuring David Bowie to the Small Faces Steve Marriott.

In short after over a quarter of a century Acid Jazz remains one of the UK’s most important independent labels.


Billy Valentine - 'We The People Who Are Darker Than Blue' (45 Version)

Acid Jazz Records

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