Greats of Jazz and Blues

Some great tunes of black rock 'n' roll of the early 50's. Some are classics, some less known but worth listening!
1. Charles "Doles" Dickens - We're Gonna Rock This Morning
2. Joe Turner - Shake, Rattle And Roll
3. Clarence "Bon Ton" Garlow - Crawfishin'
4. Cecil Gant - Rock Little Baby
5. "Champion" Jack Dupree - Shim Sham Shimmy
6. Smiley Lewis - Shame, Shame, Shame 

Rockin' That Joint

some blue tunes, enjoy...

tracklist:
01 Monty Sunshine's Jazzband - New Orleans
02 Chris Barber's Jazz Band - Petite Fleur
03 Unknown - I Surrender Dear
04 Paris Blues Soundtrack Orchestra - Mood Indigo
05 Jack Teagarden - The Blues
06 Benny Goodman - Throwin' Stones At The Sun
07 Miff Mole - A Good Man Is Hard To Find
08 Louis Armstrong - Melancholy
09 Brad Gowans - It's Right Here For You
10 Duke Ellington & His Orchestra - Black And Tan Fantasy
11 Jack Teagarden - St. James Infirmary
12 Unknown - Lonesome death
13 Unknown - Black And Blue
14 Unknown - Blues My Naughty Sweety Gave To Me
15 Lou McCarity - When Day Is Done

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selected and connected by @Ekki0815 in November 2017

Blue Dixie

Have a good start into the new year with these old fashioned tunes directly from dixieland...

tracklist:
01 Jenaer Oldtimers - Ach Polnim, Polna
[Dixieland 1970]
02 Unknown - Blues My Naughty Sweetie Gave To Me
[Various - The Best Of Dixieland 1998]
03 Flap! - My Sweet Tatana Wife
[Flap! 2008]
04 Unknown - Bill Baley, Won't You Please Come Home
[Various - The Best Of Dixieland 1998]
05 Unknown - One More Gin
[Various - The Best Of Dixieland 1998]
06 Turk Murphy's Jazz Band - Trombone Rag
[Favorites (1947-1952) 1986]
07 Unknown - Sabby's Feet
[Various - The Best Of Dixieland 1998]
08 Flap! - The Boogieman
[A Great Day For The Race 2012]
09 Keimzeit - Nah, Neh, Nah
[Nachtvorstellung Live 1996]
10 Unknown - Some Of These Days
[Various - The Best Of Dixieland 1998]
11 Flap! - Tetris
[Flap! 2008]
12 Unknown - Just Like My Mother Told Me
[Various - The Best Of Dixieland 1998]
13 Unknown - Willie The Weeper
[Various - The Best Of Dixieland 1998]
14 Flap! - The Unfortunate Tale Of Billy Hunt
[A Great Day For The Race 2012]
15 Unknown - Limehouse Blues
[Various - The Best Of Dixieland 1998]
16 Unknown - Everybody Loves My Baby
[Various - The Best Of Dixieland 1998]
17 John Williams, London Symphony Orchestra - Cantina Band
[Soundtrack - Star Wars: A New Hope 1977]
18 Unknown - You're Nobody's Sweetheart Now
[Various - The Best Of Dixieland 1998]
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selected and connected by @Ekki0815 in January 2019

P.S.: This only represents the tip of the iceberg, so if you like a tune - get the record!!!

It's Rag-Time in Dixieland

the second line marches on...

tracklist:
01 Professor Longhair - Go To The Mardi Gras
[1959]
02 Four Star Brass Band - Mardi Gras In New Orleans
[Get Your Four Star On! 2015]
03 The Dirty Dozen Brass Band - When The Saints Go Marching In
[Twenty Dozen 2012]
04 Funky Butt Brass Band - Do That Thang
[You Can Trust the Funky Butt Brass Band 2011]
05 Rebirth Brass Band - Move Your Body
[Move Your Body 2014]
06 Funky Butt Brass Band - Door Poppin'
[You Can Trust the Funky Butt Brass Band 2011]
07 The Hot 8 Brass Band - Royal Garden Blues
[Vicennial: 20 Years Of The Hot 8 Brass Band 2015]
08 Knorkator - Beating Around The Bush
[Ich Hasse Musik 2003]
09 Funky Butt Brass Band - Fill My Belly
[You Can Trust the Funky Butt Brass Band 2011]
10 New Breed Brass Band feat. 5th Ward Weebie - Watcha Workin' It Fa
[2015]
11 The Dirty Dozen Brass Band - E-Flat Blues
[Twenty Dozen 2012]
12 Juvavum Brass feat. James Morrison - Some More Music
[Brass Spektakel 200?]
13 Funky Butt Brass Band - St. James Infirmary
[You Can Trust the Funky Butt Brass Band 2011]
14 Dawn of the Century Ragtime Orchestra - Raggy Trombone
[Silks And Rags 1972]
15 Bubamara Brass Band - Black Cat White Cat
[Bubamarija 2011]
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selected & connected by @Ekki0815 in March 2019

P.S.: This only represents the tip of the iceberg, so if you like a tune - get the record!!!

Brass'n'Funk

Take Me to the Mardi Brass

Swing the Night Away - late 90's Swing, Jive and Rockabilly - 
and more...

01 Louis Prima - Buona Sera
[Louis Prima - The Best Of Louis Prima 1982]
02 The Brian Setzer Orchestra - Jump Jive 'n' Wail
[The Brian Setzer Orchestra - The Dirty Boogie 1998]
03 Robbie Williams - Puttin' On The Ritz
[Robbie Williams - Swings Both Ways 2013]
04 The Swingvergnügen - Road Rage
[The Swingvergnügen - Road Rage 1999]
05 Dr. Zoot - Bei mir bist du schön
[Various - Swing On The Wild Side 1999]
06 The New Morty Show - White Wedding (Rebel Yell) Medley
[The New Morty Show - Mortyfied! 1998]
07 The Ray Gelato Giants - Josephine Please No Lean On The Bell
[The Ray Gelato Giants - The Men From Uncle 1998]
08 The Brian Setzer Orchestra - Jumpin' East Of Java
[The Brian Setzer Orchestra - Vavoom! 2000]
09 Crescent City Maulers - Five Months, Two Weeks
[Crescent City Maulers - Screamin' 2000]
10 Swing Kids Orchestra, Dick Hyman - Sing Sing Sing (With A Swing)
[James Horner - Swing Kids (Music From The Motion Picture Soundtrack) 1993]
11 The New Morty Show - Buddah's Bounce
[The New Morty Show - Mortyfied! 1998]
12 The Brian Setzer Orchestra - The Dirty Boogie
[The Brian Setzer Orchestra - The Dirty Boogie 1998]
13 The Hoagies - Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy
[The Hoagies & The Welt Swing Orchestra ‎– Rum And Coca-Cola Single 1999]
14 Dem Brooklyn Bums - Boardwalk Boogie
[Dem Brooklyn Bums - Step Up To The Plate 1999]
15 The Vanguard Aces - Way Down Low
[Various - Swing On The Wild Side 1999]
16 The New Morty Show - In The Groove
[The New Morty Show - Mortyfied! 1998]
17 Lee Presson And The Nails - Istanbul (Not Constantinople)
[Lee Presson And The Nails - Jump-Swing From Hell (Live At The Hi-Ball Lounge) 1997]
18 Johnny Favourite Swing Orchestra - Hard 8
[Johnny Favourite Swing Orchestra - Holiday Romance 1998]
19 The Brian Setzer Orchestra - As Long As I'm Singin'
[The Brian Setzer Orchestra - The Dirty Boogie 1998]
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selected & connected by @Ekki0815 in November 2019

P.S.: This only represents the tip of the iceberg, so if you like a tune - get the record!!!

Swing The Night Away

Representing the city of Geneva here is Second Circle affiliate Androo (androo-3) with his "m'enfin?!" mix in the MFM series. Interview (excerpt) down below.

www.musicfrommemory.com

MFM: Hi Androo, thanks for contributing. For the readers who haven't been to Geneva before, could you describe the city a bit in terms of culture?

A: Mmmh, there are many things to say about the city. I feel that my generation came just after a certain “golden age” of the “underground” music culture. Geneva had a lot of squats during the 90s and early 2000s but now the political situation isn’t the same. Today we don’t have many non-normative venues allowing experimentally and who aren’t based on economic profit. For me, there is a certain vision missing from various clubs in the city. It feels sad that filling the room seems more important than exploring and defend other ones. I feel the potential of night culture and dance which is based on the collective energy of a certain youth is channeled into a kind of apolitical and dull consumption. I wish one day, the night may serve to create more spaces for political and experimental moments! But there is something amazing going on in Geneva, it’s the sound system scene. 

MFM: Your music as Androo sounds quite melodic and touches many different styles in an oddball kind of way. Where does all that come from? 

A: I was playing the piano when I was a child but I wasn’t working really hard (what’s work when you play?), I always preferred composing little things. There was also music in church. Later, I’ve had some reggae bands. I have always been a bit romantic with music. But the real explosion was the discovery of the sound systems culture. Every two months there was the Dubquake organised by OBF in Geneva (it’s still going strong!). Their style was informed by new wave melodies and futuristic dub sound, their sound and musical explorations created something really physical, experience! Around the same time I discovered what the music studio can be. You mix a new song and the same night you play it out, without a fuss, dubplate style. Later I opened up to other stuff and soon tried to bring together irreconcilable things. For more than a year now, I dived deep into jazz piano and contemporary music. Every day I do exercises, scales, etc, some of them become musical compositions. 

MFM: Could you take us on a tour through your studio? What's the vibe like, what's in there?

A: There is a mixing console with external effects, everything is done live. This is how I learnt it from the dub. I don’t do much arrangement on the computer, the track is being built at the console: you remove the bass now and then put a delay on the piano, everything is recorded in one take. It’s about the hands. There are some mistakes and you let them be, that is what makes music alive. There are some synths and drum machines, boxes of matches, wood pieces. I am just trying things out, it’s kind of a space for experimentation. It’s about researching, letting problems appear, chance is also important. Not everything is smoothen out, it’s about acceptation. You throw stuff on the floor, you accept them and then start from there.

MFM: Are you keeping it strictly to writing and recording music?

A: For now I don’t do electronic live acts. But I do piano lives. I keep them raw and experimental, so in a way it’s also influenced by the dub. I have been DJing since quite some time now. I approach mixing a bit like editing in cinema, I try to do cuts, rapprochements and loose associations. DJing is also somehow about friendship, the fact of doing, of organising parties together. Djing is great but feels a bit repetitive most of the time so I try to propose other things with DJ May and other. We are both drawn to cinema and theatre. So we started to read texts in the middle of a set, adding small dance pieces or even mixing silence. For us it’s about proposing simple and non extraordinary little experiences.

Rockin' That Joint

Dj Mitch

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