The song is from Checkmates band, right after they got reunified in 1974. LP entitled F/S/O (Rustic, 1974).

Checkmates, Ltd. were an American R&B group from Fort Wayne, Indiana. The group, discovered by Nancy Wilson, included both black and white members; their one major hit was 1969's "Black Pearl", produced by Phil Spector.

Members
Sonny Charles - lead vocals - (born Charles Hemphill, 4 September 1940, Fort Wayne, Indiana)
Bobby Stevens - vocals
Harvey Trees - guitar
Bill Van Buskirk - bass
Marvin "Sweet Louie" Smith - drums, vocals

The Checkmates band - I Must Be Dreaming

Track from B. Baker Chocolate Co. on the Lester Radio Corporation label in 1979.

This album is a highlight in the history of the Lester Radio Corporation label. Main arranger Brad Baker conceived this project in 1979 featuring all the main artists of the label, shining as solo performers are Jimmy Ponder on guitar, Lonnie Smith and Jimmy McGriff on organs, Eddie Daniels and George Young on saxophones and Sherry Winston on flute

Produced by - Sonny Lester
Drums - Richard Crooks, Alan Schwartzberg
Bass - Babbitt,Neil Jason
Keyboards - Lonnie Smith, Jimmy McGriff, Pat Rebilot, Derek Smith
Percussion - Jimmy Maelen
Trumpet - Alan Rubin, Jon Faddis, Lew Soloff, Marvin Stamm
Trombone - Barry Rogers, Dave Taylor

B. Baker Chocolate Co - Snowblower

Single on Survival Record, 1975.
This B side is an instrumental version of the A side: Ester Byrde‎– Touch Me (EP Take Me)

Arranged By– Chris Walker, Steve Royal
Producer– Steve Royal

[Taken from A Selection 1994 - 2000 compiled By– Karim Belkedah (also working on Moods & Grooves). 20 track Rare Groove Singles compiled by the french Groove Vibrations Records 2001]

The Solid Gold Orchestra - Tracks Of Love

Live at NYC Supper Club, taken from GRP LP 1994 Stolen Moments: Red Hot + Cool

Bass - Hub
Drums - B.R.O. THER?
Rhodes - Joe Sample
Piano - B.R.O. THER?
Producer - Grand Negaz, The

Stolen Moments: Red Hot + Cool was hailed as Time Magazine’s 1994 Album of the Year. One of the first projects to explore the impact of AIDS upon the African American community, Stolen Moments features collaborations between old school jazz performers and contemporary hip hop artists

The Roots - Proceed (Live At The Supper Club 1994))

Superb spiritual jazz from bass player Robert Ruff. 
LP Shaza-Ra, recorded August 6, 1977 at Long View Farm Studio, Massachussetts.

Robert Ruff, bass
Raqib Hassan, tenor saxophone
William Mathews, tenor saxophone
Mwalim Atif, piano
Syd Smart, drums

Robert Ruff - Impressions (Coltrane)

One of the most sensitive track ever.

Taken from Landscape LP by pianist Fumio Karashima on WHYNOT Recording / Trio Records 1977

Bass – George Mraz
Drums – Motohiko Hino
Piano – Fumio Karashima
Producer, Photography By – Masahiko Yuh
Coordinator [Project Coordination] – Kazuo Harada, Kuniya Inaoka
Recorded October 23, 1977 At MEDIA Studio, Tokyo

辛島文雄, Fumio Karashima / Pianist, Composer 
Born in Oita, Japan in 1948.

Fumio Karashima - Tears

Demo track by singer & songwriter Gary Taylor who wrote and recorded it in 1985, for a planned second album on A&M, but eventually gave the song to Alfie Silas in '86, and then a year later to The Whispers, who had a big hit with their version. 

" I did this demo back in the early 80's as the start of what was to be a second album on A&M records... but they said the song wasn't a hit. My Brother's The Whispers thought differently, and said yes we want to record it... and we want you to produce it... the rest is history. 1.3 million + copies sold and it's easy to see why A&M records is no longer around... like Scotty and Walter told me..."This song is timeless"... what a Blessing".

Shoot out to Gary Taylor, born Los Angeles, California, an American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and producer.

Gary Taylor - Just Gets Better With Time

Track from 1978 LP Hunt Up Wind by trombonist Hiroshi Fukumura - With - Sadao - Watanabe
[Original : Ancient Source feat. Dianne Reeves, by Caldera 1977, LP Sky Islands]

Impressive line-up : 

Alto Saxophone, Sopranino Saxophone, Flute– Sadao Watanabe
Drums– Harvey Mason
Electric Bass– Chuck Rainey
Electric Guitar– Cornell Dupree
Engineer– Hideo Takada
Percussion– Paulinho Da Costa
Piano [Acoustic, Rhodes]– Don Grusin
Producer– Akira Taguchi, Kiyoshi Itoh
Trombone– Hiroshi Fukumura


Hiroshi Fukumura (With Sadao Watanabe) - White Clouds

Hell yeah with a funky "Wind Parade intro... !

Digable Planets, the funkiest hip-hop band on Earth, along with the Sugar Hill Records Funky4+1.

Taken from a live show in Seatle 1995(PLEASE SEND ME A NOTE IF YOU GOT IT ON VIDEO !!) : 
Live at Club DV8(formerly the Oz)
Wednesday 15 February 1995. 
131 Taylor Ave, 98109, Seattle, WA, US

Digable Planets - Black Ego (live 1995)

Track 2: Růže Ze Střelnice  >> trad. = Shooting gallery rose
from Czechoslovakia band Klávesová Konkláva on Supraphon label 1978

Art Direction [Odpovědná Redaktorka Obalu] – Jaroslava Němcová 
Bass Guitar – Petr Kořínek 
Congas – Jiří Tomek 
Drums – Josef Vejvoda 
Electric Piano [Left Channel] – Emil Viklický
Electric Piano [Right Channel] – Karel Růžička 
Engineer [Zvuková Režie] – Petr Kocfelda 
Liner Notes, Recording Supervisor [Hudební Režie], Producer [Umělecká Spolupráce] – Antonín Matzner 
Piano – Gabriel Jonáš

Klávesová Konkláva [>> The Keyboard Conclave ] is a Czechoslovak piano trio formed in1976 : Karel Růžička, Emil Viklický and Gabriel Jonáš, with also Petr Kořínek (bass guitar), Josef Vejvoda (drums), Jiří Tomek (congas).

Klávesová Konkláva  - Růže Ze Střelnice

From LP Little Mama, 1972.

Monk plays tenor sax and organ in the set, it also features Paul Humphrey on drums, and Freddy Robinson on guitars

Monk Higgins - Black Fox

Robert Glasper Experiment feat. Bilal - Live @ Double Door, Chicago, 10 March 2012

The Robert Glasper Experiment:
 Robert Glasper: keys
 Casey Benjamin: saxophones, keytar, vocoder, keys
 Derrick Hodge: bass
 Mark Colenburg: drums
 + special guest Bilal: vocals
 
Full setlist: A Love Supreme (John Coltrane cover), A Tear To A Smile (Roy Ayers cover), Butterfly (Herbie Hancock & The Headhunters cover), Letter To Hermione (David Bowie cover) (with Bilal), Lift Off (inc. drum solos), Bass solo > Say Yes (Floetry cover), Cherish The Day (Sade cover), Reminisce (with Bilal), Piano solo (w/ Everything In It’s Right Place teases) > All Matter (with Bilal), Ah Yeah > Drum solo > Smells Like Teen Spirit

Bila - Reminisce (Live band 2012)

Live @ Montreux Jazz Festival, 7-14-11

MF Doom performed with The Robert Glasper Experiment at Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland. Audience video by Valentin Augsburger.


MF Doom feat. The Robert Glasper Experiment All Caps (live band)

Track by Giancarlo Barigozzi Group from 1974 LP Woman's colours (Fonovideo )
Composed By – Oscar Rocchi
Also released on Music Scene library under the title "Experiences In Rhythm - Designs And Colours In Today's Pop Music".

Oscar Rocchi : Italian composer, arranger, conductor, producer, pianist, keyboardist and harpist. Aliases: Chiarosi 

Giancarlo Barigozzi : Italian jazz saxophonist, flutist, clarinetist, composer and sound engineer. Has played with: Franco Cerri, Gianni Basso, Gil Cuppini, Giorgio Gaslini, Tony Scott, Milt Jackson, Percy Heath, Jack Teagarden, Frank Sinatra and many others. Born: March 4th, 1930 in Cologna Ferrarese, Ferrara, Italy. 
Died: June 28, 2008 

FoNoViDeO : Library label under the Rome-based publisher Edizioni Minstrel. 
Sister labels include BAM, Flam, Hard, Ring and World Produzioni Discografiche. 
Parent Label: Edizioni Minstrel

Giancarlo Barigozzi Group - Lilac Arms

Among funkiest vibes I heard from independant folks.
First heard this song on Radio Nova and in London clubs in the 90's. Thanks for that.
Columbia 1972

Written by Douglas Lucas, François Weyer, Benatar 
Producer – Sylvain Vanholme

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Douglas Lucas : US trumpeter originally from Arkansas who settled in Europe during the late 1960.

Ralph Benatar. Real name:  Joseph Avion. Born in Belgian-Congo - Elisabethstad on 29 april 1941. Belgian composer, saxophonist, producer, ... See also groups The J.J. Band and Jess & James.

François Weyer. Real name: François Edouard G. Y. Weyer. Belgian musician / songwriter, who's best known under his performing name: Francis Goya. He used his real name for the (copyright) registering of his musical works.

Sylvain Vanholme. Real name: Sylveer Nestor Elisabeth Cornelia Vanholme
Mostly known for being a member of The Wallace Collection, who had a multi-covered hit with "Daydream". After the demise of The Wallace Collection he formed Two Man Sound with that other hitmachine Lou Deprijck. In the late 70's he went into production and recording (Shiva Studios). 
His name is alternately (mis)spelled as Van Holmen (Wallace Collection), Van Holme (on most recordings) or Vanholme, which is his real name (in his early production days). 

A Lord Funk. Written-By – Lucas, Weyer, Benatar 20:55
B1La Bamba Arranged By – Ralph Benatar, Written-By – Trad. 10:33
B2 Summerlove, Written-By – Fr. Weyer*, G. Delo* 3:57
B3 Les Dernieres Volontes De Richard Lagrange, Written-By – Tristan Murail

Lord Funk

Very laid back funk from my favorite french band "Malka Family". This track only featured on label Big Cheese Record,  compilation "Menu Kebab"  from 1996.
ENJOY!

Malka Family - Eléphants Roses

Nice vibe from Marvin Gaye Project feat Bobby Depasois.
Do not listen to it more than 3 times max. But the first 2 worth it !

Choonz Inc 2003


Marvin Gaye Project feat Bobby Depasois - Music Feel The Soul

One of my favorite melody, along with Coltrane A love Supreme and Opus Akoben Fantasy, ahahaha

OST Hairpin Circus (A Short Story For Image) 1972

Based on the short story "hairpin circus" of Hiroyuki Itsuki who is very famous as a venerable authority on a popular novel in Japan."
"'Hairpin circus' means a name of reckless drivers team in this film. Besides, there is a meaning of the circus riding with a high-speed car in the hairpin bend." 

This soundtrack from Motion Picture "Hairpin Circus" was called the answer from Japan to Miles on "Ascenseur pour I'Echafaud" and MJQ on "No Sun in Venice". It is said so because this was made like their improvisation in the short span of time. (Kikuchi made this only from seeing the preview of the film, just once.)

SHout out to Masabumi Kikuchi who died this year in JUly. Amazing pianist and sensitive musician.


Masabumi Kikuchi  - Yellow carcass in the blue

Just shout out to Bilal, THE jazz voice, funk also and rock if you like it ;)

First track of legend album "Love for Sale", his second studio LP which was produced in 2003 and leaked on the internet in 2006 after deemed unmarketable by Interscope. .. 
This time around, Bilal worked with a myriad of new collaborators, from Sa-Ra to Denaun Porter to Nottz, even gathering a number of his former New School peers to participate.


Bilal - Something To Hold On To

Recorded while on 'Little One' tour summer 2011 at The Tom Joyner Morning Show in Red Velvet Cake Studio, Dallas

Bilal and his band visited The Tom Joyner Morning Show and recorded live acoustic versions of four of his favorite songs from his third LP "Airtight's Revenge". 
Dedicated to his sons. “My youngest son has Sickle Cell and my oldest son has Autisim. This song is for them”, stated Bilal. An advocate for Autism, last month Bilal led the 2010 Walk Now for Autism Speaks on the National Mall.

Musicians:
Lead Vocals: Bilal Oliver
Cajon/Percussion: Steve Mckie
Bass Guitar: Conley "Tone" Whitfield
Keys: Corey Bernhard
Lead Guitar & Background Vocals: Mike Severson
Background Vocals: Chris Turner

The Tom Joyner Show was launched in 2005 with Joyner as emcee of a one-hour comedy/variety show, combining sketch comedy featuring the Tom Joyner Show Players (his co-hosts from the radio show), talent contests, and musical performances by such artists as Earth, Wind and Fire, Brian McKnight, Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds and Toni Braxton. The program achieved top ratings for a weekly syndicated program themed to African American viewers — even taking the number one show position, although it was in a late night time slot — in such markets as New York and Atlanta

Bilal - Little One (live acoustic)

Emotions... Live at New Morning, 07 November 2012
Song written by - José James/Jazzanova
Piano/rhodes - Samora Pinderhughes
Bass and nice vocal à la Philipp Bailey - Solomon Dorsey
Drums - Richard Spaven (the second most dangerous drummer alive)
Trumpet - Takuya Kuroda

It was almost same playlist as the London itunes festival a month ago, few hours before Glasper band (38mn http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjCwp8m_hkU )
But New Morning is a much groovier venue, and the band was excited to be in Paris (especially the young rhodes player  ...). 

José james - Little Bird - Live

Recorded in performance at the Montreux Jazz Festival, Switzerland, July 1971

Bass - Jamil Sulieman
Drums - Frank Gant 
Piano, Electric Piano [Fender Rhodes], Producer - Ahmad Jamal 
Producer - Ed Michel  


Ahmad Jamal Trio - Manhattan Reflections (live in Montreux 1971)

Live at broadway NYC Supper Club - 1994, gathering hip-hop and jazz cats against AIDS for the Red Hot + Cool project. 

  Bass - Carl Carter 
  Drums - Steve Williams
  Featuring - Wah Wah Watson
  Featuring [Trumpet] - Lester Bowie 
  Percussion - Danny Sadownick
  Piano [Fender Rhodes] - Federico Gonzalez Pena
  Producer - Butterfly , Lester Bowie , Wah Wah Watson

Stolen Moments: Red Hot + Cool was hailed as Time Magazine’s 1994 Album of the Year. One of the first projects to explore the impact of AIDS upon the African American community, Stolen Moments features collaborations between old school jazz performers and contemporary hip hop artists

In addition to the album release, a one hour music television special will air on public television stations across the United States presented by the Independent Television Service (ITVS) with funds provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. The Stolen Moments: Red Hot + Cool special is a dynamic concert event filled with electric on-stage collaborations and candid discussion. The ITVS broadcast marks the first of the Red Hot Organization's five music projects to be aired on public television. In addition to footage of the live performances, interviews with Professor Cornel West and actor Giancarlo Esposito, and people who are infected with HIV, talking about their experiences and concerns.. It creates a space for frank and necessary discussion about HIV/AIDS."

Produced by The Red Hot Organization for the Independent Television Service (ITVS), Stolen Moments: Red Hot + Cool is the fifth in a series of AIDS benefit musical projects, and the first to air on public television. A fresh and innovative concert special, Stolen Moments melds the classic genre of jazz with today's hip hop featuring the best artists from both worlds together for the first time. But Stolen Moments is more than just a landmark centerstage music event. It's a compelling video montage of what's happening in communities of color around the difficult issues brought on by the stunning rise in AIDS cases in recent years. At a time when media interest in AIDS has ebbed, Stolen Moments: Red Hot + Cool is bound to refuel the debate

The Stolen Moments: Red Hot + Cool project provides a meeting place where artists of several generations and styles can meet and create a musical dialogue. Where does fusion flow into funk? Where does the controlled anarchy of hard be-bop feed into the adrenaline-rush of hard core hip-hop? The answer to these questions and more are found in the spirit of collaboration and discovery on Stolen Moments: Red Hot + Cool. In addition to the straight ahead jazz and rap elements found with on this extraordinary recording, gospel vocals, blues guitar, scat singing, R&B, soul and other African American art forms hug and tug and pull at each other, like relatives at a long overdue reunion. Gender, age, and race are bridged in the three-way effort by Us3, Tony Remy, and Joshua Redman (son of the legendary Dewey Redman). Up-and-coming talents meet one of their heroes in the case of Groove Collective's joint jam with funk master Bernie Worell. Ditto for Me'Shell N'degéOcello's musical studio encounter with Herbie Hancock. Two men from two different eras but with surprisingly similar ears for music join forces in a track by Donald Byrd and Gangstarr's Guru. Add the differences of language and culture into the equation when you consider the distances spanned by Ron Carter's collaboration with Afro-French rapper MC Solaar. The list goes on and on, including contributions by Michael Franti, Digable Planets with Lester Bowie & Wah Wah Watson, The Pharcyde, Roots with Roy Ayers, Incognito, Carleen Anderson with Ramsey Lewis, Umar Bin Hassan and Abiodun Oyewole (formerly of The Last Poets) with Pharoah Sanders, Don Cherry with Watts Prophets, and Branford Marsalis.

Stolen Moments: Red Hot + Cool

Digable Planets and friends - Flyin' High InThe Brooklyn Sky (Live At The Supper Club 1994)

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