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Acid Jazz, Bossa Beats, Nu Jazz, Jazz, Nu Funk-n-Soul  - 2

Reposting my groove to Miles Davis 'Blue In Green' I did last year, if you've heard before apologies :) If not hope you like :)

A Late Night Groove to 'Blue In Green' - Miles Davis

Taken from Sébastien Tellier's new album "Confection" !
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Sebastien Tellier - Coco

Creative Musicians

Creative Musicians (feat. Sean Haefeli)

Strata Records - the Sound of Detroit - Reimagined by Jazzanova

Scorpio's Child

Joy Road

Face at My Window (feat. Sean Haefeli)

Root in 7-4 Plus (feat. Sean Haefeli)

Dear friends,
Thought I'd share this with you all. Here is an early solo piano version of the song 'Changing Wind' from my debut album. You can download it for FREE! 
Much love,
 -S

Album is out now: http://bit.ly/13JhJv0
Picture by Marc Peter: http://on.fb.me/1aE7kmC 

Shook - Changing Wind (Piano Version)

(FYI: This song is available on my website at: https://ahmedsirour.com/track/2996468/midnight-melanin-manhattan-a-score-for-ivy as well as Bandcamp at: https://ahmedsirour.bandcamp.com/track/midnight-melanin-manhattan-a-score-for-ivy)

I created this based on a scene from the 1968 film, #ForLoveofIvy, which was a story written by the recently departed, late/great #SidneyPoitier and featuring the also late/great #AbbeyLincoln. The music you hear is an original score I created, inspired by this scene (not one of Quincy Jones', who beautifully scored the rest of this movie, although his style was an influence I wanted to partially emulate). I was actually surprised he left so much room open in this bedroom scene you're watching now, because the original scene had no music at all until after Ivy (Abbey) joins Jack (Sidney) in bed for Round 2 of their lovemaking. 

Inspired by the great cinematography and sexiness of this moment, this is an all original arrangement of my own, and even chopping up and editing the royalty-free horns that I used for the trumpet and saxophone solos (which was very difficult to do because it's a combination of many different real horn player samples that I had to edit/pitch/re-arrange/EQ just for it to sound like two players to add to the grand piano, upright/double bass, and horn parts in the hook/chorus that I manually played and myself on keyboard (via Logic Pro instruments) to make it into a Jazz "quartet", then finally mixing and mastering the whole thing for it to come out finally as it did, which you can hear in full from the link at the top of this description.

Like many, I took a trip down memory lane, watching #SidneyPoitier films, since his recent passing at age 94. However, not many people know of/have seen this particular film called  "For Love of Ivy", which is kinda surprising since Sidney was THE biggest movie star in Hollywood at the time this film came out in 1968.

To put it in perspective, he started filming this movie (an original story he wrote, himself) in the Autumn of '67, but just a few months earlier that year, #ToSirWithLove dropped in the Spring, followed by #InTheHeatoftheNight that Summer, and #GuessWhosComingToDinner was up next in December to close out his undefeated year as the King of the Silver Screen. While each film in '67 was a blockbuster hit (and all dealt with #racism in some form), "Ivy" was very different as it was a rare mainstream film showcasing two Black romantic leads–Sidney, and the magnificent Jazz singer/activist Abbey Lincoln (who had a dope afro but they gave her a wig, instead 🙄 )–and it even featured the very first (though not explicit) Black lovemaking scene in a Hollywood movie. Perhaps that's why it didn't get much publicity over time as those others did, because more radical than a 1967 film with an interracial couple is a 1968 one with a Black couple being intimate on the big screen.

Ivy's character looked so serene, looking through the window, out over Manhattan late at night, in the afterglow of their tryst, before taking the throne and looking over her sleeping "conquest" 😉 It's a sexy scene without music, but I wanted to hear what it would sound like with some, and so I take this moment to celebrate the memory and legacy of Sidney Poitier, of Abbey, and this wonderful moment of #BlackLove on film with it!

This song will be included in my upcoming project I'm releasing on my bday, Tuesday, the 22nd of February, 2022 (or 22/02/2022). That's also the title of the project: 22022022 (the only palindrome b'earthday I'll have in my lifetime). I hope you enjoy and Happy #BlackHistoryMonth.

#AhmedSirour

Midnight, Melanin, & Manhattan (a score for Ivy)

"Midnight, Melanin, & Manhattan (a score for Ivy)"

Introduction & Lost My Love (feat. Sean Haefeli)

No introduction needed for this soul train classic by Kool and The Gang. I have been messing with it for some time now trying to make a modern DJ friendly version and thought it would be nice to share. Initially I made the sorter 'hip cut' for me to play and mashup crossing over from soul and hip hop to disco but then I realized I could not do without the magical ARP synth solo so thus the 'extended version'. It took a while to tame and make it work and now here it is. Enjoy this fine piece of music and Merry Xmas peepz !

Bandcamp

Kool & The Gang - Summer Madness (DJ Butcher Hip Cut)

Shook - Changing Wind (Piano Version)
Nils Frahm - New Friend
Claude Debussy - Clair de Lune
Tomislav Erhard-Pacovski - Petit Mal
MORELENBAUM2/SAKAMOTO - SO TINHA DE SER COM VOCE (Live in Tokyo 2001)
Espionne feat Yeongene - Contradiction
The Knocks - Brazilian Soul feat. Sofi Tukker (Acoustic Bossa Version)
Shirley Bassey & Nightmares on Wax - Easy Thing To Do
Blossom Dearie - I Like London In The Rain (Sooq Edit)
Air - All I Need (feat. Beth Hirsch)
David Bowie - Wild Is the Wind (2010 Harry Maslin Mix)
Sebastien Tellier - Coco
Ryuichi Sakamoto - Forbidden Colors (Solo Piano)
Jiro Inagaki & Soul Media - Breeze (Julio Marina Edit)
L'Impératrice - Parfum thérémine
L'Impératrice - VANILLE FRAISE (edit)
Sebastien Tellier - La Ritournelle
Jazzanova - Scorpio's Child
Kon Faber - Odyssey (MONKYMAN Remix)
Nina Simone - African Mailman (2021 - Stereo Remaster)
Chick Corea - Sea Journey
St Germain - Soul Salsa Soul (Descarga Mix)

Cover Art - Judy Chicago - Primordial Papaya

Dinner Set 2 27 - 08 - 2022

Antonio Carlos Jobim - Corcovado
Koop - Tonight
Stan Getz - The Girl from Ipanema
Nina Simone - My Baby Just Cares For Me
Antonio Carlos Jobim & Elis Regina - Águas de Março (Waters of March)
Stanley Turrentine - Let's Groove
Antonio Carlos Jobim - Wave
Lhasa De Sela - De Cara a la Pared
Chet Baker - End of the Line

Dinner Set 1 27 - 08 - 2022

Let It Ride

Let It Ride (From "Norah Jones is Playing Along" Podcast)

Politics

La Ritournelle

Chimera

Lies and Games (feat. Terin Ector)

Little L

Little L (Dave Lee Reblend)

A re-working of the classic "Kind of Blue" track written by Bill Evans.  

Miles Davis - Blue in Green

Let The Rhythm Hit 'Em

Untouchables

Galaxian

Night Love

Afro-Harping

Action Line

Brazil 45, number 48 http://www.mrbongo.com/products/antonio-adolfo-dois-minutos-de-uma-nova-dia-maria-castro-neves-smab-s-a-candomble-7

‘2 Minutos De Um Novo Dia’ – pacey samba-funk-MPB that originally appeared on a 7” from 1969 released on Odeon Brazil. Soaring vocals, strings and horns over alternating full and half-time funk drum breaks. Very big indeed.

‘Candomble’ has been a resident in our DJ sets for a long, long time. A retrained, deeper opening section drops into drum heavy, rich uptempo jazzy-MPB. Super catchy vocal hooks and piano lines sit over the top from start to finish. Taken from their self titled album from 1975 on RCA.

Mario Castro Neves & Samba S.A. - Candomble

Illmatic

It Ain't Hard to Tell

(c)&(p) 2018 Fazer
Artwork: Daily Dialogue (dailydialogue.cc)

Releasedate: 14. September 2018
Label: Fazer
Format: 12", 180g vinyl, 45 rpm
Distributor: wordandsound

Info:

The German Jazz quintet Fazer releases the 12“ White Sedan with two remixes by Glenn Astro & Hodini (Apollo, Ninja Tune, Tartelet, Money $ex etc.) and Tru Thoughts powerhouse Werkha.
The band appeared on the map in March with their self-released debut album MARA. The dynamic range of their drum-centered sound combined with extensive improvisation resonated with international listeners and DJs alike, appearing in sets by Mafalda or Louise Chen and on the waves of radio stations like NTS, Le Mellotron or Worldwide FM.

The original track builds on the so called „Guaguanco“, a traditional latin rhythm that is closely tied to dance. Stretching over 7 minutes, the song opens with an introduction of the groove by the two drummers. The main theme then sets the mood that is maintained through searing trumpet kicks and two solos of remarkable restraint that is too often missing in the contemporary jazz world. After a reprise of the theme, the tune ends on a mellow note echoing its more frantic parts in a more soberly manner.
Romantic yet never tacky, White Sedan can be a special turn in an eclectic DJ-set as well as the soundtrack to a sundown getaway scene in a heist movie.

Glenn Astro & Hodini completely melted down the original stems, molding them into a glimmering warm-up gem with the usual virtuosic musicality they're both known for. While for their latest LP „Turqouise Turtle“ on Apollo Records they pooled together individual tracks, this remix is their first proper collaborative effort so far.

Werkha's take incorporates the original rhythm but adds a breath of fresh air with deep jazzy keys and ecstatic MIDI synth stabs. While it starts smoothly, inhaling the vibe of the original, the remix evolves into a peak-time banger that could tear the roof off of any party at the right moment. The distorted percussive elements give the track a breaky attitude and expose the London roots of the Glasgow-based producer.

White Sedan (Glenn Astro & Hodini / Werkha Remix)

White Sedan (Original Mix)

Palaver

Nyame Dadaw

Help Africa

Abebrese

Help Africa (Edit)

Abebrese (Edit)

Just an extension of the absolutely incredible and entirely too short "Cascavel" by Brasilian composer, Antonio Adolfo, off his "Viralata" Lp.

I fell in love with the music of Adolfo on my first trip to Brasil in 2008. Hetor at Tracks record shop in Baixo Gavea pulled out a copy of Feito Em Casa for me and explained to me it was important for being Brasil's first ever independently released Lp. One song on it in particular, "Aonde Você Vai?", captivated me and I began to seek out everything else by this master composer and musician. 

"Cascavel" is one of my favorite tunes of his that I dug up...that fat bass line, punctuated slightly by notes from his electric piano...those crisp drums...the bongos percolating in the background... and damn, those horns! This song never fails to bring a smile to my face. The only problem was that the original version, at just under three minutes, always ended way to soon. This is my attempt to fix that.

As always, if you enjoy the edit, do yourself and the artist a favor and seek out the original (as well as everything else he ever recorded!).

Antonio Adolfo - Cascavel (Sine Qua Non Edit)

Jazzanova is many things to many different people. For more than fifteen years the eclectic collective from Berlin has been busy producing, composing, arranging, remixing, DJing and generally shaping our musical world – in the clubs, on the air, in the studio, live on stage, and with their label Sonar Kollektiv.
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