Ep. 150: Cedar Walton - Cedar's Blues/Anita Baker - Compositions

Loes didn't have to go this hard.

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3/12/2021

Ep. 149: The Loes Episode (feat. Joe and Ryan)

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Ep. 151: Lafayette Gilchrist - Deep Dancing Suite/Stevie Wonder - Innervisions

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Ep. 152: DJ.Fresh - The Tonite Show with Curren$y/John Carter - Castles of Ghana

Ep. 153: Lianne La Havas - Blood/Lianne La Havas - Lianne La Havas feat. Loes

Ep. 2: Cannonball Adderley - Somethin' Else/Kelela - Hallucinogen EP

Ep. 6: Thelonious Monk - Brilliant Corners/Lion Babe - Sun Joint Mixtape

Ep. 10: Yellowjackets - Samurai Samba/Tove Lo - Queen of the Clouds

"Blood is a color, purple is a vegetable."

Ep. 13: Carly Rae Jepsen - Emotion/Ahmad Jamal - Digital Works

Returning guest JB gets in the van to talk about two incredibly hard albums by GZA and Eric Dolphy. 
Shouts to the Wu-Tang Podcast for inspiration and support.

Ep. 15: GZA - Liquid Swords/Eric Dolphy - Out to Lunch! (feat. JB)

Special guest Ashley brings in her favorite Norah Jones record into the van. Joe is grossed out by the cover of this Stan Getz album.

Ep. 16: Norah Jones - The Fall/Charlie Byrd & Stan Getz - Jazz Samba (feat. Ashley)

Ep. 23: Blood Orange - Cupid Deluxe

Dear Fleetwood Mac,
     We regret to inform you that a band can only self-title one album per career. 

Sincerely, Mr. Ryan and Joe

Ep. 28: Terri Lyne Carrington - Money Jungle (Provocative in Blue)/Fleetwood Mac - Fleetwood Mac

Analogies are the hypocatastases of figures of speech.

Ep. 32: Bobbi Humphrey - Fancy Dancer/Niia - I

Driving around in a van while talking about an album called Flipped; what could go wrong?

Fun fact: Miles Davis wrote "Fall" about Kali Uchis.

Ep. 35: Goldlink - At What Cost/Jesse Fischer - Flipped II

Picture the Eighties' greatest rock band:
Bruce Springsteen - guitar, lead vocals
Bill Joel - piano, lead vocals
Phil Collins - drums, lead vocals
Sting - bass, lead vocals

Ep. 38: Billy Joel - Glass Houses/Enrico Rava - The Pilgrim & the Stars

Ryan picks both albums, funkiness ensues.



Recommended Reading:

The Funkmasters: The Great James Brown Rhythm Sections 1960-1973 for Guitar, Bass and Drums by Allan Slutsky & Chuck Silverman
Manhattan Music Publications, 1997

The One: The Life and Music of James Brown by RJ Smith
Gotham, 2012

Hit Me, Fred: Recollections of a Sideman by Fred Wesley
Duke University Press, 2005

98% Funky Stuff: My Life in Music by Maceo Parker
Chicago Review Press, 2016

The James Brown Reader: Fifty Years of Writing About the Godfather of Soul by Nelson George and Alan Leeds
Plume, 2008

Kill 'em and Leave: Searching for James Brown and the American Soul by James McBride
Spiegel & Grau, 2016

Black Music by Leroi Jones (Amari Baraka)
Akashic, 2010 (reprint)

Ep. 42: Lester Bowie's Brass Fantasy - I Only Have Eyes For You/James Brown - Black Caesar

Episode 55: The Only Time Wham Comes Before Fourplay.

Ep. 55: Wham! - Make It Big/Fourplay - Silver

Thank you to Brandon for jumping in on the discussion.

Schillinger System Of Musical Composition by Joseph Schillinger: https://archive.org/details/SchillingerSystem

The Mary Lou Williams book we mentioned was Morning Glory: A Biography of Mary Lou Williams by Linda Dahl (Pantheon, 1999). It's a really interesting story, my jokey half-recollections don't do the book or the story justice.

Ep. 62: Mary Lou Williams - Zoning/Kehlani - SweetSexySavage (feat. Brandon)

Ep. 69: Pat Martino - Joyous Lake/Deniece Williams - This is Niecy

Ep. 73: Björk - Debut/John Lewis - Evolution

In which we decide that Herbie Hancock is the Snoop Dogg of jazz.

Ep. 78: Flying Lotus - You're Dead!/Roberta Flack - Feel Like Makin' Love

Introducing the official UHM Spotify playlist, one song from each album we've done.

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Joe should name his all-ballads band Dirge Overkill.

Ep. 79: Lee Morgan - Search for the New Land/Joni Mitchell - The Hissing of Summer Lawns

Ep. 93: Fugazi - In On the Kill Taker/John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman (feat. Ashley)

Ep. 99: Dr. John - Remedies/Phineus Newborn, Jr. - Here is Phineas (feat. JB)

Ep. 102: Joel Ross - KingMaker/Joan Armatrading - Show Some Emotion

Ep. 106: Brian Blade & the Fellowship Band - Body & Shadow/Keyshia Cole - The Way It Is

Ep. 107: Spyro Gyra - Catching the Sun/Jerry Reed - Cookin'

Ep. 110: Dolly Parton - Jolene/Courtney Pine - Destiny's Song + The Image Of Pursuance

Ep. 121: Ain Soph - A Story of Mysterious Forest/fka Twigs - Magdalene

Ep. 131: The Comet is Coming - Trust in the Lifeforce of the Deep Mystery/DeBarge - All This Love

Returning champion Loes hips us to some underrated singer-songwriter stuff.

Ep. 134: Geri Allen - Some Aspects of Water/Bertolf - First & Then (feat. Loes)

Ep. 137: AlunaGeorge - Champagne Eyes/Gary Peacock - A Shift in the Wind

Ep. 139: Katalyst - Nine Lives/Bryson Tiller - T R A P S O U L

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Ep. 144: Josh Johnson - Freedom Exercise/Drexciya - Harnessed the Storm

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Ep. 145: Spotify Top 100 Songs, 2020

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Ep. 146: Rina Sawayama - Rina/Ernest Ranglin & Monty Alexander - Just Friends

Ryan interviews Joe about his favorite album by his favorite artist.

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Ep. 147: Tony Rice Unit - Manzanita (feat. Joe)

Ep: 148: D'Angelo - Voodoo (feat. Ryan)

Every week Joe and Mr. Ryan sit in the van and review two albums, one jazz and one non-jazz.

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