I love Don Blackman's album (Heart's Desire, Since you been away so long, etc) and Herbie Hancock's Feets Don't Fail me Now (Trust me, Tell Everybody, Ready or Not)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtuOFJFCW...
Can you recommend any other great jazz funk or rare groove albums?
Thanks Aside from the great stuff the others are listening to, try:
Lenny White (blaxploitation, etc)
Soulive (all)
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=aWCbRJZYbu...
Brecker Brothers (don't stop the music)
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=UIGsSLCoIh...
Billy Cobham (magic/simplicity of expression)
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=8ae3l12PM2...
Quantic Soul Orchestra (stampede)
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5ggs3dZMr...
Erykah Badu (baduism)
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=iRMh3HDRd2...
Weather Report (heavy weather)
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=pqashW66D7...
That's a nice cross section I think, my advice is see which you like and then search for similar artists at http://www.last.fm, although it sounds most like Lenny White and Brecker Brothers.
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same thing Heatwave,from the 70s,made a great album called Candles steely dans 'aja' is worth a listen Miles Davis's LIVE-EVIL has some wicked grooves...also anything jazzy from Prince: Xpectation, The Rainbow Children, One Nite Alone...live! Anything from Maceo Parker too. Anything by-sly and the family stone,especially if you want me
to stay! The Crusaders - plain and simple. They were the innovators of the jazz-funk style. Try these albums:
Chain Reaction
Free As The Wind
Scratch
Southern Comfort
The Crusaders' Finest Hour
Street Life
Also, Ronnie Laws' 'Pressure Sensitive', Joe Sample's 'Rainbow Seeker', and a collection of organ/sax trios on Blue Note called "So Blue, So Funky". here are some of my faves...
weather report - black market
steely dan - the royal scam
miles davis - tutu (unfairly much maligned)
johann asmundsson - so low (a classic) Johnny "Hammond" Smith- Gears, Breakout.
Grover Washington Jr- Live at the Bijou, Mister Magic
Reuben Wilson-Got to get your own.
Donald Byrd-Places and Spaces, In Flight Herbie Hancock records from the 70's.
funkiest, coolest stuff on the planet.
"the crusaders"? come on...
check out these by Herbie. Both classics:
Headhunters
Thrust No albums just artist. The Blackbyrds, Donald Byrd & The Blackbyrds, The Meters, Dexter Wanzel, Grover Washington, Roy Ayers, Herb Alpert, Najee, Ronnie Laws, Dennis Coffey, Chuck Mangione, Side Effect, Henry Mancini, Ohio Players - Gone Forever & What It Is - off the Rattlesnake album. Early Kool & the Gang, Mandrill - Fencewalk. "Out of the Loop" - Breaker Brothers
"Winelight" - Grover Washington Jr.
"Live Around the World" - Miles Davis
"Two Blocks from the Edge" - Michael Brecker
"The Funk Stops Here" - Mike Clark & Paul Jackson
"The Sun Don't Lie" - Marcus Miller
"Songs from the Night Before" - David Sanborn miles davis- on the corner
james carter- layin' in the cut | 