Ivan Tchijevsky - Diggin' Up Two Rare Concerts
(exclusive mix for ParisDJs.com) 2008-08-04


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Tracklisting :
01. One day In Kiev - Jazz Ensemble "Mugam"
02. Concert for the voice by Constantin Petrosyan

Info :
This is my fifth podcast, and to celebrate it, I have prepared something special, jazzy and at the same time, sodden with Caucasus folk culture. This podcast consists of two parts: First – is a fragment (pictures of Caucasus) of an jazz-ensemble called "Mugam" lead by Vagif Mustafa-Zade (1978).
Vagif Mustafa-zade – was a prize winner of such festivals as "Tallin-66", "Tallin-67" and "Jazz-69" in Azerbaijan. In 1977 Vagif became a prize-winner of an United Jazz festival in Donezk. Jazz festival "Tbilisi-78" has brought him a name as the best pianist in USSR. Having taken participation in the International jazz composition contest held in Monaco in 1979, Vagif won the First prize and received a beautiful white piano as a prize. Finding a more detailed biography of Vagif Mustafa-zade isn't that hard, most importantly is the effect his music brings on you.

Jazz-ensemble “Mugam”
Vagif Mustafa-zade, piano
Roman Sarkisov, tenor-sax
Eybar Mamedbaylee, guitar
Devid Coyfman, bass
Arcady Dadashian, drums

Second part of the podcast is a fragment of a big-band concert by Vladimir Chekasin, with an assistance of an composer named Constantin Petrosyan. The voice of the project became Tatevick Oganesyan – the "queen" of soviet jazz vocal, the Russian Ella Fitzgerald. Even nowadays, she is still matchless in the jazz mainstream. Tatevick's manner of singing is heavily influenced by traditional Armenian music. She has sang in America, Europe, Australia. She received applauses at Lincoln center and Carnegie Hall.

Big-band solos :
Tatevick Oganesyan, vocal
Piatras Vishniaskas, soprano-sax, baritone sax
Oleg Malokoedov, keybords
Constantin Petrosian, piano
Vladimir Chekasin, alt-sax
Eduard Kuskin, trumpet
Valdemaras Yankus, trumpet
Vitautas Labutis, sax
Vitautas Pilibavichus, trombone
Leonid Shinkarenko, bass
Gedimias Laurinavichus, drums

Promo only.

Ivan Tchijevsky - Moscow, 2008

Links :
myspace.com/tchizevsky
headz.fm

Doctor Donuts - Brazileiras Mix
(MP3 Podcast on www.ParisDJs.com) Jazz Freaks/Charivari, 2008-06-15


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Tracklisting :
01. Wilson das Neves - Jornada
(from 'Som Quente é o das Neves', 1969 / Polydor)
02. Zito Righi e Seu Conjunto - Somos Todos Irmaos
(from 'Alucinolandia', 1969 / Hot)
03. Cesar Camargo-Mariano - Sambinha
(from 'Octeto De Cesar Camargo Mariano', 1966 / Som Maior)
04. Dom Um Romao - Birimbau (capoeira)
(from 'Dom Um', 1964 / Philipps)
05. Tenório Jr. - Fim De Semana Em Eldorado
(from 'Embalo', 1964 / RGE)
06. Meireles e Os Copa 7 - Sombrero Sam
(From 'Tropical', 1969 / London - reissued on What Music)
07. Dom Salvador e a Abolicao - Som, Sangue e Raça
(from 'Som, Sangue e Raça', 1971 / CBS)
08. Orlandivo - Onde Anda meu Amor
(from 'Orlandivo com Joao Donato', 1977 / Copacabana)
09. Som Tres - Take it Easy My Brother Charles
(from 'Um e Pouco, Dois e Bom, esse Som Tres e Demais', 1970 / Odeon)
10. Luis Eça & Sagrada Familia - Pais Tropical
(from 'Onda Nova Do Brazil', recorded in brazil in 1970, released only in Mexico in 1978, Lazarus)
11. Toni Tornado - Jornaleiro
(From 'BR3', 1971 / Odeon)

Original record covers :


Credits :
Selected and mixed by Doctor Donuts (Jazz Freaks/Charivari)
Artwork by Doctor Donuts, finished by Djouls(djouls.com)
Audio mastering by Grant Phabao (grantphabao.com)

Heavenly Sweetness - Vol.1 - A Musical Introduction to the Label
(MP3 Podcast on ParisDJs.com) Heavenly Sweetness, 2008-03-10


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Tracklisting :
01. The John Betsch Society - Earth Blossom (Loving Heart collage by Carlos Nino featuring Build an Ark and Najite & the Agindotan Family Band)
(from 'Earth Blossom' 7 inch, 2007 / Strata East/Heavenly Sweetness)
» more info on myspace.com/heavenlyssweetness «
02. Wadada Leo Smith - Love Supreme (For John Coltrane)
(from 'Kulture Jazz' album, 1995 / ECM)
» more info on wikipedia.org or on myspace.com/wadadaleosmith «
03. Doug Hammond - We People
(from 'Real Deal' album, 2007 / Heavenly Sweetness)
» more info on doughammond.org or on myspace.com/doughammondmusic «
04. Stanley Cowell - Travelin' Man
(from 'Regeneration' album, 1976 / Strata East)
» more info on wikipedia.org «
05. Marion Brown - Vista
(from 'Vista' album, 1975 / Impulse)
» more info on wikipedia.org «
06. Trudy Pitts - A Supreme Love
(from 'Me, Myself and I' album, 2003 / Scorp Leo Ltd)
» more info on trudypitts.com or on myspace.com/trudypitts «
07. Billy Gault - The Time Of This World Is At Hand
(from 'When Destiny Calls' compilation, 1974 / Steeplachase)
» more info on steeplechase.dk «
08. Hal Singer - Malcom X
(from 'Blues and News' album, 1971 / Disques Futura et Marges)
» more info on halsingergroup.com, on clubdub.blogspot.com or on wikipedia.org «
09. Anne Wirz - Mother Of The Future
(from 'Infini' album, 2007 / Heavenly Sweetness)
» more info on myspace.com/annewirz «

Original artworks :


Info :
Here we are, the first Heavenly Sweetness podcast.
You can find in this mix some of our productions and some of our favorite tracks.
A nice introduction to our musical universe.
Enjoy.

» more info Heavenly Sweetness on myspace.com/heavenlyssweetness «
» more Heavenly Sweetness podcasts on heavenlysweetness.viabloga.com «

Credits :
Selected and mixed by Heavenly Sweetness
Thanks to Charly Turtlecuts and to you listener!

Mr Moo - Funky Freak Out In 70's Jazz
(MP3 Podcast on ParisDJs.com) T.I.M.E.C., 2008-03-03


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Tracklisting :
01. Southern Energy Ensemble - Energy
(from 'Southern Energy Ensemble' album, Late 70s / Black Fire Records)
02. The Lightmen Plus One - The Phantom
(from 'Enery Control Center' album, 1972 / Lightin' Records/Now Again)
03. Boscoe - Money Won't Save You
(from 'Boscoe' album, 1973 / Kingdom Of Chad Records /Numero)
04. Luis Gasca - Little Mama
(from 'For Those Who Chant' album, 1972 / Blue Thumb Records
05. Okyerema Asante featuring Plunky - Asante Sana
(from 'Drum Message' album, 1977 / Black Fire Records
06. Experience Unlimited - Funk Consciousness
(from 'Experience Unlimited' album, 1977 / Black Fire Records)

Original artworks :


Info :
At first this mix was intended to be a special tribute to Black Fire Records but it evolved from that to what you're about to listen, partly for survival purposes, the thing was getting too heavy on jazz or way too trippy for mass audiences (yeah,folks! that's what we're aiming for nowadays...) and partly because i felt like it. However it kept elements of both Jazz & Psychedelia while being consciously funky in an afro way, hence the title.

01. Southern Energy Ensemble - Energy
(from 'Southern Energy Ensemble' album, Late 70s / Black Fire Records)

This amazing band produced (only) one album thanks to the Black Fire crew. The record company was started in 1975 by Plunky and Jimmy Gray a Washington DJ and a promo rep for CTI, Stata-East, Tribe & Black Jazz among others.
The Juju tribe that drifted from Frisco to NY to then Richmond, Virginia (uh!?), was engaged in a spiritual, political, communal, and independent way of life that inspired them to create this label. The move down south was apparently because Plunky's little brother Muzi Branch lived there... A beautiful bass player, he was also responsible for most of the LP's artwork at the time, including this cover. The new rhythm section he provided with Ronnie Toler (drums) personified the geographical and musical shift Plunky's gang was going through, from instrumental spiritual & radical avant-jazz to afrocentric tripped out funk & jazz soaring with electric guitar and some of the strongest vocals you ever heard, from Juju to Oneness Of Juju.
Now, Southern Energy Ensemble, a local viginian band I believe, shared two member with the Juju family: Nat Lee on keys and Judy Spears who sings lead on the non-instumentals tracks but blatantly not on this one; they also had connections to Trussel who were Evelyn Champagne King's first touring band and that's all the information you're gonna get!

02. The Lightmen Plus One - The Phantom
(from 'Enery Control Center' album, 1972 / Lightin' Records/Now Again)

The Lightmen Plus One hailed unexepectedly from Houston,Texas and was led by their drummer Bubbha Thomas, teacher of Ronnie Laws Hubert's cadet brother (it's all about the little fellas!) and formerly a student of Conrad Johns who later directed the Kashmere Stage Band. They released a fourth album on the self-operated Lightin' Records, a grittier but less spiritual release, obviously when you switch your 'Energy Control Center' to 'Country Fried Chicken' you end up in grease, man.

03. Boscoe - Money Won't Save You
(from 'Boscoe' album, 1973 / Kingdom Of Chad Records /Numero)

Chicago, home of Al Capone, the most brutal wind known to man, free jazz & electric blues, holds so many keypoints in the history of the african diaspora that its impact on Earth culture (and most of the solar system by now) still has be measured by hordes of sociologically depressed sociologists. Let's start with the great depression (not the latter's) and the mass exode of african americans leaving the rural delta to find jobs in the big cities up north. While playing bottleneck on the porch at dusk suits the deep south mood like a pearl of sweat on the upper lip, many pickers found it hard to compete with the noise of Chicago crowded streets & factories armed with a mere acoustic guitar, not the loudest string instrument, thus electrifying the motherfucka! Survival of the fittest uh! Another pivotal point was reached later on in the 60's when Curtis Mayfield, Donny Hattaway, Syl Johnson, Terry Callier... brought consciousness into soul music while Charles Stepney, Ramsay Lewis, Earth Wind & Fire, Eddie Harris crissed-crossed it with their jazz. On the other side of the black light spectrum you had the nucleus of the free scene heavy in african and space themes: Sun Ra, the whole AACM movement with The Art ensemble Of Chicago as it's spear and Philip Cohran & the Artistic Heritage who introduce the balafon or thumb piano to Maurice White (EWF) then with The Ramsay Lewis Trio, and subsequantly to the world.
So, all this for introducing Boscoe? Ooh yeah! They sure damn well deserved and reflects all those influences as much as their musical kins: Pieces of Peace, The Pharaohs, Brute Force, Southside Movement and to a lesser extent Rasputin Stash. Solid material, no covers, recorded live with real studio sound, tight & wiggly as a snake's ass with the chops to carry a tune beyond the mapped territory, it shouldn't have take 35 years for this sextet to create a buzz, but then again if it was not for unsung heroes there wouldn't be much to rediscover now wouldn't it? And maybe there wouldn't be much heroes around...

04. Luis Gasca - Little Mama
(from 'For Those Who Chant' album, 1972 / Blue Thumb Records

Ok that's the freak out, right here, but what a line up, man! You take The whole 1972 Santana Band including Carlos, you kick their green-eyed junkie-ass bass player out and put Stanley Clark instead, add Lenny White on drums and Coke Escovedo on percussion, top it with soloing Georges Cables, Joe Henderson, the trumpeter himself, what you got? A funkafied In-a-Silent-wayish chicano jam among the stars for day-offs only. This is Luis Gasca's second 'solo' release since 'Giant' with Herbie Hancock, Mongo Santamaria, and Bernard Purdie, located in San Francisco he kept himself busy in between sessioning all around, arranging horns for Big Brother & The Holding Company (Janis Joplin's 1st chaotic band) and playing with Malo. He was reported dead in Hawaï in the Late 70's, the level of his drug abuse makes it almost true, he just stopped playing for 20 years.

05. Okyerema Asante featuring Plunky - Asante Sana
(from 'Drum Message' album, 1977 / Black Fire Records

Okyerema Asante a master drummer from Ghana, who later went on to play with Hugh Masekela, Paul Simon, Hamiet Bluiett, Chief Bey, Jack De Johnette and members of Osibisa just to name a few, recorded his own album with Oneness of Juju plus guests in 1977. It's a highly percussive opus that bridge the gap between 'Space Jungle Luv' and 'Bush Brothers and Space Rangers'. Brian Jackson (Gil Scott-Heron's partner in crime) who befriended the Juju tribe in their Strata-East years together is playing piano there like he oftenly used to on Black Fire stuff. But it's Judy Spears who takes the lead vocal that rises first and shines best. Her performance is stunning, coming out of the shadow that Eka Ete Jackie Lewis's talent was somehow casting upon her (The voice of "African rhythms"), she really spreads her wings and takes it to the sky, add a call and response with a violin courtesy of Sister Tee(?) you hold one my favorite track ever, enjoy the peace while it last!

06. Experience Unlimited - Funk Consciousness
(from 'Experience Unlimited' album, 1977 / Black Fire Records)

This album is dedicated to the spirit of Jimi Hendrix, and all the positive people in the world is what Experience Unlimited's 1st LP's backcover reads, just for a hint. Recorded in 1976, there's still echoes of spiritual jazz but heavier on guitar & funk than their labelmates; these cats may be younger too. No info on the 'hippie' years of this DC band who shortened its name to E.U. before taking a big step out of obscurity onto the Go-Go scene in the 80's scoring a hit with the massive: 'Da butt'.

I'll strongly advise you to dig all those albums, you really get the a greater view of the talents involved once you hear them in their conceptual continuity, no weak track. In other words the whole is better than the sum of its parts.

Peace
Mr Moo

Credits :
Selected, mixed and annoted by Mr Moo (T.I.M.E.C.)
Cover artwork by Djouls, photo from Mr Moo's private collection

Grant Phabao & Djouls - Are Molesting Laura Vol.9
(MP3 Podcast on ParisDJs.com) T.I.M.E.C., 2008-01-07

Info :
An "All Directions In Jazz" dish of old and new reworks of soul, rock, pop, funk, house or even Ethiopian jazz. The covers range from Herbie Hancock, Eumir Deodato, The Cure, Outkast, Isolée, Mulatu Atsaké to Marvin Gaye, in classy jazz dressings. 30 minutes of jazz hit-singles eclectism for an intense and swinging trip - don't pass out on this!


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Tracklisting :
01. Hypnotic Brass Ensemble - Brass In Africa
(from 'Brass In Africa' limited 7 inch, 2007 / Handcuts)
» JOHNNY PATE COVER | more info on djouls.com «
02. The Nostalgia 77 Octet - Musical Silt
(from 'Weapons Of Jazz Destruction' album, 2007 / Tru Thoughts)
» MULATU ASTATKE COVER | more info on tru-thoughts.net «
03. Horne Singers - Watermelon Man (Obo mix)
(from 'Karin Krogh - Public Enemies / Horne Singers - Watermelon Man' 7 inch, 2002 / Wah Wah Moose)
» HERBIE HANCOCK COVER | more info on tru-thoughts.net «
04. Shawn Lee's Ping Pong Orchestra - Hey Ya
(from 'Hits The Hits' album, 2007 / Ubiquity)
» OUTKAST COVER | more info on tru-thoughts.net «
05. West/Rock/Woods - Love Cats
(from 'Nick Weston presents West/Rock/Woods' promo 10 inch, 2007 / Mukatsuku)
» THE CURE COVER | more info on myspace.com/mukatsuku «
06. Christian Prommer's Drumlesson - Beau Mot Plage
(from 'Drum Lesson Vol 1' album, 2007 / Sonar Kollektiv)
» ISOLÉE COVER | more info on sonarkollektiv.com «
07. The Hot 8 Brass Band - Sexual Healing Re-Edit
(from 'Sexual Healing' 12 inch, 2007 / Tru Thoughts)
» MARVIN GAYE COVER | more info on tru-thoughts.net «

Artworks :


Credits :
Selected, mixed and designed by Grant Phabao and Djouls (T.I.M.E.C.)
Photo by Babasteve under a Creative Commons license - Final Layout by Djouls

Doctor Donuts - Jazz Freaks (Charivari/Schema-Downsall)
(exclusive mix for ParisDJs.com) 2007-12-24


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Tracklisting :
01. The Deirdre Wilson Tabac - I Can't Keep From Crying Sometimes
(from 'The Deirdre Wilson Tabac' album, 1970 / RCA)
02. Fred Johnson - A Child Runs Free
(from 'Fred Johnson Live At B.B Joe's' album, 1984 / Offshore Productions)
03. The Sahib Shihab Quintet - Seeds
(from 'Seeds' album, 1969 / Vogue)
04. The Har-You Percussion Group - Welcome To The Party
(from 'The Har-You Percussion Group' album, 1970 / ESP)
05. E.W. Wainwright, Jr. - The Healer/Don't Break
(from 'African Roots Of Jazz' album, 1981 / Aroj Music)
06. Danser's Inferno - Sombre Guitar
(from 'Creation One' album, 1970 / Lirs)
07. Don Lamond & His Swing Band - Up Tight
(from 'Extraordinary' album, 1982 / Progressive Records)

Original covers :


Links :
myspace.com/charivarimusic
myspace.com/jazzfreaks
Audio Mastering by Grant Phabao (grantphabao.com)

Info :
Arthur Borgnis aka Doctor Donuts pratique le deejaying depuis 92. Il défend une certaine idée du mixe éclectique et aime varier les saveurs loin des formatages habituels. Fortement influencé par le jazz, il puise ses racines dans le large spectre de la musique black (soul, brazil, latin, hip-hop...), mais aussi dans les musiques 'électroniques' (Detroit techno, House, Broken...). Avec son compère Antoine Bertola, il compose sous le nom de Charivari (Downsall – Schema), dont les remixes et maxis ont été largement playlistés (Laurent Garnier, Rainer Truby, Alton Miller, Quantic…...). L'album de Charivari est prévu pour le printemps.
Également réalisateur, Arthur Borgnis finit le montage du documentaire 'Broken Vibes' consacré au Broken Beat (Bugz, IG Culture, Gilles Peterson, Jazzanova...) qui sortira en DVD début 2008. Promoteur des soirées Jazz Freaks, Doctor Donuts souhaite faire partager son amour pour le jazz et les galaxies qui l'entourent: brazil, latin, funk, soul, hip hop, broken beat... sans oublier la danse et la convivialité.