More jaipong!!!
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Sunday, April 27, 2014
Saturday, April 26, 2014
Monday, April 21, 2014
THE TONY WILLIAMS LIFETIME - EMERGENCY! VOL. 1
More greatness from Jazz drummer Tone Williams. This originally came out as a double-album in 1969, I guess they also put it out in two parts and this is the first volume....
With John Mclaughing on guitar and Larry Young playing the organ, beautiful, wild stuff this!
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BAZUKA - BAZUKA
Here's a funny one, this is No. 7 in the Japanese Stereo Laboratory series, and it's actually this album:
A record put out by this guy:
Tony Camillo, who worked with folks like Dionne Warwick, The Stylistics, Stevie Wonder, Glady’s Knight, Sha Na Na, Peaches & Herb, Dazz Band, The Supremes and Parliament. In 1975 he created Bazuka and put out this album, heavy disco-funk, jazz-funk, great stuff!
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Saturday, April 19, 2014
FRANCE GALL - POUPEE DE CIRE, POUPEE DE SON - CLADE FRANCOIS - DONNA DONNA
Bit of 60's French pop music and there's a French version and a Japanese version from both songs, pretty weird....
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Friday, April 18, 2014
NAVAJO ROUND DANCE
The Navajo (Navajo: Diné or Naabeehó) of the Southwestern United States are the largest federally recognized tribe of the United States of America with 300,048 enrolled tribal members. The Navajo Nation constitutes an independent governmental body, which manages the Navajo Indian reservation in the Four Corners area of the United States. The Navajo language is spoken throughout the region with most Navajo capable of speaking English as well.
As of 2011, the states with the largest Navajo populations are Arizona (140,263), and New Mexico (108,306). Over three-quarters of the Navajo population reside in these two states....
And here you have some of their traditional music....
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Thursday, April 17, 2014
CHARLES MAGNANTE - MOODS FOR MODERS
( From http://www.spaceagepop.com/ )
Charles Magnante was what you'd call an accordionist's accordionist. Three-time President of the American Accordion Association, Magnante helped raise the accordion from its image as a hokey folk instrument to recognition as a serious instrument capable of a wide range of styles. If it missed that mark in the popular eye and landed just this side of "Lady of Spain" hokeyness, the fault is certainly not Magnante's.
Although he got his start squeezing out (or, as the accordion's sex symbol, Dick Contino, puts it, humping out) "O Sole Mio" in Italian restaurants, Magnante steadily moved away from this stereotypical setting. For much of the 1940s, he was, with Tony Mottola on guitar and George Wright on organ, a fixture of CBS radio, providing the network with its own version of the early Three Suns. Like Mottola, he remained a member of the CBS musical staff for many years while working a steady series of studio sessions on the side. He also worked with musical publishers on instructional books and arrangements of popular and classical tunes for the accordion. More than a few Magnante arrangements are still considered standards for the instrument.
Magnante was certainly one of Enoch Light's favorite accordionists, for he was the only one Light featured as a performer on two of his three labels. Magnante recorded two albums on Grand Award and three on Command. Magnante stayed to conventional material on all of these, preferring to showcase his skills as an interpreter rather than his proficiency on the instrument. But, then, it's no small feat to tackle an airy little bossa nova number like "One Note Samba" on the accordion and not bludgeon it over into "Lady of Spain"-land. The gonifs at MCA, as conductor William Steinberg called them, did Magnante a disservice, then, in titling the double-LP reissue of his Command recordings Accordion Bellicosity. Magnante made art, not war, with his accordion.
He was born 7 December 1905 in New York City, New York and died on December 1986, in Westchester, New York. Here's a nice jazzy easy listening album from him that came out in 1959....
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Sunday, April 13, 2014
CATERINA VALENTE
Caterina Valente (born 14 January 1931, Paris, France) is an Italian singer,guitarist, dancer, and actress. She was born into an Italian artist family. Her father, Giuseppe, was a well-known accordion player; her mother, Maria, a musical clown. She had three siblings, one of whom, Silvio, was also active in show business....
Here are 3 great 7"es from here, latin, jazzy music, chancons and a killer version of Mack The Knife (in French)....
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Friday, April 11, 2014
Thursday, April 10, 2014
Wednesday, April 9, 2014
PARLIND GROUP - CINTA SUCI
Pretty obscure album here. Back in the 70's a lot of these kind of albums came out and a lot of these bands either sounded like Koes Plus or The Mercy's. These guys sound a lot like The Mercy's. Chinese Indonesian band, you don't see that too often. Not a bad album this one...
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PHILIPPINES - VARIOUS ARTISTS
Here's an album that was put out by the Ministry Of Tourism of the Philippines in 1979, pop songs, jazz, traditional music and folk music....
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Tuesday, April 8, 2014
ANONENONE - AKATONBO NO UTA
Can't really find any info on these guys, Japanese folk music mixed with comedy....
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Monday, April 7, 2014
Thursday, April 3, 2014
SHOWCASE PHASE 4 - VARIOUS ARTISTS
Great album with various artists playing jazz, exotica and latin music that came out in 1962....
A1 – Johnny Keating's Kombo - The Donkey Serenade
A2 – Ted Heath - Johnny One Note
A3 – Los Machucambos - Granada
A4 – International Pop All Stars - The Poor People Of Paris
A5 – Stanley Black - Caravan
B1 – Eric Rogers - Tiger Rag
B2 – Rudi Bohn - Mack The Knife
B3 – Edmundo Ros - My Old Kentucky Home
B4 – Ronnie Aldrich - Unforgettable
B5 – Werner Müller - You Are My Lucky Star
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Saturday, March 29, 2014
THE BIG BAY BAND'S LATIN BEAT
Francis Bay (Rijkevorsel, 1914 – Bonheiden, 2005)leader of some of the wildest big band ensembles of the space age pop era, Francis Bay started honing his chops at the young age of seven, playing clarinet with local orchestras in his area. By fourteen, he was already writing his own compositions and soon after, began a lifetime captivation with jazz. He won first prize for clarinet performance at the Conservatoire of Malines (Mechelen) in 1930, and later added saxophone and trombone to his repertoire. In the late 1930s, he played with several of the more successful European swing bands, including Paul Godwin's and Boyd Bachman's. He continued to work professionally during World War Two, mostly with Belgian and Dutch dance bands.
In the late 1940s, he helped form an influential European big band, the Skymasters. He also arranged and composed music for Dutch and German films and played with groups throughout northern Europe. Finally, in 1954, he formed his own big band, the group with which he came to greatest fame. Within its first year of existence, the band won the Golden Gondola award at the International Music Fair in Venice. Two years later, in 1956, Bay was selected to be director for popular music at Vlaams Radio-Televisie (the official Flemish radio and television network in Belgium).
Although Bay's band was quite popular on radio in Europe, it was the lucky coincidence of the 1958 World's Fair being held in Brussels that brought him to the attention of American audiences.
Bay's band shared the World's Fair stage with numerous major American jazz and pop stars, including Benny Goodman, and Omega, a small American jazz label, licensed a slew of Bay's Belgian recordings for release in the U.S. Unlike many European bands, which offered loving but pale imitations of American bands, Bay's not only produced flawless duplicates of hits by Basie, Glenn Miller, Tommy Dorsey, and others, but staked out their own territory as well. On his Latin-flavored recordings, Bay sounds like he could go head-to-head with Perez Prado in a battle of bands.
In addition to his many Omega albums, Bay also provided the material for a number of albums released on Directional Sound. Credited to "John Evans"--the Americanized name of his piano player, Jean Evans--or "Don Catelli"--these are certainly the best of an attractive and well-produced (if shoddily annotated) series of glossy gatefolds clearly targeted at the same market as Enoch Light's Command albums.
As American listeners' interest in jazz in general and European jazz in particular waned in early 1960s, Bay's albums vanished from the U.S. racks. His work in Belgium continued, however. He composed, arranged, and conducted music for dozens of shows on VRT, including everything from game shows to Belgium's annual competition for its entrant to the Eurovision Song Contest. When he retired in 1979, however, he cut off all ties with the network, refusing to return in the late 1990s for VRT's 50th anniversary celebrations.
He also made records using the names John Evans and Don Catelli...
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THE TRAVELERS
Here's an other album from Singapore's The Travelers and I think this is a movie-score, some pretty groovy music and quiet a bit of dialog (in Chinese)....
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Friday, March 28, 2014
THE ROYAL HAWAIIAN GUITARS WITH THE MERRY MELODY SINGERS - HAWAIIAN GOLDEN HITS
Great swinging EP from The Royal Hawaiian Guitars with The Merry Melody Singers and this one came out in 1962....
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REG GUITAR - GUITAR SOUND OF THE HIT TUNES VOL. 6
Reginald Verghese aka Reg Guitar was the lead guitarist of 60's Singapore band The Quest, he also made a load of solo albums and he was a pretty successful producer for EMI Singapore in the 70's....
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Wednesday, March 26, 2014
GEORGE DE FRETES - TJOK DE FRETES AND HIS LRONCONG HAWAIIAN
More great music from George de Fretes, unfortunately there's only music on the A side of this cassette....
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