hello everyone,
This weekend I stopped by record store in somewhere,Maine and came up with a gaggle of funky records to ease my pain. I have no idea if they are rare or not, and many of the jackets are disfigured by their previouse owner (College radio stations are the predominant offenders here) What is remarkable here was the shear volume of bowel relaxing funkitude, and all for less than 6 bones(Except one sun ra white label promo record for $30 which i couldnt spring for this time). Their still remains a multitude of unsorted 45s and a dollar rack the size of many lesser record stores main collections. Keep in mind im mearly a waxhopper when it comes to diggin so this payload had me losing total control of my small intestine. Heres a partial list of what I found, maybe yall can shed some light as to the rareity...
1.The New Herd at Montery '74 (Japanese Jazz outfit with guests:Carl Tjader, Dizzy Gillespie,Jon Faddis, Mongo Santamaria, and more)
2.Charles Wright "Doing What Comes Naturally"
3.A Hero Aint Nothin but a Sandwhich :OST
(This sound track I took a risk on , and was
very pleased, its got some funk bangers to mash up the dance floor.)
4.Ramsey Lewis "Solar Wind", "Up Pops Ramsey Lewis", "Liquid Love", "Inside" , (i cant get enough pre '76 ramsey)
5.The Blues Project: Live at Town Hall
( I got this for the Electric version of Flute thing, rocks nicely along with the original LP version)
6.Kool Moe Dee "HOw you like me now" (Sealed copy)
7.Jerry Hahn "Moses" (Merl Saunders on OOrgan/synth)
8.Mirage- Avant Garde and Third Stream Jazz
(Compilation with a nice mingus track and some other wierd atmospheric stuff)
9.CannonBall Adderly "Inside Straight "(some real sick Axelrod production, I love this fucking record!),
"Music You ALL"
(another adderly/axelrod slab, not as funky as inside straight but has its moments.)
10.Ohio Players "Fire"
11.Gato Barbieri, "The Legend of Gato Barbieri". (the apearence of Lonnie smith and already possesing the Last Tango in Paris OST is what tipped me off to this reasonably funky LP)
12.Donald Byrd "Electric Byrd"
13.Live And Let Die OST ( This has a cool gatefold and some good bondsploitation grooves)
14.Stanley Turrentine "The Sugar Man"
(with Billy Cobham, Ron Carter, Idris, I knew this LP was a sure thing)
15.In the heat of the night :OST
( A little disapointing but a couple nice grooves here, not ultra funky)
16.Jimmy Smith "Groove Drops"
17.Herbie Hancock "Future Shock"
18.Love Unlimited "In Heat"
19.Lonnie Smith "Expansions"
12.The Crusaders "The Second Crusade"
13. The Stylystics "Rock and Roll baby"
(not really feelin this one too much yet)
14. Clarence Carter, selftitled LP
(feelin this about as much as the above stylistics LP, maybe these will grow on me)
Well that about wraps that up, in the next week or so ill put up some details of the soul jazz goldmine known as records I have "borrowed" from my college radio station...
thanks for humoring this inexpierienced yet enthusiatic diiger....
