NO ROOM FOR SQUARES JAZZ OR ISIT?-SESSION 34, afroba , Reading-13th OCT 2006. SECOND FRIDAY EACH MONTH. PLAYLIST / NEWSLETTER.
Well the move to a friday certainly seems to have worked, even though the original groundrules are being breached a little and my interpretation of a boombastic jazz style is being stretched to the very limit. It was a packed bar virtually all night with a very busy start, a slightly quiet middle and a very busy end to the evening with music to reflect just that. The requests I was being asked for early on I did not have with me but a quick trip back to the shop soon solved that and War and Gil Scott-Heron therefore got turntabled. The interest in the tunes was about as good as it gets with a build to the evening of TUNE 2,000 at 10.45. Also as we move into a new scheme of things for the evening this playlist will change format and become a double page layout with the tunes now being listed one to a line for ease of reading. There will also be a longer preamble closer to the newsletter that I hand out on the night.
Right, Lets take tune 2,00 first which I got to via playing TUNE 500/TUNE 1,000 prior to it. The newsletter hinted that it would be British, be a well known tune-if not the version, and would be by someone I had met. It would also reflect the night, ie slightly more commercial. By a great coincidence the day after I chose it eight days earlier, it got turntabled the following night at the KPM session in the interval at the Jazzcaf, plus John Cameron the arranger conducted a piece on the same evening so fate was on my side. Therefore between the three tunes-Coltrane, proper jazz-Dee Dee Bridgewater, more mainstream, and TUNE 2,000, Whole Lotta Love by session geezers supreme CCS, very commercial, I hope to balance the evening in future. Tune 2,000 went down so well I got asked later to repeat it. All this fitted with the evenings other "special", some KPM/Music Library stuff to pay homage to the BEST gig I have ever been to the previous friday. Hawkshaw/Mansfield/Bennett etc. were in the most cracking of form making the KPM Music Library Allstars, Megastars. Bless them. Their tunes I turntabled are marked with a *. The rest of the "planned" part of the evening took in some faves from previous sessions, Blue Note, Britjazz, Skajazz and some Film/TV tunes. The rest I just "improvised" or "jockeyed" as is the case. So lets hope that this cracking start to the second friday session was not just a blip and that we can maintain it, and if you want to know why I played Everlasting Love you will have to come along to the TRIP on SATURDAY OCTOBER 28th when more music library gets played as well as vintage music on vinyl across an even larger canvas.........BCNU/ Jim ( DJ BABY BOOMER )
*PETE MOORE...ASTEROID -With Eddie Piller starting his show with it. Spooky! MOS DEF...UMI SAYS
TORTOISE...tnt
WAR...SLIPPING INTO DARKNESS
HERBIE HANCOCK..PALM GREASE
MINNIE RIPPERTON...LES FLEUR
MILES DAVIS...SO WHAT
ROTARY CONNECTION..BLACK GOLD OF THE SUN
ROY AYERS..EVERYBODY LOVES THE SUNSHINE
CHARLIE ROUSE..BACKWOODS ECHO ( SERTAO )
TERRY CALLIER..LOVE THEME FROM SPARTACUS/4HERO MAIN MIX
NINA SIMONE..SEELINE WOMAN ( MAW MIX )
BILLIE HOLLIDAY..STRANGE FRUIT ( TRICKY MIX )
JIMMY SMITH..LETS STAY TOGETHER
DONNY HATHAWAY...I LOVE THE LORD, HE HEARD MY CRY etc.
COURTNEY PINE..CHILDREN OF THE GHETTO
CUTEE B....CHARLIES ANGELS
ROY BUDD..GET CARTER
LAMB..COTTON WOOL ( FILA BRAZILIA MIX )
WAGON CHRIST..INSIDE OUT
SUN RA..SPACE IS THE PLACE
GRANT GREEN..A DAY IN THE LIFE
GANGSTARR...JAZZ MUSIC
US 3..CANTALOOP ( NELLEE HOOPER MIX )
GRANT GREEN...LET THE MUSIC TAKE YOUR MIND
ELLA FITZGERALD...I HEARD IT THROUGH THE GRAPEVINE
BERNARD PURDIE...SHAFT
MAYNARD FERGUSSON...CHAMELEON
HERBIE HANCOCK...CHAMELEON
*KEITH MANSFIELD...GRANDSTAND
*ALAN HAWKSHAW...GRANGE HILL
*MIKE VICKERS...MATCH OF THE DAY
DJ SHADOW...WHAT DOES YOUR SOUL LOOK LIKE
HERBIE HANCOCK...THIS IS ROB SWIFT
PHAROAH SANDERS...OUR ROOTS BEGAN IN AFRICA
ST. GERMAIN...ROSE ROUGE
BEGGAR AND CO....SOMEBODY HELP ME OUT
SIVUCCA..AIN'T NO SUNSHINE-LIVE
MARLENA SHAW...WOMAN OF THE GHETTO
KELLEE PATERSON...MAIDEN VOYAGE
DJ TAKEMURA...DEDICATE TO THE SUN
ERIC DOLPHY/OLIVER NELSON...MARCH ON MARCH ON-My nostalgia tune.
TUNE 1998-JOHN COLTRANE...A LOVE SUPREME
TUNE 1999-DEE DEE BRIDGEWATER...AFRO BLUE
TUNE 2,000- CCS ( ALEXIS KORNER/JOHN CAMERON )...WHOLE LOTTA LOVE
RAY BARRETTO...SOUL DRUMS
ROLANDO AL...SONG FOR MY FATHER
TOMMY McCOOK...LOCKJAW
ROLANDO AL...EL TORO
3 SOUNDS...FEVER
TULLIO DE PISCOPE..STOP BAJON
4 HERO...BLACK GOLD OF THE SUN
JANICE JOPLIN...TO LOVE SOMEBODY (Hot Tune)
ROTARY CONNECTION...BLACK GOLD OF THE SUN
NINA SIMONE...JUST LIKE A WOMAN
DAVID BOWIE...ALADDIN SANE
MICHEL LEGRAND...THE THOMAS CROWN AFAIR THEME
SCHOOL DAZE SOUNDTRACK...WE'VE ALREADY SAID GOODBYE ETC.
TIMI YURO...FEVER
DREAM WARRIORS...MY DEFINITION OF A BOOMBASTIC JAZZ STYLE
FREEEZ...SOUTHERN FREEEZ Plus CCS, AGAIN
LOVE AFFAIR...EVERLASTING LOVE
GIL SCOTT HERON...THE BOTTLE
MONGO SANTAMARIA...WATERMELON MAN
HILTON RUIZ..SIDEWINDER...THATS ALL FOLKS !
NO ROOM FOR SQUARES IS A "JAZZISNOTAFOURLETTERWORD" PROD
