Exploring vintage jazz vinyl with a focus on label and pressing details, discographical information and critical musings on the music found within the grooves.
Stanley Turrentine and Milt Jackson lead a group of ultra-talented players on one of the better early CTI recordings, with tracks that range from soulful hard bop to funky soul-jazz delight.
Read MoreMilt Jackson teams up with Ray Brown once again in the late-1960s, this time in a big band setting led by Brown to create an underrated album of funky and soulful jazz that will appeal to both fans of modern jazz and rare groove collectors alike.
Read MoreMontgomery takes the listener on a fuzzy bass journey into the esoteric world of early 1970s jazz albums, with an assist from The Crusaders' Joe Sample and Wayne Henderson.
Read MoreStarting with Black Byrd in 1973, Donald Byrd and the Mizell Brothers practically created a new sub-genre of jazz funk music, and 1974's Stepping Into Tomorrow may very well be the best of the albums that resulted from their amazingly consistent time working together.
Read MoreThe concept behind Layers is simple enough: McCann wanted to make an album of the sounds he was hearing in his head using only electronic keyboards, synthesizers and overdubbing. He recorded over rhythm tracks laid down by a group of percussionists who had previously accompanied him, and the resulting jazz record is quite unlike anything that had come before it.
Read MoreHampton Hawes spent 1972 through 1974 recording for Prestige Records where he explored the possibilities that electronic keyboards could provide in a jazz setting. David Axelrod serves as the arranger on the album, adding his unique set of funky skills as an arranger and producer to the proceedings.
Read MoreArt Farmer's Something You Got is not a record that will make anyone's list of classic or must-have jazz LPs, but it is nonetheless an excellent example of a late 1970s jazz funk recording by a true jazz legend.
Read MoreCanned Funk would be Joe Farrell's sixth (and second-to-last) album for CTI, and his last truly jazz-funk recording for the label. While it is not quite up to the awesome heights of his earlier CTI recordings, it is still a quality '70s funky outing that stays rooted in some excellent improvisation despite it's electric jazz and fusiony flourishes
Read MoreThe jazz world generally looks at Herbie Hancock's 1973 jazz-funk opus Head Hunters as the keyboardist's first foray into combining the world of funk, soul and R&B rhythms with jazz improvisation, but in fact it was four years earlier with Fat Albert Rotunda that Herbie showed how funky jazz music could really be
Read MoreThis record is a sweet little gem that came towards the end of Freddie Hubbard's time with CTI Records (it would be the second to last studio album he would cut for the label). It tends to get overlooked in the trumpeter's CTI discography, as his earlier electric jazz outings for Creed Taylor's imprint are generally the one's that get the most attention.
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