Cobbles Completion

Soulbrotha of 4BB fame has brought us a fiiiiiine sounding rip of the final missing piece of the Cobblestone puzzle. And what a beautiful and punchy set it is. Ruth Brown has soul for days. Soulbrother, you are a prince among men! This completes the Cobblestone set and makes me smile, a lot :)

Here's what the man had to say:

I was the one who purchased the Ruth Brown album on Amazon. I love Ruth Brown ( I went to her funeral) and when you guys mentioned it in the comments I figured I would go ahead and purchase it. Unfortunately, the last track was scratched. I cleaned the tracks and tried my best to fix the skip, but no dice. I contacted the seller and he apologized and graciously gave me my money back and let me keep the album!

I love the album. It has a "live" feeling to it, just without the audience chatter. She begins each track with a spoken intro which gives it an intimate feel. My new Black History Month/Martin Luther King Day track is Hurricane Change. There's just something about her intro that feels so personal.

I think the reason that there is so little information about this album is because this was released in 1972, when she was trying to make a comeback. From the late 60's to the mid-70's, her career flat-lined and to feed her family, she joined the Head Start program and trained to be a beautician while working as a maid, a cashier, a nurse's aide AND a babysitter!! In the mid-70's Redd Foxx helped revive her career by casting her in bit parts on Sanford & Son. She also had recurring roles on two horrible sitcom bombs, Hello Larry and Checking In.

SOUL!

Eddie Harris - Bad Luck Is All I Have

This post is dedicated to my friend Efsun. She is the person the blog derived it's name from. I set the blog up as a joke to send her an album once because she couldn't find it anywhere online.

The other day she hipped me to the last track on this. I dug it a lot. I thought I should hear what the rest of the LP sounded like but it appeared to be missing from blogland.

Soulseek came to the rescue once again!

It gets a fairly bad press from AMG (usually a sign of something good when it comes to the freakier side of jazz) and a couple of other sites around the web. Personally, I think it's just great. It's real loose and dirty in parts. In some places it's pretty darn uplifting. Have a listen for yourself and see what you think.

Thanks Efsun!

MagicHappyTurk

Amiri Baraka - It's Nation Time

I just stumbled across this one whilst on a random musical tangent looking for some new spiritual jazz to dig on. From seeing the sleeve art and reading the few bits of info that I managed to find online about it I knew I needed to hear this disc... badly. I couldn't find it on any blogs or by using any of the usual google based searching methods. So I turned to soulseek, and once again it came to the rescue when I thought all hope was lost. Patiently, I watched the 43 minutes or so pass as it downloaded at 25kbps. I then listened to it in it's entirety. 'Ah what bliss, another gem,' I thought when it had finished. Having not found it on any blog or via the usual methods, I thought it would be a sin to withold such a gem from the blogging community and went about my way rar-ing it up and then typed mediafire.com into my browser. But, by total instinct before I started to upload it I went over to winamp and right clicked one of the tracks in the playlist and clicked 'view file info.' In the comments section of the file tags it said 'vinyl rip by zubzub.' 'That sounds familiar,' I thought. 'Who is this zubzub?', so I typed that into google and came across this. It had been posted in blog land after all! The great but sadly inactive Magic Of Juju was the blog responsible.

zubzub, if you're out there, you're missed. Thanks for all the awesome shares over the years. I especially dug the world stuff you posted... and of course, gems like this :)

New Human!

Mrs 'Suru popped out a baby on sunday morning at 3am. Quite a wonder she is, too. She goes by the name of lily (still can't decided on one l or two) I'm over the moon right now!! Can't wait to get her started on listenin' to all the cosmic and funky grooves found on the blogs listed at the right and all the others I have forgotten to add. That's gotta be a good foot to start off in the world, eh? What LPs do you all think would be good for a newborn?

Peace to all Jazzy People!

:D x a quadrillion!

Missing Cobbles

The set is almost complete! Just two more hidden stones to find...

9004 Freddie McCoy - Gimme Some!












and the illusive 9007 Ruth Brown - The Real Ruth Brown (I can't even find a pic for this one)

If anyone knows their whereabouts, please call 1800 - cobbles

Get yer shoes 'n' socks on!

and head over to






for some cobbly treats!

Eric Kloss - Doors

Some serious groovin' goin' on here. Mr Kloss reaching far out on his sax with some unbelievable rhodes work from Neal Creque. It's the title track that really does it.

Doors