Recommendations
Ok well in the Jazz/Funk forums - all we get is "What's some good Funk" or "Recommend me Jazz" all the time and it just feels like your repeating yourself everyday.
Well to make sure this doesn't happen again - I have made this thread so that everyone can post their favourite funk/Jazz artists followed by songs that you would recommend. Also feel free to put in as much extra info on the artist as you wish eg. recommended albums, bio, why you like the artist, if you like this artist you'll probably like.....etc etc. Also state what genre the artist fits into. Ok i'll start - [SIZE=4][U][B]James Brown[/B][/U][/SIZE] [B]Soul/Funk[/B] [B]Recommended songs -[/B] Sex Machine Papa's got a brand new bag Living in America I feel Good I'm a Soul Man It's a Man's World Soul Power The Big Payback [B]Recommended album[/B] - Live at the Apollo [B]If you like this artist you will probably like-[/B] Curtis Mayfield and Isaac Hayes. etc etc Feel free to put in as many recommendations as you want. :cool: |
Odd . . . I think I've seen this thread before :p .
I agree with you, though, that's all I see any more in this forum. [U][B]Infectious Grooves[/B][/U] Thrash Funk [B]Recommended Songs[/B] Cousin Randy Violent & Funky Fame [B]Recommended Album[/B] Sarsippius's Ark [B]Similiar Artists[/B] Primus Freekbass Kool & the Gang [B]Others[/B] Victor Wooten Jaco Pastorius Commodores Ohio State Players Bootsy Collins Here's my contribution, AfroMan II. Hope this stops the barrage of clone threads. :D |
[U][COLOR=Purple][SIZE=4][B]Funkadelic[/B][/SIZE][/COLOR][/U]
[B]Funk/Groove[/B] [B]Recommended Songs[/B] Freak of the Week You Hit The Nail On The Head Holly Wants to Go To California Red Hot Mama [B]Recommended Album[/B] Uncle Jam Wants You [B]Other Artists[/B] Parliament Defunk |
It's true, there have been loads of 'official' funk threads and jazz threads. Only the jazz ones ever get stickied though, so the funk ones keep on coming. Can we please have one stickied?
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just about to ask that
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Well if we had a mod this would get stickied straight away but the chances of the Jazz/Funk forums getting a mod are pretty slim.
I know this kind of thread has been done before but there just seems to be an excess of people looking for this kind of thread at the moment. Try and keep it alive and available:thumb: |
I posted in the site forum yesterday about this being pinned. It could be a really useful thread.
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I've not been here for months... does jazz/funk STILL need a mod? I thought at least one of the regulars could have the potential to be modded. It got way out of hand with constant request threads and not much else, and you really need one
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I don't mean to be mean or anything, but let's try and keep this thread to recommendations. :thumb:
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[U][COLOR=Purple][SIZE=4][B]Parliament[/B][/SIZE][/COLOR][/U]
[B]Funk[/B] [B]Recommended Songs[/B] Give Up The Funk Flashlight Chocolate City Up For the Down Stroke What Comes Funky [B]Recommended Album[/B] Chocolate City [B]Other Artists[/B] Bootsy Collins George Clinton and the Parliament Funkadelic |
The new wave of jazz/funk posters are seeing the problems now :-p
Hopefully this thread works out better than the last official ones. It would really help the forums. |
[U][B][SIZE=4]Bootsy Collins[/SIZE][/B][/U]
[B]Funk[/B] [B]Songs[/B] Hollywood Squares Ahh...The Name is Bootsy, Baby Id Rather Be with You Bootzilla Play With Bootsy [B]Album[/B] Back in the day:The Best of Bootsy [B]Similar Artists[/B] George Clinton Larry Graham |
[U][B][SIZE=4]Jaco Pastorius[/SIZE][/B][/U]
[B]Jazz/Fusion[/B] [B]Songs[/B] Donna Lee Come On, Come Over Kuru/Speak like a Child Portrait of Tracy (Used to be a) Cha Cha Amerika The Chicken Punk Jazz Slang [B]Album[/B] Jaco Pastorius [B] Similar Artists[/B] Weather Report Richard Bona Stanley Clarke |
[U][COLOR=Green][SIZE=4][B]Commodores[/B][/SIZE][/COLOR][/U]
[B]Funk/Groove[/B] [B]Recommended Songs[/B] Won't You Come Dance With Me Funny Feelings Funky Situation Fancy Dancer Machine Gun Brick House [B]Recommended Album[/B] The Commodores |
[SIZE=4][U][B]Jelly Roll Morton[/B][/U][/SIZE]
[B]New Orleans Jazz[/B] [B]Songs[/B] Mushmouth Shuffle Strokin' Away West End Blues Thought I heard Buddy Bolden Say Climax Rag 1 [B]Album[/B] 1923-1924 [B]Similar artists[/B] Fats Waller Art Hodes Eubie Blake Rarely mentioned in the forums, which is a shame as he was a true Jazz legend. RIP Jelly Roll Morton(1890-1941) |
Ok, so here it is for all you funk rockers out there.
This is the only funk rock post im going to put in here so if ive missed anyone significant please notify me. [COLOR=Red][SIZE=4][B]Primus[/B][/SIZE][/COLOR] [B]Songs[/B] Tommy the Cat My Name is Mud DMV Jerry Was a Racecar driver [B]Album[/B] Sailing the Seas of Cheese [COLOR=Red][SIZE=4][B]Red Hot Chili Peppers[/B][/SIZE][/COLOR] [B]Songs[/B] Funky Monks Blackeyed Blonde Give it Away Mellowship slinky in B Major Aeroplane Stone Cold Bush Can't Stop Skinny Sweaty Man By the Way [SIZE=1]Please note these are some funk rock songs - don't complain about there being no Under the Bridge or Scar Tissue. Thank you[/SIZE] [COLOR=Red][B][SIZE=4]Rage Against the Machine[/SIZE][/B][/COLOR] [B]Songs[/B] Take the Power Back Renegades of Funk Bullet in the Head Guerilla Radio Calm Like a Bomb Killing in the Name Know your enemy [B]Album[/B] Rage Against the Machine [COLOR=Red][SIZE=4][B]Fishbone[/B][/SIZE][/COLOR] [B]Songs[/B] Party at Ground Zero Ma and Pa Freddie's Dead Lyin *** bitch Cholly [B]Album[/B] Truth and Soul [SIZE=4][COLOR=Red][B]Faith No More[/B][/COLOR][/SIZE] [B]Songs[/B] Epic Arabian Disco Anne's Song From out of Nowhere [B]Album[/B] The Real Thing [B][COLOR=Red][SIZE=4]Incubus[/SIZE][/COLOR][/B] [B]Songs[/B] Speak Free Redefine Vitamin Glass You Will Be a Hot Dancer Trouble in 421 [B]Album[/B] S.C.I.E.N.C.E Ok that's enough for just now. Im sure there will be a few elitests who will complain about this but there is a large majority of mxers still looking for recommendations like this. |
[SIZE=7][COLOR=DarkOrange]MICKEY AND THE SOUL GENERATION[/COLOR][/SIZE]
Tunes: Ironleg We Got to Make a Change Give Everybody Some Album: Ironleg: The Complete Mickey and the Soul Generation (Cali-Tex) Compiled by DJ Shadow from tracks recorded between 1969 and 1977. Lovingly researched, documented and remastered. A must for anyone interested in funk music, and a great study in how funk evolved over this period from groove-driven r'n'b to more progressive, fusion-esque styles. |
[SIZE=4][COLOR=DeepSkyBlue][U][B]Earth, Wind & Fire[/B][/U][/COLOR][/SIZE]
Popular Funk [B]Recommended Songs[/B] Saturday Nite Imagination Boogie Wonderland Let's Groove [B]Recommended Album[/B] Spirit |
[b]John Coltrane[/b]
Post-Bop/Avant-Garde Jazz (Tenor/Soprano Sax) [b]Recommended Songs[/b] India Resolution My Favorite Things Giant Steps Naima Impressions [b]Recommended Albums[/b] A Love Supreme Impressions My Favorite Things Ascenscion |
And just for the record, RHCP - okay, not funk, but very funky. Incubus, funky as well. Rage Against The Machine? What? WHAT? I just don't get it.
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[SIZE=3][COLOR=LemonChiffon][B]DESCO RECORDS[/B][/COLOR][/SIZE]
[COLOR=LemonChiffon]Funk[/COLOR] Breaking with tradition and featuring a label rather than a band.... This label was founded in the late 90's by Phillipe Lehman and Gabriel Roth, purely to record and release new funk records. 7" singles sold out almost the instant they were shipped, but LPs and CDs can still be found (if you search).... Artists: The Soul Providers Sugarman 3 Lee Fields The Daktaris The Mighty Imperials Singles: Who's The King - Joseph Henry Steam Train - Lee Fields 41st Street Breakdown - Naomi Watts **** It's Hot - Sharon Jones Papa's Got A Brand New Bag - Sugarman 3 NB: All 7" singles were released on compilation CDs Spike's Choice and Spike's Choice vol 2 LPs: Gimme The Paw - The Soul Providers Sugar's Boogaloo - Sugarman 3 Soul Donkey - Sugarman 3 Let's Get A Groove On - Lee Fields The Label shut down and Lehman and Roth went their seperate ways - Lehman went on to establish Soul Fire records (specialising in lo-fi, heavy, progressive funk and afro-beat), and Roth went on to form Daptone records (more of a retro r'n'b funk revue kind of sound). |
[QUOTE=BirdsOfFires]Rage Against The Machine? What? WHAT? I just don't get it.[/QUOTE]
They have a funk influence, particularly in the rhythms they used. |
[B][SIZE=4]Victor Wooten[/SIZE][/B]
[B]Solo Bassist/Funk/Jazz[/B] [B]Songs[/B] Me & My Bass Guitar Classical Thump When I want to get funky You Can't Hold no Groove A Show of Hands Amazing Grace Overjoyed [B]Album[/B] A Show of Hands [B]Similar Artists[/B] Stu Hamm Marcus Miller Avon Lucas |
[SIZE=5]Freddie Hubbard[/SIZE]
Hard-Bop/Post-Bop Recommended Songs (as a leader): Straight Life Marie Antoinette Povo The Outpost Blues Recommended Songs (as a sideman): "Witch Hunt" by Wayne Shorter "Oliloqui Valley" by Herbie Hancock "Hat And Beard" by Eric Dolphy Recommended Albums (as a leader): [i]Straight Life[/i] [i]Hub-Tones[/i] [i]Ready For Freddie[/i] [i]Red Clay[/i] Recommended Albums (as a sideman): [i]Empyrean Isles[/i] by Herbie Hancock [i]Out To Lunch[/i] by Eric Dolphy [i]Speak No Evil[/i] by Wayne Shorter |
[I][U][B]John McLaughlin:[/B][/U][/I]
[I]Jazz Fusion[/I] [B]Songs:[/B] Acid Jazz The life divine (Mahavishnu) The Love Supreme (Mahavishnu) Naima (Mahavishnu) Birds of Fire (Mahavishnu) India (Shakti) Lotus Feet (Shakti) Isis (Shakti) The Wish (Shakti) [B]Albums:[/B] Love, Devotion, Surrender (Mahavishnu) Birds fo Fire (Mahavishnu) Eggo will know some more. |
One song I would add to Incubus is Azwethinkweiz
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[SIZE=5]Clifford Brown[/SIZE]
Hard Bop Trumpeter Recommended songs: "Joy Spring" "The Blues Walk" "Jordu" "Daahoud" "Cherokee" Recommended Albums: [i]Clifford Brown & Max Roach[/i] [i]Study In Brown[/i] |
[SIZE=5]Lee Morgan[/SIZE]
Hard bop Trumpeter Recommended Songs (as a leader): "Cornbread" "Most Like Lee" "Ceora" Recommended songs (as a sideman): "A Night In Tunisia" by Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers "Moanin'" by Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers "Locomotion" by John Coltrane Recommended Albums (as a leader): [i]Cornbread[/i] Recommended Albums (as a sideman): [i]A Night In Tunisia[/i] by Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers [i]Moanin'[/i] by Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers [i]Blue Train[/i] by John Coltrane |
[SIZE=5]Return To Forever[/SIZE]
fusion Recommended Songs: "Captain Marvel" "Spain" "What Game Shall We Play Today?" "Sometime Ago/La Fiesta" Recommended Albums: [i]Light As a Feather[/i] [i]Return to Forever[/i] [i]Romantic Warrior[/i] Feel free to add to this one, I'm only familiar with those 3 albums by this band. |
[SIZE=4][B]Louis Armstrong[/B][/SIZE]
[B]Jazz/Swing/Dixie Land[/B] [B]songs[/B] What a Wonderful World That Old Feeling Ain't Misbehavin' Mack the Knife Blueberry Hill Hello Dolly Feel free to add to this song list as he had a huge collection of songs and just naming so few doesn't do his full career justice. [B]Album[/B] All Time Greatest Hits [B] Similar artists[/B] Fats Waller Bing Crosby Jelly Roll Morton Bessie Smith |
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