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Nuyorican Soul - Nuyorican Soul
Monday 13 June 2011
Salsa, Latin, soul, house and jazz: Nuyorican Soul.
The brainchild of Masters at Work, Kenny ‘Dope’ Gonzalez and ‘Little’ Louie Vega, Nuyorican Soul was an outlet for the house producers’ jazzier, old-school tendencies. Picked up Gilles Peterson’s Talkin’ Loud imprint, the album created an enormous impact across UK radios and clubs throughout 1996 and 97.
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Jamiroquai - The Return of the Space Cowboy
Tuesday 31 May 2011
Captures this first phase of Jamiroquai at their very best.
When Jason ‘Jay Kay’ Cheetham and his band appeared in 1992 as part of the acid jazz movement, they were viewed with a great deal of suspicion by the rock and soul cognoscenti. Aside from their leader’s silly hat, they – keyboard player Toby Smith, bassist Stuart Zender, drummer Derrick McKenzie and Wallis Buchanan on didgeridoo – seemed too arriviste; he was a showbiz child (his mother is comedienne Karen Kay), had bad boy credentials and a deep love for Stevie Wonder’s music. Naming his band after a combination of ‘jam session’ and the Iroquois Indians, theirs was a weird, stoned funk that sounded like some lost album from 1972.
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