Ana Mazzotti - 'Ninguém vai me segurar' (1974)

Great 1974 Brazilian album from Ana Mazzotti, featuring Azymuth as backup band with nice keys from José Roberto Bertrami.

Originally ripped for a blog that's disappeared. so here it is in WAV or- MP3 . Enjoy!

LaMont Johnson - "Thunderfist" OST (1973)

A follow-on from the last post, LaMont Johnson's "Nine : A Mystical Musical Allegory".

Blogger Fraykerbreaks responded to my search for the promo 7" single from LaMont Johnson's 1973"Thunderfist" kung fu soundtrack (which features Blue Mitchell) and posted it, but (2014 note) his post is long gone. so now I'm adding it here.

It has three great tracks on one side, and radio promos for the film on the other side. The single itself was initially just manufactured to be sent to radio stations. In this download,  I've added the movie's theme that I ripped from the VHS soundtrack.

Artisan Releasing Corporation was LaMont Johnson's own film production/distribution company. The music here was re-used in the 1978 Jim Kelly vehicle "Death Dimension".

Thus far, I can't find any evidence of a full soundtrack release for "Thunderfist" - the fragment of the film I've managed to see used the opening section of the Temptation's "Pappa Was a Rolling Stone" several times for action sequences after Johnson's opening theme.

Anyway, hope you enjoy it, and thanks to Fraykerbreaks for the original post.

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Track Of The Day : "Keep The Music Alive" - Yvonne Gray (1975)

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Amazing 1975 track from Yvonne Gray with piano, vibes, flute, dirty brass and building layers of percussion; and this powerhouse of a voice.

Give Yvonne the full four minutes - it's a builder - then grab the album from Dr Okeh's And it Don't Stop, nice 320 rip. He posted it back in May - I keep coming back to this track and at least two other killers with a similar lineup.

Please thank the good doktah for this medicine. Password is on his main page.

15 great rhodes albums

A reader recently asked me to give a "Top Ten" of rhodes albums. This is not that - I avoid things like 'Top Tens" because they change all the time for me – something I was excited about ten years ago, and might be sick of now, may be completely new and exciting to someone else - and also, I judge albums on overall criterion, not just on the "rhodes content".

If I was forced into a “Top Ten” of all time, I guess there’d be lots of Herbie Hancock, Lonnie Liston Smith, early Patrice Rushen etc. etc., and some albums from here like George Duke's "Inner Source" and Bill Evans' "Symbiosis"....

But instead, here's a random list of some rhodes-flavoured jazz albums I've recently been enjoying or re-listening to from other blogs over the past year, with a few classics thrown in as well.

So, not a top ten, but a random fifteen.

( 6-years-later note : files from dead blogs and dead posts now re-upped! )

“The Baron” - Baron Von Ohlen Quartet from Quimsy’s Mumbo Jumbo

"Hairpin Circus” – Masabumi Kikuchi from El Goog Ja

"Call" - Michael Naura,  from Ish

"Echoes" - Frank Cunimondo Trio

"Sagittarius" - Frank Cunimondo Trio

”Four Corners” – Second Direction originally from The Growing Bin and Forrealheadz

'73' -Ahmad Jamal 

”Three Days of the Condor" from Orgy in Rhythm

"Upendo Ni Pamoja" by Ramsey Lewis

Hadley Caliman  - "Iapetus" from Katonah

"De Prepo" - Jorge Lopez Ruiz


"Universe" - Hampton Hawes from Ish



"Pure Dynamite" by Buddy Terry
ripped by E-Mile

"Temple of Birth" by Jeremy Steig

"Poo Sun" - Masabumi Kikuchi