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Fatty Down - Cafe [2007]

This right here is the highly anticipated solo debut from from Fatty Down str8 outta Vancouver Island, BC, Canada holding it down proper like w/ Moka Only & crew. This album’s hot!! Feat. prod. by west coast legend Moka Only, & guest spots by: Moka, Suga D, Chantel Upshaw & more! Highly reccomended, don’t sleep on Fatty D!

Fatty Down ~ Puppetman

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Nate Harasim - Love’s Taken Over [2008]

It seems as though it was only last year that Nate Harasim burst onto the scene with his Next In Line debut - and indeed, it was. Nevertheless, the project faired well reaching the #5 spot on our in house end of the year list of favourites while the former US Navy rescue swimmer garnered the #1 spot as our break-thru artist for all of 2007. After landing a record deal, Harasim is now ready willing and able to build more broadly on that success with his sophomore release entitled Love’s Taken Over - from that forthcoming effort we have Feel The Love, the advance single!!

* Thanks 2 Rico from JazzTrax II *

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Quincy Jones - Q’s Jook Joint [1995]

Quincy Jones is like the Steven Spielberg of music; musician, producer, entreprenuer, you name it.
This is the fourth album in a quadruply (together with Body Heat, The Dude and Back On The Block) of amazing productions, a unique and once in a lifetime reunion of artistic talent. Like other Q albums, the magic formula is diversity, a perfex mix of R&B, jazz, pop, rap, it’s all here. In a way, it’s the same concept that Q “produced” into Michael Jackson’s thriller, making it one of the best albums of all time. Just some of the artist in perfect collaboration: Stevie Wonder, Ray Charles, Phil Collins, Gloria Estefan, Brandy, Bono, Luis Miguel, Toots Thielemans, Barry White, Stomp, Chaka Kahn, Take Six, Babyface, the list goes on…..
This album came out in 1995, alternative rock was still going strong then, and at the time it was underated??!!!Some critizized it as overblown and overly-produced. I can’t think of anybody today just getting artists of this caliber and history into the studio. Not to mention production and technical skill (WOW) this album sounds as if it was recorded yesterday (never outdated). It is a required listening and blueprint for aspiring music producers.

A true historic recording, a must have for any music collection

Quincy Jones - Back on the Block [1989]

The 80s were a very busy decade for Quincy Jones. Between 1979 and 1989 he not only produced three hit albums for Michael Jackson, he also produced hit albums for others, including George Benson, Donna Summer, James Ingram, Patti Austin, The Brothers Johnson, Rufus & Chaka Khan and Ernie Watts. In his 1990 documentary “Listen Up”, which documents a lot of the making of this particular album, Jones tells of how overwork and exhaustion ultimately led to a nervous breakdown and two separate aneurysms.

By the time he was ready to make this album, which he describes as his project of a lifetime, music was undergoing a revolution. Disco was long dead and buried, hip-hop was emerging as the predominant force and the smooth jazz-influenced beats Jones was reputed for were falling out of favor.

The production on this CD is stunning beyond belief. “Wee B. Dooinit”, featuring Siedah Garrett, Bobby McFerrin, Al Jarreau, Ella Fitzgerald, Take 6 and Sarah Vaughn is a completely acapella performance. McFerrin produced the percussion and bass sound effects and I still wonder exactly where Q placed the microphones.

There are some other great songs. “I’ll Be Good To You” featured lead vocals by Ray Charles and Chaka Khan. The album version was good enough but I remember getting the 12″ single which had the same backbeat as Soul II Soul’s “Keep On Movin’”. (Now THAT was a huge club hit). “The Places You Find Love” featured lead vocals from Chaka Khan and Siedah Garrett, with background vocals from Howard Hewitt, Jennifer Holiday, James Ingram, Dionne Warwick, Luther Vandross and the Andrae Crouch Singers among others.

This album is also noted for introducing the world to (the then angelic-voiced) Tevin Campbell. He did the tearjerking “Tomorrow (Better You, Better Me)” with background vocal help from the `children’s choir’. And last but by no means least, the album also produced the perennial slow dance song, “The Secret Garden”, featuring El DeBarge, James Ingram, Al B. Sure! and Barry White. That one still moves people to this day.

Quincy Jones - The Dude [1981]

This CD delights us with hits such as “One Hundred Ways” and “Just Once” (with James Ingram on vocals) and guest jazz artists and musicians, the likes of vocalists Patti Austin and James Ingram, percussionist Paulinho Da Costa and pianist Herbie Hancock, and the great Toots Thielemans showcasing his unique talent on harmonica, among many others.

This is his best ’solo’ output though, smooth as silk and as cool as cucumber. Not a note out of place and everything as clear as crystal, with horns crisp and tight. Patti Austin provides the lead vocals for four out of the nine tracks here: “Betcha’ Wouldn’t Hurt Me”, “Somethin’ Special”, “Razzamatazz” and “Turn On The Action”. Q’s new find James Ingram provides lead vocals for three: “The Dude”, the classic “Just Once” and “One Hundred Ways”. “Velas” is a magnificent jazz piece by the harmonica player, “Toots” Thielemans and the opener, “Ai No Corrida” is lead by Charles May and someone introduced to us as “Dune”. I wonder if anyone ever heard from HIM again?

The ex-Heatwave front man Rod Temperton wrote three out of the nine and co-wrote one. Stevie Wonder contributed one he co-wrote with Stephanie Andrews and I heard the rest were either brought to Q’s attention or he searched through a batch of songs (as producers do), until he had found the exact ones he wanted.

Quincy Jones - Body Heat [1974]

This whole album always sounded like a conceptual soundtrack or score for a stage production. I always visualized Arthur Murray or Martha Graham arranging a dance project to go with this album. The arrangements are superb on every track…the lyrics of the songs are beautifully phrased.I first heard this album back in 1974 and was impressed by the tremendously emotional vocals of Bernard Ighner on the track “Everything Must Change’ (very much like Billy Eckstines baritone voice). The vocals on this song give way to a hauntingly clandestine mute trumpet solo, a la Miles Davis. The result is an ultimately ‘cool’ laid back idyllic journey which carries you away from all your troubles! The song “Just a Man” is very similar in it’s effect. This song is strongly gospel inflected with some stunning harmonies.
This cd has the best ever version of this song.(I realize that George Benson later covered the song as did Randy Crawford.) The other track that blew me away was the stunning version of “If I Ever Lose This Heaven”…Minnie Riperton was at her best on this track. (her untimely death still leaves a huge void in the music world ). The arrangements ,again,are wonderful especially on the Benny Golson song “Along came Betty”
All in all this c.d . has everything on it, from low down ‘n’ dirty funk( as on “Boogie Joe, The Grinder”) to cool soulful jazz and even when I play it today I find it still hasn’t lost any of its excitement or feeling from 1974!

Quincy Jones ~ Slow Jams

* Thanks Q for being a Great Mentor and My Friend *

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