Passport - Looking Thru (1974) ( www.youtube.com )
German collective led by Klaus Doldinger on saxophone.
Galliano - Golden Flower ( www.youtube.com )
Before Jamiroquay there was Galliano.
St Germain - Montego Bay Spleen ( www.youtube.com )
Excuse me, another one from St Germain.
St Germain - Deep In It ( www.youtube.com )
From his album Boulevard, mid ‘90s
Herbie Hancock - Cantaloupe Island ( www.youtube.com )
Another Jazz standard…
Bonobo - Transmission 94 (Parts 1 & 2) ( www.youtube.com )
Simon Green known as Bonobo, this track from his Days to Come Album released in 2006. From mostly sequenced beats and samples in part 1 it transforms, trancends in part 2 to something very liberating, don’t know exactly how to express it.
Nduduzo Makhathini - Unonkanyamba ( www.youtube.com )
Blue Note Africa Records.
Wayne Shorter - The All Seeing Eye ( www.youtube.com ) Dutch
Co founder of Weather Report, died in 2023...his music will live on.
Weather Report - The Peasant ( www.youtube.com )
From their album Domino Theory. I was about 16 when I bought the vinyl, in boarding school my friend and me really into jazz fusion and jazz rock. I am a big fan of the late Zawinul. He did magical things with synthesizers I haven’t seen anyone else do. This is one of those tracks showing his unique style.
Miles Davis - Milestones ( www.youtube.com )
Originally this song was just called 'Miles'. From his 1958 album Milestones
Vintage Radio Jazz - Peaceful Melodies from a Magical Era ( youtu.be )
Galliano "Jazz?" ( www.youtube.com )
From the album 'A Joyful Noise Unto the Creator' 1992
Bonobo - Walk In The Sky ( www.youtube.com )
Life simply doesn't last
Frank Zappa - Twenty Small Cigars ( www.youtube.com )
From Chunga's Revenge
Mahavishnu Orchestra - You Know You Know (1971) ( www.youtube.com )
Sampled by Massive Attack on One Love and on Mos Defs track Kalifornia
Stanley Clarke - School Days ( www.youtube.com ) Dutch
Weather Report - Elegant People ( www.youtube.com )
1980's jam in my teens. Tribe called quest sampled the intro.
Kamasi Washington - Truth ( www.youtube.com )
TIL I dig this.