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'Slow Drag' was one of the last hard bop sounding albums Byrd made before following Miles Davis into jazz fusion. The jazz-funk tangent was where Byrd found his groove and this track shows why. At the time it was Blue Note's biggest ever selling release, even though the jazz Nazis hated it.
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Songwriting was his escape. In 1953 his first composition was released on 78 by Phillips with some success, and soon after he relocated to Paris. In 1954 'Jacques Brel et Ses Chansons' aka 'Jacques Brel 1', Brel's first album, was released in the very French format of a 25cm record.
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Plenty has been written and blogged about most all of the artists I've selected so their inclusion in this list says enough about how I feel about their music for now. For your added convenience I've also put all the tracks together in a zip file (see below).
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A feel-good upbeat episode of the Diddy Wah podcast for you right here. Just go to the 'Advanced' menu and pick the 'Subscribe to Podcast...' option, then type www.diddywah.lunarpages.net/podcast.xml right into the little box that opens and that's it, you're subscribed.
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In the liner notes to 1969's The Open Mind of John D. Loudermilk, Loudermilk states that he has "dedicated his life to reaching into the contemporary thinking of the man on the street", from that album, both 'More Than He'll Have To Give' and 'Brown Girl' are fine examples of that.
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Although all of the tracks posted today have strong driving rhythms and Can could easily be described as funky, I'm not sure if I would've viewed any of these experimental Germans as superfly enough for my tastes back then.
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