Perfect for a bit of Saturday morning grooving, we bring you mix #5 from our Macmillan Cancer Support fundraising drive. Faze Action’s Simon Lee dropped in last Sunday and raided his record collection to bring us this storming little set of jazzy gems. This one’s all over the place (in a good way) and there’s plenty of choice tunes to wax lyrical about. We kick off with some Burt Bacharach(!), take in the classic jazz dance of Dee Felice Trio and Johnny Lytle, surrender the (jazz) funk to George Duke and discover a bit of afro boogie (a new one on us, let us know if you can ID it!). Yambu’s killer ‘Sunny‘ moves us into the second part of the set before we get a little Hank Crawford ‘Sugar Free‘, a couple of Brazilian bits and the ever so funky disco boogie of Joe Thomas’ ‘Funky Fever‘.
As always, if you like the mix, feel free to favourite and share it, and more importantly if you want to help the charity, hop over to http://www.justgiving.com/thejazzmeet to make a small donation.
TRACKLIST
Burt Bacharach – South American Getaway
Dee Felice Trio – Nightingale
Johnny Lytle – Selim
George Duke – Look What You Find
Yambu – Sunny
Hank Crawford – Sugar Free
Claudette Soares – Eles Querem Amar
Joe Thomas – Funky Fever
FILE UNDER: Jazz / Latin / Brazilian / Disco Boogie