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Smooth Groovers Podcast - Season 3 - Episode 14

May 4th, 2008 by Dr Groove

Welcome our latest exciting Season 3 Episode

We’re almost half way through our current season!

Just a reminder, you can listen to the Podcast from i-tunes, Podfeed or by clicking on the play button below:


Or,
Download here for all MP3 Players
 

This week’s Newies include:

An unreleased track from Michael Jackson’s Thriller Sessions from over 25 years ago and Fergie (a semi-newie!) from her recent CD entitled, The Dutchess. On that latter, check out a new take on the famous Morning Dance.

This week’s MySpace Review section includes:

Patrick Yandall with 200watts
Patrick’s influences include, Larry Carlton,  Pat Metheny, George Benson, Jimi Hendrix,  Jeff Lorber, Eric Clapton, and Jimmy Page.

E. Bland with Talk To Me
He is an artist who brings you the fresh flavor of neo-soul and the classic comfort of smooth rhythm & blues. With rich sounds, raw lyrics, and REEL MUSIC, as it says on his website. You can also visit him at his Myspace account.

PatrickGriffin with Pony Tails
From a beautiful album entitled Voices from Beyond. This CD is a family tribute to Patrick’s sister, Julie, a mother of two small children and a selfless tender loving person who was the only girl of her siblings. She sadly passed away 1998 in the most terrible and tragic circumstances which you can read about at: http://www.oursisterjulie.com
You can listen to a selection of music from this incredible 10 track album on
http://www.myspace.com/grifmx. You will also notice that the musicians are family members and get a real inspirational feel from this awesome music.
We read that each piece is inspired by a small slice of Julie’s life and hopefully these small musical notes can help memorialize Julie so others can share in her sincere warm personality. We also read from the site, ‘I feel that their love for Julie has a presence in their music, as it is in their ten year struggle for justice.We also recommend that you visit Patrick’s Website: http://www.grifmusic.com where you can read that ‘The real trouble with reality is that there’s no background music.’ Thanks Patrick and all family members for sending us you wonderful music and we will certainly be playing
another track in the weeks to come.

This week’s Moments and Whatnot’s is from Mike Cooper.
He suggested that we play a track by Peter White as it reminds him of the time when  he went to Spanish guided tour. He was grateful to reach a beach resort after 2 hours of watching the on-board Flamingo videos. Anyway, when he stayed at
a beach resort for a couple of days he remembered that he had this song playing on his ipod making him feel good in the Sun.

This week’s Bring in Back Section includes:

Incognito
Patrice Rushen
George Benson and Al Jarreau check George out at:
http://www.georgebenson.com and
http://www.myspace.com/georgebensonmusic
Richard Elliot - Please visit Richard at: http://www.richardelliot.com and http://www.myspace.com/richardelliotjazzman
NB That latter track is from Richard’s CD entitled: ‘’Jumpin’ Off’ and you will
notice that it features the awesome talent of Peter White.

We hope you enjoyed this week’s show and look forward to your company soon.

Much love and Thanks for all your
messages and support.

Regards

Dr Groove and Professor Smooth

 

                       

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Smooth Groovers Podcast - Season 3 - Episode 13

April 20th, 2008 by Dr Groove

Welcome our latest exciting Season 3 Episode

Back for another week of smooth grooves, soul, funk and more!

Just a reminder, you can listen to the Podcast from i-tunes, Podfeed or by clicking on the play button below:


Or,
Download here for all MP3 Players

In this week’s newies we
include:

Madonna feat Justin Timberlake and Timbaland - certainly a hot single from her
up and coming CD entitled coincidently: ‘Hot Candy’. We have featured Madonna
before, way back when she released a track based on the Donna Summer rift, ‘I
feel love’. Anyway, although commercial this track has a great buzz to it
creating an instance get up on the dance floor factor!

Sam Sparro - It really grows on you and it is one of those tracks that stays in
your head. With almost 5 different mixes available from itunes. Personally, I
really like the ‘Kings of the Universe mix’.

The Myspace review section includes:

Electronic Jazz Ensemble - Bandwidth 

"Where the future meets urban jazz"
"One of the most innovative band sites on the web!!"

Their main website is :
http://www.ejeband.com

EJE are an Urban Jazz group based out of Los Angeles. Members are Kevin Keith on bass guitar, guitar and vocals and David "Fingers" Haynes on Live Drum Machine

Terry Disley Side to Side

A few weeks ago we had a really nice track from former keyboardist and composer
with Acoustic Alchemy, Terry Disley and here is another one called ‘Side to Side’ Terry’s debut CD (with his new band) called "Experience." The track was entered into a competition on KKSF Radio 103.7 - the Bay Areas Smooth jazz station, and received the most votes by a long way.

We are grateful to Hilde from Norway for this week’s Moments and Wotnots
This week: Chico Hamilton

In Bring it Back we include:

Webster Lewis from the 1981 album called Let Me Be The One.

Michael Jackson - Continuing with an upbeat style here’s one of several remixes that appeared on a UK released CD single of 1991. - and originated as a funkier track on an album called ‘Dangerous’ - but this version is much Smoooother…

Lighthouse Family with a wonderful relaxing and gentle interpretation of the classic track. The distinctive sound of the Lighthouse family is missed. However, in an earlier season we did feature the lead singer Tunde.

Nitin Sawhney from the 2003 CD Downloads.
If you love Spanish guitar & inspirational words you will love this track. Nitin is what we would describe as innovative, original and has the skill to really blend diverse cross-cultural sounds. This track is especially smooth. Going back to the words - I think we all have a chance for the rainfall of negativity to stop. Be sure to checkout his MySpace site too.

Finally one of our fav’s: Roy Ayers

Thanks for everyone’s support.

Remember you can still get merchandise to help support this free show and our
license fees.

Until next time…All the Best from the Doc and the Prof…

 

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Smooth Groovers Podcast - Season 3 - Episode 12

April 6th, 2008 by Dr Groove

Welcome our latest exciting Season 3 Episode

- Happy to bring you our love for Smooth Jazz, Funk and Soul!

Just a reminder, you can listen to the Podcast from i-tunes, Podfeed or by clicking on the play button below:


Or,
Download here for all MP3 Players

This week’s Newies includes:

Paul Hardcastle - Paul is back with a
sensational new CD, 5 . I found the CD a return to his consistent style of smooth mellow sounds. Check out 16 of his brand new tracks. I especially love: The Return of the Rainman, the single : Lucky Star and if you love vibes: Marimba.

Tawiah - A brand new artist.We believe that this is an extremely layered track.
We recommend is that you listen to it a few times, then we are sure you will be hooked.

This week’s Myspace review includes:

Shante - Be Like You
This is another, track sent by Soul & Jazz-Funk writer /producer & musician Don Manor. Shante was born and raised in Cincinnati, Ohio in the United States and sings straight from the Heart & Soul. ”Be Like You’ is from her debut EP called
‘Shante: Be Like You’.

No Limits-
Chcialabym Powiedziec
No limits are a band from Poland that first appeared on season 2 episode 19.

Far Far Away-
TapeFive
Far Far Away was originally a pop hit in 1974 by the band - ‘Slade’. Tape Five’s New album is called ‘Bossa For A Coup’. It is available from Tunes Ltd , Amazon, and iTunes and their website is www.tapefive.com

We Thank Stella for her Moments and Whatnot.
This week we feature: Eddie Henderson. Stella says it is simply her favourite track from her student days in 1977. An amazing track from a trumpeter who had an informal lesson from Louis Armstrong at the age of 9.
He also served with the air force for 3 years and is a medical doctor.

Our Bring it Back section includes:

Beverley Knight from her CD Burn
Sadao Watanabe
- This comes from Sadao’s 1991 CD called Sweet Deal.
Gerald Albright with Alex Al/ Jeff Lorber/Jerry Hey/John Roberts/Stuart Wylen -
From the CD by Gerald Albright entitled - Kickin it
and
Teena Marie
The four time Grammy Nominee, Teena Marie who’s music first came to our ears,
hearts and minds in 1979 in an album called Wild & Peaceful, Produced by Rick
James. Check out her recent 2006 release too!

Until next time, Thanks for all the love, support and your ears!

Dr Groove and Professor Smooth.

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Smooth Groovers Podcast - Season 3 - Episode 11

March 23rd, 2008 by Dr Groove

Welcome our latest exciting Season 3 Episode

Just a reminder, you can listen to the Podcast from i-tunes, Podfeed or by clicking on the play button below:

Or, Download here for all MP3 Players

This week’s Newies includes:

JamHunters
with Tah-Two from their latest new CD Music Speaks Louder Than Words 
Jamhunters are Peter Michael and Lars Fabiansen on guitar.

Be sure to check out their
Myspace site too.

and a bit of a Semi-Newie from
Corinne Bailey Rae

This track from a 2006 self titled CD release. Interestingly, Connie was named
the number-one predicted breakthrough act of 2006 in an annual BBC poll of
music critics. The poll’s predictions subsequently came true, as she became only the
fourth female British act in history to have her first album debut at number one.
She has been nominated for Grammy Awards and BRIT Awards, and has won
two MOBO Awards. In 2008, Rae won a Grammy Award for
"Album of the Year" for her work on Herbie Hancock’s album River:
The Joni Letters.

This week’s Myspace Artist Review section includes:

PornoPatrol
- StreetCorners(Dancing)
We guess it could be called a musical adventure from Actor, Stuntman,
Composer, Musician Director and Writer- Russ Diaper. Be sure to also
visit him at:
http://www.russdiaper.com 
where you can read all about his extensive and diverse talents including his work in movies.

Kym Verbal
- Oh What a Blessing. This track was sent to us by Soul & Jazz-Funk writer
/producer & musician Don Manor ( aka Dee_M).
Kym says on her myspace page. ‘I’m just all about Singing Real Songs that deal with love,
life & reality, period. If my music can uplift you or make
you think or help you to get along, then I’m successful!!’
… and we believe that she is!

Blue Soul Groove
- Out On The Groove. From the band that hit the
top ten of FUSION FLAVOURS
‘BEST OF 2007′.
The band members are Neil Warden with his guests John Burgess,
Ronnie Rae Jr. and Ant Davies. The Blue Soul Groove 4-Track EP
is available from the iTunes Music store.

There was no Moments and Whatnot’s this week but we continued to
discuss the recent demise of some Smooth Jazz channels.
Catch-up with the discussions at:


http://www.candidjazzandconversation.blogspot.com and

on a positive note, the Professor has found a highly recommendable smooth jazz related podcast that beautifully combines music , chat and memories - The first episode features Bob James . It is called Music Conversations and is hosted by Tom Schuman of Spirogyra.


http://www.musiconversations.com

To end the show we had an extended batch of ‘Bring it Back‘ Goodies
featuring:

Paul Hardcastle
Steve Khan

Stanley Turrentine
Romero Lubambo
Everette Harp
Viviene Mckone

Until next time.

Thanks for all the fantastic feedback we love and treasure it.

Best Regards

Dr Groove and Professor Smooth

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