Cannonball Adderley | Soul Zodiac

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African American, Jazz, Saxophone, Soul Jazz

Cannonball Adderly,

One of the coolest, baddest, funkiest albums Cannonball Adderley ever recorded — a massive suite of tunes based on the signs of the Zodiac, produced to perfection by David Axelrod, and featuring some hip recitations from the mighty Rick Holmes! The double-length set is completely compelling all the way through — a darkly brooding batch of funky jazz that shows a strong Miles Davis electric influence at points, thanks to Nat Adderley’s spacey trumpet lines, Mike Deasy’s trippy guitar, and George Duke’s excellent keyboards! – Dusty Groove

Miles From India – Various Artists [Review]

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African American, Classical, Fusion, Jazz, Miles Davis

Various Artists

Amazingly enough, on this ambitious journey of east meets west you will find twelve songs comprised of a rebirth of familiar compositions originally played by the legendary trumpeter Miles Davis. After listening too virtually hundreds renditions of these classics, what new could possibly be done? With this mind, it’s time to grab a cup of your favorite beverage, headset, or go strictly old school with your stereo, kick your shoes off, and dive into another chapter of reinvented jazz classics.

Top 5 Music Discovery tips for the weary, unhip, & unmotivated

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MP3's, Online Music Services, Technology

In today’s music market finding new music can be an exhausting experience for the unmotivated, impatient, and the not so hip technologically speaking. If you’re like me, transforming from compact disc media to MP3 format is taking longer then expected. Not really, I must admit that I’m not excited about this new way(s) of listening to music. Buying new hardware, and listening to music via ear-buds, or having to buy external speaker system is not exactly what I call fun. Maybe, just maybe in the future I will have a change of heart.

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Have You Heard? [Coltrane, The Jazz Crusaders, Byrd & Eubanks]

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African American, Guitar, Jazz, Saxophone, Trumpet

No doubt, we love to explore new music at the Flux. In the meantime, we also love to dig the vault find some extra special sounds to listen too. Moreover, when you have friends and strangers alike to draw quality music from we gotta pull out some classic gems and take them for a spin. 

Ravi Coltrane – In Flux

Ravi Coltrane, "In Flux"

Like many, I admire saxophonist Ravi Coltrane for accurately pursuing the footsteps of his dad the legendary John Coltrane. We also know, Ravi of course isn’t his dad in timbre and he will probably not be not will he receive the same notoriety. Does it matter? Maybe? Nonetheless, I don’t think he’s not trying to acheive with this or any of his previous albums.

In Flux is an impressive canvas painted by Ravi Coltrane. The maturity of his tone is rich, colorful, and balanced with a conduit of melodic dexterity many of his peers long to employee in their sound. Therefore, his voice is transfixed in a place that’s rhythmically and conceptually on point which fits perfectly well within the framework of bop today or yesterday. – J Desmond