Pump Up the Volume !

∇  ‘Paid in full’   ⇓   [Eric B. & Rakim, 1987]

Credited as a benchmark album of golden age hip hop. Rakim‘s rapping, which pioneered the use of internal rhymes in hip hop, set a higher standard of lyricism in the genre and served as a template for future rappers. The album’s heavy sampling by Eric B became highly influential in hip hop production.

[Rakim]

Thinkin’ of a master plan

Cuz ain’t nuthin but sweat inside my hand

So I dig into my pocket, all my money is spent

So I dig deeper but still comin’ up with lint

So I start my mission – leave my residence

Thinkin’ how could I get some dead presidents

 I need money, I used to be a stick-up kid

So I think of all the devious things I did

 

I used to roll up, this is a hold up, ain’t nuthin funny

Stop smiling, be still, don’t nuthin move but the money

But now I learned to earn cos I’m righteous

I feel great!  so maybe I might just

Search for a 9 to 5,  if I strive

Then maybe I’ll stay alive

So I walk up the street  whistlin’ this

Feelin’ out of place cos, man, do I miss

A pen and a paper, a stereo, a tape of

Me and Eric B, and a nice big plate of

Fish, which is my favorite dish

But without no money it’s still a wish

Cos I don’t like to dream about gettin’ paid

So I dig into the books of the rhymes that I made

To now test to see if I got pull

Hit the studio, cos I’m paid in full

 

Yo, what happened to peace?  Peace…

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¤  STOLEN MOMENTS_Red Hot + Cool   ⇓

a>The →Stolen Moments: Red Hot + Cool← project provides a meeting place where artists of several generations and styles can meet and create a musical dialogue. Where does fusion flow into funk? Where does the controlled anarchy of hard be-bop feed into the adrenaline-rush of hard core hip-hop? The answer to these questions and more are found in the spirit of collaboration and discovery on Stolen Moments: Red Hot + Cool.

In addition to the straight ahead jazz and rap elements found with on this extraordinary recording, gospel vocals, blues guitar, scat singing, R&B, soul and other African American art forms hug and tug and pull at each other, like relatives at a long overdue reunion. Gender, age, and race are bridged in the three-way effort by Us3, Tony Remy, and Joshua Redman (son of the legendary Dewey Redman). Up-and-coming talents meet one of their heroes in the case of Groove Collective‘s joint jam with funk master Bernie Worell. Ditto for Me’Shell N’degéOcello‘s musical studio encounter with Herbie Hancock. Two men from two different eras but with surprisingly similar ears for music join forces in a track by Donald Byrd and Gangstarr’s Guru. Add the differences of language and culture into the equation when you consider the distances spanned by Ron Carter’s collaboration with Afro-French rapper MC Solaar.

The list goes on and on, including contributions by Michael Franti, Digable Planets with Lester Bowie & Wah Wah Watson, The Pharcyde, Roots with Roy Ayers, Incognito, Carleen Anderson with Ramsey Lewis, Umar Bin Hassan and Abiodun Oyewole (formerly of The Last Poets) with Pharoah Sanders, Don Cherry with Watts Prophets, and Branford Marsalis.

[acidjazzy.blogspot] 1994

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¤  John Lurie  ⇓

John Lurie emerged onto the art scene in the spring of 2004, when he had his first painting exhibition at Anton Kern Gallery. Since then Lurie’s work has been exhibited in esteemed galleries throughout the world.  Prior to focusing on painting, Lurie led the band The Lounge Lizards, which went on to make music for 20 years.  During this time, Lurie recorded 22 albums and composed scores for over 20 movies, including Stranger than Paradise, Down by Law, Mystery Train, Clay Pigeons, Animal Factory, and Get Shorty, which earned him a Grammy nomination. Lurie also starred in three films directed by Jim Jarmusch, as well as a host of other films.  He wrote, directed and starred in the cult classic “Fishing with John». Lurie is also responsible for the incredible music of Marvin Pontiac.

∞  Interview  : :     •→ April 2011  ←•

• → www.johnlurieart.com

♦  John Lurie & Lounge Lizards ↓ Live at the Quartier Latin Club in Berlin, 1991

John Lurie -Alto & Soprano Sax;  Michael Blake -Tenor & Soprano Sax;   Steven Bernstein -Trumpet & Cornet;  Calvin Weston – Drums;  Billy Martin – Percussion;  Bryan Carrott – Vibraphone & Marimba & Timpani; Oren Bloedow – Bass;  Michele Navazio – Guitar;  Jane Scarpantoni – Cello

• Tracklist ↓

01- Remember what’s in there

02- Uncle Jerry

03- One big yes

04- No pain for cakes

05- Tibet

06- The hanging

07- Evan’s drive to Mambasa

08- Calvin

09- Big heart

10- Mr. Stinky’s blues

11- Herr Lazaro 

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¤  David Fiuczynski  ⇓

David «Fuze» Fiuczynski (born March 5, 1964) is an American guitarist, best known as the leader of the Screaming Headless Torsos and David Fiuczynski’s KiF, and as a member of Hasidic New Wave. He has played on more than 95 albums as a session musician, band leader or band member.

He often describes himself as «a jazz-musician who doesn’t want to play just jazz». Many of his albums have thematic material that ties them to one or more additional genres. Screaming Headless Torsos, for instance, emphasizes a jazz-funk fusion, while Hasidic New Wave blends jazz with Semitic and African music; 2000’s JazzPunk is a recording of standards and covers written by his idols and mentors, in which each tune was reworked in distinctive musical combinations.

Smile in a Wave   ↓  (Theme From Jack Johnson)  [1995]

came down, was thrown on the ground
Searching for smiles, getting frowns
Watching musical highs like Messiaen and Miles
All I was getting was downs

And give me some color, give me some bone
Give me relief or leave me alone
Give me some boots, give me some brains
Got nothing to lose and all to gain

I’ve been subject to a certain suspect
Who played like they hate, what they said that they liked
I won’t sublet or pretend to beget
A shackled down music that’s nothing but hype

I just want to show you a smile and a wave
Next thing to dark blue is deep purple haze
I just want to show you a vision of the sun
So glad to know you ‘cause you’re second to none

I just want to show you a smile and a wave
Next thing to dark blue
I just want to show you a vision of the sun
So glad to know you ‘cause you’re second to none

♦  Live in New York @ Knitting Factory  ↓  [1996]

Jazz Is the Teacher
Word to Herb ←
Graffiti Cemetery ←
Arline
Woe to the conquered ←
Panic 178
Just for Now ←
Cult of the Internal Sun ←
Darryl Dawkins ←
Vinnie ←
Smile In a Wave
Hope ←

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¤ Brooklyn Funk Essentials was born out of New York’s buzzing hip-hop-jazz and slam poetry scenes of the early nineties as a 10-piece live outfit consisting of some of the finest young musicians, singers, rappers, dub poets and djs the Big Apple had to offer. BFE has released five studio albums, ‘Cool & Steady & Easy’ (1995), ‘In The BuzzBag’ (1998), ‘Make Them Like It’ (2000),  ‘Watcha Playin’ (2008) and ‘Funk Ain’t Ova’ (2015).

The creator has a master plan  ↑  is a nothing is for ever man

The creator has a world up time – is a nothing is for ever man

The creator has a master plan – is a nothing is for love the …

 

The creator makes but one demand – happiness and love on the land

The creator has a master plan – Peace and happiness for every man

The creator has a working plan – Peace and happiness for every man

The creator makes but one demand – Happiness through all the land

•→ ‘I Got Cash’   ⇔  

◊  ‘Istanbul Twilight’  ↓

it s from the mountain
upon the mountain – upon the mountain
chanting drinking from the fountain
i upon the mountain
chanting drinking from the fountain
a’ight come on
up on the mountain i m a chillin with my sistrin
two head one pillow looking out the window
i could get high on istanbul twilight
herb is illegal so we not take no chance
not gonna end up in da babylon trance
the tales are world famous of jazz is notorius
i think i ll try an istanbul twilight
i got a seagull and the imma man sistria
plus the sight of the daylight departing
i get the high from the istanbul twilight
why wont ya set me free
ain’t you ready for the mountain top

♦  ‘Freeway To Üsküdar’ ↓

The way I feel right now, it will last for ever.
Tell me that u stay, never go away  . . .

I can feel no pain as long as we are together
Without u I’m lost – cannot find my way.