Jazz Watusi

Sessió per degustar el sabor del blues i el rhythm-and-blues primigeni. Lletres passades de moda i ritmes caducats que només podràs escoltar aquí. Dones empoderades i cridaneres, guitarristes cecs i macarres, pianistes amb motor propi i "guitar slingers" llestos per disparar. 01 John Lee Hooker - "Boogie chillen" 02 J.B LeNoir - "I feel so good" 03 Otis Rush - "Sit Down Baby" 04 Memphis Slim - "Gotta find my babe" 05 Terry Timmons - "Got Got nobody to love" 06 Big John Greer - "Bottle it up and go" 07 King Curtis - "That's all right" 08 Jimmy Whiterspoon - "Bad, bad whisky" 09 Tiny Topsy - "Just a little bit" 10 Lula Reed - "I know" 11 John Lee Hooker - "Money (That's what I want)" 12 Otis Rush - "You know my love" 13 Charles Brown - "I don't know " 14 Little Milton - "Grits and groceries (All around the world)" 15 Etta James - "Tell Mama" 16 Freddie King - "I don't know" 17 Albert Collins – "Sissy" 18 Eddie Bo - " The Hook & Sling" 19 The Meters - "Chicken Strut"

Saludem la música de Sergio Mendes que a principi de setembre ens va deixar. Repassem el seu llegat: dels seus inicis en el jazz, als seus èxits internacionals fins a convertir-se en un icona pop. Seguirem amb un tria i remena Watusi i estrenarem "The Struggle", el nou single de la banda barcelonina Hip Horns. 01 Segio Mendes & Brasil '66 - "Mais que nada" 02 Sergio Mendes- "So nice" 03 Sergio Mendes - "Love for sale" 04 Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66 - "Agua de beber" 05 Sergio Mendes - "Comin' home baby" 06 Sergio Mendes & The Bossa Río sextet feat Cannonball Adderley – "Corcovado" 07 Ray Terrace - "You've been talkin' 'bout me baby" 08 Billy Larkin & The Delegates - "On Brodway" 09 Art Blakey Percussion Ensemble - "Cubano Chant" 10 Carmen McRae & Dave Brubeck Quartet - "Take five" 11 Jon Hendricks - "I'll bet you thought I'd never find you" 12 Jon Lucien - "Who will buy" 13 Dirty Dozen Brass Band - "Do it fluid" 14 Hip Horns feat. Mabreezee i Aina Pla - "The Struggle" 15 The Last Poets - "Bird's word"

Aquesta setmana us oferim una sessió que combina bandes contemporànies que evoquen sons retro amb propostes en format "brass band" que recullen el pols del carrer, de l'aquí i l'ara: Hip Horns, Groovy Four, Roaring Cats i molt més. 01 Tuba Skinny - "Hot Town" 02 Roaring Cats - "I'm crazy 'bout my baby" 03 The New Orleans Jazz Vipers - "Goin! goin'! gone" 04 Aurora Nealand & The Royal Roses - "Moanin' low" 05 Meschiya Lake & The Little Big Horns - "Comes love" 06 Groovy Four - "Take a walk" 07 Roomful Of Blues – "It" 08 Dr.John & James Andrews - "Dippermouth blues" 09 John Boutté - "Wellcome table" 10 Bonerama – "Baronne" 11 Dirty Brass Band feat. Aaron Neville - "Stompin' ground" 12 Hot 8 Brass band - "Shake your body" 13 Hip Horns fet. Tumbakin- "Quimbombó" 14 The Soul Rebels - "Night people"

Salpem amb la nau Watusi a la recerca de noves i velles galàxies plenes de música. Aquesta setmana repassem novetats internacionals i de casa nostra. D'Alba Pujals a Cyrille Aimée, de Rita Payés als LA LOM. 01 Indra Rios Moore - "Walkin' on the wild side" 02 The Tropicales feat. Cyrille Aimée - "Ocaso marino" 03 Hi-Steaks - "Be my girl" 04 James Hunter Six - "Baby, hold on" 05 Alba Pujals i Rita Payés – "Kai" 06 California Honeydrops- "Train song" 07 Ikebe Shakedown- "No answer" 08 Charlie Halloran, The Tropicales & Quiana Lynell - "Funny how time slips away" 09 Ben Sidram - "Swing State" 10 La Lom - "Danza de La Lom" 11 UNDP Collective feat. Rita Payés - "Esto si se llama querer" 12 Gitking - "Canción del Rey" 13 Greyboy Allstars - "I've got reasons" 14 Cookin' on three burners feat Kylie Auldist- "Push it up"

Traca final amb un tria i remena de les temàtiques recurrents del programa: saxofonisme ardent, franctiradors aventurers, soul jazz ballable, groove de proximitat, atmosferes noir, collita de temporada i molt més. 01 Christian McBride - "Gettin' to it" 02 Young & Holt - "18th & Vine" 03 Buddy Rich Swingin' New Big Band - "Sister Sadie" 04 Hellen Carr - "Summer night" 05 Pérez Prado - "Bacoa" 06 Shelly Manne - "Bernie's Tune" 07 Buddy Morrow - "Johnny Staccato" 08 Frances Faye - "St. James Infermary" 09 Shorty Rogers & His Giants - "Mambo del Crow" 10 Hellen Greyco - "Lilly's lament (Cell 29)" 11 Herbie Mann - "Mushi Mushi" 12 Boogaloo Assassins - "No no no" 13 Los Fulanos - "Use it before you loose it" 14 Jimmy Sabater - "Los tiempos cambian" 15 Billy Preston - "I am coming through" 16 Aretha Franklin - "Respect" 17 Buddy Rich - "More soul"

Sessió refrescant a la terrassa pel nostre club imaginari, amb sons sofisticats propers a l'exòtica, una mica de mod jazz i algunes guindes de gust jamaicà. 01 Monty Alexander - "Rattlesnake" 02 Young & Holt - "Ain't there something that money can't buy " 03 Les McCann - "Zulu" 04 Chico Hamilton - "For mods only" 05 Googie René - "Caesar's Pad" 06 Marian Montgomery - "Hum drum blues" 07 Mamphis Slim- "Steppin' out" 08 Earl Grant - "Summertime" 09 Illinois Jacquet- "Like young" 10 Martin Denny - "Like young" 11 Art Farmer Septet - "Tiajuana!" 12 Yvonne Baker & The Sensations - "Eyes" 13 Chet Baker - "Taboo" 14 Chico O'Farrill - "Cuban blues" 15 Genne Summers - "Taboo" 16 Irene Reig - "The best girl" 17 Steady 45 - "Get her back" 18 The Oldians - "The fury is me"

Sessió de franctiradors contemporanis que disparen sons al marge de les tendències i més enllà de les claus del mercat. Anirem des de l'exotisme dels Ìxtahuele a les guitarres "noir" dels Big Lazy. Del neoblues de Hazmat Modine als himnes de taverna de Cousin Alice. 01 Big Lazy - "Night must fall" 02 Hazmat Modine - "Steady roll" 03 Polar Bear - "Bap bap bap" 04 Cousin Alice - "Right Now" 05 Caleb Chapman's Crescent Super Band - "Tall and lanky" 06 Luke Winslow-King - "Movin' on" 07 Tin Cup Serenade - "Limbo jazz" 08 Don Byron - "Mark Anthony speaks" 09 Yukari Onishi - "Jockey full of bourbon" 10 Ìxtahuele - "Grapevine" 11 Big Lazy - "Bring me the head of Lee Marvin" 12 Benjamin Herman - "Zeldenrust" 13 Minyo Crusaders - "Yashugui bushi" 14 Minyo Crusaders & Frente Cumbiero - "Cumbia del Monte Fuji"

Seguim excavant en la nostra discografia per buscar els antecedents del jazz contemporani. Escoltem big bands, solistes i cantants que van trencar pistes de mig planeta i que van desenvolupar un nou llenguatge musical. 01 Cab Calloway & His Orch - "Jumpin' jive" 02 Budd Johnson & His All-Stars - "Way downtown at the bottom of the hill" 03 Count Basie Orch. – "Topsy" 04 Chick Webb Orch. feat Ella Fitzgerald - "When I get low I get high" 05 Louis Jordan & His Timpany Five - "Saturday night fish fry" 06 Ben Webster - "Jive at six" 07 Eddie Cole & His Three Peppers - "Police" 08 Arnett Cobb - "Flyin' home" 09 Illinois Jacquet - "Mambocito Mio" 10 Charlie Ventura - "C.V Jump" 11 Jonah Jones - "No moon at all" 12 Julia Lee & His Boyfriends - "Snatch and grab it" 13 Slim & His Slam - "Bongo" 14 Amos Milburn - "Milk and water" 15 Percy Mayfield- "Louisiana" 16 Jimmy Rushing - "Russian lullaby"

Als marges s'hi viu molt fresc. Explorem territoris sonors fora de les muralles del mainstream buscant propostes aventureres que viatgin per camins poc transitats del jazz i la improvisació. Només cal obrir-se una mica d'orelles. 01 Rashaan Roland Kirk - "Spirit of above" 02 Mulatu Astatke - "Kulunmanqueleshi" 03 Salah Ragab & The Cairo jazz Band – "A tribute to Sun Ra" 04 Sun Ra and his Interplanetary Arkestra – "Enlightenment" 05 Yusef Lateef - "Before dawn" 06 Cliff Jordan & John Gilmore – "Bo-fill" 07 Elvin Jones – "Fantazm" 08 Jazz Crusaders - "The breeze and I" 09 Jazz Crusaders - "Sticky Wiked" 10 Dorothy Ashby – "Games" 11 Gene Harris & The Three Sounds - "Book of Slim" 12 Bohannon - "Save their souls" 13 Takuya Kuroda & José James - "Everybody loves the sunshine"

Sessió farcida de bones veus. El cant com a transmissor d'emocions és imbatible, així que sortim a la recerca de vocalistes d'avui i d'ahir que ens facin vibrar. 01 Lou Rawls - "When loves goes wrong" 02 Di Anne Price - "Never make your move too soon" 03 Molly Johnson - "Ode to Billy Joe" 04 Myriam Swanson & Magnolia - "He's a real gone guy" 05 Cecil L. Recchia - "Moanin'" 06 Susana Sheiman & Ignasi Terraza - "Where or When" 07 Oscar Brown Jr. - "Mr. Kicks" 08 Oscar Brown Jr. & Luiz Enrique - "Barra limpia" 09 Jazzmeia Horn - "No more" 10 Black Barbies - "The barber man" 11 Bobby Gentry - "Niki Hoeky" 12 C.W Stoneking - "The love me or die" 13 Mustat Silmät - "Hullu nainen" 14 Mel Muñiz - "Entrar a la luna" 15 Vaya con Diós & Danny Vera- "No what-if" 16 Oscar Brown Jr. & Matthew Herbert - "Brother we're you"

Exòtica, cu-bop, latin jazz, boogaloo. El bongo s'ha colat en tots aquests estils aportant misteri, diversió i acció. Explorem aquest instrument, des dels seus orígens a la Cuba oriental fins a les caves beatniks, i de les grans orquestres del Paladium als sons galàctics del free jazz. 01 Jack Costanzo - "Peanut vendor" 02 Machito & His Afro Cubans - "Mambo infieno" 03 Candido Camero - "Madrid" 04 Sabú feat. Arsenio Rodríguez - "Rhapsodia del Maravilloso" 05 Billy Taylor Trio - "Mambo Inn" 06 Joe Loco - "Nightmare" 07 earl Grant - "House of bamboo" 08 Henry Mancini - "The Boss" 09 Sabu Martinez - "Delilah" 10 Mable Scott - "Fool Burro" 11 Tito Puente & His Latin Ensemble - "Mambo diablo" 12 Joe Loco - "Why don't you do right" 13 Slim Gaillard - "Bongo Cito" 14 Cal Tjader's Modern Mambo Quintet - "Midnight Sun" 15 Buddy Collette - "Bongosville" 16 Laurindo Almeida - "Club Caballeros" 17 Martin Denny - "Cubano chant" 18 Willie Bobo - "Bobo! Do that thing"

Posem en marxa la màquina de fer trontollar malucs amb una sessió plena de soul-funk-jazz, grooves contemporanis i ritmes que no caduquen mai. Budo's Band, Mighty Imperials, Greyboy All-Stars i molt més. 01 Trombone Shorty - "Tripped out slim" 02 Greyboy All-Stars - "How glad I am" 03 Jimmy McGriff - "Groove grease" 04 Mighty Imperials - "Ride Shank's mare" 05 Dyke & The Blazers - "Let a woman be a woman" 06 Ikebe Shakedown - "No answer" 07 Spanky Wilson - "Waiting for your touch" 08 Budo's Band - "Volcano song" 09 Charles Bradley & Menahan Street Band - "Good to be back home" 10 Clarence Wheeler and the Enforcers - "Right On" 11 The Olympians - "Pluto's lament" 12 Bobby Rush - "Chicken heads" 13 Mitty Collier - "My babe" 14 Dizzy Gillespie - "Matrix" 15 Syl Johnson - "Different Strokes" 16 Don Byron - "There it is" 17 Willie Mitchell - "Take five"

Repassem les últimes novetats i reedicions de luxe de velles gravacions. El panorama discogràfic del jazz, amb l'auge del vinil i l'especialització del col·leccionisme, ha trobat un nínxol de mercat amb l'edició d'enregistraments perduts, àlbums descatalogats i tresors desconeguts que fan les delícies dels melòmans. 01 George Benson - "Along comes Mary" 02 James Moody - "Mambo with Moody" 03 John Wright Trio - "63rd and Cottage" 04 Cal Tjader - "Pantano" 05 Sara Vaughan - "Shulie a bop" 06 Boots Mussilli - "Tico-tico" 07 Ron Jefferson - "Ivy league blues" 08 Sahib Shahab - "Not yet " 09 Ramsey Lewis - "Back in the U.S.S.R" 10 T-Bone Walker - "Long lost lover" 11 B.B. King - "Woke up this morning" 12 Ike & Tina Turner - "I know" 13 Smokey Robinson - "Coincidentally" 14 Stanton Moore - "Poison pushy"

Fem un viatge a través del ritme fins a Nova Orleans. Busquem el batec dels Second Lines als carrers de la Crescent City i de Barcelona. Parlem amb el periodista David Moreu de l'actualitat musical d'aquesta ciutat i repassem el cartell de la nova edició del Nou Barris Meets New Orleans. 01 The Nightcrawlers - "Gentily groove" 02 The Dirty Dozen Brass Band- "My feet don't fail me now" 03 New Breed Brass Band feat. Nicholas Payton - "Move something" 04 The Flyin' Roots - "Go to the Mardi Gras" 05 Jon Cleary - "Zulu Coconuts" 05 James Andrews & Trombone Shorty - "Zulu King" 06 Bo Dollis Jr. & Wild Magnolias - "Tootie ma" 07 Aaron Neville - "Hercules" 08 The Big Easy's Crew - "Here Come the Girls" 09 Sean Riley & The Water - "Out all night" 10 New Orleans Jazz Vipers feat. Irma Thomas - "I hope you're comback to N.O" 11 Allen Toussaint - "Singing the blues"

Ens posem el salacot, agafem la pala i ens disposem a excavar en la nostra discografia per buscar els antecedents del jazz contemporani. Viatgem en el temps per trobar els pioners del swing. 01 Lucky Millinder - "Shorty's got to go" 02 Babe Russin Quintet- "5054 Whitsset" 03 Cab Calloway - "Are you hep to the jive?" 04 Juan Tizol - Keb-Lah 05 Nellie Lutcher - "Fine brown frame" 06 Slim Gaillard - "Comunications" 07 Charlie Ventura - "Dark eyes" 08 Ike Quebec - "Jim Dawgs" 09 Helen Humes - "He don't love me anymore" 10 Ben Webster - "Blue skies" 11 Gene Ammons - "Brother'e Jug Sermon" 12 Slim & Slam - "Bongo" 13 Dexter Gordon - "Blow Mr. Dexter" 14 Jack Teagarden - "Stars fell on Alabama" 15 Cootie Williams Orchestra- "Typhon" 16 Cab Calloway - "Zah zu zaz" 17 Lester Young - "Count every star" 18 Cootie Williams Orchestra - "Doin' the gator tail"

Contra l'astènia primaveral, "up tempos", swing, moltes veus i melodies ballables. Sessió d'entretemps en què combinem novetats amb clàssics. Jazz des del Japó, so retro des de Nova Orleans i nou soul analògic. 01 Buddy Rich Orchestra - "Away we go" 02 Buddy Rich Orchestra & Sammy Davis Jr. - "I know a place" 03 Lou Rawls - "Goin' to Chicago" 04 Aretha Franklin - "Are you sure" 05 Ernie Andrews & Cannonball Adderley Quintet - "Ten years of tears" 06 Georgie Fame - "Yeh Yeh" 07 Nobuo Hara Flats and Sharps 68 - "Walk tall" 08 Les McCann - "La Brea" 09 Etta Jones - "The gal from Joe's" 10 Illinois Jacquet - "Turnpike" 11 Junior Mance- "That mellow feeling" 12 B. B. King - "Do you call that a buddy" 13 Jazz Crusaders - "Tough talk" 14 Nobuo Hara & Hözan Yamamoto - "Tabaruzaka" 15 Lou Rawls - "I'd rather drink muddy water"

Zèfirs càlids envaeixen la sessió d'avui. Llatinitat forana i de casa nostra. El "one drop" viatja de Jamaica a les nostres terres i ens escalfa els peus amb passos de ball fantàstics. Tarquim, Drop Collective, Testarudes i molt més. 01 Orkesta Akokán - "Mambo rapidito" 02 Antibalas - "Dirty money" 03 Kako y su Orquesta - "Cool jerk" 04 Tarquim - "Negrón tiene swing" 05 Louie Ramirez - "It's not what you say" 06 Machito & His Orchestra - "Relax and mambo" 07 Bobby Capo - "Lo que quiera Lola" 08 Manzanita - "La Pampa y la Puna" 09 La Lom - "Juana la cubana" 10 Mel Muñiz - "Entrar a la Luna" 11 Ghost Number - "Proud of my sins" 12 Drop Collective - "Yearnin' (feat. Joan Mar Sauqué)" 13 Les Testarudes - "Madness" 14 Pere Miró & Pablo Martín - "Roots and culture" 15 Ernest Ranglin - "Memories of old"

Repassem algunes de les novetats que apareixeran al proper Record Store Day, un dia ideal per celebrar i visitar les botigues físiques de discos i aconseguir les edicions úniques en vinil dels teus músics favorits. Tornem als bàsics? 01 Rosetta Tharpe - "Didn't it rain" 02 Rosetta Tharpe - "Sit down" 03 Jack Sheldon & Chet Baker - "I cried for you" 04 Jack Sheldon & Chet Baker - "But not for me" 05 Cannonball Adderley Quintet - "Mercy, mercy, mercy" 06 Nat Adderley - "Work song" 07 Newport Rebels - "Wrap your troubles in dreams" 08 Muddy Waters - "Goin back to Memphis" 09 Pearl Dowell - "Good things" 10 Marva Whitney - "Daddy don't know about sugar bear" 11 Little Beaver and the Rocketteers - "Do right man" 12 Freddy DeBoe - "Remember the good times" 13 Freddie King - "Hot tomato" 14 James Brown Band - "Why am I treated so bad" 15 Betty Davis - "Shoo-b-doop and cop him" 16 Freddie Hubbard - "The return of the prodigal son"

Entre playlists inacabables i prestatgeries plenes de vinils, busquem nous diamants amagats. Un capítol d'estricta contemporaneïtat per escoltar nous talents i favorits watusi, com les guitarres inspirades de Molly Miller, l'orgue calent de Tim Carman, els saxos alternatius de Xero Singsby i els sons del desert evocats per Howe Gelb. 01 Sam Fribush, Charlie Hunter i Xavier Lynn - "When my baby gets home" 02 Molly Miller Trio - "Hear it calling" 03 Keb Mo, Tarriona "Tank" Ball, Terence Blanchart - "Howl for me daddy" 04 Petr Cancura - "Those were the times" 05 Mel Muñiz - "Toda esa bronca" 06 Howe Gelp - "The open road" 07 Javier Matos & California Honeydrops - "Gangster blues" 08 The War and Treaty - "Wanna get outta here" 09 A. J. Croce - "So much fun" 10 Hepcat - "No worries" 11 Steady 45 - "Time so hard" 12 Thee Sinseers - "What's his name" 13 California Honeydrops - "Street people" 14 The Altons - "When you go" 15 Petr Cancura, Charlie Hunter, Geoff Clapp - "Gettin' ready"

Seguim el rastre dels herois saxofonístics dels anys 60 per entendre com, partint del llenguatge del rhythm & blues, van evolucionar cap al soul-jazz, el funk i fins i tot el disco. La irrupció dels baixos i els teclats elèctrics van canviar la textura de les mítiques gravacions dels segells Blue Note i Prestige per endinsar-se en nous terrenys sonors. 01 King Curtis - "Soulin'" 02 Stanley Turrentine - "Spooky" 03 Gene Ammons - "Son of a preacher man" 04 Jr.Walker & The All Stars - "Gimme that beat" 05 Merl Saunders Quintet - "Soul groovin'" 06 King Curtis - "You're the one" 07 Hank Crawford - "It's a funky thing to do" 08 Eddie Harris - "Funkaroma" 09 Maceo Parker - "Doing it to death" 10 Willis Jackson - "Recubah" 11 Funk Inc. - "Give me your love" 12 King Curtis - "Spooky" 13 Rusty Bryant - "Fire eater"