Aquarium

June 2010

Hi Everyone,

This month’s podcast features an exclusive interview with Willem Alkema, the director of the movie Coming Back For More based on the life of Sly Stone, recorded at the Biografilm Festival in Bologna.

Let’s start though with a very inspired Brother Ah track, Nature’s Children, taken from the album Move Ever Onward, originally released in 1975 privately on Brother Ah’s own Divine Records label. We then go to a great Freddie Hubbard track Destiny’s Children from the 1974 album Keep Your Soul Together and then on again to Phases by Cannonbal Adderley from the 1974 Pyramid album featuring the superb George Duke on keyboards and Phil Upchurch on guitar. David Axelrod follows with the super-funk Mucho Chupar from the 1974 album Heavy Axe, produced by Cannonball Adderley, with George Duke on keys (the bass synth too) and Johnny ‘Guitar’ Watson on (guess what?) guitar.

After the first part of the interview with our guest Willem Alkema, there’s more music. George Duke appears again with So There You Go from his first and very spiritual album The Inner Source (1973), Andy Bey with You Should’ve Seen The Way from his Experience and Judgement album (1974) and Blue Mitchell with Collaborations from his 1976 album Funktion Junction.

We then have more from Mr. Alkema and continue after with Going Down South by Bobby Hutcherson, featuring Harold Land on Saxophone and Joe Sample on piano, from the1971 album San Francisco: Little B’s Poem by Dee Dee Bridgewater (composed by Bobby Hutcherson and Doug Carn), from the 1974 album Afro Blue, entirely recorded and mixed in Japan with local musicians (except sax and trumpet played by her brothers) and then a super-classic track, Bobbi Humphrey’s Harlem River Drive from his 1973 album Blacks And Blues, featuring Harvey Mason on drums.

Following the third part of our interview with Willem is Archie Shepp with Steam, from his 1972 album Attica Blues, Charles Earland and Oddysey with In The Land of Mu, from his 1976 album The Great Pyramid and Calvin Keys with Aunt Lovey, from his 1974 Black Jazz Records’ Proceed With Caution and Eddie Henderson with Moon from his 1979 album Runnin To Your Love.

After the final part of the Willem Alkema interview it’s music ‘til the end of the show: Brother Ah again with Spirits In The Night, Carlos Garnett with Cosmos Nucleus from his 1976 album, Horace Silver with I’ve Had A Little Talk, featuring Andy Bey on vocals, from the 1970 Blue Note album The United States Of Mind Phase II – Total Response, Eddie Henderson with Fusion from his Inside Out album (total killer track), featuring Buster Williams on bass, Herbie Hancock on keys and two drummers together. Penultimately there’s Buster Williams with Vibrations from his 1975 album Pinnacle and finally the title track from the first George Duke album, The Inner Source.

We hope you enjoy the music and please, don’t forget to send your feedback to info@livetropicafish.it

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