Dizzy Gillespie "Manteca"

Cooking with Dizzy

Dizzy & the Clarke-Boland big band :)

Benny Bailey, Art Farmer, Dusko Goykovich, Idrees Sulieman, trumpet
Nat Peck, Åke Persson, Eric van Lier, trombone
Derek Humble, alto sax
Tony Coe, tenor sax, clarinet
Ronnie Scott, Billy Mitchell, tenor sax
Sahib Shihab, baritone sax
Francy Boland, piano
Jimmy Woode, acoustic double bass
Kenny Clare, Kenny Clarke, drums

Chesterfield Kings "Up and Down"

Fun song....Thanks SVZ.....Wicked Cool

The Champs "Tequila"

This was the Billboard #1 song on the day I was born.

Amy Winehouse "Rehab"

Woke up with this song in my  head this morning. Must be time for a drink.

The Clash "Guns of Brixton"

When they kick at your front door 
How you gonna come? 
With your hands on your head 
Or on the trigger of your gun 


When the law break in 
How you gonna go? 
Shot down on the pavement 
Or waiting on death row 


You can crush us 
You can bruise us 
But you'll have to answer to 
Oh, the guns of Brixton 


The money feels good 
And your life you like it well 
But surely your time will come 
As in heaven, as in hell 


You see, he feels like Ivan 
Born under the Brixton sun 
His game is called survivin' 
At the end of the harder they come 


You know it means no mercy 
They caught him with a gun 
No need for the Black Maria 
Goodbye to the Brixton sun 


You can crush us 
You can bruise us 
Yes, even shoot us 
But oh-the guns of Brixton 

Benny Goodman "Sing, Sing, Sing"

This was the song that turned me on to Jazz. The best drum part ever.

Staxx Brothers "1992"

S

Saw this group on Sunday at the free Bend Concert at LSA and they just KILLED. Awesome group from Seattle. "Only got one GROOOOOOVVVVV..."

Cody Chesnutt & The Roots "The Seed"

[Verse 1: Black Thought]
Knocked up 9 months ago
And what she finna have she don't know
She want neo-soul, this hip-hop is old
She don't want no rock-n-roll
She want platinum or ice or gold
She want a whole lotta somethin' to fold
If you a obstacle she just drop ya cold
Cuz one monkey don't stop the show
Little Mary is bad
In these streets she done ran
E'er since when the heat began
I told the girl look here
Calm down I'ma hold your hand
To enable you to peep the plan
Cuz you is quick to learn
And we can make money to burn
If you allow me the latest game
I don't ask for much, but enough room to spread my wings
And the world finna know my name

[Verse 2: Cody Chesnutt]
I don't ask, for much these days
And I don't bitch, and whine, if I don't get my way
I only wanna fertilize another behind my lover's back
I sit and watch it grow standin' where I'm at
Fertilize another behind my lover's back
And I'm keepin' my secrets mine
I push my seed in her push for life
Its gonna work because I'm pushin' it right
If Mary drops my baby girl tonight
I would name her Rock-N-Roll

[Verse 3: Black Thought]
Uh-huh
Cadillac need space to roam
Where we headin for she don't know
We in the city where the pros shake rattle and roll
And I'm a gaddang rollin' stone
I don't beg I can hold my own
I don't break I can hold the chrome
And this weighin' a ton and I'm a son of a gun
My code name is The Only One and Black Thought is bad
These streets he done ran ever since when the game began
I never played the fool
Matta fact I be keepin' it cool
Since money been changing hands
And I'm left to shine, but the legacy that I leave behind be the seed
that'll keep the flame
I don't ask for much but enough room to spread these wings
And the world finna know my name

[Verse 4: Cody Chesnutt]
I don't beg
For no rich man
And I don't scream, and kick, when his shit don't fall in my hands, man
Cuz I know how to still
Fertilize another against my lover's will
I lick the opposition cuz she don't take no pill
Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-no dear
You'll be keeping my legend alive
I push my seed in her push for life
Its gonna work because I'm pushin' it right
If Mary drops my baby girl tonight
I would name her Rock-N-Roll
Oh-ooh break it down, break it down, break down beat

[break]
I push my seed somewhere deep in her chest
I push it naked cuz I've takin my test
Deliverin' Mary it don't matter the sex
I'm gon' name it rock and roll
I push my seed in my push for life
It's gonna work becuz I'm pushin it right
If Mary drop my baby girl, tonight
I would name her Rock-N-Roll
I would name her Rock-N-Roll
I would name her Rock-N-Roll yeah
I would name it Rock-N-Roll

Day Out with the Osaka Crew

Song is "No Time to Play" by Guru Featuring Ronny Jordan and D.C. Lee.  Video by hc100.

T. Rex "20th Century Boy"

Another of my favorite groups from the 70s.

Trombone Shorty "Do to Me"

I love the sound of a Trombone.

Michael Franti "Ganja Baby"

Heavy medicine
ya see my eyes are feeling red again
I'm bringin' light
like Thomas funky Edison
been in the desert for forty seven days
Purple Haze
the poison that I tasted never changed
turn up the woofers so I can feel the beat
vibrate my belly like a bomb in harmony
summer heat
my back is sticking to me to the seat
bare feet
tank top and shorts is all ya need but,
summer breeze
I'm feelin' kinda fine
I'm rollin with my shorty all the time
wind and grind lovely shake your behind
cinnamon skin be bringing sin to my mind
but whether or not the weather's hot
or the weather's cold
I'm wrapping her like a blanket with my whole soul
so that she can feel me
like Coca Cola I'm the woo-o-oh oh the sweet thing
my girl lollipop she growing mad crops
she rollin' herbs everyday
at about 4 o' clock
tick tock
strike the hammer while the Iron's hot
ooh girl watcha got cooking in the pot
see Mary Mary quite contrary
how does your garden grow?
Hydrophonic ultra supersonic
or does it grow naturally slow?

Ganja babe my sweet ganja babe
I love tha way ya love me and the way ya misbehavin'
ganja babe my sweet ganja babe
come wake body-ody take my mind away

Everybody get down and do the boogaloo
just like the cover of I want you
yoo hooo look watcha gonna do
watcha gonna do when the rent comes due
round up the posse and call up the crew
5 bucks at the door and ya bring ya own booze
call ya neighbor 'cause they can come too
be sure and bring ya records 'cause I only got a few
so baa baa black sheep have you any wool
yes sir, yes sir a nickle bagful
some for my partner and some for my crew
some for my ganja baby she needs 2
cuz just like me they want to be... high


Ganja babe my sweet ganja babe
I love tha way ya love me and the way ya misbehavin'
ganja babe my sweet ganja babe
come wake body-ody take my mind away

Ganja babe my sweet ganja babe
I love tha way ya love me and the way ya misbehavin'
ganja babe my sweet ganja babe
come wake body-ody take my mind away

Dandy Warhols "We Used to Be Friends"

My fav band this week