This show is dedicated to the memory of soul brothers Woody Cunningham and Teddy Pendergrass, and to the thousands of Haitians that lost their lives in the recent earthquake disaster. May they all rest in peace.

Teddy Pendergrass 1950 – 2010

Woody Cunningham 1948 – 2010

Tracklisting

You’re My Latest My Greatest Inspiration – Teddy Pendergrass [Philadelphia International Records]
Highways Of My Life – Woody Cunningham [Debut]
Heaven Must Be Like This – D’Angelo [Virgin]
Take Notice – Miguel Atwood-Ferguson and the Suite For Ma Dukes Orchestra [CDR]
Glide – Osunlade [Yoruba]
The Future – Dexter [Melting Pot Music]
Jazz Planet – Soweto Kinch [Dune]
Shoulda Known – Dwele [CDR]
She Was Fly (with Eric Roberson) – Full Crate and Mar [Melting Pot Music]
My Girl – D.Ablo [CDR]
Honey – Dillon and Paten Locke feat Stacey Epps [Domination Records]
Last Equinox – Modulo5 [Kraak]
Ways Of Thought – 4hero [Talkin’ Loud]
Afro Blue (Introduction) – Cecelia Stalin [Ajuba]
Feelin Right – Stephen Rigmaiden [SEED]
Uthando (DJ Rork Rework) – Kentphonik feat Mimi [Stalwart]
Change For Sure – Grant Eq [365 Deep]
Don’t Do, Be – Thought Cosmic [CDR]
Back To The Melody – Yellowtail feat Eska [Cooperation Records]
Watcha Gone Do – Slow Drag Travelers [CDR]
For Your Love – Clara Hill [Sonar Kollektiv]
Looking Back (Reprise) – Silhouette Brown [Ether]
Surreal Moments – Full Crate and Mar [Melting Pot Music]

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Featured on this show

Miguel Atwood-Ferguson and the Suite For Ma Dukes Orchestra

Dexter

The subject is jazz! Dexter is taking an new look at the long going love affair between hip-hop and jazz. From Stetsasonic to Gang Starr to Madlib, it is not an easy path to follow, but the 26 year old producer is adding a new and fresh style to it. The sound design of Dexter’s “Jazz Files” is dusty but with an unmistakable 2010 twist. As much inspired by Wes Montgomery and Ramsey Lewis as by Sun Ra and Dave Pike, Dexter’s tracks are never just “jazzy”. They live and breathe jazz by combining the freedom and artisty of jazz with the craft of a free-thinking beatsmith.

And the “Jazz Files” are fun too. By implanting quotes an samples from interviews and tv shows such as the classic NBC program “The Subject Is Jazz”, Dexter is telling his own little story of jazz. One that had it’s starting point in the massive record collection of his father and grew into shape during a long hot summer blasting nothing but Ahmad Jamal and Sun Ra.

The album ‘Hi-Hat Club Vol. 3 The Jazz Files’ is released on 26th February on Melting Pot Music. As a taster you can download the track ‘The Future’ as featured on the show. Click here

Full Crate & Mar

Hot buttered soul for twenty-ten: Full Crate & Mar from Amsterdam are releasing their debut EP Conversations With Her. The digi version is out now, vinyl hits the stores on January 15. Check out the video for ‘She Was Fly’

Full Crate & Mar – She Was Fly from Full Crate on Vimeo.

Dwele – Keep RIZEing To The Top

Dwele’s demo, which is also considered his first album, 1998’s Rize, was sold out of the trunk of his car exuding the DIY ethic that is much more predominant nowadays but wasn’t as prevalent then. Bubbling over with warm Rhodes, unconventional lyrics and soul, soul, soul it helped him score a deal with Virgin where he… released his first studio album Subject. He’s continued to release albums since then and has become an industry favorite.

In between recordings, he stayed in the studio banging out treats for his friends, fans and potential albums. A lot of these tracks have never seen an official release, yet they fell through the cracks and onto the computers of voracious listeners. To download visit BamaLoveSoul

D.ablo

Download ‘The Retrospective’, a free 10 track collection of released and unreleased from D.ablo, lead vocalist for hip hop group Terrafirma, and one half of production duo Sleeping Giants. You can find D.ablo on Facebook or Twitter