Friday, May 5, 2017

Smoke "Everything" (1973)

A band that yours truly has only heard for the first time.  This is some cool, genre bending improvisational jazz.

So there's not much info out there about this obscure San Francisco band, most people know them for the first track "Shelda" which has been sampled heavily by its deep psychedelic grooves. The rest of the album is just as eccletic and unique really, truly having a little bit of "everything": latinesque psychedelic soul rhythms with a thick jazzy curtain enveloping the whole thing . Hopefully more ears will catch on to this and people will play some new music inspired by it, sit back and enjoy :)

Drums – Akira Tana
Percussion – Garry Griffieth
Guitar – Bobb Bragg
Harp – Hakim Ali Muhammad
Organ – Danny Daniels
Piano – Curtis Clark
Alto Saxophone , Clarinet , Vocals – Hardy Dedmann
Vibraphone, Leader – Woodi Webb
Violin – Kenny Jenkins
Vocals – Lani Wilson, Shirley Puckett

The track listing is:

1. Shelda
2. Lobotomy
3. Everything
4. Griffo
5. Nite Song
6. Miss Shirley
7. Curtis

Here's a link to the album.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFFZeT7ZMCM&feature=share



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