Paru en 1969 avec un titre non usurpé tant les cimes de la soul music ont été atteintes, Soul Summit est le seul album à mettre à l'actif de The Ambassadors . Pionniers dans la Philly Soul encore appelée "musique pour pécho" apparue à la fin des années 60, Kenny Gamble et Leon Huff réunissent la crème des musiciens de studio, dont Earl Young à la batterie, Norman Harris à la guitare et Huff himself au piano, pour former [...]
Here's a funk from Philidelphia a 'phunk' if you will? That city in the 70's was coming out with funks and grooves that were outta this world, if there's Life on Mars I'd like to think spacekids would be all over these thick as fresh clay basslines and keyboards that float around the ether before settling into the most satisfying of disco-jazz-funk-fusion-grooves . And as we're talking Philly soul and Life on Mars , I can't be the only one who thinks that Young Americans is the Thin White Duke's most under appreciated album?

Truly great funk, soul, northern, soul mix from Jess Gascgoine via Cosmic Boogie , thanks to all. Jess Gascgoine - Cosmic Boogie guest mix L.J.Waiters & The Electrifiers / If you ain't gettin' your thing Part 1 Junior Wells / Up in Heah Maggie Thrett / Soupy The Quickest Way [...]

Here's a great funk/soul classics mix by Soul Jazz records Pete Reilly , thanks to Testpressing.org Can You Get To That mix - Pete Reilly (Soul Jazz) 1. Cyrille Neville: Gossip 2. Al Green: You Say It 3. Marilyn Barbarin: Reborn 4. James Brown: The Boss [...]

Hall & Oates are gettin' it on again. The great songwriting and performing duo that hit big in the 1970s and 1980s are back in a pretty big way (read below), though they never really stopped performing individually. They were always up to their solo things, most recently with Darryl Hall's Live from Darryl's House (which is a pretty cool view). Their press kids write: "From the success of the web TV series Live From Daryl's House, to the dance scene in the recent film (500) Days of Summer featuring "You Make My Dreams [...]

By ND McCray ... Before moving to New York six months ago, I lived in Philadelphia for three months. As a music journalist from Houston, I needed to be around a more intense music scene. And anyone who knows the Philly music scene, it's all about Philly Soul, electro and disco. This is where I first heard about electronic DJ, music producer, and record label owner [...]
The Singers: Along with the Stylistics, the Spinners and Harold Melvin & the Bluenotes, the Delfonics were one of the premier Philly soul acts of the '60s and '70s. Hit-making producer Thom Bell h... Continue reading "Hump Day Slow Jam of the Week: The Delfonics, "Ready or Not Here I Come"" >

Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes, "Wake Up Everyday" ( YSI link ) 320 Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes, "Keep On Lovin' You" ( YSI link ) 320 Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes, "I'm Searching For A Love" ( YSI link ) 320 Here's the logical follow-up to our Dimitri From Paris edits , a return to the original source material, Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes ! Yeah! Here's a few tracks from their 1975 Philadelphia International LP , Wake [...]
The Singers: Harold Melvin got top billing with the Blue Notes, but the quintet is best remembered as the proving ground for Teddy Pendergrass, whose raspy, unbound voice was supported by the act's ve... Continue reading "Hump Day Slow Jam of the Week: Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes featuring Teddy Pendergrass, "If You Don't Know Me by Now"" >
Philly-soul keyboardist/producer/vocalist Dexter Wansel in fine form.