September's DYNAMITE cut! Dag turned me onto this song and it won't leave the turn table here at the Platetectonic Studio!   Georgie Fame & The Blue Flames "Yeh Yeh"  (1965) Order the great Georgie Fame album "20 Beat Classics" here
	<<<- Watch Georgie and the band hit this song live here!

My Very Favorite record right now: JORGE BEN "Forca Bruta" Strings, brass, percussion (via Trio Mocoto) & Jorge's Voice and Guitar... an occasional bass "...almost like a spontaneous expression of genius"... A Perfect Album.

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The Isley Brothers  "Take Me In Your Arms" This shit is HOT! Listen to the Conga Drum! JAMAYKA 1968 was listening for real! click here to listen: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5xGnIiGRG4

This week's DYNAMITE cut!

Last week's DYNAMITE cut!
	Django Reinhardt & Stéphane Grappelli and le Quintette du Hot Club de France- "J'attendrai"
	Django Reinhardt Documentary

Last week's DYNAMITE cutz!

The mighty ERROLL GARNER - Playing "MISTY"

We played a party for some friends in New York, their mom was there, and she sat at the piano, played; and made us cry. Beautiful! I asked her who she loved as a piano player, she said: "ERROL GARNER".  I went out and bought 8 of his records... each-one - amazing! Play his records around your house and watch the magic unfurl. Pure mischievous mellow joy! He is a Master! I love you Erroll!  (Click on the links below - and return for more!) ERROL GARNER BRUSSELS 1964 I get a kick out of you_Erroll Garner Erroll GARNER Suède 62 "One Note Samba" - anyone who talks to them selves like this while playing... you know is in the moment!) Erroll Garner in Rome 1972: For once in my life (stevie covered this song) ERROLL GARNER 1959

November's DYNAMITE cutz!
	"Oba la vem ela" by Jorge Ben My favorite record right now... "Forca bruta" By Jorge ben

Watch 2 lions in their prime: Frank Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim Watch the shear joy they have with each-other slowly come to the surface as they weave their way to Cole Porter's lovely "I concentrate on you" and giggle on into "Girl from Ipanema"... Knowing they are riding a wave; Beauty! You know they had some long bar talking nights and deep guitar pre-dawns playing and singing together.

Reggae Triple Play My Hawaiian brother Lloyd Kandell (from Don Tiki) turned me onto Toots and the Maytals back in 83 with a dynamite mix tape for my first travel abroad. And they are as Tuff today as they were yesterday.  There is no stopping these tracks, They will bowl you over like a 16 lb bowling ball... Toots takes all comers. Toots and the Maytals - Reggae Got Soul   Toots And the Maytals - I've got dreams to remember Toots & The Maytals- It's You 7th inning stretch - Jimmy Cliff - "The harder they come"

	Definition of a 'Badd Asss Track' Check this... STONE COLD CUT BY PETER TOSH!   Behold the "STEPPING RAZOR"   "Notice that the blade is so thin... the blood hardly sticks to it"

This month's Jello, Hot Wax and Stepping Razors

My VERY Favorite Record right now  "Come to My Garden" By Minnie Riperton This album is a stunning master piece - some have called it her "astral weeks" "LES FLEURS" from Minnie Riperton's album "Come to my garden"

2 versions of a most beautiful song "Cucurrucucu Paloma" PEDRO INFANTE - CUCURRUCUCU PALOMA Caetano Veloso - Cucurrucucu Paloma

The Artist that I'm Really enjoying right now: Seu Jorge here he is singing "Tive Razão". I met him while we were touring together with Thievery Corporation. A beautiful man and a pleasure to travel with - an Amazing Artist, beloved in Brazil and all around the world. He was the man singing the Bowie songs in the movie "The life Aquatic"

Some records I would want with me always STAN GETZ & JOAO GILBERTO W/ TOM JOBIM "Getz / Gilberto" DUSTY SPRINGFIELD IN MEMPHIS  VAN MORRISON: ASTRAL WEEKS NICK DRAKE: BRYTER LAYTER SADE: LOVERS ROCK GABBY PAHINUI: "BROWN GABBY' THE INDESTRUCTIBLE BEAT OF SOWETO CAETANO VELOSO: JÓIA PENGUIN CAFE ORCHESTRA JONI MITCHELL: BLUE HANK WILLIAMS: COLLECTION SOUL TO  SOUL: KEEP ON MOVING GABBY PAHINUI: RABBIT ISLAND FESTIVAL HAPPY MONDAYS: PILLS 'N' THRILLS AND BELLYACHES MARVIN GAYE: WHAT'S GOING ON? GABBY PAHINUI "BROWN ALBUM" DR. BUZZARD'S ORIGINAL SAVANNAH BAND PATSY CLINE COLLECTION BILLY HOLIDAY COLLECTION MINNIE RIPERTON "COME TO MY GARDEN" TYRONE DAVIS   COLLECTION MATERIAL: THE THIRD POWER BOB DYLAN: BLONDE ON BLONDE BOB DYLAN: GREATEST HITS VOL. 2 SCOTT WALKER: 4 JACK KEROUAC: W/ STEVE ALLEN "POETRY FOR THE BEAT GENERATION" THE MOODY BLUES: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST THE MOODY BLUES: IN SEARCH OF THE LOST CHORD HUGO LARGO: DRUM HUGO LARGO: METTLE BOB MARLEY: KAYA MADREDEUS: ANTOLOGIA ROLLING STONES: LET IS BLEED & BLACK AND BLUE ANTONIO CARLOS JOBIM: URUBU                                          (with Claus Ogerman)

Some recent platters that have put a nice vibe around the office