REAL TO REEL

SLEEP WALKING :: SAN DIEGO

SLEEPWALKING presents:

BIRTHDAY BASH for MONILOCA ROBLES! (Quincenera x 2!!)

w/DJs Jeff 'guero' Graves
(Michelle 'la green eyes' Rubano is on vacation) + special guest DJs Johnny B. Goode & BlackCoffeeArt (Marco Aldana)

Spinning classic Lowrider Oldies / Soul / Old Skool dance jamz
all night long!

WEDNESDAY 09 NOVEMBER 2011
9:00pm / 21+ / FREE!
@ Whistle Stop Bar
Golden Hill
2236 Fern St.
San Diego, CA 92104

BE THERE!
Lowriders welcome / free street parking / Tell the bartender that you wanna try the lowrider 'Mexican Candy' shot that tastes like vera mango paleta dulces!! Mmm! Que sabroso!

SALUDOS!
SLEEPWALKING TAKES PLACE EVERY SECOND (2nd) WED OF EACH MONTH @ WHISTLE STOP BAR - Golden Hill SD.

OMNI :: DONT BE SELFISH

The group were one of the few last links in the Chicago soul scene at the time – and they've got a good harmony sound that hearkens back to mid 70s work by groups like The Chi-Lites or Windy City. Most tracks are in the midtempo range, with a fair bit of synthesizer and keyboard work – but the vocals are still the strongest part of the record, and they're allowed to shine nicely.





The Lyrics on this tune say it all!!!!


OMNI - DONT BE SELFISH

THIS IS SWEATER FUNK

About Sweater Funk:

Our motto: wrong music, wrong place, wrong night...three wrongs make it right! Who in their right mind would go to Chinatown on a Sunday night, get drunk and dance to music nobody cares about? Please help us answer this question! We are a group of soul/boogie collectors and enthusiasts who've come together through the influence of our good friend Dam-Funk whose weekly Monday night at Carbon in Culver City "Funkmosphere" is our inspiration. We hope to bring the same warm vibe to our little underground Chinatown spot. We're focusing on late 70's to early 80's mid tempo soulful boogie and 2-step soul gems all on original wax. Please come down Sunday nights from 9:30pm-1:30am and introduce yourselves to our little family of bon vivants...be prepared to dance!

WINDJAMMER III

If you've been to Sweater Funk party (SF) in the last 5 months, you might already know this song word for word... On heavy rotation with most of the crew, and crowd pleas er! Windjammer III is essential for the Funk Lover.

Reminds me of 2 Step Lou, who always plays this!

If you want to turn your party out drop this!

WINDJAMMER III - I THOUGHT IT WAS YOU

THE SNAPP

On repeat!!!

THE SNAPP - I TREAT MY BABY RIGHT!

TALKING JAZZ WITH MARCUS MILLER

Great interview with Marcus Miller as he talks with Montreux Jazz TV. Sit back, relax and let Marcus Miller break some knowledge on Jazz music.

What, you don't know who Marcus Miller is?

EUMIR DEODATO

Packing records for Happy Hour last Friday, I was rummaging through stacks and pulled out Deodato's "Happy Hour" LP from 82. The track I'm sharing with you is on the slower tempo and the self titled album says it and all. Random fact, Deodato plays all Synths and Keys on this album




EUMIR DEODATO - JUST THIS ONE NIGHT 1982

SHOCK :: LETS GET CRACKIN :: SHOCK TALK

Who remembers dancing to Shock and their Electrophonic Funk? Well I do, and I'm not the only one. Rumor has it that most of the original band members have gotten together to release some old and some new dance tunes...and even a video.

Check back here soon for more info.

Spread the word and Keep the Funk alive...now come on...Let's Get Crackin'

SHOCK - LETS GET CRACKIN
SHOCK - SHOCK TALK

THE GAP BAND & FASHION :: THE FUNK COWBOYS

The Gap Band and there video's are priceless, not to mention there Fashion! In the 80s tons of African American males adopted the western ways of the Cowboys and totally flipped the Urban Cowboy Look. No other group took to this fashion more serious than the Gap Band.

Here is a collection of music video where music is not the only king, the fashion is too...

HAIGHT & SOUL HAPPY HOUR :: FRIDAYS

Bringing Soul Music back to Haight Street!



Join us at the only bar in the Upper Haight offering up top shelf tunes EVERY Friday! Come catch up with friends for a post work day drink, sit back, relax and unwind in a friendly social setting. Guests DJ's every week from some of our favorite crews in the world! Quality music with loads of soul, always.

Residents:

VINYLRICHIE
Hear The Sounds / Sweater Funk Crew

GUILLERMO
Gostosa / Sweater Funk Crew


FUTURE GUEST DJ'S
-May 5 - Jesse Shay (Rythmatik Crew)
-May 13 - DJ Claire (San Diego)
-May 20 - The Souleros
-May 27 - Slopoke Rawdriguez


SPECIAL EVENT:
-June 24th - Joe Bataan, Meet & Greet


always surprise guests!

+ Sweater Funk DJ's:

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drink specials
$4 cocktails $4 draft beers

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Milk Bar (SF)
Free
1840 Haight Street
(Directly across from Amoeba Records)
5:30pm- 10pm

Bus Lines - 7, 71, 6, 33, N Judah Train
Free parking on meters after 6pm

Pick up a pizza at Escape From New York and bring that bad boy in.

www.milksf.com
www.hearthesounds.com

STANLEY CLARKE :: YOSHI'S (SF)

WOW Baby, Get your tickets for this show in Oakland Sunday April 3rd.. Stanley Clarke is a legend and this is the one show you shouldn't miss. Below is a little history on Stanley Clarke.


Exploding into the jazz world in 1971, Stanley was a lanky teenager from the Philadelphia Academy of Music. He arrived in New York City and immediately landed jobs with famous bandleaders such as: Horace Silver, Art Blakey, Dexter Gordon, Joe Henderson, Pharaoh Saunders, Gil Evans, Stan Getz, and a budding young pianist composer named Chick Corea.

All of these musicians recognized immediately the ferocious dexterity and complete musicality the young Clarke possessed on the acoustic bass. Not only was he expert at crafting bass lines and functioning as a timekeeper in the bass’ traditional role, Stanley also possessed a sense of lyricism and melody gained from his bass heroes Charles Mingus, Scott LaFaro, and others, including non-bass players like John Coltrane. Clarke recognized the opportunity to propel the bass into a viable melodic soloist role and was uniquely qualified to do just that.

The opportunity to state melody and to propel the bass to the front of the concert stage came to fruition when Clarke and Corea formed the seminal electric jazz/fusion band Return to Forever. RTF was a showcase for each of the quartet’s strong musical personalities, composing prowess, and instrumental voices. Clarke surmised, “we really didn’t realize how much of an impact we were having on people at the time. We were touring so much then, we would just make a record and go back on the road.” The band recorded eight albums, two of which were certified gold (the wildly successful Hymn of the Seventh Galaxy and the classic Romantic Warrior), won a Grammy award (No Mystery) and received numerous nominations while touring incessantly. And this was a jazz band!

Then Stanley, his now famous Alembic bass in hand, fired the shot heard ‘round the world’. He single-handedly started the 1970s “bass revolution,” paving the way for all bassist/soloist/bandleaders to follow. In 1974 he released his eponymous Stanley Clarke album, which featured a hit 45rpm “single” (we’re still talking about jazz here,) titled “Lopsy Lu.” In 1976 Stanley released School Days, of which the title track is now a bona fide bass anthem.

He acknowledges, quite unboastfully: “Anyone who seriously wants to learn to play the bass has to buy that record and learn to play that song.” Aspiring bassists must also master the percussive slap funk technique that Stanley pioneered as well. Stanley saw Larry Graham’s technique (Sly and the Family Stone) and seized upon the idea. He built his facility to a frightening speed, and then adapted it to complex jazz harmonies. Says Stanley, “Larry started it, but he had only one lick. I saw him do it, and I took it from there.” Stanley was the first musician to pop over chord changes. “A lot of guys could jam all day in E, but couldn’t play it over changes.”

Stanley Clarke became the first bassist in history to headline tours, selling out shows worldwide, and have his albums certified gold. The word “legend” was used to describe Stanley by the time he was 25 years old. In 1997 Epic/Sony released: By this tender young age, Stanley was already a celebrated pioneer in fusion jazz music. He was also the first bassist in history to double on acoustic and electric bass with equal virtuosity, power, and fire. He had also invented two new instruments: the piccolo bass and the tenor bass. The piccolo bass, built to his specifications by New York luthier Carl Thompson, is tuned one octave higher than the traditional electric bass guitar. The tenor bass is a standard Alembic bass tuned up one fourth higher than standard. With both of these instruments, Stanley’s melodic range is extended for playing in higher registers as he sees orchestrationally fit.

Alembic honored Stanley by offering a signature model Stanley Clarke bass, the first time in the company’s history of making only custom built instruments to do so. Whatever the instrument: acoustic bass viol, electric bass guitar, tenor bass, piccolo bass, acoustic bass guitar, electric upright, or any of the hundreds of axes in his arsenal, Stanley’s musicality and command of these instruments clearly define him as the greatest living bass virtuoso in the world, second to none, hands down, end of discussion.

Now king of the acoustic and electric jazz worlds, in 1981 Stanley teamed with George Duke to form the Clarke/Duke Project. Together they scored a top-twenty pop hit with “Sweet Baby,” recorded three albums and still tour to this day. Stanley’s involvement in additional projects as leader or active member include: Jeff Beck (tour of Japan and Europe, 1978-1979), Ronnie Wood's & Keith Richards’ New Barbarians (North American tour, 1979), Animal Logic (with Stewart Copeland, two albums and tours, 1989), The "Superband”(with Larry Carlton, Billy Cobham, Najee, and Deron Johnson, 1993-94), The Rite of Strings (with Jean Luc Ponty and Al Dimeola, 1995), Vertu’ (with Lenny White, 1999). A much more detailed listing of Stanley Clarke’s bands can be found in Discography. Clarke has won literally every major award available to a bass player: Grammys, Emmys, every readers’ poll out there, all the critics’ polls, gold and platinum records, walks of fame- you name it. He was Rolling Stone’s very first Jazzman of the Year, and bassist winner of Playboy’s Music Award for ten straight years.

Ever seeking new challenges, in 1985 Stanley turned his boundless creative energy to film and television scoring. Starting on the small screen with an Emmy nominated score for Pee Wee’s Playhouse, he progressed onto the silver screen as composer, orchestrator, conductor and performer of scores for such blockbuster films as: Boys N the Hood, What’s Love Got to Do With It (the Tina Turner Story), Passenger 57, Higher Learning, Poetic Justice, Panther, The Five Heartbeats, Little Big League, and Romeo Must Die. He has even scored a Michael Jackson video release directed by Jon Singleton entitled Remember the Time. Currently his scoring may be heard on the number one rated show for the Showtime Network: Soul Food. Stanley has become one of the elite in-demand composers in Hollywood.

Stanley says that: “film has given me the opportunity to compose large orchestral scores and to compose music not normally associated with myself. It’s given me the chance to conduct orchestras and arrange music for various types of ensembles. It’s been a diverse experience for me musically, made me a more complete musician, and utilized my skills completely.”

His artistry has spanned classical, jazz, R&B and pop idioms. He has already succeeded in a multitude of diverse careers, any one of which would be satisfactory to anyone else. Yet he still pushes on, as invigorated and as passionate about music as that teenage prodigy from Philadelphia with a dream.

THE RETURN OF THE SOULEROS FAMILY

THE RETURN OF THE SOULEROS


Friday February 18th 5:30 - 10pm


Oldies - Sweet Soul - Harmony - Funk

with very special guests:

The Souleros:

MOSES & THE 10 COMMANDMENTS OF SOUL
MARGARITA THEE NORTHERN SOULERA

and resident selectors:

VINYL RICHIE (Sweater Funk, Hear The Sounds)
AMBASSADOR (Wax Poetics, Gostosa!)


+ SWEATER FUNK DJ's dropping the FUNK


Back together again! The third installment of this bay area meeting of folks that love the sound of O.G. Chicano soul and lowrider oldies on vinyl! Moses and Margarita are some serious collectors AND huge fans of this music and culture that we all love! Lets welcome them back with open arms.


Happy Hour:
Milk Bar (SF)
Free
1840 Haight Street
5:30pm- 10pm
$3 cocktails $3 draft beers

Bus Lines - 7, 71, 6, 33, N Judah Train
Free parking on meters after 6pm


THIS A FREE AND POSITIVE EVENT WITH GOOD VIBES... PLEASE NO SET TRIPPEN.


www.milksf.com
www.hearthesounds.com

BACK STREET BAND

HAPPY NEW YEAR BIATCHIZ!

Test Press soon to be released outta FRANCE!

Back Street Band Test Press

FLUXXX :: RADIO 1730

Sad to see our friend Fluxx leave SF. you will be missed in the basement but the friendship we've made will last a life time. Best of luck in London. I know Fluxx is working on getting the crew out in the UK for gig. Cant wait for that.

Check out this Live recording from Fluxx's going away party at Sweater Funk early this month. Guaranteed Funk

Sweater Funk Fluxxx Mix Only by Radio1730 on Mixcloud

SERGIO PONSAR

Man talk about Indian Summer, crazy hot in the city right now. All this heat makes me wanna be outside. Recorded my Sergio Ponsar LP last night and the track that I'm sharing with you is how most people in SF are feeling. Mid-tempo Boogie with a great Bass line.


SERGIO PONSAR - GOTTA GET OUTSIDE 1983

2 WIN U BACK - THE JONES GIRLS

2 WIN U BACK - THE JONES GIRLS

SOUL JAZZ RECORDS

Available in all good retail and internet stores next week.

BUY

Soul Jazz Records are reissuing this seminal Roy Ayers album, originally released on Roy Ayers own independent Uno Melodic label in 1983. A rare groove classic!

The album is one of Ayers’ deepest releases stylistically, spanning everything from Fela Kuti-Afrobeat to seminal 80s boogie funk. The album includes the super-dark ‘Chicago’, much loved by Moodyman, Theo Parrish and other Detroit minimalists.

Recorded around the time of other seminal Roy Ayers productions such as ‘Eighties Ladies’ and ‘Sylvia Striplin’, this really is as good as it gets.

Remastered from the original master tapes, the CD comes in Soul Jazz Records mini-box-pack edition with limited edition postcards. The vinyl edition comes for the first time ever on super-loud, super-heavyweight gatefold-sleeve double vinyl (making it better than the original!).

CHESCA'S SYSTEM

DOPE BEATS. NICE RE-EDITS. BANGING MIXES. HaTS OFF AND MAD RESPECK TO CHESCA.
CHESCA'S SYSTEM

JIMMY JAM

TIM MABIN - JIMMY JAM