RIBS TPTD: “Masekela, McFerrin & Coltrane”

March 8, 2007 by tgrundy
Filed under: R&B, Triple Play Thurs-Day, jazz, music, podcasts/mixes, soul 

Welcome to the inaugural Triple Play Thurs-Day mix! This is the first of what I hope will be a long series of tasty treats that we cook up in the RIBS kitchen and present to you each week on Thursdays. The goal of the TPTD mix is simple: each week I’ll take three artists from the genres of Soul/R&B, Jazz, Blues, Gospel or Reggae, blend their music together, pop it in the oven and then serve it up for your musical consumption on Thursday morning.

For our first go round we have:

  1. the African Jazz rhythms of Hugh Masekela,
  2. the Jazz improvisations of Bobby McFerrin, and
  3. the classic Jazz intonations of sax master John Coltrane

At first glance, IMO, this is as unlikely a lineup as someone could ever imagine. But that someone did: at this time let me take a moment to give ‘props’ to my friend and co-worker Tyrone for coming up with the idea of mixing these three particular artists. Actually to be honest, TP (as I like to call him) gave me these last summer! That’s how long it has taken me to be able to work out a mix with these three that has a nice musical flow to it. OBTW… I would be remiss if I didn’t throw in a little shameless plug for my boy: Tyrone has one of the best DJ businesses in the area (New York/New Jersey/Pennsylvania/Washington DC). For weddings, dinner parties, retirement parties, corporate functions check out Super Sounds Entertainment. As they say, “You can pay more, but you can’t buy better”.

OK, now back to our regularly scheduled programming {smile}…

Nice, jazzy, melodic, smooth… and a little different. I present to you
Triple Play Thurs-Day: Masekela-McFerrin-Coltrane:

RIBS TPTD: Masekela-McFerrin-Coltrane
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Playlist:

  1. Hugh Masekela - The Boys Doin’ It
  2. John Coltrane - We Like To Boogie
  3. Bobby McFerrin - Friends
  4. Bobby McFerrin - Moondance
  5. Hugh Masekela - Ziph Inkomo
  6. John Coltrane - My Favorite Things
  7. Bobby McFerrin - The Pink Panther Theme
  8. Hugh Masekela - Grazing In The Grass
  9. John Coltrane - Cousin Mary
  10. Bobby McFerrin - Turtle Shoes
  11. Hugh Masekela - Languta
  12. John Coltrane - Tin Tin Deo
  13. Bobby McFerrin - Another Night In Tunisia
  14. Hugh Masekela - A Long Ways From Home
  15. John Coltrane - Blues Minor
  16. Bobby McFerrin - Don’t Worry, Be Happy

Enjoy!

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One Comment on RIBS TPTD: “Masekela, McFerrin & Coltrane”

  1. RIBS: Rhythms In Black Satin » RIBS TPTD: Ronnie Laws, Steely Dan, Jon Lucien on Fri, 17th Aug 2007 9:45 am

    2. [...] Sometimes when trying to come up with an idea for Triple Play Thurs-Day I like to push the envelope (so to speak) and pull together three artists that, at first glance, you wouldn’t think would mix well together. My best effort to date along that line was the Hugh Masekela-Bobby McFerrin-John Coltrane mix back in March that started off this weekly TPTD feature here. I cannot even begin to tell you how long it took me to put that one together… let’s just say it was months… many, many months. [...]

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