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THIS BEST WAY FOR ME TO INTRODUCE GEORGE DUKE IS TO JUST GO BACK AND RECALL HOW I WAS INTRODUCED TO HIS MUSIC. AND WITH THAT MY MOST MEMORABLE MEMORY IS WHEN I HEARD THIS FUNKY ASS SONG ON THE RADIO CALLED ‘REACH FOR IT, RELEASED IN 1977. FROM WHAT I REMEMBER, GROWING UP IN WINSTON-SALEM, NC, I MAY HAVE HEARD THIS SONG ON RADIO STATION WQMG, WHICH WAS THE RADIO STATION LOCATED NEARBY IN GREENSBORO, NC. OR MAYBE IT WAS ONE OF THE ALBUMS THAT MY COUSIN BOBBY MAY HAVE LET MY DAD BORROW BACK IN 1978 OR SO. ‘REACH FOR IT’ AND ‘DON’T LET GO’ WERE RELEASED DURING A TIME OF INCREDIBLE MUSIC EXPERIMENTATION AND EXPLORATION, THE PHASE OF JAZZ-FUSION MUSIC BEING CREATED ALL DURING THE 1970’S. BUT ONE THING FOR SURE IS THAT WHEN GEORGE DUKE RELEASED WHAT WOULD BE CONSIDERED HIS BREAKTHROUGH ALBUM, AN ALBUM THAT WOULD COME ALONG AT THE BEGINNING OF A NEW DECADE WHICH WOULD BRING WHAT’S CONSIDERED ALSO A NEW EXCITING GENRE CALLED ‘SMOOTH JAZZ’, ‘A BRAZILIAN LOVE AFFAIR’ IN WAS RELEASED IN 1980. THIS LP FEATURED SEVERAL EXCEPTIONAL, WORLD CLASS BRAZILIAN MUSICIANS AND ARTISTS, SOME OF WHO WERE KNOWN AND RESPECTED IN AMERICAN JAZZ (AND SOME, R&B) MUSIC. FROM THERE, IN 1981, GEORGE DUKE THEN COLLABORATED AGAIN, WITH ONE OF JAZZ MUSIC’S GREATEST MUSICIANS, STANLEY CLARKE, AND THEY RELEASED THE AMAZING ‘THE CLARKE/DUKE’ PROJECT, A TOP SELLING ALBUM FOR BOTH ARTISTS IN EVERY WAY. IT YIELDED THE TOP 20 SINGLE “SWEET BABY” AS THAT SONG APPEARED ON BOTH THE POP & R&B SINGLES CHARTS, AS THE SONG PEAKED AT #6 ON THE BILLBOARD R&B CHART. THIS GREAT MAN, THIS GREAT ARTIST PASSED AWAY AND WENT ON TO GLORY IN AUGUST, 2013 BUT FOR ME THE ABSOLUTE LEGACY OF HIS ARTISTRY, HIS BODY OF WORK AND CONTRIBUTION TO NOT ONLY JAZZ, JAZZ FUSION BUT ALSO AS A PRODUCER OF SOME OF THE BEST R&B MUSIC OF THE 80’S AND 90’S, IS A FURTHER CERTIFICATION OF HOW GEORGE DUKE BECAME ONE OF MY FAVORITE MUSICAL ARTISTS AND AN ARTIST WHO’LL ALWAYS BE - A BLAZE STREET MUSICAL LEGEND!

1. NO RHYME, NO REASON (1992) - FROM THE SNAPSHOT RELEASE, FEATURING A BACKGROUND RIFF FROM THEN NEWCOMER NAMED RACHELLE FERRELL
2. WAITING - RACHELLE FERRELL (1992) from FERRELL’S SELF-TITLED DEBUT LP ‘RACHELLE FERRELL’ WHICH FEATURED PRODUCTION FROM GEORGE DUKE
3. JUST FOR YOU (1977) - FROM REACH FOR IT
4. SWEET BABY (1981) - FROM THE CLARKE-DUKE PROJECT
5. OOH BABY (1992) - FROM SNAPSHOT
6. STARTING AGAIN (1978) - FROM DON’T LET GO
7. REACH FOR IT (1977) - FROM REACH FOR IT
8. SAY THAT YOU WILL (1979) - FROM FOLLOW THE RAINBOW
9. 6 O’CLOCK (1992) - FROM SNAPSHOT
10. SAY HELLO (1989) - FROM NIGHT AFTER NIGHT
11. YOU ARE THE ONLY ONE IN MY LIFE (1989) - FROM NIGHT AFTER NIGHT
12. DUKEY STICK (1978) - FROM DON’T LET GO
13. SAME OLE LOVE (1989) - FROM NIGHT AFTER NIGHT, (A RENDITION OF ANITA BAKER’S HIT SONG
14. SEARCHIN MY MIND (1997) - FROM REACH FOR IT
15. THE TOTAL EXPERIENCE (2006) - A TRACK BY BONEY JAMES FEATURING GEORGE DUKE FROM THE ‘SHINE’ RELEASE
16. SUPERWOMAN (2005) - FROM THE LP TITLED ‘DUKE’
17. RESCUE ME (1980) - FROM THE LP, ‘TWICE AS SWEET’, THIS PRODUCED BY GEORGE DUKE
18. BRAZILIAN LOVE AFFAIR (1980) - FROM THE LP OF THE SAME NAME

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This mix is for entertainment purposes only. I do not have copyright over any of this material. All songs are owned by their respective labels, songwriters and producers. As I’m playing these songs I will announce the artists and at times, the labels and producers. All the music that I play on this podcast can be purchased online at such music sellers as Beatport, Traxsource, you can also purchase this music at Apple music (some selections are limited) and there are many other means and ways to get this music. I’m a professional DJ who purchases ALL OF THE MUSIC I play and - this podcast is totally funded by me, I dont get any money from the online platforms who play this podcast.

WELL THIS IS THE FIRST PODCAST I’M DOING UNDER THIS BANNER. WHY? BECAUSE I LOVE HOUSE MUSIC, IT’S JUST THAT SIMPLE. AND LIVING HERE IN HAWAII, I HAVENT BEEN ABLE TO FIND A LOT OF PLACES THAT JUST LOVE AND EMBRACE HOUSE MUSIC AS I DO. WHILE I DO HAVE QUITE A FEW DJ FRIENDS WHO REALLY LOVE TO SPIN HOUSE MUSIC JUST AS I DO, THERE ARE NOT MANY CLUBS HERE WHO CATER TO OUR LOVE OF THIS MUSIC. SO MANY OF US RELEASE OUR OWN MIXES EITHER VIA YOU TUBE, MIXCLOUD, OR AS I DO, WHICH IS ON MY PODCAST. I’VE BEEN REALLY INVESTED INTO HOUSE MUSIC AS A GENRE AND MUSIC STYLE SINCE 1997 AND FOR ME, SINCE THEN, IT’S BEEN A VERY IMPORTANT PART OF MY LIFE. I ALSO WANT TO SALUTE MY HOUSE MUSIC HEROES AND I HAVE LOTS OF THEM, TRUSS AND BELIEVE, I’VE GOT LOTS OF THEM. SO AS I PROGRESS IN THIS PODCAST, IM GOING TO BE SHOWCASING NOT ONLY THE MUSIC OF HOUSE - IT’S STYLES, ITS HISTORY, ITS CULTURE, IM GOING TO BE SALUTING AND GIVING FLOWERS TO MY HOUSE HEROES WHO HAVE REALLY TOUCHED ME AND HELPED ME TO GET WHERE I AM, NOT ONLY AS A DJ, BUT AS A LOVER, A TRUE LOVER, OF HOUSE MUSIC. THIS IS EPISODE VOLUME 1 OF MY BRAND NEW SERIES WHERE I’M SALUTING HOUSE MUSIC, AND IT’S CALLED -

THE BEST HOUSE MUSIC UVE EVA HEARD! MY SALUTE TO HOUSE MUSIC. PLEASE STAY TUNED AND CHECK ME OUT EVERY OTHER WEEK AS I GIVE HOUSE MUSIC THE FLOWERS IT TRULY AND RICHLY DESERVES!

GOTTA KEEP IT GOING (ORIG. MIX)SAKHILE, SK

RATHER DIE (ORIG. MIX)D. GENERAL, MALANKANE

HEAVENLY (KARIZMA RMX)DJ SPEN PRES. DANA WEAVER

STOMPORLAM, SOULBEE, VENDER CAFE

CHOOSE YOUNICK HOLDER

SUNRISE IN THE MORNING (ORIG. MIX)K.G. SUNSET

PARADISCO (N.W.N. RMX)KANE REYNA, N.W.N.

BACK TO THE OLDDARIO D’ATTIS, MR. V

FEEL THAT (FRANCK ROGER RMX)RISK ASSESSMENT, KE, FRANCK ROGER

DO ME RIGHT

(CRACKAZAT MANA’S DUB)BEN WESTBEECH, RAHH, CRACKAZAT, DAMES BROWN

JUST A MAN (SEBB JUNIOR RMX)ZAV, SEBB JUNIOR

MY BODY (MOSCAT RMX)FRANK AMODO, MOSCAT

ONLY YOU

(SEAN’S DAY & NITE DUB) SEAN MCCABE, JILL ROCK JONES

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IN THIS EPISODE, I’LL BE DOING SEVERAL THINGS. FIRSTLY, SHARING THE MUSIC OF TWO GREAT MUSICIANS AND ICONS - GEORGE DUKE AND JOE SAMPLE. WOW. LET ME SAY THAT AGAIN. YES I’LL BE PLAYING MUSIC FROM JOE SAMPLE & GEORGE DUKE. THIS EPISODE IS MY DEDICATION TO THE #9 ENTRY INTO MY TOP 50 LISTING - I’LL BE FEATURING SEVERAL SONGS, MY FAVES FROM JOE SAMPLE’S 1989 RELEASE CALLED “SPELLBOUND” I’LL ALSO BE GIVING YOU A FEW SONGS FROM JOE SAMPLE WHEN HE WAS A MEMBER OF THE JAZZ GROUP, THE CRUSADERS, ONE OF THE MOST MEMORABLE JAZZ-SOUL GROUPS FROM THE 70’S AND 80’S. AND LASTLY I’LL BE GIVING YOU SOME SONGS FROM ONE OF MY FAVORITE, FAVORITE ALL TIME GREATS, MR GEORGE DUKE. NOW WHAT I’M DOING WITH GEORGE DUKE IS SOMETHING UNIQUE AND INTERESTING. IM PLAYING GEORGE DUKE AND JOE SAMPLE BECAUSE IT WAS DUKE WHO PRODUCED SAMPLE’S 1997 LP TITLED ‘SAMPLE THIS.’ WHAT MAKES IT SPECIAL IS, ALL THE SONGS ON ‘SAMPLE THIS’, WERE SONGS THAT JOE SAMPLE HAD PREVIOUSLY RECORDED. SO WHAT DID GEORGE DUKE AND SAMPLE DO? THEY GOT AN ALL-STAR ROSTER OF MUSICIANS AND THEY RE-DID THE SONGS, HENCE THE TITLE, ‘SAMPLE THIS’. IN MY OPINION, THIS ALBUM IS ONE OF THE BEST THAT BOTH DUKE AND SAMPLE EVER DID, BECAUSE EACH MUSICIAN IS A KEYBOARDIST/PIANIST, AND BOTH OF THEIR CHOPS AS MUSICIANS ARE EXTRAORDINARY.

BLAZE STREET MUSIC - MUSIC OF A LIFETIME, EPISODE #44, IM FEATURING ENTRY #9 ON MY LIST OF THE 50TH GREATEST RECORDS AND ALBUMS OF A LIFETIME - THE MUSIC OF JOE SAMPLE, LET'S GO!

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FLY ON THE WINGS OF LOVE - ‘SAMPLE THIS’, 1997. PRODUCED BY GEORGE DUKE

IN ALL MY WILDEST DREAMS - SAMPLE THIS’, 1997. PRODUCED BY GEORGE DUKE

MYSTERY EYES - ‘NIGHT AFTER NIGHT’, 1989, PRODUCED BY GEORGE DUKE

SAY HELLO - ‘NIGHT AFTER NIGHT’, 1989, PRODUCED BY GEORGE DUKE

KEEP THAT SAME OLE FEELING - THE CRUSADERS, 1976. ‘THE SOUTHERN KNIGHTS’

STREET LIFE FEAT RANDY CRAWFORD - THE CRUSADERS, 1979. ‘STREET LIFE’

NIGHT FLIGHT - ‘SAMPLE THIS’, 1997. PRODUCED BY GEORGE DUKE

MELODIES OF LOVE - ‘SAMPLE THIS’. 1997. PRODUCED BY GEORGE DUKE

ALL OF THESE SONGS ARE FROM 1989’S SPELLBOUND LP, WHICH WAS PRODUCED BY TOMMY LIPUMA

SEVEN YEARS OF BAD LUCK

U TURN

SERMONIZED

LUNA EN NEW YORK

SOMEHOW OUR LOVE SURVIVES

SPELLBOUND

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