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Feel Good Music Show

By David Brown | The Jazz Continuum
January 3, 2023
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It's New Year's Eve here on the Jazz Continuum. Weather you're getting gussied up to go out, or laying low for the evening, we're here to present an evening of Feel-Good Music to keep you company.

Playlist

Thelonious Monk "Esistrophy (Theme)" from Live at the It Club-Complete (Columbia) 00:30
Terry Pollard "Scrapple From The Apple" from A Detroit Jazz Legend (Fresh Sound Records) 02:15
Yusef Lateef "Eastern Market" from Yusef Lateef's Detroit (Collectables) 07:26
Gunter Baby Sommer & The Lucaciu 3 "Samba Pastouron" from Karawane (Intake Records) 11:45
Sonny Rollins "St. Thomas" from Saxophone Colossus (Prestige) 17:17
Sonny Rollins "The Everywhere Calypso" from Next Album (Milestone) 24:04
Fred Wesley "Doing it to Death" from 7" Single (People) 32:59
Lou Donaldson "Funky Mama pt. 1" from 7" Single (Blue Note) 38:04
Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio "Jimmy's Groove pt. 1" from 7" Single (Colemine) 41:03
Jimmy Smith New Sounds On the Organ "Judo Mambo" from 7" Single (Blue Note) 44:53
Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio "Jimmy's Groove pt. 2" from 7" Single (Colemine) 50:25
Lou Donaldson "Funky Mama pt. 2" from 7" Single (Blue Note) 53:03
Fred Wesley "Everybody Got Soul" from 7" Single (People) 56:03
Nina Simone "Do I Move You" from Sings the Blues (RCA Victor) 1:02:23
Nina Simone "Sinnerman (Felix Da Housecat's Heavenly House Mix)" from Verve Remixed 2 (Verve Records) 1:02:23
Christian McBride, Ahmir 'Questlove' Thompson, Uri Caine "Ain't It the Truth" from Philadelphia Experiment (Ropeadope Records) 1:09:45
Shirley Scott "Ain't It the Truth" from Hip Soul (Hip Soul) 1:16:39
Joey DeFrancesco "Soul Dancing" from More Music (Mack Avenue) 1:23:08
Billie Holiday "I Get A Kick Out of You" from Music for Torching (Verve) 1:29:46
Eddie Harris "Funkaroma" from Is It In (Atlantic) 1:36:14
Charles Kynard "Superstition" from Your Mama Don't Dance (Mainstreem) 1:41:13
The Meters "Here Comes the Meter Man" from The Meters (Josie) 1:46:00
Mongo Santamaria "Watermelon Man" from Watermelon Man! (Battle) 1:48:55
Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings "Watermelon Man" from I learned the Hard Way (Daptone Records) 1:52:26
Irma Thomas "Time is on My Side" from Collection: 1961-1966 (Capital Records) 1:56:05

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