Jimmy McGriff - Black Pearl (1971)

One of my favorite stores to buy music CDs & DVDs had a Blue Note Trip compilation in their racks years ago and I bought it.

Weeks ago another Blue Note Trip volume took its place at the store and it joined the other one in my collection.

Like I wrote in my post about Jazz Amnesty Sound System, I had not thought of Jazz music since about 10 years ago when I was Jazz Director for Concordia University's radio station. 

This song from Jimmy McGriff's Black Pearl, among a handful, stuck with me and might have a similar effect on others.

The Headhunters

The legendary jazz-funk group The Headhunters performing in Montreal Summer 2026 will be some pleasant news indeed.

The group's story begins with their work with Herbie Hancock.  The group members played on a number of  Hancock's classic albums. The 1973 album Head Hunters bearing the group name is essential listening.



I was fortunate to find a copy of Survival of the Fittest with one of my personal favorite 70s jazz-funk cuts called If You Got It, You'll Get It.

God Made Me Funky is quite surely the group's signature song but is epic in proportion. Thankfully Paul Walter's Under The Influence compilation gives a 7" edit that allows me to drop other funk bombs during a radio show guest DJ set or live DJ set for the public.

There is another Headhunters album called Straight From The Gate that I only know by its cover. Thanks to the wonders of YouTube, I can post this song that is on that album.



Please make yourself familiar with the link below for more.

Below is a playlist from one of my guest DJ fill-ins for CKUT's The Goods.  

Click here to download other archived episodes.

DJ Solespin - The Goods (April 2014) Playlist:

 

1. Aries: Planetary Motivations 
2. Black Heat - Love The Life You Live
3. The Ohio Players - Walt's First Trip
4. African Music Machine - Black Water Gold
5. Dyke & The Blazers - Let A Woman Be A Woman
6. All The People - Cramp Your Style
7. Roy Ayers Ubiquity - Fire Weaver
8. The Blackbyrds - Blackbyrds Theme
9. Bob Marley & The Wailers - Try Me
10. Paul Simon - Mother & Child Reunion
11. Greyhound - Black & White
12. Jackie Mittoo - Toronto Express
13. Ken Boothe - Look What You've Done To Me
14. Delroy Wilson - Ain't That Peculiar
15. Eric Donaldson - Cherry Oh Baby
16. Desmond Dekker & The Aces - Israelites
17. Tomorrow's Children - Sister Big Stuff
18. The Bar-Kays - In The Hole
19. Wilson Pickett - Hey Jude
20. The 5 Stairsteps - Dear Prudence
21. The Band - Up On Cripple Creek
22. Al Green - I'm Glad You're Mine
23. Gene Chandler - Groovy Situation 
24. Q65 - Get Out of My Life Woman
25. Ike Turner & The Kings of Rhythm - Gettin' Nasty
26. Clarence Reid - Masterpiece (Kenny Dope Edit)
27. Bo Diddley - Hit Or Miss
28. The Headhunters - God Made Me Funky
29. Richie Havens - Handouts In The Rain
30. Bill Withers - Kissing My Love
31. Smokey Robinson & The Miracles - I Second That Emotion 

MaxStaxofWax (January 2013)

MaxStaxofWax made a return to The Suite Delight this month. 

Discussions prior to our next show together give me the impression soul, funk, hip hop, jazz and other goodies were guaranteed. 

Below is the playlist of what transpired when he joined me in January 12, 2013.


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Playlist: MaxStaxofWax 2013


Jay Dee - Rico Suave Bossa Nova
Emile Normand Sextet - Mas Que Nada
Earl Rodney - Juck Juck
Classics IV - Stormy
Talk Spot
Dennis Brown - Money In My Pocket
Baba Leslie - Flying Free
Taj Mahal - Satisfied 'N' Tickled Too
ESG - U.F.O.
Martha High & Speedometer - Save Me
Bronx River Parkway - Deixa Pra La
Talk Spot
Betty Lavette - Heart Of Gold
Wilson Pickett - (Your Love Has Brought Me) A Mighty Long Way
Friends Of Mine - Shambala
Sammy Davis Jr. - Baretta's Theme
David Ryshpan - DSDQ: Dilla's Quiet (Incubator Remix)
Jai Nitai Lotus - Hard Times feat Georgia Anne Muldrow and Declaime
Madchild - Pressure
Buck 65 - Sunday Driver
The Incubator - Re:Us
Talk Spot
Obscure Disorder - 2004
P-Love – St-Viateur Shuffle, Part 2
Kid Koala - 7-Bit Blues
Junior Parker - Taxman
Maxine Weldon - My Way
Talk Spot