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2008

“Kenny! Make that 3 Buds”

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Horace Silver with the Jazz Messengers Blue Note 1518. Hard bop prophets at the birth of the movement. This is Silver’s first session as a leader. The year is 1955 and it’s the start of an incredible 15-year run of stunning musical achievement from Blue Note Records. KENNY DORHAM, trumpet; HANK MOBLEY, tenor sax; HORACE SILVER, piano; DOUG WATKINS, bass; ART BLAKEY, drums. The eight original Silver compositions, including “The Preacher”, “Creepin’ In” and “Doodlin'”, are jazz standards today. Reid Miles designed the cool cover. Blue Note founder Alfred Lion took the photo. Ira Gitler wrote the liner notes. Rudy Van Gelder mastered.

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God’s love is a drug

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“Turn On!!”   “Music for the Hip at Heart”   A Xian teen trip.

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El Circo the Clown

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A best-in-show among clown covers! (on Musart)

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The vantastic four

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“Jesus is a Soul Man” The Click Kids

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Freaky steins!

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“Beer Garden Musik”   Will Glahe and his Orchestra   London Records

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Cock, a doodle

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I do not have ADD, I’m just…hey look a chicken!

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Pass the Salsa

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The Salsa All Stars on Salsa Records.

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Day dreamin’

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“There Never Was a Woman Like Guilda”

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French Canadian transvestite Guilda – “Une femme pas comme les autres…?”

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Whiz with

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“Whizzer”   “The Talking Airplane”   A singing and talking sound record by “Sonovox” on Jackalee Records.

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