A great jazz record with the killer cut “Do It Like You Feel It”.

Cadet Records.   1972 / Cover photo and design: Esmond Edwards

Featuring vocals by The Dells.

Bunky plays both Alto and the electronic Veritone sax.

In a 1997 DownBeat article, saxophone great Joe Lovano said, “Bunky personifies what jazz is all about. He’s combined all the inspiration of Parker and Dolphy and fused it into an individual voice. He’s the kind of player I’ve always strived to be in my music, taking hold of history and then moving on, through self-expression. Working alongside him has been a real highlight.”

Today Bunky is a Professor and Director of Jazz Studies at the University of Northern Florida in Jacksonville.

(11 votes, average: 4.09 out of 5)

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In the liner notes producer Sonny Lester pays tribute for the concept here to Levy’s rye bread.   “Just like the cover of this album says, Chinese kids like watermelon, Irish like bagels, black people like Jewish rye bread and today everybody loves the blues”

Album Art: Daniel Cooper-Bey   Photograph: Berry Berenson

(17 votes, average: 4.71 out of 5)

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Kent was a great low budget label that put out some great blues and r&b records. This one was produced by Johnny Otis and features his son Shuggie (who wrote “Strawberry Letter 23” and “Inspiration Information”). This is also a nice Bar-b-que cover. Check out that slab of ribs! Mmmmm.

(7 votes, average: 4.86 out of 5)

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There were lots of “Music to” lps made and lots of advertisers used lps for marketing and promotion.   This is a tastee one from Taystee bread that was made for their sales force.   Inspiration to make more bread selling bread.   As if selling a fresh marble rye or seven-grain wasn’t incentive enough.

(16 votes, average: 4.13 out of 5)

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Salsa Na’ Ma’  Charlie Palmieri y su Charanga “La Duboney”  Alegre

Wow. This is good on various levels. First of all, I love homemade soup. I love latin music.   And the chef is hot.   I spent about year pulling lp covers to frame and put up in my kitchen, this one made the cut on the first round.

(25 votes, average: 4.12 out of 5)

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