I just discovered an incredible new blog (started in 2007) called Happy as a Fat Rat in a Cheese Factory. It’s an apt title if you like rare jazz and funk grooves. Here are a few tasty downloads for you:
Harold Alexander – Raw Root (1974)
Stone Alliance (1976)
Herbie Hancock, live in Tokyo at Nakano Sun Plaza, 29 September 1978
Lightnin’ Rod – Hustler’s Convention (1973)
Eddie Russ – See the Light (1976)
Herbie Mann – Live at the Whiskey A-Go-Go (1968)
Sahib Shihab – Conversations (1963)
Herbie Hancock – Direct Step (1979)
Duke Pearson – The Phantom (1968)
Gary Bartz – Ju Ju Man (1976)
Lonnie Smith – Mama Wailer (1971)
Jack Wilson Quartet featuring Roy Ayers – Ramblin’ (1966)
Sonny Rollins in Japan (1973)
Art Ensemble of Chicago – People in Sorrow (1969)
Miles Davis Septet – Live in Montreux | 2nd set (1973)
The Cannonball Adderley Quintet – 74 Miles Away (1967)
Prince Lasha/Sonny Simmons – Firebirds (1967)
Freddie Hubbard – Keep Your Soul Together (1973)
Hal Singer – Blues And News (1971)
Nathan Davis – Peace Treaty (1965)
Johnny Lytle – New And Groovy (1966)
Harold Alexander – Sunshine Man (1971)
Wayne Shorter – Odyssey Of Iska (1970)
Rahsaan Roland Kirk & The Vibration Society – Rahsaan Rahsaan (1970)
The Cannonball Adderley Quintet – Music, You All (1972)
Lonnie Liston Smith – Live! (1977)
Archie Shepp – Kwanza (1969)
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