Cadet & Cadet Concept s/d

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i've recently caught the Charles Stepney bug.

i've been listening to a bunch of Rotary Connection (the 1rst, Songs & Hey Love). didn't realize they did the original "I'm the Black Gold of the Sun".

i've already professed my love for Electric Mudd in a previous thread

the john Klemmer records i have (Blowin' Gold & Waterfalls) are fucking killer psych jazz.

and i pulled out Ramsey Lewis's "Maiden Voyage" the other night and it's way nicer than i remember. nice string and vocal arrangements over a soul jazz record.

here's the complete Cadet Concept discography http://www.bsnpubs.com/chess/cadetb.html

and here's the Cadet http://www.bsnpubs.com/chess/cadeta.html

― El Janko (JasonD), Monday, 31 January 2005 23:19 (twenty years ago)

i specifically want to know about some of the weirder ones i've never heard of: Status Quo, Aesop's Fables, Salloom & Sinclair.

my friend dropped 70$ on the Archie Whitewater, so i'm assuming that's kinda nice?

― El Janko (JasonD), Monday, 31 January 2005 23:22 (twenty years ago)

the Archie Whitewater (a group, not a person BTW) is sought after for one cut, "Cross Country" which is nice indeed. Super-mellow Fender Rhodes thing. Ramsey Lewis "Back To The Roots" is also great, REALLY funky on some tracks. "Another Voyage" is good, too. Dorthy Ashby is a jazz harpist who's been sampled, so her stuff goes for big $$$. One of those Marlena Shaw albums has her incredible version of "California Soul." A lot of Cadet titles have been re-issued on CD recently (but not Archie Whitewater, damnit).

― one time gaffled 'em up, Tuesday, 1 February 2005 18:03 (twenty years ago)

just to pad this thread a bit, i'm copy/pasting a message from another thread:

oh hey JaX0N -- I did see your thread, and in fact I had an inking that it might be your thread before I even clicked on it!! you crazy record collectin' prankster. Yeah, I guess I really don't have too much to add beyond seconding the Rotary Connection love, and the Electric Mud love, and etc. And most of the McDuff lps on Cadet were solid. Oh, and yeah, Terry Callier. What did you think of that Occasional Rain then? He's an acquired taste, but I like him. His recent records have left me kind of flat, but I love that Cadet stuff..

As far as I know, that Status Quo lp was just the licensed American version of their earliest UK stuff. so it's like yeah, "Pictures of Matchstick Men" (totally classic) and so on .. I haven't actually heard the whole thing. I don't know those other dudes at all, though, no (Aesop's Fables, Joel Vance, etc)

Also I THINK there was this other crazy white psych band that recorded for Cadet -- the Baroques? I think their record came out on Cadet, but I'm not sure (don't have it myself.) Scott might know. They had that crazy "Oscar Mayer Weiner" song. I think they might have ended up on the first Nuggets 4cd box. But yeah I think that's another one to look out for.

There was this whole budget series of CDs that Charly UK released, compilations of ARGO/Chess stuff. Good stuff to be found in there ... Marlena Shaw, she's another hot one...

-- Stormy Davis (electrifyingmoj...), February 1st, 2005.

― El Janko (JasonD), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 19:40 (twenty years ago)

and more:

Oh, and yeah, Terry Callier. What did you think of that Occasional Rain then?

fucking great! the first song i could do without, a little to happy, the guy at my work asked if we were listening to Tom Jones, but then it kicked into the slower, sadder stuff and i was so hooked. there's a really long song near the end (i think it's Lean On Me - but not the Bill Wither's song) that's just so moving.

i've had What Color Is Love for the longest time, and i guess they're pretty similar albums. WCIL has a little bit more funk maybe. more bass.

i recently picked up John Lucien's "Rashida" which is very, very similar to Callier or Gil Scott Heron, but with a bit more caribean feel. i started a thread on him a while ago, and like usual, only one person responded to it.

-- El Janko (jaso...), February 1st, 2005.

― El Janko (JasonD), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 19:41 (twenty years ago)

i downloaded that marlena shaw "california soul" song yesterday and it really is incredible. it's funny when you've know a song for so long through the hip hop songs that have sampled them and then when you finally hear the original, it's such a wonderful feeling, especially if the song one ups the hip hop version you know.

― El Janko (JasonD), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 19:43 (twenty years ago)

eleven months pass...

if anyone cares (hardly likely), i just found a great comp called Chess Psychedelic Jazz And Funky Grooves

Tracklisting
1 Tales Of Brave Ullysess - Rotary Connection
2 Cross Town Traffic - Phil Upchurch
3 I Cant Get Next To You - Woody Herman
4 Woman Of The Ghetto - Marlene Shaw
5 Afro Harping - Dorothy Ashby
6 Listen Here - The Soulful Strings
7 Do Whatever Sets You Free - Ramsey Lewis
8 Thanks I Needed That - Solomon Burke
9 Tight Money - Reuben Wilson
10 Its Your Thing - Woody Herman
11 Third Stone Frome The Sun - John Klemmer
12 Everlasting Love - Solomon Burke
13 Bad Trip - Bo Diddley
14 Tom Cat - Muddy Waters
15 I Wish It Would Rain - The Soulful Strings
16 Less Fleur - Ramsey Lewis
17 I Am The Black Gold Of The Sun - Rotary Connection

― team jaxon (jaxon), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 22:29 (nineteen years ago)

two years pass...

I care

― henry s, Monday, 26 May 2008 00:33 (seventeen years ago)

Search: anything by Phil Upchurch.

― inhibitionist, Monday, 26 May 2008 01:52 (seventeen years ago)

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