OT: Deep Album Cuts - Mellow Rock & Soft Jazz

[Bigboote]

If you haven't heard of the "B&B Project" from Ukraine this is just one of their pieces that resonated with me. Give them listen. She is playing a bandura, which is native to Ukraine.

Spectacular, they're a nice combination. For super music geeks, in addition to the bandura, the accordion is quite unusual, too. Notice that the right hand is buttons instead of keys, not that unusual. But on the left hand, each button is a note rather than a chord, a so-called free-bass accordion.

 

[Bigboote]

Here's another 5-row free-bass tune from the Finnish player Maria Kalaniemi:

 

[Bigboote]

Here's one from the Warning's first album. It's actually their drummer singing and playing piano. She wrote and recorded this when she was 15.

 

[TerpWomenFan]

Love this one by Stanley Clarke - Let Me Know You:

Hard to believe this came out in 1982. Outstanding selection. A+

 

[TerpWomenFan]

 

[cullaville]

 

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[Scud49]

Another sultry one from Boz Scaggs, circa 1977. Love the fading chorus near the end:

 

[Scud49]

Ferris Wheel - Gabor Szabo's masterpiece, so mellow and beautiful:

 

[TerpWomenFan]

Always been a Shakatak fan.

 

[CB360]

The Doobie Brothers: South City Midnight Lady.....

 

[MdStang]

Deep cut from Three Dog Night.

 

[TerpWomenFan]

I'm trying to stay with the classics.

 

[TerpWomenFan]

 

[TerpWomenFan]

 

[TerpWomenFan]

 

[TerpWomenFan]

Classic

 

[Scud49]

When the calendar turns to September, I always think of Julie London:

 

[cullaville]

Always been a Shakatak fan.

I remember the first time I heard them I was in my car and thought this is great. I waited until the song was over and the deejay did not say who the band was. This was in the eighties so it took me a couple of days to figure out their name.

 

[Replicant]

 

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[Scud49]

Lonnie Liston Smith - "Summer Afternoon" - I think this is one of those artists that define mellow:

 

[TerpWomenFan]

Urban Knights featuring Grover Washington Jr.

 

[BrianUC]