Comments on: Issue 14

By: Timeless Box Set « Wax Poetics

Timeless Box Set « Wax Poetics — Tue, 04 May 2010 19:19:13 +0000

[...] about Mulatu Astatke in Issue 14 of Wax [...]

By: Quantic’s “Addis to Axum” Mix « Wax Poetics

Quantic’s “Addis to Axum” Mix « Wax Poetics — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 00:30:34 +0000

[...] in Addis Ababa with Soundway’s Miles Cleret and photographer/filmmaker B+ (as featured in Wax Poetics Issue 14). Five years later, they were reunited at the Luckman Fine Arts Complex in Los Angeles for the [...]

By: Gwen McCrae (Cat) 1975 « Wax Poetics

Gwen McCrae (Cat) 1975 « Wax Poetics — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 19:10:28 +0000

[...] McCrae returned to Miami, where Alston founder Henry Stone paired her with producer/ songwriter Clarence Reid to record a series of career-making sides for Alston subsidiary Cat Records. For [...]

By: Lou Rawls Your Good Thing (Capitol) 1969 « Wax Poetics

Lou Rawls Your Good Thing (Capitol) 1969 « Wax Poetics — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 19:08:05 +0000

[...] Lou Rawls, who passed away on Friday, January 6, 2006. His amazing baritone can be heard on this David Axelrod-produced soul masterpiece, aided with funky drums and bass, sparse piano, and a sly vibraphone [...]

By: Billy Preston (Capitol) c. 1967 « Wax Poetics

Billy Preston (Capitol) c. 1967 « Wax Poetics — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 19:06:09 +0000

[...] success, Preston recorded some sides for Capitol, with the help from Sly Stone, who co-wrote this Axelrod-produced tune and arranged an album’s worth of material for him. [...]

By: Latimore (Glades) 1973 « Wax Poetics

Latimore (Glades) 1973 « Wax Poetics — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 19:05:14 +0000

[...] “Castles in Spain and a ski lodge in Maine” over a relaxed proto-disco groove on this Clarence Reid-written and -produced Glades B-side. While Latimore’s lascivious tone may lead one to call [...]

By: Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band (Warner Bros.) 1968 « Wax Poetics

Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band (Warner Bros.) 1968 « Wax Poetics — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 19:02:35 +0000

[...] songwriter/drum maestro James Gadson if the arrangement of this 1968 single, taken from the Rhythm Band’s sophomore album, [...]

By: Dyke and the Blazers (Original Sound) 1969 « Wax Poetics

Dyke and the Blazers (Original Sound) 1969 « Wax Poetics — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 19:00:15 +0000

[...] enlisted a few members of the Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band, including inimitable sticks man James Gadson, to light a fire under this funk classic. Dyke and his band continued to cut ridiculously heavy, [...]

By: Lou Rawls Merry Christmas Ho! Ho! Ho! (Capitol) « Wax Poetics

Lou Rawls Merry Christmas Ho! Ho! Ho! (Capitol) « Wax Poetics — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 18:47:52 +0000

[...] is back with a Christmas treat. Continuing our David Axelrod theme, we bring out the Lou Rawls classic. While J. W. Alexander’s “Good Time [...]

By: Betty Wright (Alston 4571) 1968 « Wax Poetics

Betty Wright (Alston 4571) 1968 « Wax Poetics — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 18:42:32 +0000

[...] the second single off of Wright’s debut, Alston songwriting duo Clarence “Blowfly” Reid and Willie Clarke slyly forced a swinging 3/4 Miracles riff into a boxier 4/4, introducing the [...]

By: Mulatu Afro-Latin Soul (Worthy) 1966 « Wax Poetics

Mulatu Afro-Latin Soul (Worthy) 1966 « Wax Poetics — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 18:40:27 +0000

[...] always African music,” Mulatu says in Issue 14, but what makes it Latin is the montuno,” the syncopated piano vamp. Mulatu’s later [...]

By: Arthur Lyman Taboo Vol. 2 (Hi-Fi) c. 1960 « Wax Poetics

Arthur Lyman Taboo Vol. 2 (Hi-Fi) c. 1960 « Wax Poetics — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 18:38:27 +0000

[...] wasn’t until our own Issue 14 that people associated David Axelrod with Arthur Lyman’s Taboo 2, which Axe produced. [...]

By: Magical Shepard « Wax Poetics

Magical Shepard « Wax Poetics — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 18:26:02 +0000

[...] James Gadson claims, in Issue 14, that he just played the “disco stuff” and was scared of fellow players Jack [...]

By: Juice (Greedy Records) 1976 « Wax Poetics

Juice (Greedy Records) 1976 « Wax Poetics — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 17:18:33 +0000

[...] Issue 14, Jazzy Jay recalls New York record stores in the ’70s, places like Downstairs Records: [...]

By: Mulatu of Ethiopia « Wax Poetics

Mulatu of Ethiopia « Wax Poetics — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 17:17:30 +0000

[...] piano with wah-wah is what really creates its unique rhythm. Read our Mulatu of Ethiopia article in Issue 14 of Wax Poetics. [...]