Maestro K's podcast

Tracklisting:
1 - Quantic - Un canto a mi tierra
2 - Erykah Badu - Danger (feat.China Blac)
3 - Young Holt Unlimited - Ain't there something money can't buy
4 - Jasper & the prodigal suns - Peace & one love
5 - Onra and Quetzal - In my place
6 - Wendy Rene - After Laughter (Comes Tears)
7 - Juca Chaves - Take me back To Piaui
8 - Julien Lourau & Rumbabierta - Dudum Banza

Here is once again a new episode on this podcast... Not so jazz & funky, more trip hop, electro soul than the previous mixes, here are 40 minutes of easy listening music for a perfect autumn night with Alice Russell, Mos Def, Parliament and others...

Well, time to enjoy, just download that show and talk about it!

Maestro K.

Tracklisting:
1 - Red Astaire - Follow me
2 - Wolf Myer Orchestra and Parov Stelar - Quicksand (feat.Nika Zach)
3 - TM Juke and the Jack Baker Trio - Spread it on (feat. Alice Russell)
4 - Mos Def - Umi Said
5 - Dj Day - Gone Bad
6 - Rahsaan Patterson - Cloud 9
7 - Wunmi - Message in a bottle
8 - Parliament - The motor booty affair

Welcome to Maestro K's new episode. I am now starting a new serie of "Turn off the radio" sessions.
These mixes will contain music that you don't usually hear on the radio... not commercial enough or just too good to be popular?
On this first mix, you will discover several songs that have been taken as samples for some of the last few years big radio hits: MC Solaar, A tribe Called quest, Beyonce (!!), Eve, Public Enemy etc.
Well, these are just too good. Please, enjoy!!

Maestro K.

Tracklisting:

1 - Are You My Woman (Tell Me So) - The Chi-Lites
2 - Opus de soul - Albert King, Steve Cropper & Pop Staples
3 - Cymande - The message
4 - Shawn lee's ping pong orchestra - Let me blow your mind
5 - Billy Brooks - Fourty days
6 - Labi Siffre - I got the blues
7 - Malik Adouane - Shaft
8 - Jose James - Spirits up above

Welcome back to Maestro K's podcast after a long long break!

In this episode you will hear only brass bands, famous or not, playing anything from jazz to funk and hip hop (!!).

Please enjoy these lovely tunes from german funk bands to late Michael Jackson's spiritual father, Quincy Jones.

Well, once again original music... So do not hesitate to leave your comments!

Maestro K.

Tracklisting:
1- The Dirty Dozen Brass Band - Ain't Nothin' But a Party
2- Mardi gras BB - The cape and the crown (sha la la)
3- Carlos Nino & Miguel Atwood-Ferguson - Find a way
4- Phil Collins Big Band - Sussudio
5- Matthew herbert big band - Waiting
5- Youngblood Brass band - Brooklyn
6- Quincy jones and his orchestra - Boogie bossa nova
7- Moondog - Bird's Lament
8- Eddy Louiss - High Life

Welcome back for Maestro K's first post of year 2009...
We're back with something special, a really groovy full-instrumental mix.
Don't be afraid, no need to be jazz specialist to appreciate the good atmosphere of these UK, US and french tracks...
So, just tune in, and enjoy!!

Maestro K.

Tracklisting:

01 - The Philadelphia Experiment - Trouble man
02 - Julien Lourau - Lisa et Flavio
03 - Dorothy Ashby - Afro harping
04 - Medeski, Martin & Wood - Shine it
05 - Cymande - Them and us
06 - Weldon Irvine - Bananas
07 - Yusef Lateef - Live humble

Here comes the Christmas mix named "3rd world party!", which , I hope, gives this part of the world a better image than what we usually get from our mass media. Don't expect any naive "made for western people" ethnic songs, but something quite different. This 48 minutes mix will introduce you to some rare indian funk & brass band, to the art of Haitian Kompa, to ghanaian hard funkateers, to caribeean and beninese zouk... and much more!
So, please enjoy and merry Xmas!!!
Maestro K.

Tracklisting:
1- Bill 'Ravi' Harris and the Prophets - Same Beat (India)
2- Manu Dibango - Mouvement Ewondo (Cameroon)
3- Pete Rodriguez - I like it like that (Porto Rico)
4- Kassav - Ola ou yé eva (French caribbean)
5- Balkan Beat Box - Hassan's Mimuna (Balkan / Turkey / Middle East)
6- Bollywood brass band - Urvashi Urvashi (India)
7- Haïtian Troubadours - Pa Manyen Fanm Nan (Haiti)
8- Gyedu Blay Ambolley & The Steneboofs - Simigwado (Ghana)
9- Orchestra Baobab - El son te llama (Senegal)
10- Petit miguelito - Lonlonyin (Benin)

Long time no see... We're back with a brand new eclectic mix with a strong acid jazz / abstract hip hop orientation but not only. Set the bass to the maximum, volume up, and (re)discover the original sound sampled in Busta Rhymes' Woo-hah, a hip-hop brass band, and a cool tune from my favorite brazilian city (until now): Olinda... and much more! So, please, enjoy!!! Maestro K.

Tracklisting:
1. Abstract rude + Tribe unique - Hey, This Must Be Deep
2. Galt MacDermot - Space
3. Donald Byrd - Think Twice
4. Backini - Company B-Boy
5. Eddie - Pode Me Chamar
6. Dynamic Syncopation - Bahian B-Boy
7. Dee Felice Trio - There Was A Time
8. Youngblood brass band - Camouflage

Welcome back after the summer holidays with my... hmmm.... sexiest mix.
100% of pure soul & jazz, sexy voices, songs to listen peacefully late at night... or early in the morning with your love.

Well, please enjoy this "Such a sweet feeling mix"...

Maestro K.

Tracklisting:

1 - Nina Simone - My baby just cares for me
2 - Peggy Lee - Fever
3 - Oscar Brown jr - Brother where are you (M.Herbert Remix)
4 - Dinah Washington - Cry me a River
5 - The five corners quintet (feat okou) - Blue cycles
6 - Millie Jackson - Summer (The First Time)
7 - Bobby Womack - California Dreaming
8 - Minnie Riperton - Only when i'm dreaming
9 - Roberta Flack - Killing Me Softly

Since Hip Hop's birth, Jazz and Hip Hop have always had a very interesting love story... Barely one without the other!

The proof of this asset is on this great 1 hour mix made by Dee B. You will hear mainly rare cool Hip Hop tracks tainted with jazz or jazz tracks tainted with Hip Hop from the US and France. Well, just brilliant stuff... So, please... Enjoy!

Dee B. & Maestro K.

Tracklisting: Unavailable yet

Long time no see...

I'm back with something quite different, that could shock Jazz, Funk & Soul purists... Nevermind!

'Something for the summer' is a "pot-pourri" of these songs that make you happy, that can make you dance, or relax... and always smile. You will hear some latin jazz, ghanaian dance music, sweet a capella jazz, londoner funk and more...

Summer is by definition THE epicurean season, this mix is its soundtrack, so please... Enjoy!

Maestro K.

Tracklisting:

1- Omar Sosa - Marimchacha
2- Earth, Wind & Fire - Evil
3- Buari - Advice From Father
4- Bobby McFerrin - Drive My Car
5- The Herbaliser - Amores Bongo
6- Buena Vista Social Club - Candela
7- The Five Corners Quintet (feat Okou) - Case Study

Here's a brand new mix, of soul, jazz and everything in between.... and beyond.

This show takes us to the heaven of Souljazz, where we will meet Minnie Riperton, Gil Scott Heron, Alice Russell and many others with some original interpretations of widely known tracks...

So, please, enjoy...

Maestro K.

Tracklisting:

1- Gil Scott Heron - Inner city blues
2- Alice Russell - Mean To Me (Acoustic Version)
3- Ella Fitzgerald / Louis Armstrong - Summertime
4- Matthew Herbert - Café de flor
5- Bonobo (feat. Bajka) - Between the Lines
6- Eddie Harris - Compared to what?
7- Rahsaan Roland Kirk - Ain't no sunshine
8- Minnie Riperton - Light my fire

Here comes an original mix of African music. Don't expect any 'ready made for western ears' music, nor real ethnic music.... but something different.

This show takes us from Senegal to Congo along the west african coast... We will discover or rediscover Cameroon funk music, Ghanaian highlife, Senegalese and Togolese hip hop, Ivorian reggae music, then experience Fela's (Africa's music and politic monster) masterpiece to end soflty with some Afroeuropean soul music...

Please, enjoy...

Maestro K.

This my first 1/2 hour mix to reach your ears....

Enjoy this eclectic mixture of soul and hip hop with a classical introduction.......

Hello to you all!

I have been thinking of it for a long time... I finally decided to act.
So... welcome to my first personal music podcast. You'll get only good music, originally mixed: jazz, hip hop, funk, soul, world music...

Eclectism is my word, if it is also yours, please enjoy....

Emeric aka Maestro K.