Blue Note Trip - Somethin' Blue (2LP)
RARITY - SEALED
COMPILATION
2 LPs, standard sleeve
Original analog Master tape : YES
Heavy Press : 180g
Record color : black
Speed : 33 RPM
Size : 12'’
Stereo
Studio
Record Press : unspecified
Label : Blue Note
Original Label : Blue Note
Compiled by Maestro
Mixed by Maestro
Mastered by Peter Brussee
Liner Notes by Maestro
Originaly released in 2007
Reissued in 2008
Tracks:
Side A
- The Three Sounds - Out Of This World
- Miles Davis - It Never Entered My Mind
- Nicola Conte - All Gone
- Staton - Say It Ain't So, Joe
- Charlie Hunter - More Than This (featuring Norah Jone)
Side B
- Cassandra Wilson - Waters Of March
- Ike Quebec - Me 'N You
- Dianne Reeves - Jive Samba
- Horace Silver - Love Vibrations
- Clifford Jordan - Laconia
Side C
- Bobby McFerrin - A Piece, A Chord
- Charlie Rouse - Velhos Tempos
- Duke Pearson - Lamento
- Bill Perkins - Little Bird/Little Boat
- Wilson Simonal - Tudo De Voce
Side D
- Blue Mitchell - Perception
- Blossom Dearie - Charade
- Billie Holiday - Blue Turning Grey Over You
- Chucho Valdés - Nanu
- Chet Baker - The Thrill Is Gone
Reviews:
“His record deal enabled Maestro to work with a bunch of talented musicians he often performs with: renowned saxophone player Benjamin Herman, flute player Magnus Lindgren (who also worked with Koop), Zuco 103-singer Lilian Vieira, Carl Young (bass player in Michael Franti’s Spearhead), keyboard player Sven Figee (with whom Maestro co-wrote two songs), soul singer Forrest (known for his hit ‘Rock the Boat’) and saxophone player Tineke Postma. “In general, we invited them to the studio once we finished the basis. All we told them was to do whatever they’re good at. Benjamin Herman did his thing in just half an hour.” As a result, the lazy track ‘Spring Street’ has a real ‘neon light in a wet street’ vibe, while the sax in the spicy latin song ‘En Orbita’ is like an exquisite sauce poured over the groove.
Funk, jazz, latin: the DJ seems to have been raised on soul food and hot peppers, but actually comes from a family where everybody listened to classical music in appropriate silence and played the piano and the cello considerably well. Maestro himself played the violin “quite well”, but he feels that “if somebody else is more talented, you should let that person play for you.” But clapping his hands is certainly not a problem for the DJ: just listen to ‘Rainy Day’.
As a teenager, Maestro was mesmerized by the turntables, mixers, headphones and vinyl albums of his friends, who took their drive-in show to hockey parties and school parties. It left him with an insatiable hunger for albums, and an incredible disgust for dance classics: “One of the highlights in my career was the moment somebody requested ‘Relight My Fire’ for the umpteenth time. ‘I’ve got that one,’ I said, pulled the record from my bag and broke it in two right before his very eyes.”
That doesn’t mean the DJ doesn’t know how to please the crowd: his Blue Note Trip-nights in clubs, nationwide attract many dance lovers, who love to work up a sweat on the amazing mix of modern and vintage from the Maestro’s record cases, which he carries with him to Indonesia, Japan, New York and most European countries.
With his own record label (Dig This!), being programdirector of the IJazz Amsterdam festival, booker for the new Amsterdam club “Jazz on the Riverbank” and founder of the dutch station Radio Jazz, Maestro has a big hold on everything that has to do with funk, latin and jazz in the Netherlands. “It’s killing sometimes, all those long nights with too much cigarettes and drinks,” he tries to put his fabulous life somewhat into perspective. But isn’t that a very big grin we see on the face of the DJ Maestro Action Figure?” All About Jazz
Ratings :
Discogs : 4.36 / 5