However, all the sites not struck-through below were live at the time of writing.

OK, so it’s not a transcription, but I wanted to share with you my favourite music blogs that offer a treasure trove of rare and top quality jazz and jazz-funk grooves for your listening pleasure.

• The CTI never sleeps contains TONS of albums produced by Creed Taylor and his CTI-related labels.
• Jazz Disposition is fantastic.  Lovely design too…
• Into the Rhythm – masses of jazz on here.
• Never enough rhodes is a site aimed at the rhodes enthusiast (hence why I love it!) but any fan of funk-groove-soul music will love this.
• FunkyFullofWatt has over 2000 funk tracks and links to some other great blogs.
• Ile Oxuare has some rare jazz cuts, god knows what the title means, but who cares – go visit!
• MyJazzWorld a great variety of stuff on here and a huge amount of content that is clearly a completely labour of love.
• Funk My Soul blog has some of the best OoP vinyl rips of funk/soul/groove
• Where did all this steam come from is another jazz related blog with a massive variety of content.
• http://jazzheads.blogspot.com/ and http://jazz-the-two-of-us.blogspot.com/
• And http://musicadesdelasantipodas.blogspot.com/
• MPS goodness here…
• Live jazz goodies here… stuff you can’t, nor will ever be able, to buy
• The incredible zona de jazz, a mammoth amount of stuff on here
• http://jazzallthat.blogspot.com
• http://musicacion.blogspot.com
• Fusion Jazz and Something Else for those that swing both ways
• And the great MyFavouriteSound
• Projeto Esporte Fino has some terrific funk/soul/fusion
• I’ve recently found Bentleyfunk, and its a corker
• So is All Soul and Funk
• etnikcafe.blogspot.com has a vast amount of all kinds of stuff, for those time when you fancy something different.
• Inconstant Sol is huge and has some great rare and live cuts available
• Anything Goes has a really eclectic selection of stuff on, but alot of jazz.
• ‘Taringa’ appears be some sort of Spanish knowledge sharing platform, but this post has incredible rapidshare links, plus links (at the bottom) to similar posts by other users.
• 7Oregons and 2Tomoatoes is another great/huge jazz blog.
• Oufar Khan’s blog has some of the grooviest cuts of funk jazz gems.
• Buns O’Plenty is top drawer too and has a great blog roll to other blog sites.
• The Universal Mind Of contains only Bill Evan’s material
• 17 Green Buicks, another great jazz blog
• And Culture & Pleasure has perfect stuff for those quiet nights, and freealbumsgalore has some fine ambient too.
• Chezmateo specialises in stuff that completely OoP so you needn’t feel so guilty for checking out this one
• While the QueenBee blog is absurdly huge….
• And so is Musica Y Musicos
• And so is this one
• Kelly’s Sound Lounge has a lovely choice of stuff on.
• A Lion’s Love is truly that
• And a chap called Budd had posted some top compilations of lesser well known tracks on his blog.
• Then there’s the great nodata.tv
• LongPlay has some great fusion/funk/smooth jazz on, if that’s your bag
• YorUbaJazz has amazing has a fantastic collection of albums and artists
• La Musica De Pere has a mountain of nuJazz on
• DestinationFunk3 doesn’t need any explaining
• Holyf**kingShit4000 is a huge one covering various jazzy genres.
• Jazz Is My Life is a recent find, very good!
• Digital Meltdown is a directory of music blogs on Blogspot – sweet!
• Route 66 is huge, surprised to see this still alive and well on a WordPress hosted blog.
• Musica que cuelga is impossibly huge and contains some fantastic posts.
• Las Cintas Recuperadas is another big jazz collection – great stuff!
• NuGroove has some top mixes and compilations.
• Music on Top is mostly jazz/fusion/funk/soul that type of stuff
• JazzFusionBlogger is bloody great
• JJ’s jazz and such is also a top blog.
• Ray Porter’s ‘Jazz A Love Affair’ podcast is ideal if you want to listen to compilations of a variety of great jazz artists. Ideal for putting on the MP3 player.
• Arkadin’s Ark has some rare vinyl rips of jazz/funk/soul etc.
• Hook’s Gem’s has some great out-of-print stuff on
• YoRubaJazz has a mammoth collection of jazz and Cuban goodies.
• The Jazz Alley blog is particularly good if you’re after something ‘ECM ish’.
• Bogard’s Jazz Tapes offers bootlegs of gigs and other stuff.
• Dr Fusion covers just that.
• Good to see Soulfunkjazz still alive and well on WordPress.
• Music On Top is another good one.
• http://rfccbh.blogspot.com is brilliant.
• Jazzsi has lots of good stuff on.
• Cuchyfritos has probably the biggest collection of funky soul breakbeats.
• Jazz Music Blogwatch is a collection of feeds from the various blogspot sites so you can see easily latest editions.
• The new Venus Jazz concentrates on just one thing  - recordings on the Japanese Venus label.
• Jazz blogwatch is another erm, blogwatch (even bigger than the Jazz Music Blogwatch. Confused yet?)
• Beatfunky has exactly that type of music on
• Our Back Door has tons of great jazz on
• Soulsole is one of the best, and so is between the sky and the land – lots of good modern stuff on here.

Enjoy – lemme know of other blogs that you might know of …. And remember to buy the albums if you download anything you love that is still in print.

No matter, I love his playing. And I especially love his playing on his 2000 album ‘Freedom in the Groove’.  It’s probably his most ‘straight-ahead’ album, which is saying something since all the tunes are originals. This selection features 4 tracks from the album and I’ve included some low quality reference MP3′s too.

Have fun, and if you haven’t heard these tracks yet I almost guarentee you’ll want to play these charts after hearing him play them.

• Joshua Redman – Freedom in the Groove Selection (10MB, zip file)

I upgraded to this after owning and playing a Roland FP-2 for about 5 years. What a difference!  I opted for the 76 key version mainly for portability/weight. It’s the perfect tool if you play in a jazz-funk band like I do! The Rhodes sounds are simply stunning – crank up the Leslie amp simulation and I just want to keep playing!

If there’s anyone else out there who has one and wants to pass on a few tips on getting the VERY best out of it, then drop me a line below.