Jazz and funk blogs

I’ve updated (and re-dated) this post with more and more blogs shutting down, or rather, getting shut down. Blogger.com are clamping down big-time and some work-of-art blogs are now no longer available.

However, all the sites not struck-through below were live at the time of writing (04/06/2010)

OK, so it’s not a transcription, but I wanted to share with you three of 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.
• 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.

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.