Jazzadelic Top Tens plus Airshift Alert

From: Mark Turner (nugroove@pacbell.net)
Date: Sat Jan 06 2001 - 09:22:36 CET

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    Happy New Year!

    Here are some records that got MY attention in 2000...

    Top Ten Albums:
    Bonobo - Animal Magic (Tru Thoughts)
    Chicks on Speed - ...Will Save Us All! (Chicks on Speed)
    Cubanismo - Mardi Gras Mambo (Rykodisc)
    Bebel Gilberto - Tanto Tempo (Ziriguiboom/Six Degrees)
    Jazzanova - The Remixes 1997-2000 (Jazzanova/Compost)
    Landslide - Drum + Bossa (Hospital)
    Neon Phusion - The Future Ain't the Same as It Used 2 B (Laws of Motion)
    St. Germain - Tourist (Blue Note)
    Suba - Sao Paulo Confessions (Ziriguiboom/Six Degrees)
    Two Banks of Four - City Watching (Sirkus)

    Top Ten Compilations:
    Family Planning (Main Squeeze)
    Feel Like Jumping: The Best of Studio One Women (Heartbeat)
    Frikyiwa Collection 1 & 2 (Frikyiwa/Six Degrees)
    Funk Fu (Fu Music)
    Jazzactuel (Charly)
    Jazz Bizniz! (Counterpoint)
    Laws of Motion (Laws of Motion)
    New Orleans Funk (Soul Jazz)
    Our Souls Have Grown Deep Like the Rivers (Rhino)
    Third Eye (Cosmic Sounds)

    Top Ten Tracks:
    George Benson - The Ghetto/El Barrio (Verve)
    MJ Cole - Sincere (Talkin' Loud)
    Freedom Satellite - Soul Samba (Vienna Scientists)
    Laurent Garnier - The Man With the Red Face (F Comm)
    Kimbu Kimra - Raise the Dead (Mantis)
    Kosheen - Hide U (Moksha)
    Lightning Head - Me and Me Princess (Best Seven)
    London Elektricity - Elektric D-Funk (Hospital)
    Underwolves - So Blue It's Black (Island Blue)
    Wookie - Get Enuff (Soul 2 Soul)

    Top Reissues:
    Smith & Mighty - Bass is Maternal (!K7)
    Sons & Daughters of Lite - Let the Sun Shine In (Luv N' Haight)
    Sun Ra - Lanquidity (Evidence)

    Top Live Gigs:
    Alex Blake Quintet feat. Pharoah Sanders - Yoshi's, Oakland
    Peter Brotzmann's Chicago Tentet (+2) - Great American Music Hall, San
    Francisco
    Femi Kuti - Bimbo's 365 Club, San Francisco
    Daniela Mercury - Kaiser Auditorium, Oakland
    St. Germain - Bimbo's 365 Club, San Francisco
    Smith & Mighty - 550 Barneveld, San Francisco

    And if you'd like to hear what's currently in my record bag, tune in to KFJC
    this afternoon (Saturday, January 6) from Noon-3pm Pacific time, when I'll
    be filling in for my fellow DJ, Trinity. That's 89.7 FM in the San Francisco
    Bay Area, or on the web at www.kfjc.org. :-)

    ____________________
    Mark Turner
    nugroove@pacbell.net
    www.jazzadelica.com



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