Mastodawn

Jazz Goes Ivy League by Johnnie Pate Trio Plus Three, released on King Records in 1956.

An excellent bit of jazz from the Chicago scene -- featuring the early roots of a set of players that would go onto influence the city's soul scene in a huge way. Johnnie Pate's probably best known as the arranger behind many great soul singles -- including most of the Impressions 60s work -- but he's playing bass here with a group that includes other great soul studio talents, like Charles Stepney on vibes, Lennie Druss on flute, Floyd Morris on piano, and Wilbur Wynne on guitar. The tracks are longish -- with kind of a soul jazz take on the chamber jazz groove of the west coast, showing the first signs of the evolution of the jazz sophistication that would influence Stepney's later productions for Cadet, or Druss' work in the Soulful Strings. - Dusty Groove

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgCrJT_n7eE&list=RDBgCrJT_n7eE&start_radio=1

#JohnnyPate #Chicago #CharlesStepney #Jazz #Music

Andi Chorley Mar 2

Peace is a 1968 studio album by American psychedelic soul group Rotary Connection, released on Cadet Records

Editors at AllMusic rated this album 4 out of 5 stars, with critic Rodney Batdorf writing that this "is a terrific, soulful Christmas album" that "has all the hallmarks of a late-'60s pop-soul record".[2] In a review for retailers, Billboard recommended this release as "a holiday package filled with Christmas" with a "marketable style" - Wikipedia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hSumdkcOZw&list=OLAK5uy_nNC1AVbq-s001ifNpjD6Vm98JqqNmFVzU

#RotaryConnection #MinnieRiperton #CharlesStepney #PsychedelicSoul #Music #CadetRecords #ChessRecords

BuzzingRoom Aug 5, 2025

Charles Stepney // #CharlesStepney//

That's The Way Of The World - original demo version 1975
[double album Step on Step, out 9/9/2022]

//via // #InternationalAnthem //

#buzzingroom #music #bandcamp #music #CharlesStepney #StepOnStep #ThatsTheWayOfTheWorld #homedemo #demo #EarthWindAndFire

link bandcamp: https://intlanthem.bandcamp.com/track/thats-the-way-of-the-world

That's The Way Of The World, by Charles Stepney

from the album Step on Step

International Anthem

Andi Chorley May 15, 2025

Aladdin is a 1968 studio album by American psychedelic soul group Rotary Connection, released on Cadet Records

Editors at AllMusic rated this album 3 out of 5 stars, with critic Andy Kellman writing this album "ushered in a bigger and bolder Rotary Connection" with music that is "more streamlined and less scatterbrained without shedding the limitless approach that made its predecessor such an intrepid undertaking"...In a review for retailers, Billboard called this "another fine swinging album" and spotlighted several tracks as particularly strong[3] and the magazine also recommended the "Paper Castle" single as being "loaded... with sales appeal". - Wikipedia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i10Xl_jQxqc

#rotaryconnection #minnieriperton #charlesstepney #psychedelicsoul