Today's entry is not very suitable for foreign people. It is a typical Dutch thing. Early 1970's we had a television show on the VPRO which was quite weird. It had a certain content not everybody liked. I am posting this because one of the players in this program died yesterday, age 95. His name[...]

A couple of weeks ago my wife and I went for a weekend to Middelburg, a great old city in the south of our little country. Walking around I stumbled upon a music store, selling instruments, but also records. I was surprised to find a whole lot of rare pop vinyl and went through the[...]

Nicky Hopkins was an English pianist. He was one of the most wanted studio musicians during the 60', 70's and 80's. He played with many famous groups and artists. I'll name; the Rolling Sto- nes, the Beatles, the Who, the Kinks, Steve Miller, Jefferson Airplane, Rod Stewart, George Harrison, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr,[...]

I remember very well, when this album was released in 1973, they appeared on Dutch television. I was 15 years old and didn't understand sh*t about this type of music. It was the strangest thing to me. It took me another 10 years before I had a strong feeling for soul music and started to[...]

Some Haïtian compas for you today. Discogs only knows three of their albums. We had one over six years ago which had no year of release. This one is from 1973 and there's another listed from 1974. Although the band is called Samba Creole, the music has nothing to do with samba as we know[...]

Wikipedia Discogs T.B. Sheets 01 - He ain't give you none 02 - Beside you 03 - It's all right 04 - Madame george 05 - T.B. sheets 06 - Who drove the red sports car ? 07 - Ro ro rosey 08 - Brown eyed girl

From Cabo Verde we find this album with the late and great singer Bana. His real name was Adriano Gonçalves. Bana was born in Mindelo, Cabo Verde, but also lived in Rotterdam, Paris and Lisbon for some time. He played his roll in the discovery of Cesária Evora. Bana himself was called the king of[...]

I'm got stuck in playing old records, records that I used to play when I was way younger. Today I rediscovered this 1973 album with Terry Reid. Espcially the title song was one of my favourites. Today it's being shared with you good people. I'm not sure if you like it, for me it's going[...]

Ayinla Omowura was without any education, worked as blacksmith, driver, butcher, carpenter and park boy when he was discovered by Adewole Alao Oniluola, who later became his lead drummer. Ayinla worked with his superior Haruna Ishola and Ayinde Barrister among others. Read his Wikipedia page for further information. This is his vol. 5, National Census[...]

Carlos Manuel 'Charlie' Palmieri was born in New York. His parents moved there from Puerto Rico in 1926, one year earlier. Both Charlie and his nine year younger brother Eddie played the piano and were very succesful. Charlie played with loads of musicians such as Tito puente, Celia Cruz, Ismael Rivera, Rafael Cortijo, Ismael Quintana,[...]

Les Vikings d'Haïti with an album from their most productive year, 1973. We had a couple before. Part from the one weepy on track #4, overall happy sound. Fitzener Delmont leads the orchestra and plays the saxofone. Sunny days are here .. Hier hebben we nog zo'n compas album met Les Vikings d'Haïti uit hun[...]

I'm still on the lookout for their first album, Les Gypsies with the great Robert Martino was such a wonderful compas group back in the seventies. This is album number II from 1973 called 'Patience'. We had us a couple of the other records with them from 1973, 1975 and 1976. 'It took a whole[...]

It's about time again to think of our Colombian listeners. They are second on the list of countries that deliver the most Global Groove visitors. Cumbia, vallenato, salsa and tropical are the styles most listened to by my hungry ears and speaking of vallenato, Miguel Durán is one of the favourites on my list. This[...]

This is the last album I have with the African Brothers that wasn't posted here yet. I saved one of the finest for last for you to cherish and enjoy .. "Nana Kwame Ampadu I and his 'Peoples' African Brothers Band International of Ghana were performing side by side with an Afro Rock Group, in[...]