Drive:

[Photo Credit: Mark Peter Drolet]

Put the needle to the groove.

Shake it.

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When you got nothin’ you got nothin’ to lose.

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Coolin’.

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Groove.

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Just the two of us.

[Painting by Elmer Bischoff]

Buck O’Neil meets Jay Dee. A little something we threw together a few years ago:

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Bop.

[Photo Credit: Andrew Gallo]

“Clementine”–Duke Ellington

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I remember walking into The Sound Library, a boutique record shop in the east village in the late Nineties and hearing something special. It was a short cut off a white label Lord Finesse promo. Rare. Finesse chopped-up and looped a famous Marvin Gaye record on an SP-1200. Man, it was cool. I eventually got a copy of the beat and when I passed it along to my pal Alan, he dumped it in Pro Tools and cleaned it up.

Years later, I got married and made a mix for The Wife. Little Miss Sunshine was and is one of her favorite movies so Alan and I cut up dialogue by Alan Arkin and fit it over the Finesse-Marvin Gaye beat.

Enjoy.

And smile: it won’t mess up your hair.

Grand Groove.

[Collage by Katrien De Blauwer via Kateopolis]

Rockadoolie.

[Photo Credit: Sanford Roth via MPD]

Papa Don’t Take No Mess.

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Man versions, this might be the most famous.

This one might be my favorite:

Heart Of The Country

Mornin’:

Mood altering.

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Shake it.

[Photo Credit: Jonathan Cherry]

Zing, Boom!