Burl Veneer’s Music Blog Vox 2008-05-16T20:47:45Z Burl Veneer http://burlveneer.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom tag:vox.com,2006:6p00d4144aef1d3c7f/tags/horns/ Songs I Like Out of the woodwork: SLAB! tag:vox.com,2008-04-30:asset-6a00d4144aef1d3c7f00f48cf39aff0003 2008-04-30T21:20:37Z 2008-05-16T20:47:45Z Burl Veneer http://burlveneer.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

Parallax Avenue

Just days after discovering the recent resurfacing of a member of long-lost Way of the West, I've found another blast from the past: Slab! Slab's few records, released in the second half of the 80s, are an exhilarating mix of pounding, near-indus...

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]]> Deep funk around the world: Japan tag:vox.com,2007-12-12:asset-6a00d4144aef1d3c7f00e398c702b00002 2007-12-12T04:04:40Z 2007-12-13T01:55:14Z Burl Veneer http://burlveneer.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

09 mind power (pts 1 & 2) Defunkt - Ooh Baby Osaka Monaurail in SunSetLive 2005

My grasp of deep funk has always been of the "I can't define it, but I know it when I hear it" variety, but now I have come up with a working definition: deep funk is funk that pretends P-Funk never happened. How's that? Japan's Osaka Monaurail ...

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]]> Deep funk around the world: Scotland tag:vox.com,2007-11-16:asset-6a00d4144aef1d3c7f00e398be13a30004 2007-11-16T05:04:41Z 2007-11-17T02:19:23Z Burl Veneer http://burlveneer.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

Haggis Horns - Who's Gonna Take the Weight

With a name like The Haggis Horns, they'd better be from Scotland, and indeed they are. You can always trust a band with "Horns" in their name; horns make everything better! Rather than paraphrase what little I know about them, I'll just quote f...

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]]> Deep funk and saxophones tag:vox.com,2007-10-31:asset-6a00d4144aef1d3c7f00e398b87aab0005 2007-10-31T01:46:05Z 2007-10-31T04:45:22Z Burl Veneer http://burlveneer.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

Big Band Katowice - Sorcery Hattie_Wall

When last I blogged I was trying to decide what to do next from among three choices; I have decided to knock out two of them in this post and save the third for its own, as it is a rarity that I don't want to bury. So continuing the Deep Funk Aro...

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]]> The Real James Taylor tag:vox.com,2007-09-22:asset-6a00d4144aef1d3c7f00e398ab03960002 2007-09-22T01:00:57Z 2007-09-22T13:49:27Z Burl Veneer http://burlveneer.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

01-The Money Spyder 01-Theme from Starsky and Hutch

When I talk about James Taylor, some people think I'm talking about some weedy American singer-songwriter from the 1970s. I am not. I am talking about the modern British master of the Hammond B3 organ, the leader of the James Taylor Quartet, the...

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]]> Al Hirt plays cop show themes tag:vox.com,2007-09-20:asset-6a00d4144aef1d3c7f00e398aa6e7e0003 2007-09-20T01:53:21Z 2007-09-21T01:32:38Z Burl Veneer http://burlveneer.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

01 Green Hornet Theme 03 Night Rumble 06 Batman Theme

We now break from fake cop show themes by contemporary artists to bring you some real cop show music by a past master. Trumpeter Al Hirt was a titan of the New Orleans music scene (literally, he was nicknamed "The Round Mound of Sound"). When Th...

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]]> The Shocking Blue: Ritual Music tag:vox.com,2007-09-03:asset-6a00d4144aef1d3c7f00e398a478a20004 2007-09-03T14:24:46Z 2007-09-05T14:44:01Z Burl Veneer http://burlveneer.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

The Butterfly And I

There are a great number of songs which I have decided to describe as "invocation and manifestation:" the first part of the song is all right, but it's really just preparing the way for what comes after. The introductory portion serves as a ritua...

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