Compiled by Leroy Rey
Leroy Rey, – DJ for more than 30 years and avid music freak-, is digging thru his extensive record collection for a bi-weekly show, in an effort to cover the wide, wide spectrum of sounds rooted in the African diaspora.
No boundaries, just Rec/Play…… ” Heeeeey Leroy, whatchu gon’ play now??”
REC PLAY #3
1. “Faces” – Earth, Wind & Fire
(from “Faces” – album 45th anniversary – release date 14/10/1980; also 11 october – heavenly birthday of sax player & bandmember Andrew Woolfolk)
2. “Betray My Heart” – D’Angelo
(Greatest Funk/Soul visionary of the past 3 decades, died last week of cancer, 14/10/2025)
3. “Sea Of Tranquility” – Kool & The Gang
(08/10 – 75th birthday of founding member Robert “Kool’” Bell)
4. “Crosshairs – Danger Doom
(from “The Mouse & The Mask” – album 20th anniversary – release date 10/10/05)
5. “R.J.” – Miles Davis
(from “E.S.P.” – album 60th anniversary – release date aug.1965)
6. “Zathora” (Kaidi Tatham remix) – Radiohop
(new release from Amsterdam’s jazz fusionists featuring a seminal remix from the forward-thinking visionary of our times, Kaidi Tatham)
7. “Huit Octobre 1971” – Cortex
(from “Troupeau Bleu” – album 50th anniversary – release date late 1975)
8. “Patumbalacundê” – Joao Donato
(from “Lugar Comum” – album 50th anniversary – release date somewhere 1975)
9. “Rio” – The Doobie Brothers
(19/10 – 77th birthday of founding member Patrick Simmons, who also wrote & did vocals for this song)
10. “Brown Rice” – Don Cherry
(19/10/2005 – 20th death anniversary of Don Cherry, father of both Neneh & Eagle-Eye)
11. “Chime” – Don Elliott
(heavenly 100th birthday, born 21/10/1925)
12. “Coltrane” – Ernie Watts & Kerem Görsev Trio
(23/10 – 80th birthday of sax man Ernie Watts)
13. “Mona Lisa” – Wyclef & The Neville Brothers
(17/10 – 56th birthday of rapper/singer, and 10/10 – 77th birthday of Cyril Neville, percussion player & vocalist for both The Neville Brothers & The Meters )
14. “I Have Learned To Do Without You” – Mavis Staples
(from “Only For The Lonely” – 55th album anniversary – release date 12/10/1970)
15. “Eastern Market” – Yusuf Lateef
(heavenly 105th birthday – born 11/10/1920)
16. “Milestones” – Mark Murphy
(22/10/2015 – 10th death anniversary of gifted jazz vocalist)
17. “The Greatest Show On Earth” – Aceyalone
(from “All Balls Don’t Bounce” – album 30th anniversary – release date 17/10/1995)
18. “Nubia” – The Rascals
(22/10 – 80th birthday of founding member, vocalist & percussionist, Eddie Brigati)
19. “Forest Walk” – Greg Foat
(taken from new album “6 Days In Leysin” – release date 17/10/2025)
20. “Spread Love” – Take 6
(14/10 – 63rd birthday of Claude McKnight – founding member of this vocal group)
21. “Clapper” – Erik Rico
(Black music singer/producer, died last week 19/10/2025)
22. “And So..” – Karizma
(taken from new album “I Can’t Call it – release date 17/10/2025)
23. “Memories Live” – Reflection Eternal (Talib Kweli & Hi-Tek)
(from “Train Of Thought” – album 25th anniversary – release date 17/10/2000)
24. “Skain’s Domain” – Wynton Marsalis
(20/10 – 64th birthday of jazz trumpetist & traditionalist)
25. “Harlem Drive” – Quincy Jones
(from the soundtrack of “The Pawnbroker” – album 60th anniversary – release date unknown in 1965)
26. “Cubano Chant” – Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers
(both heavenly 106th birthday of Blakey – born 11/10/1919 & 35th death anniversary 16/10/1990)
27. “My Springtime” – Terry “Buzzie” Johnson
(soul singer who was member of 50 & 60’s R&B outfit The Flamingos and recorded several sides for a couple of labels, among them Motown in the late 60’s; died 8 october this year)
28. “Green Earrings” (live) – Steely Dan
(from “Alive In America” – album 30th anniversary – release date 17/10/1995)
29. “The Spell You Spin (The Web You Weave)” – Shirley Horn
(20/10 – 20th death anniversary of jazz singer & piano player)
30. “Twenty Small Cigars”. – Frank Zappa
(from “Chunga’s Revenge” – album 55th anniversary – release date 23/10/1970)
31. “Take The Lord Everywhere” – Ted Wortham & Company
(single 50th anniversary – released unknown date in 1975)
