I’d been thinking about “Cool” as a mood and feeling and wondering if I’d ever do a show on it, and then I realized that this month’s show was going to broadcast (at least overseas) on March 26th, and that this particular March 26th would be the 50th birthday of Cool Chris of Groove Merchant.
Groove Merchant is my absolute favorite record store in the world and a major part of that is related to Cool Chris. Chris is one of my oldest friends in California, one of the first people I met when I moved to the state in 1999. He always has a knack for tracking down amazing sounds, and almost Jedi level skills figuring out the sounds that you’ll be interested in. This month’s show features just a few of the records that have come my way because of Cool Chris. I don’t have any idea how many records Chris has turned me onto over the years, though I feel like ½ of my records either came from Groove Merchant or were records that I first heard at Groove Merchant but wasn’t able to get at that time. I just know I’m extraordinarily thankful for Cool Chris, for his taste and his cool ways. As I say at the end of this show, Happy Birthday Brother.
Playlist – Moods In Free Time 015: Cool…for Cool Chris
{opening theme} The Visitors – The Juggler – In My Youth (Muse)
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Billy Harper – Soulfully I Love You/Black Spiritual Of Love – Capra Black (Strata East)
Dejan’s Olympia Brass Band & St. Monica’s Choir – Prince Of Peace – Give Me That Old Time Religion (Rose)
Gene Harris – Listen Here – Gene Harris of The Three Sounds (Blue Note)
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Freddie Robinson – Off The Cuff – Off The Cuff (Enterprise)
Hugo Montenegro – The Shark – The Lady In the Cement: Original Soundtrack (20th Century Fox)
Eva Pilarova – Vážky – Eva (Supraphon)
Nancy Priddy – We Could Have It All – You’ve Come This Way Before (Dot)
Haircut & the Impossibles – Sock It My Way – Call It Soul! (Somerset)
Scorpion – Great Day – Scorpion (Tower)
Csik Gusztav – Cameleon – Csik Gusztav Es Egyuttese (Pepita)
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Ensemble Al-Salaam – Circles – The Sojourner (Strata East)
La Clave – Latin Slide – La Clave (Verve)
Rasa – Everything You See Is Me – Everything You See Is Me (Govinda)
Cold Fire Inc. – I’m Gonna Love You Anyway – 7” (Lightnin’)
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{closing theme} The Corporation – India – The Corporation (Capitol)