Our current playlist just loaded yesterday includes four songs from East Bay Soul’s latest release “That’s Life”. The four songs from this new offering are Little Black Dress, Damned If You Do, Earth To Mars, Without You. Please check out the current bio on East Bay Soul:
GREG ADAMS AND EAST BAY SOUL
The sound of Greg Adams is one of the world’s best-known musical signatures. Adams has recorded six solo albums, three releases with East Bay Soul and fourteen recordings as a founding member of Tower of Power, legendary for his arrangements that made the TOP horn section a sought out entity all its own. His 1995 debut Hidden Agenda went all the way to #1 on Billboard and stayed there for five weeks… He hasn’t looked back since. With countless collaborations in the studio and live on stage, Adams has made his mark on a broad stretch of today’s music landscape that includes jazz, pop, rock, R&B, soul, and funk.
In his new musical pursuit Grsammy and Emmy nominated trumpeter Greg Adams continues his artistic evolution alongside East Bay Soul with the dynamic THAT’S LIFE – A collection of eleven songs that fuses his love for vintage soul music, pop, with powerful horns and gorgeous orchestration.
As the album unfolds with the sexy “Little Black Dress”, Adams realizes he’s writing the music first and the lyrics will come next, an interesting process that lyricist Maffit says was so much fun, because it usually is the other way around. The mysterious ”Hush Hush” is co-written with Dwayne “Smitty” Smith. “Is just so “Dope” as Adams calls it. The groove and trumpet melody are so minimal we just let the song end itself… “
Notably “ Come Together” by The Beatles pays deference to the original fueled by Greg’s muted trumpet.
Adams artfully produced the sonic funk driven “Earth To Mars” with a magnetic performance that is both retro and modern.
The album boasts four songs with a full orchestra, lush arrangements masterfully orchestrated by Greg.“ Grow Old With Me” tells a story of love at first sight. “Without You” is a story without lyrics that conveys the story of love lost… Greg’s soulful trumpet is infused here. Darryl Walker’s stirring vocal performances on “ Going In Circles” and “ Let’s Stay Together” are delivered with soul and passion that embodies the timelessness of these two classic R&B songs.
Setting the bedrock for THAT’S’ LIFE is Kay-Ta Matsuno, guitar, Joey Navarro, keys, Dwayne “Smitty” Smith, bass, Herman Matthews, drums and. Johnny Sandoval adds the essential addition of Latin percussion. Their collaboration in the studio and commanding performance is brilliant.
Fueling the funk… is a dream horn section headed by Adams known for his percussive and on top of the beat style, endures throughout the album and is a tight a horn section as they come. Lee Thornburg, trumpet, flugelhorn, French horn and trombone, Johnnie Bamont, alto, tenor and bari sax. Greg Vail, alto and tenor sax.
With East Bay Soul Greg say’s “ It’s like looking bliss in the eye. Before you know it we’ve made a record. It is amazing how it happens.”
For more information on the CD go to : www.eastbaysoul.com
Our Current Playlist:
Below is our current playlist. The list appears in artist order and not in order of play with artist first song title second.
| Ambergris/Play On Player |
| Ambergris/Chocolate Pudding |
| Ambergris/Gotta Find Her |
| Azz Izz Band/Rude Boy |
| Azz Izz Band/Freska |
| Azz Izz Band/Simba |
| Barela/At First I Though |
| Barela/Tower Pops |
| Barela/Summer |
| Barry Danielian/Angles of Attack |
| Barry Danielian/Metaphorically Speaking |
| Barry Danielian/Blue Caller |
| Beggar & Co/Bahia de Palma |
| Beggar & Co/Cosmic Lust |
| Beggar & Co/Evolution |
| Bing & The Bingtones/Old Soul Music |
| Bing & The Bingtones/Funk With Me |
| Bing & The Bingtones/Momma I’m Coming Home |
| Bononia Sound Machine/Doin’ It TOP Style |
| Bononia Sound Machine/ESP |
| Bononia Sound Machine/Slow JB |
| Brian Culbertson/You Got To Funkifize Ft. Chance Howard |
| Brian Culbertson/The House Of Music Ft. Larry Graham & Ronnie Laws |
| Brian Culbertson/Hollywood Swinging Ft. Musiq Soulchild & Gerald Levert |
| Carmen Grillo/A Real Mother For Ya |
| Carmen Grillo/Come And Gone |
| Carmen Grillo/A Different World |
| Chad Rager Groove/Caravan |
| Chad Rager Groove/Brother To Brother |
| Chad Rager Groove/Dancing Men |
| Charles Earland Tribute Band/South Philly Groove |
| Charles Earland Tribute Band/Deja Vu |
| Charles Earland Tribute Band/The Closer I Get To You |
| Chase/Livin’ In Heat |
| Chase/Handbags And Gladrags |
| Chase/Open Up Wide |
| Chicago Rhythm & Blues Kings/Creepin Under My Skin |
| Chicago Rhythm & Blues Kings/Mo Too-Do-Loo |
| Chicago Rhythm & Blues Kings/Poor Man’s Blues |
| Chops the Band/Up For The Downstroke |
| Chops the Band/Scrapple And Grits |
| Cold Shott and The Hurricane Horns/The Letter |
| Cold Shott and The Hurricane Horns/I’ve Never Found a Girl |
| Cold Shott and The Hurricane Horns/Vehicle |
| Danser’s Inferno/Inferno |
| Danser’s Inferno/And Once My Love |
| Danser’s Inferno/Time Is Laughing |
| Dave C. Norman/What Is Hip? |
| Dave C. Norman/Pick Up the Pieces |
| Dave C. Norman/Serpentine Fire |
| Dave Koz/Hot Fun In The Summertime |
| Dave Koz/Take 5 |
| Dave Koz/Reasons |
| Doctorfunk/Second Opinion |
| Doctorfunk/Believe It When You See It |
| Doctorfunk/What’s Up Doc? |
| East Bay Soul/Little Black Dress |
| East Bay Soul/Damned If You Do |
| East Bay Soul/Earth To Mars |
| East Bay Soul/Without You |
| Eric Bolvin/It Ain’t No Use |
| Eric Bolvin/Panama Red |
| Eric Bolvin/Corvair Crusader |
| Grant Geissman/Nawlins |
| Grant Geissman/Dig Some Sides? |
| Grant Geissman/Chicken Shack Jack |
| Groove55/Black Market (Feat. Mino Cinelu) |
| Groove55/Feeling Good (Feat. Rick Braun & Mino Cinelu) |
| Groove55/Pick Me Up (Feat. Mino Cinelu) |
| Heat/Pickin And Choosin |
| Heat/Whatever It Is |
| Heat/Up To You |
| Light of the World/Everybody Move |
| Light of the World/Pete’s Crusade |
| Light of the World/Famous Faces |
| Los Blues/Vegas Funk |
| Los Blues/Ain’t That Loving You |
| Los Blues/If You Must Leave My Love |
| Mic Gillette/Put It Where You Want It |
| Mic Gillette/Let It Roll |
| Mic Gillette Band/Watch Your Step |
| Mingo Fishtrap/Too Far Gone |
| Mingo Fishtrap/Mason Jar |
| Mingo Fishtrap/Sugadoo |
| Monophonics/Grappa |
| Monophonics/Filth Flarn Filth (Ft. Karl Denson) |
| Monophonics/Goliath |
| ORIGINAL BULL SHIT BAND/WALK THE DINOSAUR |
| Pee Wee Ellis/Cold Sweat / Licking Stick Licking Stick |
| Pee Wee Ellis featuring Fred Wesley & Fred Ross/I Got the Feeling |
| Pee Wee Ellis featuring Fred Wesley & Fred Ross/House Party |
| Polyrhythmics/Car Crash |
| Polyrhythmics/Nurple |
| Polyrhythmics/The Imposter |
| Prime Time Funk/Want What You Want |
| Prime Time Funk/Power |
| Prime Time Funk/We Can Work It Out, Yes We Can Can |
| Sage/Ants |
| Sage/Something Righteous |
| Sage/Funksway |
| San Gabriel 7/Sushiman Sivaman |
| San Gabriel 7/Funky Monkey Business |
| San Gabriel 7/Sneakin’ Out Of Camarillo |
| Santa Fe & The Fat City Horns/The Answer |
| Santa Fe & The Fat City Horns/Close Enough To Taste |
| Santa Fe & The Fat City Horns/Let The Healing Begin |
| Scott Martin/Menudo And Gritz |
| Scott Martin/Unchain My Heart |
| Scott Martin/Bettin’ On A One Eyed Jack |
| Stefan Redtenbacher/Royal Rooster |
| Stefan Redtenbacher/Fred’s Haus |
| Stefan Redtenbacher/Shindig! |
| Stevie Hawkins/Soul Strut |
| Stevie Hawkins/El Ritmo |
| Stevie Hawkins/Soul Revival |
| Strokeland Superband/Just In Case You Wondered |
| Strokeland Superband/Bumped Up To First Class |
| Strokeland Superband/It Is What It Is |
| Super Groovers/Mainline Connection |
| Super Groovers/You’re The Only One In My Life |
| The Chops Horns/Grove Me |
| The Lon Bronson All-Star Band/At the End of the Day |
| The Lon Bronson All-Star Band/We Used to Call It Love |
| The Lon Bronson All-Star Band/I Gotta Run |
| The Sons Of Champlin/1982-A |
| The Sons Of Champlin/Hold On |
| The Sons Of Champlin/Tabacco Road |
| The Super Groovers/Keeping The Past Alive |
| Tim Akers & The Smoking Section/In The Stone |
| Tim Akers & The Smoking Section/September |
| Tim Akers & The Smoking Section/Superstition |
| Tobb/Bang, Bang |
| Tobb/LETS GET FUNKED |
| Tom Saviano/Making Up Lost Time |
| Tom Saviano/What Does It Matter Anyway |
| Tom Saviano/JP’s Groove |
| Tower of Power/Squib Cakes |
| Tower of Power/You`re Gonna Need Me |
| Tower Of Power/Fanfare/You Know It |
| Yoichi Murata/Everybody (Knows It’s All Right) |
| Yoichi Murata/Let Me Groove |
| Zen Blues Quartet/Powerful Stuff |
| Zen Blues Quartet/Grits Ain’t Groceries |
| Zen Blues Quartet/What A Life |
