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A day at Umbria Jazz 2017

Rail line in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada.

Contax N1

Zeiss Vario-Sonnar 24-85mm f3.5

Kodak Portra 800

jazzanova

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melt-festival germany, funk zone at an old mining area

thx to lesbrumes for the cool textures

feeling a bit out of sorts today and i didn't have time to take a proper photo..so this was a late night, no light photo that needed mega processing to make it interesting..

 

not feeling inspired today, so i apologize for the lame photo.. i had a conversation with family member about he 365 project.. and i had to defend myself.. the reason why i take and post photos of myself.. as if i am way too focused on my form.. and i guess i need to examine it with more awareness.. because maybe there is some truth to that.. and that what first started out as a journey into sellf awareness has turned into a journey of self indulgence.. seeking love from places that i should not be looking.. ????

    

SX60 HS mit Funk Fernbedienung ( bis 150 m)

 

Canon PowerShot SX60 HS, Canon, PowerShot, Bridgecamera, bridge, camera,

 

SX70 has no hotshoe!

 

taken by Nikon D5100

She is gorges her hair is saran her dress is separate the head band its not molded on to the head you can just pull it out sadly you cant change her body because her her head its lik atach'd to the body this also prevents her head from turning all the way around how ever i did find a way to turn her into a regular doll.

Clones of Funk guitarist playing the Howard Theatre, Funk Parade 2018

Daiane, aka "Mulher Jaca", then a dancer of "Bonde da Loira" group, exhibits her bikini marks. Show Caravane do Funk, Volta Redonda, Rio de Janeiro.

The Funk carioca movement is fashion and look as well : The boys show off their muscles and naked torsos, adorned with chains and tattoos, accessories which will make the difference during the ball. Girls will look after their bikini marks, which will appear above mini-skirts or micro-shorts. Everything is worth to draw attention!

 

This is another fan MOC based on Dice Funk Season 3, a D&D podcast. It's pretty funny, so I recommend that you check it out: austinyorski.podbean.com/

 

The Avant Guards, a group of bounty hunters, and their rivals Claudia and Robin Roc infiltrate a skeleton party at the mysterious Hawthorne Manor to apprehend a Necromancer where they meet a few new characters and stumble upon a big secret.

a good day with merc and corze over on the westside..full lineup shot coming soon.

2017 New Orleans French Quarter Festival

*Funkalicious Lips - New Group Gift from Booty's Beauty*

Omega and BOM

 

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Au mur de la rue Ordener (Paris 18ème).

Carnival Against Fascism, Brighton, 2026

Nikon Z7ii, CV 28/1.9 Ultron

The Mobile Funk Unit performs at the 2021 Roots N Blues Festival in Columbia, Missouri. Photography by Notley Hawkins. Taken with a Canon EOS R5 camera with a Canon RF24-70mm F2.8 L IS USM lens at Æ’/5.6 with a 1/500-second exposure at ISO 200. Processed with Adobe Lightroom CC.

 

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Fuji X-Pro1

Fujinon XF60 2.4

Perfect for some funky film effects.

Powered by a 255" Mercury flathead V8. The 2016 Arizona Flywheelers antique tractor show in Cottonwood, AZ.

1929 Funk Wig Co. Catalog

I'm some what becoming hooked on this funky processing stuff I really need to try an break that pattern so I can learn other ways of photography.

So this beautiful barn is basically out of the box.

Some noise removal a little softening and a border that's is.

Hope ya like it.

An yes that silo dose have a lean to it.

first of 2013..a good day out with corze,merc,hozae,hora and refa...

thanks to alex ellison for the photo...

 

using the c this time...another sunny day in the big smoke with vega gfs..shouts to all that passed thru...

 

This edit of a track by "Johnny Hammond Smith' is a natural merger of 60s and early 1970s jazz, with a soul that was getting into a funk on an exploration into ideas of 'groove'.

 

A 'spot the difference' between French and English Wiki explanations of the word 'Funk' is worthy of an essay in cultural studies and semantics:

 

"Selon certaines interprétations, le terme funk proviendrait de l'argot anglo-américain funky, qui signifie littéralement « puant », « qui sent la sueur », insulte traditionnellement adressée aux noirs par les WASP et reprise ensuite à leur compte par les artistes noirs tel que Horace Silver dans son morceau Opus de Funk (1953)." Wiki Fr 7.06.20

 

In contrast with:

"It is originally derived from Latin "fumigare" (which means "to smoke") via Old French "fungiere" and, in this sense, it was first documented in English in 1620. In 1784 "funky" meaning "musty" was first documented, which, in turn, led to a sense of "earthy" that was taken up around 1900 in early jazz slang for something "deeply or strongly felt".[6][7] Ethnomusicologist Portia Maultsby states that the expression "funk" comes from the Central African word "lu-funki" and art historian Robert Farris Thompson says the word comes from the Kikongo term "lu-fuki"; in both proposed origins, the term refers to body odor.[8] Thompson's proposed Kikongo origin word, "lu-fuki" is used by African musicians to praise people "for the integrity of their art" and for having "worked out" to reach their goals.[9] Even though in white culture, the term "funk" can have negative connotations of odor or being in a bad mood ("in a funk"), in African communities, the term "funk", while still linked to body odor, had the positive sense that a musician's hard-working, honest effort led to sweat, and from their "physical exertion" came an "exquisite" and "superlative" performance.

Wiki English. 7.06.20

 

From the late 60s to the early 70s, musicians from diverse backgrounds were becoming interesting in the word 'groove': both locking down and liberating the bass, rhythm guitar and drum, and ornamenting with 'hooks' rather than complected architectural changes to the armature of melody. 'Groove' was to dance to, and the dance of jazz bop clubs was blending with the dance of late soul music, as musicians such as drummer Bernard Purdie and organist Johnny Hammond took the two rivers to the bridge.

 

Whilst, with time, early funky 'orchestrations' would flood television, b-movie cinema and even feed into a style of music that would become known as Disco, the authenticity of this window-in-time keeps some of the music well away from watered down transformations, and as an island of creativity that would later be valued by the movement known as 'Acid Jazz'.

 

Johnny Hammond worked with the avant guard hardbop and soul-jazz 'Kudu records', and did what Jazz had always done - he took standards and reworked them into versions that were his own (here working with an arranger for the strings). The real difference with this moment in time was to start taking 'standards' from freshly written 'modern pop music'. The track 'Rock Steady' had been written and released by Aretha Franklin in 1971, only a year before Johnny Hammond's revision - so sounds were still 'hot', and, in a way, Hammond's team were already investigating ideas of 'remix'. Many decades later, remix artists from Andy Weatheral to Ludovic Navarre would turn an original song onto it's head to the point where the original is barely visible, and to an extent Jazzman Hammond did just that to Franklin's funkest song.

 

Aretha's live for the single release of 'Rock steady'

1971 live: www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2VDEl18rgQ

 

Aretha's live of 'Rock steady' by the LP release of 1972 - the track is now much slower and into the groove: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KB5sMYw37gw

 

For Johnny Hammond's version, the beats were further slowed and everything was redirected to a trajectory from another melodic orbit. In short the song was no longer the same song and the cover version was virtually ... an original: almost certainly too different to provoke an injunction for intellectual property theft. This sort of appropriation and inspiration is normal for Jazz, but in the greater world of 'pop' it might be seen as the unnecessarily giving away of writing credits. Obviously 'Jazz integrity' was mixing with the pop mass market, and at the time everyone must have been happy with the shared publicity: drummer Bernard Purdie had worked on both versions, and they even released this Jazz version in time for Franklin's LP - 'Young gifted and black' in 1972. But still, a song credit of perhaps "Hammond, Purdie, Washington, Gale and Franklin" may not seem out of place to common sense.

 

One strata of the song's groove is presented by the guitar of Eric Gale (Melvin Sparks's guitar is also credited on the song, but I think the solo is Gales). Eric Gale's can be heard to be forming his style for his "Rock Steady" solo in this earlier Freddie Hubbard track from 1969: "A soul experiment" (from around 3 minutes 14).

www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8MR8B-X0A8&list=OLAK5uy_naNO...

 

By the time his solo had been recorded for Johnny Hammond, it sounded just like a ... Pink Floyd solo. Simplified - perhaps - but around the same speed and a similar interplay of lead with organ and rhythm guitar as a song with a different title and later release date. If you known Pink Floyd then perhaps have a listen to this Flickr post from around 1 minute 10.

 

There have always been remarks about similarities between Graham Nash's track "There's only one" and a famous Pink Floyd LP ending, and then there is this from around 3 minutes...

www.flickr.com/photos/ajmitchell-prehistory/49661297158/i...

With each of these mentioned tracks appearing prior to, or aside 'The Wall', 'Dark Side of the Moon' and 'Animals' respectively. Now the similarities are poetic, and the unique contribution of Pink Floyd's Richard Wright to music as a subject is never mentioned enough... but still - a nod of respect and even percentage royalty to poor musicians of rich spirit may make common sense.

 

At this point the narrative seems finished - loose enough to fit, and open-ended enough to allow for a little tailoring; the only thing is that the subject of musical originality vs musical cover is not quite over as the drummer for both projects was involved in a credit polemic about... The Beatles. 'He was in a funk and was the real drummer for many Beatles songs!' The subject of Bernard Purdie and the Beatles is perfectly covered here:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=hz9EGGiOuso

 

It is perhaps worth remembering what 'groove' could be like before Bernard Purdi added his shufflin' funk to the kit. Johnny Hammond Smith shares some of his name with a fellow Jazz organist Jimmy Smith. Here is Jimmy Smith's 'Sermon' from 1958 - a twenty minute groove with a short final climax.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3X5J_wGHrw

It's a great track, but the drums a not doing much. Now listen again to Purdie on 'Rock Steady' - he has an Afrobeat lightness - almost akin to Alan Wren from recent years. Purdie was important to music and from the above mentioned Youtube documentary, it seems he worked with Atlantic records to open out the drumming for an unofficial remix of a pre 'Love me do' Beatles session with Tony Sheridan. As a man within both versions of 'Rock Steady', Purdie was perfectly placed to put a word in for Gale and co regarding Pink Floyd royalties, and one can question why he directed his energies exaggerating some unofficial and very early Beatles overdubs when he was part of Johnny Hammond's apparently highly "influential" 'Rock Steady' recording?! A rather smug Red Bull fuelled interview seems to have helped Purdie make crass generalised statements about 'Ringo not being the real drummer of The Beatles' - an exaggeration of meaning perhaps a little like the French Wiki for 'Funk' and its inability to appreciate the roots and diversity of earthy smells.

 

Johnny Hammond Smith was mentioned in another "music through the lens test" as having played with Clement Wells (see below) :

www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAKn1g4kpjU

 

This "Music: through the lens test' features an edited version of Rock Steady. The full version is here:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5X0QI8k1jE

 

It's a detail, but the engineer for the track was the great Rudy Van Gelder and it was arranged and conducted by the very Bob James.

 

AJM 09.06.20

trackside spot...

 

Funk lovin criminal

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