Legendary Jazz DJ Paul Murphy graces the jazzcasts with this excellent groove session from Budapest! An introduction by the man himself:
“Back in the night in the day I used to play a lot of what were then seen as straight ahead Jazz records. Before the heady 1990’s days of Acid Jazz, before the Jazz Not Jazz trips, and well before the Nu Jazz times too. I usually played in dive bars below seedy hotels, old Victorian pubs still full of Withnail and I types, South American restaurants full of extras from Scarface and ex-strip bars. All very downbeat and sordid. And, amazingly, people used to come down to these places and dance their asses off. Heady times! What goes around, comes around, happily and now on my travels I’m playing these old sounds again. And people are still digging them.” Wish i was in Budapest right now… Enjoy!
Walk Tall (Cannonball Adderley)
Memphis Soul Stew (King Curtis)
Jive Samba (Jack MacDuff)
Mas Que Nada (Odell Brown & The Organisers)
Tribute To Sun Ra (Salah Rageb)
Freaks For The Festival (Roland Kirk)
Southern Exposure (Joe Harriott)
Sambop (Cannonball Adderley)
Sandunga (Dave Pike)
New York Is A Jungle Festival (Herbie Mann)
Mighty Burner (Charles Earland)
images to come…
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January 7th, 2010 at 21:11
just browsing some of the oldschool names is this the very same pual i used to go to the tiger tavern and the deacons back in the day
December 11th, 2009 at 15:28
Hi there
I’m living in Budapest in Hungary. Had to leave the UK over 20 years ago. Could’nt ever get any work there DJ’ing unless I promoted it myself but then there wasn’t really that big an interest in what I was doing at the time.. I did come back for a while but it was the same story. I also worked at a small record label for a while.
I’m hoping to come over to the UK next year as I know there was a book about the places I used to dj at so there may be a bit of interest in what I used to do.
I’ve spoken to David Jazz Dj Dawson and we may be able to do something in Southend. Do they still have the Kursaal and the longest pier in the world? And is the seafront still running alive with very dangerous Teds? Probably not Teds these days , they’d be Great Grandparents now. Still can slash you with their razored up zimmer frames!
All the best from Hungary.. Sziastok!
Paul Murphy
September 6th, 2009 at 17:57
where is Paul Murphy nowadays and can we see any podcasts from him ?
July 30th, 2009 at 19:58
come a long way from room at the top and the lacy lady
July 19th, 2009 at 21:28
Man, am I glad I came across this page and finally found what I was missing since the days of P.M & Baz fe Jazz, Paul where have you gone man? I was a serious jazzhead back in the day when Horseshoe aka Jaffas was the cool, then it all ended, came The Green Man, but that didn’t quite do it for me, Dingwalls niether, Jaffas is where it all started for me & sadly ended, IDJ was my crew with the Eailing & Acton posee , spat shoes, drainpipe jeans, Adam Ant military waistcoat type jackets with epulets to boot,leather biker jackets as well ! man what a sweat ! Pub bear towels hanging ready to wipe many a brow from the heat upstairs in the jazzroom , sounds that you played laid the foundation for all that’s come & gone since then . Paul, I salute you for that reason, you brought youth to town to get down when Elctro & soul was startin’ to grow !
Who would have thought that this ‘trend’ back then could equal & mash up all those others that came and fell by the weyside ! Nothing since then can come close to those nights down the Tottenham ct Road, seriously blinding vibes, Jazz at it’s finest, and for those of us who knew how to shuffle our feet and slide like James to the radical jazz fusion beat, thanks to you & Baz, I can see straight. Best tunes I remember always and still get out and play at home to remember those times : Roy Haynes Vista lite & Lonnie Smith with that Hammond, Flora Purim & Airto Touching me Touching you LP, Ingram brothers My Tequila …tecana ( ? ) Jeff Lorber Wizard Island, Fusion Juice…The list is ENDLESS…Jazzzzz on man !