A Person Called Gerald - Liberation / Groove Transfusion Mixtapes

192-320 VBR mp3
Cassette reconstruction from multiple sources

Reconstructed these two mixtapes from many sources, digital and analogue, ripped and downloaded. All I can tell you about the tapes is I picked them up in Camden Market on a September Sunday in 1992 while visiting London. The kiosk had dozens of different comps by him at 5 quid apiece but these were the only two I picked up. Cor! Looking back, it's easy to see now that this person was definitely a connoisseur of jazzdance and I kick myself for not picking up a few more back then. The selections are fantastic and there is nary a duff track to be found. Something else that can't be found is any info on this "Radio & Club DJ" named "A Person Called Gerald" or Jazz Liberation Productions, which is one of the reasons I chose to put this up.

So, keeping true to the title of the blog, I couldn't get anyone to cough up any info on this selector of refined taste. Yeah, it was over a decade-and-a-half ago and this was just some guy with a record collection in a stall years before the intertubes. My guess, considering the time and place would be "Jazzman" Gerald Short. But surely someone out there will one day wonder what ever happened to 'A Person Called Gerald' who DJ'd on the radio and in clubs and sold mixtapes at Camden Market then type it into Google. We'll be waiting here. We're patient. Lazy, too. Keeping true to the title of the blog, we don't take this all that seriously.


Groove Transfusion
---->SIDE 1<----
Blue Mitchell - Granite and Concrete
Gene Harris - Listen Here
Louie Bellson & Walfredo De Los Reyes - Sentido En Seis (on Never Enough Rhodes' recent mix)
Michael Longo - Like A Thief In The Night
Groove Holmes - No Trouble On The Mountain

---->SIDE 2<----
Joe Bataan - Latin Strut
Clare Fischer - Descarga-Yema Ya (from Never Enough Rhodes' recent mix!)
Mongo Santamaria - Listen Here
João Donato - Almas-Irmas
Idris Muhammad - Loran's Dance
Peter Herbolzheimer Rhythm Combo & Brass - Mr Clean (from MOJO CLUB #2)
Deodato - Super Strut


Liberation
---->SIDE 1<----
Quincy Jones - They Call Me Mr. Tibbs
The Propositions - Africana
Pucho & His Latin Soul Brothers - Chitterlings Con Carne
Boogaloo Joe Jones - Sweetback (from Vincent the Soul Chef mix)
One G Plus Three - Summertime (snipped from If It Rotates..)
Asha Puthli - Right Down Here
Weldon Irvine - Homey

---->SIDE 2<----
Daniel Salinas - Straussmania
The Spirit of Atlanta - Messin' Around
Archie Shepp - Blues for Brother George Jackson
Horace Silver - I've Had a LIttle Talk
Grant Green - I Don't Want Nobody To Give Me Nothing
The Meters - Ease Back


With these two tapes in hand, my jazz digging began in earnest. Once I found the first few LPs, I followed the threads through labels, liner notes, players and producers - still doing it today! I've tried my best to pass the torch by supplying loads o' links so you can conduct your own investimigations and hopefully expand your musical horizons. Follow the arrows---> for links to the files. I hope you enjoy this cookin' slice of Acid Jazz history half as much as I have for these last 15 years.