Various Artists - Blue Funk (2001)

BLUE SERIES MONTH (FEBRUARY, 2025)

Note: I've never found a complete listing of all titles in Blue Note's Blue Series, but over the past month I've cobbled together a list of 58 releases that I believe to be part of the series (accuracy not guaranteed). If you're interested, I've posted that list over on the informative "Jazz LPs" website: The Blue Series (1991-2001). The list does not include series samplers such as the one featured on this blog back in 2018: Blue Series Sampler.

With a title like Blue Funk, I had high hopes for this compilation - could it possibly be as tasty as Blue '70s or Blue Break Beats? Welp, not quite. It takes a while for this disc to get cookin', but there's some great grooves to be found.

Tracks:

1. Who Dun It? - Blue Mitchell
   From the 1969 album, Collision In Black
2. Say It Loud (I'm Black And I'm Proud) - Lou Donaldson
   From the 1969 album, Say It Loud!
3. Cissy Strut - Big John Patton
   previously unissued, recorded 1968
4. Ease Back - Grant Green ✔
   From the 1970 album, Carryin' On
5. Hunk O'Funk - Brother Jack McDuff ✔
   From the 1970 album, To Seek A New Home
6. Tic Tac Toe - Candido
   From the 1970 album, Beautiful
7. Down Home Funk - Richard "Groove" Holmes ✔
   From the 1971 album, Comin' On Home
8. Cantaloupe Woman - Grant Green ✔
   From the 1971 album, Visions
9. I Don't Want Nobody To Give Me Nothing (Open Up The Door I'll Get It Myself) - Grant Green ✔
   From the 1970 album, Carryin' On
10. Don't Knock My Love - Ronnie Foster
    From the 1972 album, Two Headed Freap
11. If There's A Hell Below - Lou Donaldson
    From the 1971 album, The Righteous Reed
12. Bambu - Reuben Wilson
    From the 1970 album, Blue Mode
13. Family Affair - Bobby Hutcherson ✔
    previously unissued, ca. 1972

Personal Memory Associated with this CD: None

Previously revisited for the blog:

US releases	UK releases
Blue '70s (2000)	Blue 'N' Soul (2001)
Latino Blue (2000)	Blue Series Sampler (2001)
Blue Brazil (1999)	Capitol Rare Vol 3 (1999)
Jump Blue (1999)	Blue 45s (1998)
Blue Boogie (1999)	Blue York Blue York (1996)
Blue Valentines (1999)	So Blue So Funky Vol 2 (1994)
Capitol Rare (1999)	California Cool (1993)
Capitol Rare Vol 2 (1999)	So Blue So Funky (1991)
Blue Bossa Vol 2 (1999)
Blue Bacharach (1999)
Midnight Blue (1999)
Blue Movies (1999)
Blue 'N' Groovy Vol 2 (1999)
Blue Break Beats Vol 3 (1996)
Blue Break Beats (1992)
Blue Beat (1991)
Blue Bossa (1991)