Consider Shaft’s Old Man: a soul jazz soundtrack to an imaginary black 60s spy film that never was. Our third in a series of ongoing collaborations with Copenhagen based DJ/record collector Peer Schouten. Split into seven sections, use your ears to follow our hero through all manner of classic spy thriller motifs. And then some.
Download: Shaft’s Old Man: An Imaginary Soul Jazz Soundtrack – A Mixtape
Opening
1. Miles Davis — Générique
The Hero
2. Art Blakey — Secret Agent Man
3. Teddy Martin — No Wampum
4. Ernest Ranglin — Exodus
5. Grand Kallé & l’African Team — Guafarina
6. Connie Haines — On the Corner
7. Anthony ‘Rocky’ Ellis — Double Minded Man
The Girl
8. Stéphane Grappelli — Rolls (version 2)
9. All Star Orchestra with July Tan – Jauh Dari Mata
10. Boogaloo ‘Joe’ Jones — Games
11. Dorothy Ashby — Lonely Girl
12. The Viscounts — Harlem Nocturne
13. Stanley Turrentine — La Fiesta
Lost In The Jungle
14. Jungle Birds in Congo (recording)
15. Billy Larkin – Pygmy (Part 2)
16. Conjunto Miramar – Reina De Cumbias
17. The Graham Bond Organisation – Spanish Blues
18. Pedro Laza y Su Banda – Cumbia En El Monte
19. Joî£o Maria Tudela – Kanimambo
The Evil
20. Banda Ionica — Intro Espinita
21. Kelly Owen — Charlie’s Dance
22. Aksu Orkestrasi – Bermuda Seytan îœçgeni
23. Giuliano Sorgini – Strait Jacket
24. The Big Sound of Don Ralke – Zooba!
The Chase
25. Ganimian & His Orientals – Come With Me To The Casbah
26. Nai Bonnet – The seventh veil
27. Blue Mitchell – Collision in Black
28. Chris Barber’s Jazz Band – Morning Train
29. Classie Ballou – Classie’s Whip
30. Ray Barretto – Seî±or 007
Happy Ending
31. Laurindo Almeida & The Bossa Nova All-Stars – Misirlou
32. Ted Weems & Elmo Tanner (whistler) — Heartaches
33. Piero Umiliani – Lui E Lei
34. Grant Green – Besame Mucho
35. Cedric Im Brooks & David Madden – Soul brother
36. Art Blakey — Secret Agent Man
Previously: Chuck Berry On The Rocks: A Mixtape
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Amazing. Absolutely. Thank you for making my summer(s).
HELL YES. I LOVE SOUL JAZZ.
Awesome, awesome. Also cannot be downloaded with Safari – but Chrome will do the trick.
Hey, looks great, but the link seems to be down. Any chance of a re-up?
Looks a real treat, but link is definitely down. Would be great to nab this one if it gets put up again.
Almost on knees begging … Please re-up if you can, it looks fabulous!
Any chance to re-up?
Here’s another vote for a new link! I’m sorry to have missed this one.
Yeah, really wanna download this. New link!
PLEASEEEEEEE PUT THIS UP AGAIN! I NEEEEEEED THIS!
This one looks amazing; please, re-up the link, would love to get a hold of this … and I promise to be more careful in the future! 🙂
Damn, always missing these.
Please please please re-up!
Hi… would be great if you could re-up this fabulous mix!
Thanks in advance und greetings from Germany!
One more massively grateful thanks for all of your amazing mixtapes and a request to re-upload this mix, please!!
This link seems to work https://twitter.com/aquadrunkard/status/619227238169448449
re-up?
Yes, please reup!
Yeap! upload this beauty again! One of the best mixtapes ever