Various Artists – Sunday Afternoon at Dingwalls (Ether/Creative Vibes)

The history is that uber DJ Gilles Peterson and Patrick Forge had a Sunday afternoon residency at Dingwalls in Camden UK which they called “Talkin Loud Sayin Something.’ Running between lunchtime and 6.30pm they would each DJ around a live act. What apparently made this club so special was that it provided some scope for less obvious genres of music, which whilst still pretty funky may normally be a little further down in your pile of records. This is a two disc set and it’s hard to go past when the sun is shining and you’ve got that woozy just been up all night and swallowed a bunch of pills kind’ve feeling. In fact this disc is so good that it might just make you want to stay up all night and swallow a bunch of pills so you can have that feeling to this music. So we’ve got Roy Ayers who’ vibes are like little drops of audio sunshine, the chilled hip hop contingent represented by Tribe called Quest, early electro with Jean Luc Ponty and then the laidback jazz tunes by Roy Haynes, Pharoah Sanders, Byron Morris and a more frenzied horn session from Michael Legrand. Some world jazz from Bobby Montez and Airto, and of course some cool vocal tunes from the likes of Janet Lawson who appropriately supplies a track called Sunday Afternoon. So you’ve got your expected mellow jazzy vibes but you have to credit the DJ’ for pushing things a little and taking things a little further than they need to, all of which makes for a great and occasionally unexpected mix.