Chocolate Blow Chase Fantasy

So since I was a young boy I always had an ear for music; Blues, Soul, Motown, Hip Hop and Jazz. My parents where fiends and played wherever and whenever possible. Back then it was different, music was fun, liberating and expressive. It told stories of love, hardship, people, humanity, freedom, history of preceding years and allowed the listener to feel and embark on a journey through emotive words and deep captivating instrumentation… that was the 80s…

… and soon my simple innocent ears were filled with hard heavy beats and gritty raw lyrics. I liked it. Fun now had a new meaning, liberating well it wasn’t for the faint hearted and expressive (shall we say explicit) was only permitted for over 18s.

Hip Hop, R&B and Pop were dominating the charts and ‘grown folks’ music was now considered old school. But I wasn’t letting go so easy, there was something about those soulful bluesy tracks that just resonated with me and took me back to my early Mr Gaye impersonations days of ‘Sexual Healing’. Luckily for me I was not the only one that enjoyed the best of both worlds and in 1991 saw the rebirth of cool with Miles Davis’ posthumous album ‘Doo-Bop’. His experimentation and fusion with other genres from Classical music in his 1957 album ‘Birth of Cool’ to Hip Hop in the Doo Bop album has titled Miles Davis III one of the most influential jazz musician of the 20th century and my personal favourite. So much so that I have taken tracks from the album and created… Chocolate Blow Chase Fantasy! The story and striven journey of Jazz music.

Part of this journey was the development in Jazz including bebop, cool jazz and smooth modal jazz that blends contemporary harmonic rhythms with the sweet buzzing BLOW of the trumpet. I have recently been discovering and building a collection of these pieces, some old some new and thought it’d be a good idea to share and invite you on this Chocolate Blow Chase Fantasy.