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[rayge]

A George Perkins - A Man in Love



B Grant Green - Jan Jan

[DayoRemix]

The Green track has a bit more life to it..Vote B

[Sneelock]

I like both quite a bit but B really swings.

[Deleted]

There's a side of southern soul I can find quite dull and A epitomises it for me..the kind of soul I can imagine Van Morrison and Eric Clapton and Yves listening to. Predictable melody and just too enervated and polite for me.

B is pretty much the opposite of all that, the band are really stretching out here but still keeping things tight and muscular. This actually earns it's 9 minutes, I could have listened for longer. Plus it has Ronnie Foster!
Best jazz pick of the competition. I think I'll look for the album, that's how much I dug it. The only thing I disliked was the timid and polite applause at the end, they should've been screaming like alley cats.

B

[toomanyhatz]

Really like both, but we've already had the likes of B a lot more than we have the likes of A.

[bungo the mungo]

jesus, the perkins track is a real discovery. i love it.

nothing wrong with green, but it loses out here.

A

[Crunchy Col]

Not wild about either of these. Tasteful soul pick versus fussy jazz-wank.

A does a bit more for me

[osgood]

Like in that Nucleus thing, here we go again with guitarrists who don't know what to do for a solo, like being handcuffed. Also unneccesary repetition of solos plus (ugh!) organ solo. Nah, didn't work.

A is pretty genereic, but it happens to be from a genre that has proved to be worth barrel-scratched like there's no tomorrow

A

[Half Machine Lipschitz]

B is just too funky. I don't like too funky.

I also don't really like generic boring soul tunes they way the rest of you don't really like country tunes.

But B is just a tiny bit more interesting, I guess.

B

[fearlessfreap]

I know I'm going to like anything with Idris Muhammad on it. and Ronnie Foster, from George Benson's band, was from Buffalo, so it's going to be B.

[fange]

A quite like A, cheers picker. It's got a mellow swinging groove that i can really get with. But B has got so much funky goodness i can't deny.


B

[rayge]

A is a bit generic and ploddy in the When a Man Loves a Woman style, but B is 9 minutes of jazz and, according to some of my fellow voters, funk, so voting
A.

[DarknessFish]

Why do all these generic soul tracks have such painfully ropey lyrics? I guess the cringing brings some physical response that the blandly smoothly snoozy snorefest song can't provide.

Is the percussion not too fast in this track? Asking for a friend. It's a bit boring though, innit? More jazz-hands than jazz here, all riffing and repetition, and not going anywhere. Staid. Worst 'jazz' pick of the cup so far :-(

B

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A

let's keep this tight

[morgan]

No enthusiasm for either of these, the Perkins track is a string of soul cliches
So

B