NICK PRIDE & THE PIMPTONES: Remixed Feast Of Jazz (2012)

NICK PRIDE & THE PIMPTONES: Remixed Feast Of Jazz (2012)
Jazz-funky outfit Nick Pride & The Pimptones get a largely jazz-breaks makeover of their latest LP Midnight Feast Of Jazz from the likes of Fab Samperi, Diesler, Danny Massure and so on and so forth. Best cuts come in the form of Smoove (of Smoove & Turrell fame) and his drums of death re-version of Waitin So Long, Nick Pride and co themselves with their jazz-chunky Pimptroduction and Renegades Of Jazz’s Midnight Feast Of Jazz rerub which sounds like…READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

NICK PRIDE & THE PIMPTONES feat. JESS ROBERTS: Waitin So Long (Smoove remix) video (2011)

NICK PRIDE & THE PIMPTONES feat. JESS ROBERTS: Waitin So Long (Smoove remix) video (2011)
Here we are then – Smoove’s drums of death, coal funk reboot of the Jess Roberts featuring debut single and best track off Nick Pride & The Pimptones’ new long player Midnight Feast Of Jazz. It’s shot on a rooftop for added drama, not sure where though – the derelict cargo cranes in the background speak perhaps of Newcastle’s industrial past but the sun’s shining so…READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

NICK PRIDE & THE PIMPTONES: Midnight Feast Of Jazz + ‘Waitin So Long’ video - 2011

NICK PRIDE & THE PIMPTONES: Midnight Feast Of Jazz + ‘Waitin So Long’ video - 2011
Midnight feast of jazz? I’d rather have a 3.a.m. dirty funk kebab but go on then… My first experience of Newcastle jazzbos Nick Pride & The Pimptones was the Smoove retouch of their Deeper Pimp thing on Wack Records featuring an Aretha acapella. You might have thought that with a band name like the Pimptones that their releases would be rich in wah-wah licks and hot-buttered basslines but over half the musicians in the band tote some kind of metal wind instrument. So Midnight Feast Of Jazz is literally awash with horns. Now don’t get me wrong,
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NICK PRIDE & THE PIMPTONES/ THE BREAKBEAT JUNKIE: Deeper Pimp (Smoove re-touch)/ Turn It Up 7” – Wack Records W07

NICK PRIDE & THE PIMPTONES/ THE BREAKBEAT JUNKIE: Deeper Pimp (Smoove re-touch)/ Turn It Up 7” – Wack Records W07
Oh shit! Double funky trouble from Smoove’s Wack Records with more than a dash of the mambo in the second track…
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Nick Pride & The Pimptones- Deeper Pimp (Smoove Re-touch)
A long time ago in a far away galaxy, a Band of musicians got together with the queen of soul music to lay down some of the heaviest…READ THE REST AT MONKEYBOXING.COM