Water for Thirsty Children, practically released in tandem with Chicago Forever, is an unexpected -- but not out of character -- change of style for Roy Davis Jr. It reminds of a time when a number of jazz musicians -- Patrice Rushen, Norman Connors, George Duke, George Benson, and the like -- uprooted themselves to make crossover records that ...
Recorded after a move from his native City of Big Shoulders to Los Angeles (in his birth state of California) and featuring extensive assistance from three significant Detroiters -- beatmaker Waajeed and vocalists Ayro and Terry Dexter -- this album is titled, naturally enough, Chicago Forever. A divorce and the death of his mother put music ...
Nuphonic's soulful third collection was an interesting advertisement for the label's current roster, and a little more focused than the first. Although the overriding element was house, Nuphonic 2 stretched out in enough different directions, like the post-disco tropics of Marcel's "On the Beach," the strange drive of Lacarno & Burns' "Departure," ...
It's about time. With Traxx From the Nile, Chicago house vet Roy Davis, Jr. finally gets an album of his own productions distributed in North America, through Montréal's Bombay label. Bookended by equally brilliant but radically different looks at "Watch Them Come" (the opener is a percussion feast of a remix from Jazzanova; the closer is the ...
Roy Davis, Jr.'s simply titled DJ Mix album features many of the Chicago house DJ's best-known tracks from the late '90s, most notably his two Peven Everett collaborations, "Gabriel" and "Watch Them Come," in addition to tracks by several other noteworthy house producers, including Kerri Chandler, Jordan Fields, Mateo & Matos, Louie Maldonado, and ...
Mixed by Carl Michaels, Disco Dub House features productions from a variety of topflight deep-house names including Roy Davis, Jr. ("Let Me Show You the Scene"), Gene Farris ("Spring Fling"), Pete Moss ("Relocation"), DJ Sneak ("All Over My Face"), Angel Alanis ("Chi's Revenge"), Sharpshooters ("Think Again"), and Sylk 130 ("When the Funk Hits the ...
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