Biog:
Gerald runs Jazzman Records with Fryer
, DJs to packed dancefloors around the world and watches his team Middlesbrough lose at football. He collects modal jazz, funk LPs and 45s, titty shakers, latin jazz, 7” record boxes and 45 middles. At the moment his favourite jazz group is the Clarke-Boland Sextet, favourite funk 45 is Leon Gardner ‘Farm Song’ on Igloo, and most hated football team is Chelsea.
Biog: Fryer likes to spin late 60s through to mid 80's sound, heavy funk and 70's Soul which has been honed with 9 years packing in 600+ dancers at 'Motherfunk' his tuesday night funk club which is now considered one of the best (and largest) funk nights in the world. He gave up his career in IT to work with jazzman doing what he loves collecting a playing Funky music. He also runs his own very humble record Label Called "Fryer's Records" which he works on in his spare time.
Top Ten
1 - Marie Knight – I Thought I Told You Not to Tell Them – titty shaker
2 - Chic Chocolate – A Remembrance – Indian jazz
3 - David & the IC’s – Mean Streets of Harlem - funk
4 - Julio Gutirrez – Funk City – latin funk
5 - Rosemary Clooney – Mambo Italiano – femme jazz
6 – Bobby Montez – Titoro – latin jazz
7 – El Combo Moderno – El Guiso – latin jazz
8 – Nana Simopoulos – Through the Keyhole – modal
9 – Buddy Collette – Fun City – modal
10 – The J’s with Jamie – Yoshiko – titty shaker
Top Ten for around a tenner 1. Silkey Vincent - Funky World (Easybound)
2. Marvin Holmes - You Better Keep her (brown door)
3. Tony Aiken - Better Days (Kisma)
4. Windy City - We Party Heavy Up In Heah
5. The Charisma Band - The Charisma Road (budda)
6. Herman Kelly & Life - Dance To Drummer's Beat (Alston)
7. Melting Pot - Kool and The Gang (Ampex)
8. Bobby Bland - Shoes (Duke)
9. S.O.U.L - This Time Around (musicor)
10 New Holidays - Maybe So Maybe No (Soulhawk)
