Teenage Jesus at Max's

Gigs: James Chance's Molotov Cocktail Lounge (DJ sets w/live sax & vocals) in Brooklyn March 18 and March 27

James has two DJ gigs coming up at a new place in Williamsburg called Baby It's All Right. 

The first one is next Tuesday, March 18. The headliner is a funk oriented band from London called Melt Yourself Down, who are named after one of his songs. James will be sitting in with them as well as doing his DJ set. 

Then on Thurs March 27 he'll appearing with Australian group, NOZUBeat.

Baby It's All Right is located at 146 Broadway in Brooklyn. 

      

James Chance: The Aurora Sessions (Nov. 2013)

Here are two versions of the same session which James just passed on to us. The Aurora Sessions were taped taped last November by Dean Loren, and it was shown on a Manhattan Neighborhood Network show he has called Are You a Star? (I think we know the answer to that question.) It was recorded in the rehearsal room at the Aurora.

Aurora Sessions, Version 1:

1) That Old Black Magic take 1 (composed by Johnny Mercer/Harold Arlen, arr. James Chance) 

2) Peggy's Blue Skylight (Charles Mingus) (take 1) 

3) Sapphire's Safe Spot (James Chance) 

4) Don't Smoke In Bed (Willard Robinson, arr. James Chance) fragment 

5) That Old Black Magic (take 2) 

6) Sapphire's Safe Spot (take 2) 

7) Yesterdays (Jerome Kern, arr. James Chance) 

Aurora Sessions, Version 2:

1) That Old Black Magic (take 3) (composed by Johnny Mercer/Harold Arlen, arr. James Chance) 

2) Peggy's Blue Skylight (take 2) (Mingus) 

3) Sapphire's Safe Spot (take 2) (James Chance) 

4) That Old Black Magic (take 1 including false starts) 

5) That Old Black Magic (take 2) 

6) Peggy's Blue Skylight (take 1) 

7) Sapphire's Safe Spot (take 1) 

8) Yesterdays (Jerome Kern, arr. James Chance) 

9) Odd Man Out (James Chance) 

10) Don't Smoke In Bed (Willard Robinson, arr. James Chance) 

11) Strictly Confidential (Bud Powell)

New James Chance recording! I Don't Want Nobody to Give Me Nothing (Open Up the Door, I'll Get It Myself)

Here's a smoking new recording by James & the True Groove All-Stars. Its a great version of James Brown's "I Don't Want Nobody to Give Me Nothing (Open Up the Door, I'll Get It Myself)". This is just a taste of what you'll get if you're going down to the Cutting Room tonight.

Turn it up...

James Chance faces off against George Clinton for the cover of NY Rocker in 1979