Dusty Fingers
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Dusty Fingers is the name of a series of compilation records of songs that are widely admired as breakbeats collected by Bronx, NY DJ and collector Danny Dann the Beat Mann. Some of the songs featured contain "open breaks" which are solo drum passages which enable DJs to easily transition into them. These are also attractive to producers, who loop or rearrange them to create new compositions. Following in the tradition of the Ultimate Breaks and Beats
Ultimate Breaks and Beats
Ultimate Breaks and Beats was a series of 25 compilation albums released from 1986 to 1991 by Street Beat Records...

 series, the Dusty Fingers records contain an eclectic range of musical styles: mainly funk
Funk
Funk is a music genre that originated in the mid-late 1960s when African American musicians blended soul music, jazz and R&B into a rhythmic, danceable new form of music. Funk de-emphasizes melody and harmony and brings a strong rhythmic groove of electric bass and drums to the foreground...

 and jazz
Jazz
Jazz is a musical style that originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States. It was born out of a mix of African and European music traditions. From its early development until the present, jazz has incorporated music from 19th and 20th...

, but also including soul
Soul music
Soul music is a music genre originating in the United States combining elements of gospel music and rhythm and blues. According to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, soul is "music that arose out of the black experience in America through the transmutation of gospel and rhythm & blues into a form of...

, rock
Rock music
Rock music is a genre of popular music that developed during and after the 1960s, particularly in the United Kingdom and the United States. It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, itself heavily influenced by rhythm and blues and country music...

, disco
Disco
Disco is a genre of dance music. Disco acts charted high during the mid-1970s, and the genre's popularity peaked during the late 1970s. It had its roots in clubs that catered to African American, gay, psychedelic, and other communities in New York City and Philadelphia during the late 1960s and...

, and pop
Pop music
Pop music is usually understood to be commercially recorded music, often oriented toward a youth market, usually consisting of relatively short, simple songs utilizing technological innovations to produce new variations on existing themes.- Definitions :David Hatch and Stephen Millward define pop...

. Most are obscure tracks treasured by music connoisseurs and DJs, including several from European recordings. The common but hard to define thread in all of these songs is that they are "funky". The Dusty Fingers selection is even more obscure than that of Ultimate Breaks and Beats
Ultimate Breaks and Beats
Ultimate Breaks and Beats was a series of 25 compilation albums released from 1986 to 1991 by Street Beat Records...

 or Strictly Breaks
Strictly Breaks
Strictly Breaks is the name of a series of compilation records of songs that are widely admired as break beats. Some of the songs featured contain "open breaks" which are solo drum passages which enable djs to easily transition into them, as well as attractive to producers who loop or rearrange...

. Many of the songs in the Dusty Fingers series have been sampled into new musical compositions, mainly by hip hop producers. Popular songs sampling Dusty Fingers compositions include Guilty Conscience
Guilty Conscience
"Guilty Conscience" is a song released in 1999 by rap artist Eminem featuring his mentor, Dr. Dre. It was the third single from his major label debut album, The Slim Shady LP, also released in 1999...

by Eminem
Eminem
Marshall Bruce Mathers III , better known by his stage name Eminem or his alter ego Slim Shady, is an American rapper, record producer, songwriter and actor. Eminem's popularity brought his group project, D12, to mainstream recognition...

, Find Your Wealth by Nas
Nas
Nasir bin Olu Dara Jones, who performs under the name Nas , formerly Nasty Nas, is an American rapper and actor. He is regarded as one of the most important figures in hip hop and one of the most skilled and influential rappers of all-time...

, Rowdy Rowdy
Rowdy Rowdy
"Rowdy Rowdy" is the second single released by rapper 50 Cent, following the release of "How to Rob". The song was used for the soundtrack of the film In Too Deep along with "How to Rob" and contains the line "These industry niggas is startin' to look like somethin' to eat" from that song...

by 50 Cent
50 Cent
Curtis James Jackson III , better known by his stage name 50 Cent, is an American rapper, entrepreneur, investor, record producer, and actor. He rose to fame with the release of his albums Get Rich or Die Tryin and The Massacre . Get Rich or Die Tryin has been certified eight times platinum by...

, Show Me What You Got
Show Me What You Got
For the song by Powerman 5000, see Show Me What You Got "Show Me What You Got" is a single by rap artist Jay-Z from his album Kingdom Come.-Song information:...

by Jay Z, Daydreamin'
Daydreamin'
"Daydreamin" is the Grammy Award–winning third single taken from Lupe Fiasco's Food & Liquor album and features soul singer Jill Scott and music from Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake, the Danse de Cygnes...

by Lupe Fiasco, and Dr. Carter by Lil' Wayne. The compilations also include rare covers of hits, such as the Beatles songs Come Together
Come Together
"Come Together" is a song by The Beatles written by John Lennon and credited to Lennon–McCartney. The song is the opening track on The Beatles' September 1969 album Abbey Road....

and Hey Jude
Hey Jude
"Hey Jude" is a song by the English rock band The Beatles, written by Paul McCartney and credited to Lennon–McCartney. The ballad evolved from "Hey Jules", a song widely accepted as being written to comfort John Lennon's son, Julian, during his parents' divorce—although this explanation is not...

.

Complete Track Listings

  • Dusty Fingers Volume 1
    1. Intro
    2. Tense Preparation - Nick Ingman
      Nick Ingman
      Nicholas Ingman is an orchestra conductor and composer.Early recordings include:*'Big Beat' *'The Love Album' *'Terminator'...

    3. Lady Love - Ferrante & Teicher
      Ferrante & Teicher
      Ferrante & Teicher were a duo of American piano players, known for their light arrangements of familiar classical pieces, movie soundtracks, and show tunes.-Career:...

    4. The Windmills Of Your Mind - Dorothy Ashby
      Dorothy Ashby
      Dorothy Ashby was an American jazz harpist and composer.Along with Alice Coltrane, Ashby extended the popularization of jazz harp past a novelty, showing how the instrument can be utilized seamlessly as much a bebop instrument as the saxophone...

    5. Forty Days - Billy Brooks
      Billy Brooks
      William McKinley Brooks III is a former American football wide receiver in the National Football League. He was drafted by the Cincinnati Bengals 11th overall in the 1976 NFL Draft. He played college football at Oklahoma.Brooks also played for the San Diego Chargers and Houston Oilers.-External...

    6. Get Thy Bearings - Donovan
      Donovan
      Donovan Donovan Donovan (born Donovan Philips Leitch (born 10 May 1946) is a Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist. Emerging from the British folk scene, he developed an eclectic and distinctive style that blended folk, jazz, pop, psychedelia, and world music...

    7. Hogin's Machine - Les Baxter
      Les Baxter
      Les Baxter was an American musician and composer.Baxter studied piano at the Detroit Conservatory before moving to Los Angeles for further studies at Pepperdine College. Abandoning a concert career as a pianist, he turned to popular music as a singer...

    8. Kismet - Amon Düül II
      Amon Düül II
      -Studio Albums:-Live Albums:-Compilations:-Singles:-External links:*...

    9. The Warnings - David Axelrod
      David Axelrod
      David Axelrod may refer to:* David Axelrod * David Axelrod , Senior Advisor to U.S. President Barack Obama* David B. Axelrod , poet and educator...

    10. On the Hill - Oliver Sain
      Oliver Sain
      Oliver Sain was an American saxophonist, songwriter, bandleader, drummer and record producer....

    11. Bamboo Child - Ryo Kawasaki
      Ryo Kawasaki
      Ryo Kawasaki chose a career as a jazz fusion guitarist after spending some years studying as a scientist. During the 60s he played with various Japanese jazz groups and also formed his own bands...

    12. Holding You, Loving You - Don Blackman
      Don Blackman
      Don Blackman is an American jazz-funk pianist, singer, songwriter, producer born in Queens, New York.Blackman's neighbor as a child was Charles McPherson, and while still a teenager he played in McPherson's ensemble with Sam Jones and Louis Hayes...

    13. Hey Jude - The Overton Berry Trio
    14. Survival - Annette Peacock
      Annette Peacock
      - Biography :Annette Peacock began composing at the age of four. Her mother was a violist in the San Diego and Philadelphia Philharmonic Orchestras....

    15. Dee Dee Drums - Dee Dee Warwick
      Dee Dee Warwick
      Dee Dee Warwick was an American soul singer. Born in Newark, New Jersey as Delia Mae Warrick, she was the sister of Dionne Warwick, niece of Cissy Houston and cousin of Whitney Houston....

    16. Outro

  • Dusty Fingers Volume 2
    1. Laying The Trap - Gator
      Gator (film)
      Gator is a 1976 action film starring and directed by Burt Reynolds. It is a sequel to White Lightning. Reynolds honored his favorite professor from college, Watson B...

       Soundtrack
    2. Go On And Cry - Les McCann
      Les McCann
      Les McCann is an American soul jazz piano player and vocalist whose biggest successes came as a crossover artist into R&B and soul.-Biography:...

    3. Snow Creatures - Quincy Jones
      Quincy Jones
      Quincy Delightt Jones, Jr. is an American record producer and musician. A conductor, musical arranger, film composer, television producer, and trumpeter. His career spans five decades in the entertainment industry and a record 79 Grammy Award nominations, 27 Grammys, including a Grammy Legend...

    4. Children Of The Night - Hysear Don Walker
    5. Bettina - Bola Sete
      Bola Sete
      Bola Sete was a Brazilian guitarist. Sete played jazz with Vince Guaraldi as well as with Dizzy Gillespie. His song "Bettina" was featured on the "Tribe Vibes" breakbeat compilation, as it had been sampled by the musical group A Tribe Called Quest.Born in Rio de Janeiro, Bola Sete's name means...

    6. Electric Surfboard - Brother Jack McDuff
    7. Smokey Joe The Dreamer - Bullet
    8. Soul Sides - Art Farmer
      Art Farmer
      Arthur Stewart "Art" Farmer was an American jazz trumpeter and flugelhorn player. He also played flumpet, a trumpet/flugelhorn combination designed for him by David Monette. His identical twin brother, Addison Farmer Arthur Stewart "Art" Farmer (August 21, 1928, Council Bluffs, Iowa –...

    9. Ripped Open By Metal Explosions - Galt MacDermot
      Galt MacDermot
      Galt MacDermot is a Canadian composer, pianist and writer of musical theatre. He won a Grammy Award for the song African Waltz in 1960. His most successful musicals have been Hair and Two Gentlemen of Verona...

    10. Holy Thursday - David Axelrod
    11. Shore Line Drive - Sammy Nestico
    12. You're No Good - Harvey Averne
    13. Puzzle - Passport (Skit)
    14. Faded Lady - S.S.O (Skit)

  • Dusty Fingers Volume 3
    1. Dermier Domicile Connu - Generique
    2. Shady Blues - Pete Moore
      Pete Moore
      Pete Moore is an African American soul singer, record producer, and songwriter, notable as the bass singer for Motown group The Miracles from 1955 onwards, and is one of the group's original members...

    3. Come Together - The Phoenix Authority
    4. Packed Up - Bill Conti
      Bill Conti
      William "Bill" Conti is an American film music composer who is frequently the conductor at the Academy Awards ceremony.-Early life and career:...

    5. Take Me With You - Lyn Christopher
    6. Pulp - Steve Grey
    7. Go Home Pigs - Ronald Stein
      Ronald Stein
      Ronald Stein was an American film composer.-Biography:Born in St. Louis, Missouri, Stein wrote scores for numerous low budget horror and exploitation films during the 1950s and 1960s, many of which were released by American International Pictures...

    8. A Divine Image - David Axelrod
    9. While My Guitar Gently Weeps - Jimmy Ponder
      Jimmy Ponder
      Jimmy Ponder is an American jazz guitarist.Ponder started playing guitar at age 14, and was heavily influenced by Wes Montgomery and Kenny Burrell. He began playing with Charles Earland at 17, and in the following years played with Lou Donaldson, Houston Person, Donald Byrd, Stanley Turrentine,...

    10. Return From Ashes - John Dankworth
      John Dankworth
      Sir John Phillip William Dankworth, CBE , known in his early career as Johnny Dankworth, was an English jazz composer, saxophonist and clarinetist...

    11. Darkest Light - Lafayette Afro Rock Band
      Lafayette Afro Rock Band
      Lafayette Afro Rock Band was a French funk rock band formed in Roosevelt, Long Island, New York in 1970. Though almost unknown in their native United States, they are now universally celebrated as one of the standout funk bands of the 1970s and admired for their use of break beats.Upon their...

    12. Safari - Frank Walton
      Frank Walton
      Frank Joseph "Tiger" Walton was an American football guard in the National Football League for the Boston/Washington Redskins...

    13. A Day In The Life - War
      War (band)
      War is an American funk band from California, known for the hit songs "Low Rider", "Spill the Wine", "The Cisco Kid" and "Why Can't We Be Friends?". Formed in 1969, War was a musical crossover band which fused elements of rock, funk, jazz, Latin, rhythm and blues, and reggae...

    14. The Spic - Bullet

  • Dusty Fingers Volume 4
    1. Le Bracelet - Alain Goraguer
      Alain Goraguer
      Alain Goraguer is a French jazz pianist, sideman of Boris Vian and Serge Gainsbourg, arranger and composer. He reached his creative peak in the 1960s and 1970s...

    2. Psychedelic Portrait - Jack Arel
    3. Going Out Of My Head - George Saxon
    4. I Wonder - The Bubble Gum Machine
    5. The Begger Song - Wet Willie (Skit)
    6. Night Moves - F. McDonald
    7. Funky Chimes - Francis Coppieters
    8. Accadde A Bali - Arawak
      Arawak
      The Arawak people are some of the indigenous peoples of the West Indies. The group belongs to the Arawakan language family. They were the natives whom Christopher Columbus encountered when he first arrived in the Americas in 1492...

    9. Scratch - Souflay
    10. The Moving Finger - Dorthy Ashby
    11. Misty Canyon - Sven Libaek
      Sven Libaek
      Sven Libaek is an Australian composer, record producer and musician. He is well-known for his film and TV soundtrack music and also had a significant influence on the Australian popular music scene in the mid-1960s as the staff producer for the Australian division of CBS Records...

    12. Wenn Der Urlaub Kommt - Manfred Krug
      Manfred Krug
      Manfred Krug is a German actor and singer.-Life and work:After moving to East Germany at the age of 13, Manfred Krug worked at a steel plant before beginning his acting career on the stage and, ultimately, in film...

    13. Selected Sound - Hardys Jet Band
    14. Loving You Girl - John Schroeder
      John Schroeder (musician)
      John Francis Schroeder is a British easy listening composer, arranger, and producer.Schroeder worked as an A&R assistant to Norrie Paramor at Columbia Records. He was also a songwriter and, with Mike Hawker, wrote the song "Walkin' Back to Happiness", which in a version by Helen Shapiro reached...


  • Dusty Fingers Volume 5
    1. Solstice - Brian Bennett
    2. Algebrique - Shoche
    3. Signals - Gerhard Trede And His Electronic Instruments
    4. Mixed Drums - Andy Loore
    5. Love Sounds - Intimate Strangers
      Intimate Strangers
      Intimate Strangers is a 2004 French film directed by Patrice Leconte. It was shown in Competition at the 2004 Berlin Film Festival.Paramount Classics acquired the United States distribution rights of this film and gave it a limited U.S...

    6. Railroad - Monk Higgins
      Monk Higgins
      Milton Bland better known as Monk Higgins, was an American musician and saxophonist who was born in Menifee, Arkansas....

    7. Caccia Al Cinese - Franco Mincalizzi
    8. Soft Wind - Gary Pacific Orchestra
    9. Attention - Head West (Drum Skit)
    10. Jane B - Jane Birkin
      Jane Birkin
      Jane Mallory Birkin, OBE is an English-born actress and singer who lives in France. In recent years she has written her own album, directed a film and become an outspoken proponent of democracy in Burma.- Early life :...

    11. Bass In Action - Toni Rubio
    12. Dirty Drugs - H. Thieme

  • Dusty Fingers Volume 6
    1. Power Of The Drums
    2. Under Pressure - Nick Ingman
      Nick Ingman
      Nicholas Ingman is an orchestra conductor and composer.Early recordings include:*'Big Beat' *'The Love Album' *'Terminator'...

    3. La Dimo Strzione - Danielle Patucci
    4. Silhouttes - Dick Walter
    5. Compression - Ed Scogillera
    6. Crossing The Border - Jerry Gold Smith
    7. Big Noise From Winnetka - Eric Delaney
      Eric Delaney
      Eric Delaney was an English drummer and bandleader, popular in the 1950s and early 1960s.-Career:Delaney was born in Acton, London. Aged 16, he won the Best Swing Drummer award and later joined the Bert Ambrose Octet which featured George Shearing on piano...

    8. Future Past - Absolute Elsewhere
    9. Here We Are - Churchill
    10. Tibetian Serenity - Travis Biggs
    11. Dancer - Spacey
    12. Mao - Joe Ki Peter Tomas Sound Group
    13. Drum Skit
    14. Drum Skit

  • Dusty Fingers Volume 7
    1. Who Is She And What Is She To You? - Madelaine
    2. Rose Len - Lennie Hibbert
      Lennie Hibbert
      Lennie Hibbert OD was a Jamaican musician who was bandmaster at the Alpha Cottage School, and also a vibraphone virtuoso, recording two albums for Studio One.-Biography:...

    3. Atlanta Inn - Janne Schaffer
      Janne Schaffer
      Jan Erik Tage Janne Schaffer is a Swedish songwriter and guitarist. He is best known for his work as a session guitarist for ABBA but he has also recorded with artists such as Bob Marley, Johnny Nash, Art Farmer and Tony Williams...

    4. Space - Tomorrow
    5. L'Oiseau - Alain Goraguer
      Alain Goraguer
      Alain Goraguer is a French jazz pianist, sideman of Boris Vian and Serge Gainsbourg, arranger and composer. He reached his creative peak in the 1960s and 1970s...

    6. Come Live With Me - Dorothy Ashby
    7. Walter L - Jimmy Gordon
      Jimmy Gordon
      James "Jimmy" Eadie Gordon was a Scottish footballer who spent most of his career with Rangers. During the First World War he was a Sergeant in the Highland Light Infantry....

    8. The Mudfoot - Fat Albert
    9. Hey Jude - Tuby Hayes
    10. Monday, Monday - Wally Richardson
      Wally Richardson
      Wallace Herman "Wally" Richardson is a former American football quarterback in the National Football League. He was drafted by the Baltimore Ravens in the seventh round of the 1997 NFL Draft. He started at QB for the XFL's NY/NJ Hitmen. He played college football at Penn State.-References:...

    11. Mickey Mouse Club - Mike Curb Congregation
    12. The Godfather - The Professionals
      The Professionals (hip-hop)
      The Professionals are an American hip-hop duo based out of Lakeland, Florida, a small city between Tampa and Orlando, Florida. The group's musical style is often referenced as a mixture of true East Coast hip-hop, with influences of Dirty South, Rock and Soul music. The duo consists of Florida...

    13. Grigio Perla - Gian Franco Pienzio
    14. We're Only Just Begun - Grant Green
      Grant Green
      Grant Green was a jazz guitarist and composer....


  • Dusty Fingers Volume 8
    1. Time is Passing - Sun
    2. Kriminal Theme - Les Maledictus Sound
    3. The Big Climb - Paul Kass Parry Music
    4. Les caïds - François de Roubaix
      François de Roubaix
      François de Roubaix was a French film score composer....

    5. In necessity - Kerrie Biddell
    6. Cohet - Ajija Myrayebe
    7. Fat, Fat Fellow - Daniel Janin
    8. Roots - Ian Carr
      Ian Carr
      Ian Carr was a Scottish jazz musician, composer, writer, and educator.-Early years:Carr was born in Dumfries, Scotland, the elder brother of Mike Carr...

    9. Drums - Niagra
    10. Gloaming (De Wolfe Library) - L. Decosne
    11. The Tense Scene - Alan Hawkshaw
      Alan Hawkshaw
      Alan Hawkshaw is a British composer and performer, particularly of themes for movies and television programmes...

    12. Atlantis - R.M.O.
    13. Trying Hard to Look Inside - Waters
    14. Stone Folk - The Adacement
    15. Fragment of Fear - Sight & Sound
      Sight & Sound
      Sight & Sound is a British monthly film magazine published by the British Film Institute .Sight & Sound was first published in 1932 and in 1934 management of the magazine was handed to the nascent BFI, which still publishes the magazine today...


  • Dusty Fingers Volume 9
    1. "Hogans Thing" - Simon Haseley
    2. "Who's Who" - Fred Merrett & Friends
    3. "Daydream" - Bernard Wystraete
    4. "Lightly Salted" - Barry Ungar
    5. "Bad Times" - Gerard McManon
    6. "Jamie's Theme" - Harnell
    7. "Super Snatch" - Flash Fearless
    8. "Pull Jabal Pull" - JJ Johnson
    9. "Interlude" - Brand New Funk
    10. "Being Tailed" - Roy Budd
      Roy Budd
      Roy Frederick Budd , was a British jazz musician and composer, known for his film scores.Born in Mitcham, Surrey, Budd became interested in music from an early age and had built up a vast musical repertoire by the age of eight...

    11. "Drumin" - Bill Near
    12. "War on the Streets" - Head Band
    13. "La Morte Accarezza a Mezzanotte" - Ed Ariete
    14. "Improv" - Ron Tutt & Jim Keltner
      Jim Keltner
      James Lee "Jim" Keltner is an American drummer known primarily for his session work. He has contributed to the work of many well-known artists...


  • Dusty Fingers Volume 10
    1. "Space Guerilla"- Missus Beastly
    2. "Son of Popcorn" - Franz Auffray
    3. "The Unknown" - Brian Bennett
    4. "Light My Fire
      Light My Fire
      "Light My Fire" is a song by The Doors which was recorded in August 1966 and released the first week of January 1967 on the Doors' debut album. Released as a single in April, it spent three weeks at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, and one week on the Cash Box Top 100, nearly a year after...

      " - Johnny Harris
      Johnny Harris (musician)
      Johnny Harris is a Scottish born composer, producer, arranger, conductor and musical director. He was born in Edinburgh, Scotland; and a graduate of the Guildhall School of Music in London. He has lived in the US since 1972...

    5. "Impulsion Drums" - Barry Cooper
    6. "Kombination" - Gunther Fischer Quintet
    7. "Drum Skit 2" (Zouche Drums 3) - Dave Holland
    8. "Chapeau Melon et Bottes de Cuir" - Laurie Johnson
      Laurie Johnson
      Laurie Johnson is an English film and television composer, and bandleader.-Career:...

       Orchestra
    9. "Requiem Pour un Con" - Serge Gainsbourg
      Serge Gainsbourg
      Serge Gainsbourg, born Lucien Ginsburg was a French singer-songwriter, actor and director. Gainsbourg's extremely varied musical style and individuality make him difficult to categorize...

    10. "Sand and Rain" - Nancy Holloway
    11. "Letrange Dr. Personne" - Carvelli
    12. "Relaxed Spacious" - A. Parker
    13. "Incidental Black Cloth" - K. Fleins Field
    14. "Lee Gagnon" - Scene des Guerriers

  • Dusty Fingers Volume 11
    1. "Confunktion" - D. Richmond
    2. "Music People" - Jack Mayborn
    3. "Are You Free" - Larry Robins Sport Studio Band
    4. "Devil's Masquerade" - Syrius
    5. "Les Dunes Dostende" - Francois de Roubaix
    6. "Southbound" - Sound Studio Orchestra
    7. "African Honeymoon" - Golden Music Orchestra
    8. "Type A to E" - Hiro Tsunoda
    9. "Take Me to the Mardi Gras" - The Spotnicks
      The Spotnicks
      The Spotnicks is an instrumental rock group from Sweden, who were formed in 1961. They were famous for wearing "space suit" costumes on stage, and for their innovative electronic guitar sound...

    10. "Flower Dance" - Michel Gonet
    11. "Brute (Part 1 and 2)" - Louis Clark
      Louis Clark
      Louis Clark is a British musical arranger and keyboard player.He trained at Leeds College of Music. He was the conductor of the orchestra and choir hired to back Electric Light Orchestra's sound, introduced on their album Eldorado in 1974...

    12. "Overtone" - Nick Ingman
    13. "Allora LL Treno" - Bruno Nicolai
      Bruno Nicolai
      Bruno Nicolai was an Italian film music composer, orchestra director and musical editor most active in the 1960s through the 1980s...

    14. "Yama Yama (Yamasuki)" - Daniel Vangarde
      Daniel Vangarde
      Daniel Vangarde, born Daniel Bangalter in 1947, is a French songwriter and producer. He is the father of music composer Thomas Bangalter of Daft Punk.-History:...

    15. "Voyages" - Michel Polnareff
      Michel Polnareff
      Michel Polnareff, born in Nérac on 3 July 1944, is a French singer-songwriter who was very popular from the mid-1960s until the early 1980s...


  • Dusty Fingers Volume 12
    1. "The Fusion" - Jason Havelock
    2. "Primo Canale" - Caravan
    3. "Drama Blackcloth" - Alan Tew
      Alan Tew
      Alan Tew is a British composer and arranger.He got his start as the pianist/arranger for the Len Turner Band based in London, in the 1950s.He is known as composer of library music, including the theme songs for British TV programmes, Doctor in the House called Bond Street Parade, theme from Mother...

    4. "Warlock" - R. Tilsley
    5. "Is That the Way" - The Message
    6. "The Prowler" - Brian Bennet
    7. "Gooseberry Fool" - P. Wilsher
    8. "Slow Soul" - The Travellers
      The Travellers (band)
      For other meanings of the term see The Travellers For the American folk trio see Travelers 3The Travellers were a Canadian folk singing group which formed in the summer of 1953...

    9. "Electric Blue" - Danny Edwardson
    10. "Light 6" - H. Flowers
    11. "Sally" - Frank Pleyer
    12. "Penguin" - Okay Temiz
      Okay Temiz
      Okay Temiz is a leading Turkish fusion jazz percussionist and drummer.-Discography:* Maffy Falay & Sevda: ditto. * Maffy Falay & Sevda: Live at Jazzhus Montmartre....

    13. "New Religion" - Trifle
    14. "Oriental Vibrato [bonus]" - Raymond Guiyot

  • Dusty Fingers Volume 13
    1. "Solitude of the Mountains" - Gil Flat
    2. "Thief" - The Enticers
    3. "Like a Friend" - Roger Webb
    4. "Puella! Puella!" - Man
    5. "Flower Pot" - Load Stone
    6. "Flashpoint" - Roger Jackson
      Roger Jackson
      Roger Charles Jackson, is a Canadian academic and Olympic gold medalist rower. He was born in Toronto, Ontario....

    7. "Number One Spy" - Syd Dale
      Syd Dale
      Syd Dale was born in York, England. He was a self taught composer and arranger of funk, easy listening and library music. His music played an important role on TV, radio and advertising media of the 1960s and 1970s. It is still extensively used today.Syd Dale started as an apprentice engineer at...

    8. "Profil Grec 1" - Vladimir Cosma
      Vladimir Cosma
      Vladimir Cosma was born April 13, 1940 in Bucharest, Romania, into a family of musicians.His father, Teodor Cosma, was a pianist and conductor, his mother a writer-composer, his uncle, Edgar Cosma, composer and conductor, and one of his grandmothers, pianist, a student of the renowned Ferrucio...

    9. "Escalation" - Nowy
    10. "Lost Star" - Anthony King
      Anthony King
      Anthony King is an American writer, director, and comedian based in New York City. He is the Artistic Director of the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in New York City...

    11. "Act of Threat" - Berry Lipman
    12. "Name of the Game" - Brian Bennett
    13. "Thunderbird" - Johnny Pearson
      Johnny Pearson
      John Valmore Pearson known as Johnny Pearson, was a British composer, orchestra leader and pianist...

    14. "Careveli" - April Orchestra
    15. "A Time for Us" - Joe Pass
      Joe Pass
      Joe Pass was an Italian-American jazz guitarist of Sicilian descent. He is generally considered to be one of the greatest jazz guitarists of the 20th century...

    16. "Tickatoo" - Dizzy Man's Band

  • Dusty Fingers Volume 14
    1. "Postaeolian Train Robbery" - Cos
    2. "Esconderijo" - Ze Rodrix
      Zé Rodrix
      Zé Rodrix was a Brazilian composer, instrumentalist, and singer. He was well known in his native country for performing with musical ensembles Sá, Rodrix e Guarabyra, Som Imaginário and Momento Quatro....

    3. "Kamen Rider" - Shunsuke Kikuchi
      Shunsuke Kikuchi
      is a prolific Japanese composer from Hirosaki. He specializes in incidental music for media such as television and film.Active since the early 60s, he has been one of Japan's most highly demanded film and TV composers, working principally on tokusatsu and anime productions for children, as well as...

    4. "New Comer" - W. Rockman
    5. "The Theme From The Persuaders" - John Barry
      John Barry (composer)
      John Barry Prendergast, OBE was an English conductor and composer of film music. He is best known for composing the soundtracks for 12 of the James Bond films between 1962 and 1987...

    6. "Dream" - Shankar Family
    7. "Subtle Secret" - G. Studio Band
    8. "La Longue Marche" - Janko Nilovic
      Janko Nilović
      Janko Nilović is a Montenegrin pianist, poet and composer, who has lived in France since 1960.He is a musician who devotes himself to music fanatically, which resulted in a great number of published works, but most of them are on library labels not available for sale...

    9. "City Girl" - Main Attraction
    10. "Affanno" - Franco Micalizzi
    11. "Drums Away" - 2nd Generation
    12. "Maniac" - Steve Gray
      Steve Gray (musician)
      Steve Gray was a pianist, composer, and arranger.Gray was born in Middlesbrough, England. At ten, he began teaching himself to play the piano. He joined the Middlesbrough Junior Orchestra, at first playing the bassoon, but later switching to the saxophone...

    13. "Sentries Charge" - Al Hirt
      Al Hirt
      Al Hirt was an American trumpeter and bandleader. He is best remembered for his million selling recordings of "Java", and the accompanying album, Honey in the Horn . His nicknames included 'Jumbo' and 'The Round Mound of Sound'...

    14. "Un Soir de Blanco" - Claude Thomain

  • Dusty Fingers Volume 15
    1. "Sound Stage 4" - Alan Parker
      Alan Parker
      Sir Alan William Parker, CBE is an English film director, producer, writer and actor. He has been active in both the British cinema and American cinema and was a founding member of the Directors Guild of Great Britain.-Life and career:...

    2. "Tatou Strip Tease" - Michel Audiard
      Michel Audiard
      Pierre Michel Audiard was a French dialogue writer, screenwriter and film director. He is the father of French film director Jacques Audiard.- 1940 - 1950 :*1949 :** Mission à Tanger of André Hunebelle...

    3. "Friend and Enamys" - John Williams
      John Williams
      John Towner Williams is an American composer, conductor, and pianist. In a career spanning almost six decades, he has composed some of the most recognizable film scores in the history of motion pictures, including the Star Wars saga, Jaws, Superman, the Indiana Jones films, E.T...

    4. "Swamp Lizard" - The Olympic Runners
      The Olympic Runners
      -External links:*...

    5. "McQ" - Stanley Maxfield Orchestra
    6. "Dance Of The Vampires" - Vampires Of Dartmoor
    7. "Driving" - Driver OST
    8. "Tournament" - Dennis Farnon
    9. "Theme From Exorcist (Tubular Bells)" - Mike Oldfield
      Mike Oldfield
      Michael Gordon Oldfield is an English multi-instrumentalist musician and composer, working a style that blends progressive rock, folk, ethnic or world music, classical music, electronic music, New Age, and more recently, dance. His music is often elaborate and complex in nature...

    10. "Orientale Contemplatino" - Rino De Filippi
    11. "Les Copans de la Basse" - Guy Pedersen
    12. "Don't Be Cool" - Jacky Giordano
    13. "I'm Gonna Love You Just a Little Bit More" - Uwe Buschkotter
    14. "Je Veux te Dire une Chanson" - Angelillo & Hamel

  • Dusty Fingers Volume 16
    1. John Cavars - Day Light (Intro)
    2. Dave Gold - City Police
    3. Dieter Reith - Beams
    4. Cleveland Wrecking Co. - Superfine From Behind Lady
    5. Mike Hankinson Big Band - Caprivi Strip
    6. Rock-Jazz Rhythm - Hey Jude
    7. Toni Tornado - Me Libertei
    8. Václav Neckář & Bacily - Klaun A Tanečnice
    9. Yuji Ohno & You's Explosion Band - Lupin III
      Lupin III
      , also known as Lupin the 3rd, is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Kazuhiko Kato under the pen name of Monkey Punch. The story follows the adventures of a gang of thieves led by Arsène Lupin III, the grandson of Arsène Lupin, the gentleman thief of Maurice Leblanc's series of...

    10. Peter Kater
      Peter Kater
      Peter Kater is an American composer, songwriter-singer and pianist who has several times nominated for Grammy awards.He is of German ancestry.-Filmography:-References:* * * * at Internet Movie Database...

       - Night Walk
    11. Kenji Sawada
      Kenji Sawada
      , nicknamed "Julie" , also-known as vocalist for the Japanese rock band The Tigers, is a Japanese singer, composer, lyricist and actor. He was born in Tsunoi, Iwami , Tottori Prefecture, Japan, and raised in Sakyo-ku, Kyoto at age 3...

       - Ano Mama Dayo
    12. Sukemitsu Kawaya? - ???
    13. Great Pride - She's A Lady
    14. Franco Campanino - Gatto Nero
    15. G.Sklair/G.Galbraith - Killer Whale
    16. Václav Neckář & Bacily - Planetárium - Vchod
    17. Steve Gray - Go For Broke
    18. Jo Ji Thi - Leathel Injection
    19. Daniel Janin - Dahni Dinha Mantha
    20. Drukwerk - Maskerade
    21. Pedro & Capricious - Superstition
    22. Mother Freedom Band - Assistant's Rag (When You're Hot, You're Hot)

  • Dusty Fingers Volume 17
    1. Johnny Pate
      Johnny Pate
      Johnny Pate is a jazz bassist who late became a music arranger/producer, and a leading figure in Chicago soul as well as pop/R&B music....

       - Hit and Run at the Club
    2. Bixio Franco - A Pungi Nudi (Suite)
    3. Bill Moss & the Celestials - Keep on Using Me
    4. Laurie Johnson
      Laurie Johnson
      Laurie Johnson is an English film and television composer, and bandleader.-Career:...

       - Stopover
    5. Gerd Michaelis Chor - Es bleibt die Sonne
    6. Henryk Debich - Na Opak
    7. Roy Budd
      Roy Budd
      Roy Frederick Budd , was a British jazz musician and composer, known for his film scores.Born in Mitcham, Surrey, Budd became interested in music from an early age and had built up a vast musical repertoire by the age of eight...

       - Cat and Mouse in Berlin
    8. Cecil Luter Georges Teperino - Electrosorics N4 (Drums)
    9. Laurie Johnson - Hijack (Pt.1)
    10. Mike Nock
      Mike Nock
      Mike Nock is a jazz pianist, currently based in Australia. He began studying piano at 11 and by 18 was performing in Australia. He headed a trio that toured England in 1961 and then attended Berklee College of Music...

       - Blackout
    11. Down Town Boogie Woogie Band - Life
    12. Kollage Klatte - In Man Get
    13. Sadi - 4 Tet
    14. Julio Gutierrez
      Julio Gutiérrez
      Julio Gutiérrez is a Chilean football striker. He currently plays for Mineros de Guayana in the Venezuelan Primera División. He also spent much time playing in Italy from 2000 to 2005....

      - Last Tango in Paris
    15. Bruton - Percussion Vol.1 (Drums)

  • Missing and corrected track listings can be found at www.the-breaks.com/forums "Dusty Fingers" thread.
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