This Saturday at Zebulon, it’s time for The Soul Shakedown Party with Clifton aka DJ Soft Touch! You know the drill, come ready to dance to the best funk, soul, vintage R&B, and more all night. This month, music luminary Dan “Connie Price” Ubick guests behind the turntables.
“Currently Dan has been producing the groups Night Owls and The Mad Geezers (F-Spot Records and NYCT). Night Owls features fellow Lions Dave Wilder (Macy Gray, Norah Jones, Ziggy Marley) on bass, Blake Colie (The Lions, Arise Roots, Hollie Cook) on drums and Roger Rivas (the Aggrolites, Long Beach Dub All Stars, Jason Mraz) on keys doing all reggae interpretations of classic American Soul songs with singers like Durand Jones, Chris Dowd, Kendra Morris, Sy Smith and more. The Mad Geezers is Ubick, Wilder and Rivas again but with Oliver Charles (Ben Harper & The Innocent Criminals) on drums doing all original music save for one reggaefied cover of “Hip Hug-Her” by Booker T. & the MG’s.
As a studio and live musician Dan has played guitar behind Lily Allen, Joey Altruda’s Crucial Riddims, Mulatu Astatke, the Beat Junkies (DJ Babu, JRocc & Rhettmatic), the Beatnuts, Big Daddy Kane, John Bingham, Biz Markie, Aloe Blacc, Black Eyed Peas, Black Shakespeare, Blood Of Abraham, Blue States, Eddie Bo, Brand Nubian, Breakestra feat. James Gadson, Brother J (X Clan), Busta Rhymes, Colbie Caillat with The Transcenders, Novena Carmel, Tia Carrere, Common, Hollie Cook, Craig G, N’Dea Davenport, De La Soul, Dilated Peoples, Chris Dowd, Eamon, EPMD, Kelly Finnigan, DJ Format, Neal Francis, Ghostface Killah, Macy Gray, DJ Greyboy, Leroy Sibbles & Barry Llewellyn (the Heptones), Durand Jones, Sharon Jones, Lonnie Jordan (War), Jungle Fire, Jurassic 5, Kurtis Blow, Talib Kweli, Lady Of Rage, Barrington Levy, The Lions, The Mad Geezers, Madlib’s Sound Directions, Masta Ace, Maxim (Prodigy), Method Man, M.O.P., Keyboard Money Mark, The Monophonics, Kendra Morris, Mos Def, Jay “J-Zone” Mumford, Chris Murray, Jeremy Sole’s Musaics, Myron & E, Night Owls, DJ Numark, Ohmega Watts, Orgone, Percee P, Playing For Change, The Pharcyde, Adrian Quesada (Boleros Psicodélicos), Rakim, Ranking Joe, Rapsody, Redman, Eli “Paperboy” Reed, The Rhythm Roots All Stars, Sixto “Searching For Sugar Man” Rodriguez, Sa-Ra, Sandy Gold, Noelle Scaggs, Slick Rick, Snoop Lion, Ta’raach, Jr. Thomas, Tippa Lee, Too $hort, Trish Toledo, Jade Vincent, Bunny Wailer, Fred Wesley, Wildchild, Wu Tang Clan and many more.” - danubeproductions.com
The Soul Shakedown Party is always FREE. 21+ w/ID. 10p to late.
See you on the dance floor!