Join The Marquis De Soul for another action-packed episode as he dusts off the best in R&B, Soul, Acid Jazz, Funk and Blues from his boxes, shelves and racks of treasures! Featuring tracks from Jackie Wilson, The Magnificent Men, Marvin Gaye & Kim Weston, Donnie Elbert, "Wee" Willie Walker, The Pointer Sisters, The O'Kaysions, The Metros, Jamo Thomas, The Ovations, The Four Tops, The Tempests, Mel & Tim, Al Kent, Barbara Mercer, The Temptations, Pattie Drew, Janet & The Jays, The Ad Libs, Marlena Shaw, Jean DuShon, Joe Tex & The Vibrators, The Harvey Averne Dozen, The Syphons, Calvin Arnold, Timmy Thomas, Brenda & The Tabulations, Smokey Robinson & The Miracles,Tom Jones, The Precisions, Wayne Carter, James Brown, Flaming Emeralds, Bill Davis, Stevie Wonder, The Supremes, Martha & The Vandellas, Dorothy Williams, Barbara Perry, Eddie Floyd and Terry Callier!
The Marquis De Soul Show features the best in R&B, Soul, Funk, Blues and Acid Jazz where you'll hear the obvious and the obscure, all carefully curated. As a youngster growing up in the 60's, Marquis was exposed and enthralled by all of the sounds he heard coming over the AM airwaves on a small transistor radio tucked under his pillow at night. Included were stations from Boston, New York, Pittsburgh, Baltimore, Chicago and Philadelphia (many hotbed cities of R&B). At first, he was engulfed by American and British rock and pop, but soon after he connected with American R&B (Motown et al). While rock was his main focus, he found himself slowly absorbing more and more of this soulful music through local radio stations that featured the genre almost exclusively. It made for a nice cross-section of styles that he continues to follow to this day. He was a Mod before he even knew what a Mod was! An in-demand, mobile DJ from the early 80's into the mid-90's provided him with a platform to feature these sounds. By the late 80's/mid-90's, a period he describes as his "Acid Jazz Years", he became even more captivated and motivated by this music, resulting in a weekly residency at a small club in Baltimore, MD that included DJ'ing for Guru/Jazzmatazz and Brand New Heavies shows at the club.