During the heat of the summer there are a few artists that I start leaning on to help work in the buzz of my favourite time of year. The production team of Larry and Fonce Mizell are a legendary duo that fused jazz soul and funk together in the seventies to create a sound that was entirely their own. A huge influence for them where all the various sounds from South America that where making their way north at the time. With that in mind today’s show is going to delve into the funky samba scene that took over Brazil in the seventies and tie it together with some of the timeless work the Mizell brothers left behind when they worked with Donald Byrd, Bobbi Humphrey and John Hammond amongst others. And yes, there will be some Cancon relevant to this time of year and subject matter. On that note let’s start things of with a killer version of Summertime that Frank Motley laid to wax over fifty years ago in Toronto.