George Duke - I Love The Blues, She Heard My Cry
I picked this album up in my local record shop a few years ago after I’d popped out to buy a cucumber or something. They’d had a delivery of second-hand jazz-funk and I couldn’t resist filling my boots.
It has a real heavyweight line-up, including Flora Purim, Airto, Leon Ndugu Chancellor, Lee Ritenour and Johnny “Guitar” Watson, but it largely falls short of the potential there. It’s easy to let the album’s worst moment, the absolutely awful, no redeeming features, Rokkinrowl – in which they do a really poor Jimi Hendrix impression, overshadow the rest of the album.
The high points are Flora Purim’s appearance on Look Into Her Eyes, a song she later reprised on
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I picked this album up in my local record shop a few years ago after I’d popped out to buy a cucumber or something. They’d had a delivery of second-hand jazz-funk and I couldn’t resist filling my boots.
It has a real heavyweight line-up, including Flora Purim, Airto, Leon Ndugu Chancellor, Lee Ritenour and Johnny “Guitar” Watson, but it largely falls short of the potential there. It’s easy to let the album’s worst moment, the absolutely awful, no redeeming features, Rokkinrowl – in which they do a really poor Jimi Hendrix impression, overshadow the rest of the album.
The high points are Flora Purim’s appearance on Look Into Her Eyes, a song she later reprised on That’s What She Said; Someday sounds years ahead of its time, Duke’s keyboard playing is so him-sounding and his electronic wizardry is so advanced for 1975, and it’s always good to hear JGW singing and playing.
Worth noting, it’s an Aussie pressing which, for once, isn’t really shit.
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Flora Purim - Stories To Tell
Friendica has been out of action for a while, so I've got a bit of a backlog of tunes to post. Glad it's back, but I'm going to miss those 503 Service Unavailable messages. It means some of those #NowPlaying tags will be a bit of a lie.
I went onto Discogs over the weekend to have a quick look at what Flora Purim albums I don’t have and discovered that I own this. Turns out it had been mis-filed.
A really decent album. Brazilian-Fusion with the emphasis on the Brazilian. Flora calls back to her work with Chick Corea/Neville Potter’s Scientology-fusion Return To Forever work on the super-angular-funky title track.
It has Earl Klugh listed as guitarist. I’ve got a couple of his albums and they tend to be verrrrry melllllow affairs. I was onto the second side when I thought, “Bloody hell, Earl, you’re going for it a bit.” Turns out Carlos Santana was swapped in for that track.
Looks like I paid $20 for this, probably in Mr V’s in Semaphore. Bargain.
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