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Wonderin' when and wonderin' where

Harvey Mason - Funk In A Mason Jar

Harvey

Mason is a drummer who never overplays his hand, which - on an album like this, where the cream of the jazz-funk players of 1977 came out to play - must be hard.

Till You Take My Love has become a bit of a rare groove standard for good reason, and I hadn't realised until today, that it's Merry Clayton on vocals, although it's obvious once you know.

I picked this up for $15 in Sydney a couple of years ago.

One side of the inner sleeve is a torso shot of Mason, from the rear of the sleeve, so you can add your own head to it, like I have below.


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Stand our problems all in a row

Donald Byrd - Places And Spaces

Donald

This is another of those impeccably pressed Blue Note reissues.

This is a real classic jazz-funk album, containing loads of massive tunes, Harvey Mason's classy drumming and super-sweet vocals from Kay Haith, whose career didn't seem to extend outside of singing on Donald Byrd's albums, which is a shame.

I played this twice.

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