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bernard wright - nard - arista - vinyl

New Copy

Genre: Funk / Soul

1 Haboglabotribin

2 Firebolt Hustle

3 Music Is The Key

4 Spinnin

5 Just Chillin Out

6 Bread Sandwiches

7 Master Rocker

8 We re Just The Band

9 Solar

A masterpiece of smooth jazzy funk -- and super-hip session headed up by the young keyboardist Bernard Wright! Wright's working here with an insider crowd of jazz funk players that includes Bobby Broom, Dave Grusin, Marcus Miller, and Don Blackman, whose funky style is very similar to Wright's. The record sort of picks up the groove where some of the Fantasy Records sessions of the 70s left off -- mixing together jazz and soul into a captivating blend that's made even better by Dave Grusin's tight production. And despite what you might think about the crap that Grusin headed up later in the 80s, the early days of the GRP label were amazing years for jazz funk. Includes Don Blackman's sample classic "Haboglabotribin", a nice version of Weldon Irvine's "Music Is The Key", and the cuts"Just Chillin' Out", "Master Rocker", and "Bread Sandwiches". Great all the way through, though -- and a record that still delights us year after year!