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Chicago Sound Music | List Price | $27.99 (You save $4.70) | | Category | Rock/Pop Albums, Jazz CDs | | Label | Fresh Sounds | | CD Universe Part number | 7973435 | | Catalog number | 548 | | Discs | 1 | | Release Date | Oct 06, 2009 | | Studio/Live | Studio | | Mono/Stereo | Stereo |
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Great Britain's BGO imprint (an acronym for "Beat Goes On") puts together a pair of well-known full-length titles from the ubiquitous George Duke. In this two-disc set are his 1977 "official" debut set for Epic From Me to You (he'd recorded a solo keyboard album in 1976 but the label refused to release it), and his first smash for the label, 1978's Reach for It. Both albums are presented in fully remastered, 24-bit technology -- the latter album contains a bonus cut.
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All songs written or co-written by Lonnie Liston Smith except "Peace" (Horace Silver/Doug Carn).
When Lonnie Liston Smith left the Miles Davis band in 1974 for a solo career, he was, like so many of his fellow alumni, embarking on a musical odyssey. For a committed fusioneer, he had no idea at the time that he was about to enter an abyss that it would take him the better part of two decades to return from. Looking back upon his catalog from the period, this is the only record that stands out -- not only from his own work, but also from every sense of the word: It is fully a jazz album, and a completely funky soul-jazz disc as well. Of the seven compositions here, six are by Smith, and the lone cover is of the Horace Silver classic, "Peace." The lineup includes bassist Cecil McBee, soprano saxophonist David Hubbard, tenor saxophonist Donald Smith (who doubles on flute), drummer Art Gore, and percussionists Lawrence Killian, Michael Carvin, and Leopoldo. Smith plays both piano and electric keyboards and keeps his compositions on the jazzy side -- breezy, open, and full of groove playing that occasionally falls over to the funk side of the fence. It's obvious, on this album at least, that Smith was not completely comfortable with Miles' reliance on hard rock in his own mix. Summery and loose in feel, airy and free with its in-the-cut beats and stellar piano fills, Expansions prefigures a number of the "smooth jazz" greats here, without the studio slickness and turgid lack of imagination. The disc opens with the title track, with one of two vocals on the LP by Donald Smith (the other is the Silver tune). It's typical "peace and love and we've got to work together" stuff from the mid-'70s, but it's rendered soulfully and deeply without artifice. "Desert Nights" takes a loose Detroit jazz piano groove and layers flute and percussion over the top, making it irresistibly sensual and silky. It's ...
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