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With Choice Of Colors, Mighty, Mighty (Spade and Whitey), and the stunning title track, this is essential.
Produced and written entirely by Curtis Mayfield, with superb arrangements by Donny Hathaway and Johnny Pate. Originally out in 1969.
The opener Sweet Juju was a hard-sought West London two-step weapon, back in the day; Nomalizo is tropical funk, somewhere between Maze’s Twilight and Ramsey Lewis’ Brazilica, beloved by the neo-Dingwalls massive.
Numbered, out of one thousand. ‘All-analogue.’
Venturing outside the church-walls in 1973, under the wing of Leroy Hutson and Curtis Mayfield, this is a soul masterpiece, with Cashing In, Wanted Dead Or Alive and the rest.
A must.
Total class, both sides. Urgent, interplanetary jazz-funk; and mid-tempo murder on the flip, magnificently fronted by Terri Wells.
‘As deeply rooted in soul’s past as you’d expect, but it never feels self-consciously retro… strikingly raw, racked with very real emotion’ (The Guardian).
Ecstatic, cosmic soul from 1981, swirling into space on flurries of brass, two-step bass, and TM’s overdosed-with-joy falsetto.
Their masterful sixth LP, from 1975, produced and arranged by Charles Stepney.
This is sheer class all the way but highlights include the perfectly tooled funk of Shining Star, the ravishing mid-tempo title-track, Philip Bailey in full-flight on the killer ballad Reasons, the Janus-faced Africano shunting Chicagoan antecedents like Phil Cohran into hot jazz-funk…
Start here if you don’t own any Earth Wind & Fire.
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