David Diggs, by request: First Flight (1973), Elusion (1978), Realworld (1983)

 

Discogged here:

Jazz arranger, composer, orchestrator, conductor, band leader based in Los Angeles, CA.

This was a pleasant surprise, requested by a commenter just recently.  An artist I knew nothing about, and oddly enough he put out quite a few releases back in the day, you can see he averaged almost one yearly from the first one in 1973.  Some of the LPs are missing online digitally and surely I'll see if I can hunt them down to see if there are gems on there.  However, the beginning was a little inauspicious (from our fusionary perspective that is) because his oeuvre starts with mostly straight jazz in the big band style, with a tiny bit of creative electricity.  For ex., from the debut, the track called  Diana which in my opinion is the best one, so don't get too excited on the strength of this one:

The 1978 album called Elusion though is really something, there is quite the awakening of fusionary instincts as you can tell from the track itself called that, Awakening:

Really impressive album straight through.

From 1983's Realworld, Gentle Thoughts:

Obviously, getting into the 80s here, we can expect -- you know what we can expect.

I'll try getting more and coming back with those later.