Monday 6 April 2020

By request, Elmo Whiggett's Autographed Copy (Vancouver, B.C., Canada, 1978)





Check out the girl on the back photo, usual comments from this DOM (dirty old man) about how many of those druggie bandmembers were lucky enough to go up that cute dress, leaving the high heels on:




Information can be found here.
Note that the pretty vocalist, whose name is Barbara Fisher, released a solo jazz album in 1983.
The music is mostly that vocal jazz style that I've mentioned before disappoints me, like that Joi First Impressions one.  Here and there the band manage to get together long enough to lay down some nice smooth fuzacky energy along the lines of my beloved Max Groove material, 2 LPs from 2 years back.

The last track which is called Loran's Dance is amazing for sure and has already become well-known on youtube, you can hear it here.  They didn't, unfortunately, pen the composition, that was the responsibility of the great Grover Washington, Jr.  I am not sure though on which album of his it first appears, on youtube at least it's here, credited to Idris Muhammed.   I know someone reading this knows the answer to that question.  The version by Idris has that cool smooth mid-seventies American sound that brings me right back to my university days digging the great Charlie Mingus.  Note in particular the abrupt and fully unexpected modulation at the 2 minute mark.

For another example of their instrumental chops consider July 26:






5 comments:


  1. mp3

    https://www28.zippyshare.com/v/j34h6cA4/file.html

    https://www.sendspace.com/file/o7pjxy



    lossless limited time only:

    https://we.tl/t-NEihB4v81B

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    1. Any chance of posting the lossless again?

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    2. Any chance of posting the lossless again?

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  2. lorans dance "reed seed" album by grover,also on 45 same year..
    so do i get to mmet honey on cover ?

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  3. oh and thank you kind sir...

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