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'B Boys Will B Boys' by Black Star sampled Robin Kenyatta's 'Gypsy Man'. Listen to both songs on WhoSampled, the ultimate database of sampled music, cover songs and remixes. This is what it says, that the record is still held fast in shrink-wrap. We tend to be pretty suspicious about these things, so if the shrink-wrap doesn't look original, or if the record seems to have undergone some damage over time, we'll probably take it out of the wrapper to ensure that it's in good shape — which is why we don't have more of these.
In 1972, two years after the release of 's seminal outing for ECM, he signed to Atlantic and released another seminal bit of classy jazz-funk., produced by, has a who's-who lineup of players who would be synonymous with the newly emerging subgenre of jazz: drummer (still a member of the at the time), percussionist, session drummer, guitarists and, pianist on Fender Rhodes, bassist (who released his own classic debut the same year and played on two of now legendary dates from the period, and ), and more. The music here is polished, but complex and deeply emotive. The opener is a very compelling reading of 's title theme to 'Last Tango in Paris,' complete with sighed backing vocals, 'Shaft'-style choppy wah-wah guitars, strings, and blowing a slightly edgy alto saxophone with great breaks.
The Latin percussion in 'Another Freight Train' sets its knotty vamp off nicely, as goes right into the melody doing his best. It's a tune that melds meat-and-potatoes blowing, fusion-style riffs, and heavy funk. 's fat, in-your-face bassline and the electric six-string's power chords in 'Werewolf' prefigure 's killer flute break that's worthy of. By contrast, 'Reflective Silence,' with its Afro-Cuban percussion and 's soprano playing, offers a view of the emerging spiritual jazz from the Strata East label. The layers of percussion are 's only accompaniment on the cut. Despite the contemporary bent of these first four tracks, tosses listeners a curve ball with his beautifully sweet reading of 's 'Seems So Long,' and a drenched-in-Southern soul take on 's 'I've Got Dreams to Remember' that closes the set.
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On the way are a pair of fine originals in the Northern soul-flavored funk of the title track (with vocals by and ), and the South African jazz-tinged 'Melodie Chinoise,' no doubt influenced by the township jazz that was making its way to European and American shores in the music of (then known as ), and 's less pop-oriented affairs, and even the bands of,. In sum, of 's Atlantic-era recordings, stands out mightily as one of the great jazz-funk outings of the '70s; it is an all but forgotten jazz classic.
