This record is well recorded and in Duke and Airto it has two exceptionally skilful musicians. What they play here, however, is high quality disco background music. The clichés abound and electronic effects come flashing through with little or no meaning in terms of thematic development. I have listed the personnel collectively because the sleeve listing is wrong, but the real point is that this record, for all its merits in other directions, has nothing to offer a jazz fan.
Discography
Funny Funk; Love; The Once Over; Feel (21¾ min) – Cora Jobege; Old Slippers; Theme From The Opera ‘Tzina’; Yana Aminah; Rashid; Statement (21 min)
George Duke (keyboards/synth-bs); Ndugu (perc); John Heard (bs/elec-bs); Airto (perc); Flora Purim (vcl); Obdewl’l X [aka Frank Zappa – editor 2025] (gtr). Hollywood, 1974.
(BASF MPS 21 22312-4 £2.95)
