Monday, August 28, 2017

Larry Young - Larry Young's Fuel (1975)

Jazz keyboardist great jumps on the 70's funk-fusion train. Funky rhythms and seriously spacy synths abound. What sets this apart from most fusion of its time, besides the fact that it doesn't suck, is the wild, Linda Sharrock-esque female vocals on some of the tracks. I don't know anything about this vocalist except that Google tells me her name is Linda "Tequila" Logan and that sadly she's appeared on only a handful of albums. Things get pretty heavy on the last cut, "New York Electric Street Music", with some distorted riffy guitar laying it down while Larry himself takes a goofy turn of his own on the mic. And while he's no great vocalist, he's at least better and more interesting at it than other jazz musicians who have no business singing (Search: Tony Williams "Beyond Games"). This is one of the few fusion records I've heard that I would label as actually being "fun".
https://open.spotify.com/album/3iqXOXzS84CzSxCB9aNAbs

1 comment:

  1. dude looks like kendrick. im listening to "beyond games". hmmm...

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