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2/28/2025

"Starting in the late '60s, jazz music started to take an interesting, and very soulful turn. Influenced by the funk of the day -- from James Brown to Sly & The Family Stone -- the art form, generally not considered a funky musical genre, started to stretch out and fit into the times. It was a fertile era, and to reciprocate, funk, soul and groovy rock fans started to discover accomplished, open-minded jazz artists like Les McCann, whose tunes made sense to their ears, even if bebop hadn't grabbed them. This incredible album -- long a favorite of forward-thinking hip-hop producers and DJs -- washes over listeners from the first chords of the incredible album opener, 'Sometimes I Cry,' led by McCann's array of analog synthesizers and backed by an excellent rhythm section (Donald Dean on drums; Ralph McDonald on percussion and Jimmy Rowser on bass). Truth be told, highlights are hard to pick out, but fans never go long without returning to the fuzzed-out funk of 'The Harlem Buck Strut Dance,' 'Let's Play (Til Mom Calls)' and 'It Never Stopped In My Hometown.' These keyboard-drenched grooves sat alongside record stacks brimming with Stevie Wonder, Funkadelic, Marvin Gaye's '70s soul and, of course, Miles Davis' space funk experiments of the era (like Bitches Brew)."