Greeting’s on this wonderful Holiday Season … I’m delighted to share with you three Imported contemporaryjazz classics from the latter 70s to 1981 featuring flutist Bobbi Humphrey, keyboardist Ronnie Foster and Rodney Franklin. All recordings are now available at Dusty Groove.
Bobbi Humphrey | Tailor Made – [Epic (Japan), 1977]
Bobbi Humphrey - Tailor Made
Sure, it’s after the
Blue Note/Larry Mizell years — but
Bobbi Humphrey’s still kicking ass! Instead of
Larry Mizell, Bobbi’s working with
Skip Scarborough — and she’s hitting a groove that’s a bit smoother and more modern than before, but every bit as sweetly funky and seriously soulful! Bobbi vocalizes a bit amidst spacey jazzy arrangements, and her flute is crystal clear throughout — warmly jazzy, blended with some great soul backings — at a level that’s even more sublime than some of the other
Columbia fusion of the time! The title cut, “
Tailor Made“, is a monster mellow groover with a great slinky sound — and the album’s got plenty of other nice ones, like “
Jealousy”, “Lover to Lover”, and
“Fajehzo“.
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