Music Before Thuglife Culture Music Dysfunction And Mental Musical Lyrical Illness. Way Before "Ladies Night" And JT Taylor,Who Is Awesome By The Way. But Way Before "Celebration". Kool And The Gang Was Doing This. Imagine Being 13, And This Comes Out! Too Much!
It shows the best of Kool & gang on their jazz side how to combine jazz funk and r&b all rolled up into one and that is the greatness of Kool & the gang the original seven
I woke up this beautiful morning and this song popped into my head and I Had to hear it!! I really Love in this song, that one voice you hear off in the distance "Get Down!!!" 🗣
This album was the quintessential sound of Newark, New Jersey and it's surrounding areas....E.O., Montclair, Orange, Irvington, and maybe NYC! Lol ....Went south/Atlanta (as we normally did durning for the summer) as a teenager, and played this album and they thought I was from Mars! I was forever traumatized..Lol That's when music was regional! Which meant we had our own "KOOL" style! Salaam!
The SMOOTHEST sound of their time! PERIOD! Not to mentioned the sound is totally timeless right this moment! Think about it; UNIVERSAL SOUND? DAMN! Could you've imagine Barack Obama walking out on stage during his first inauguration of this cut?
The evolution of the already "evolved" Kool and the Gang Bought this cassette while in "A" school in the U S Navy in Millington TN in 1976. This was the Love and Understanding album. Part studio and a Live concert I believe in London. Amazing musicianship Sad that 3 to 4 yrs later (1979,80) they became a pop group/disco group. Ironically another amazing group from the era (Chicago) became a pop/ballad group almost around the same time Kool and the Gang were a funk jazz group and Chicago was a rock jazz group Sophisticated music doesn't appeal to the masses :-(
