'Spirit of the Boogie' is the highly successful 6th studio album released in 1975 by Kool & the Gang. It can be seen as a follow-up to Wild and Peaceful (1973); The instrumental 'Jungle Jazz' uses the same basic rhythm track heard in 'Jungle Boogie', but lets the players improvise on their instruments (saxophone, trumpet and flute).
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Kool & The Gang - Light Of Worlds (1974)A1 Street Corner Symphony 4:35A2 Fruitman 5:22A3 Rhyme - Tyme People 3:21A4 Light Of Worlds 4:23B1 Whiting H. 3:20B2 You Don't Have To Change 2:40B3 Higher Plane 4:59B4 Summer Madness 4:16B5 Here After 2:55Khalis Bayyan - Bass, Clavinet, Kalimba, Mellotron, Percussion, Piano, Sax (Tenor), Synthesizer, VocalsRobert 'Kool' Bell - Bass, VocalsGeorge 'Funky' Brown - Drums, Gong, PercussionKenneth Banks - Vocals (Background)Herb Lane - VocalsRobert 'Spike' Mickens - Flugelhorn, TrumpetAl Pazant - TrumpetEd Pazant - Oboe, Sax (Alto)Penni Phynjuar Saunders - VocalsRichard Shade - Vocals (Background)Claydes Smith - Conductor, Guitar, Percussion, VibraphoneAlton Taylor - VocalsDennis 'D.T.' Thomas - Sax (Alto)Ricky West - Piano'Light of the Worlds' was, by far, Kool & the Gang's most spiritual and sophisticated work, produced in the wake of the success of their previous album, 'Wild and Peaceful.' While it was their seventh album of new material, the Gang considered 'Light of the Worlds' their ninth LP (counting two compilations), and therefore consciously chose nine songs for the album, to represent the nine planets in the solar system.
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The album contains rock-inspired funk set to jazz-informed playing with afrobeat influences and a tinge of analogue synthesizing. 'Summer Madness' is considered to be the album's highlight, incorporating smooth melodies and a mesmerizing synthesizer. It was later released as a single, with a follow up titled 'Winter Sadness' to the Gang's Spirit of the Boogie a year later.Editorial Reviews, amazon.comdownload (mp3 @320 kbs).
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