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The Music Band – Jazz

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Released
  
1983

Length
  
40:28

Release date
  
1983

Recorded
  
1979

Artist
  
War

Label
  
MCA Records

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The Music Band – Jazz (1983)
  
Life (is So Strange) (1983)

Genres
  
Funk, Jazz, Rhythm and blues

Producers
  
Jerry Goldstein, Howard E. Scott

Similar
  
The Music Band 2, Life, Peace Sign, Platinum Jazz, Deliver the Word

The Music Band – Jazz is an album by War, the fifth and final entry in their "Music Band" series, released on MCA Records in 1983. It consists of outtakes from sessions for their 1979 albums The Music Band and The Music Band 2, and features several lineups of the band which existed that year. War were no longer recording for MCA when this album was released, and no singles from the album were issued. Track one was probably recorded/written in 1979, when B.B.Dickerson was still in band and before Charles Miller was murdered. Track two could have been recorded/written anytime up to 1979.

Contents

The non-pictorial covers used in the Music Band series continued on this, and the previous volume, The Best of the Music Band (1982) which has a blue cover. Unlike earlier volumes, the last two were not made with elaborate printing methods, but were manufactured using normal four colour printing, without metallic print, embossing, gatefolds or innersleeves.

Side one

  1. "Five Spot" (Papa Dee Allen, Harold Brown, B.B. Dickerson, Lonnie Jordan, Charles Miller, Lee Oskar, Howard E. Scott, Pat Rizzo) – 10:09
  2. "Half Note" (Allen, Dickerson, Jordan, Miller) – 10:00

Side two

  1. "E.R.A." (Allen, Brown, Ron Hammon, Jordan, Oskar, Luther Rabb, Rizzo, Scott) – 5:24
  2. "Koronos" (Allen, Brown, Jordan, Oskar, Rabb, Rizzo, Scott, Jerry Goldstein)
  3. "Sometimes I Wonder (Is It for Real) (Allen, Brown, Jordan, Oskar, Rabb, Rizzo, Scott)
  4. "A Pattern of Time (Allen, Brown, Jordan, Oskar, Rabb, Rizzo, Scott, Goldstein) – 14:55 (total for tracks 2,3,4)

Personnel

Only the following names are credited on the cover, without listing instruments, which are taken from previous albums.

  • Papa Dee Allen – percussion, vocals
  • Harold Brown – drums, percussion, vocals
  • Ron Hammon – drums, vocals
  • Lonnie Jordan – organ, piano, synthesizer, guitar, percussion, vocals
  • Lee Oskar – harmonicas, vocals
  • Luther Rabb – bass, vocals
  • Pat Rizzo – saxophones, vocals
  • Howard Scott – guitar, vocals

    • Not credited, but likely appearing on side one, as they are in the composer credits:

  • B.B. Dickerson – bass, vocals
  • Charles Miller – flute, saxophones, vocals

    • Not credited, but appeared in most 1979 lineups, usually without composer credit, therefore possibly appearing on this album:

  • Alice Tweed Smith – vocals

    • Technical personnel

  • Jerry Goldstein and Lonnie Jordon in association with Sylvester (Papa Dee) Allen and Howard Scott – producers
  • Chris Huston – recording and remix engineer
  • Kevin Gray – mastering
  • Leon Tsilis – album coordinator

    • Songs

    1Five Spot10:02
    2Half Note9:56
    3ERA5:31

    References

    The Music Band – Jazz Wikipedia
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