Anyone familiar with this album ?
Can't be compared with his 70's jazz & funk but it has some fine songs though .
Half of the album he produced himself , half done by James "Mtume" Heath .
Mtume's band appears on it and even Don Blackman plays some raw keyboard-bass on there .
The album-title is a nice slowjammed duet with the legendary Jean Carne .



The intro-sound with the guitarlicks on the background from MJ's The Way You Make Me Feel are coming from Roy Ayers' 1985-single Hot
http://youtube.com/watch?v=09791ypOcZ8





Another slammin' funkjam on that album




1985 was clearly the year when Macintosh & Microsoft came into the game .
Zapp already had their Computer Love featuring Charlie Wilson & Shirley Murdock ( even Roger's side-production , The Human Body , released the computerized uptempo funktrack DX-318 )
Roy came with Programmed For love which can be heard on a selfmade YouTube-clip .
all the 3 computer-tracks i've mentioned here has something to do with digital love .

http://youtube.com/watch?v=rHU77AGH_go


[Edited 9/5/06 15:16pm]

I have a bunch of Ayers albums but funny enough not this one... I vaguely remember reading about it on Blues&Soul magazine, but either it didn't make it to Austrian record shops, or I was short on money at that time hehe, either way I never got it...

but hey I dig the classic Mtume groove on "progammed for love", thanx for the link.. maybe I can find it on second hand shop

I just saw that the album was packed and re-released together with "In the Dark" on one CD (that one I like a lot, Miki Howard first got my attention on that album as guest vocalist, before she went as a solo artist)

Dancelot said:

Good choice!
I bought it right away when it came out .
Remastered by Sony and that's clear 2 hear ... amazing quality .

In The Dark is one of the few Stanley Clarke side-projects which list i'm trying to complete .
Key-wiz Robert Brookins and saxophonist Branford Marsalis have some guest-performances too . Alltime fave track of mine on that joint is Poo Poo La La which indeed features Miki Howard as guest .
You familiar with the group Side Effect ? Miki joined them around the early 80's . This group also featured Augie Johnson , some guest-appearances from a few LA. Boppers and other studio-cats & kittens out of Wayne Henderson's camp .
Wayne did most of the productions with is At Home company .
Side Effect released their interesting interpretation of Toto's Georgie Porgie around 1980 .

hell yeah "Poo Poo La La" is my fave jam there as well

Side Effect I heard and read about, but never stumbled over one of their records, but it sure sounds interesting

Dancelot said:

http://www.soulwalking.co...ffect.html

thanx!



I'm just feeling a new thread concept growing in my mind... something like... "ORG challange for the day - name a group or artists that 100MPH can not come up with some info or pictures to"

naw, that's cool! i'm always impressed how you come up with all that stuff so fast. fascinating

100MPH said:

I do know that Crusaders' Wayne Henderson produced thier first album in'76 and the hit from off of it was a version of Ronnie Laws "Always There" And that gospel recording artist Helen Baylor was the original female vocalist for the group.