I've been wearing the HELL out of this lately...



Music Is The Key is the cream

Heard about if forever, but never got hey.

I have one of his albums,but not that particular one.The album I have is from 1986 and includes the singles "Who Do You Love" and "After You".

I'm interested in hearing his other albums.

SoulAlive said:

His earlier albums are def worth the look-out,,,,he seemed @ a crossroad though when he made that 1986 album, like he was going with the motions.

Harlepolis said:

You didn't like that 1986 album? In addition to the two singles I listed above,it contains a really good slow jam "Just When I Thought You Were Mine" it's worth hunting for if you don't already have it

The first time I heard this album I didn't know what i had in my hands. A friend of a friend of mine had the album and now I wish I had it. I remember it being very good.

Nard was a bad boy.....

Graycap23 said:

classic lp indeed. lots of music re-done by rap artists awhile back. I know of at least three.

JazzyJ said:

Same. A friend has it, and I think it wants to be borrowed. I have a couple of tracks, though...and I love them.

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Classsic album! I have these:






My Favorite Bernard Wright Tracks:



Won't You Let Me Love You

Music Is The Key

Haboglabatribbin'

Spinnin'

A Little Song For You (for Bobby M)

Blow (for Bobby M)

Who Do You Love

Change For The Better

Bread Sandwiches


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LOVE that "Nard" album!!!
"Haboglabotrin" is the jam!
I wonder what a talanted dude like that do today.
/peace Manki

a personal friend of mine from queens new york...yes he's BAAD !!! more bad in person than on record IMO

prettymansson said:

That must be a cool company

Harlepolis said:

sometimes...
people are people..catch an artist in a happy/creative mode..then they are cool..catch them in the middle of a divorce or other personal problems then it aint so cool..thankfully whenever we have hung out he's given me lots of good advice about staying true to my vision.and other business pitfalls to avoid.
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One more reason I love the org, I get great info on lost funk albums like this.

paligap said:

Man,I LOVE this song! This was a jam!! In my area,it got alot of airplay in early 1986.

After you
no one else will do
After you
no one else will do


Harlepolis,how could you dismiss this album?

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I love all the Jamaica Queens Kats--Bernard Wright, Don Blackman, Tom Browne, Marcus Miller, Lenny White & Twennynine, Bobby Broom, Omar Hakim, Jamaica Boys, etc.--and the late Weldon Irvine, of course!!!

I loved the fact that they weren't bound by one type of music--- most of their albums spanned Jazz, Funk, Pop, and whatever else.....





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paligap said:

Me too. If I had friends, I'd throw a Jamaica Boys party. No other music allowed.

SoulAlive said:

I haven't heard most of it to be honest lol but judging from what I heard so far, I think he was WILDIN' OUT more in his earlier albums(when he was young & hungry ).

Harlepolis said:

I'm gonna look for those early albums.

paligap has a nice collection. Ididn't know that marcus miller has been around so long. I have most of these but want to know about the others

chewwsey said:

There's still a few I'm trying to hunt down, too!

I always thought that must've been so kool, to have practically a whole neighborhood full of musicians --- Weldon Irvine (who wrote 'Young Gifted and Black) was like the local Quincy Jones or Art Blakey, and just about all those guys came through his bands at one point or another...not long before he died, he was giving piano lessons to Hip Hop artists like Q-tip and Mos Def....

At the time the 'Nard album came out, Bernard Wright was only about 16!!! He was definitely the Kitten of all the Kats.....


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paligap said:

You dropping some deep knowledge there

paligap said:

I was one of them..My afternoons were often spent hanging at lenny whites house with the CATS ! There were a lot of musicians around..we used to all play at various places in NYC..sweetwaters..a place in queens called The scene..I was much younger than all the Real Cats..But they gave me lots of love and encouragement back in day !

prettymansson said:

Man, I'm envious!!!!!

Must've been great to be in such a creative atmosphere.....





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paligap said:

For sure...for me and my gang it was all about Prince and the Time..for those cats it was all about Miles and weather report.. It was cool !
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prettymansson said:

I also think it's great that they were so supportive of you up-and-coming players...



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paligap said:

Where I was from..either you were a thug (the majority) or you were a person that traveled to other parts on new york like manhattan ect...and had a bit more of a cultured vibe..(RARE) or you were a local homeboy hanging in the hood..either playing an instrument..sports..or ect..The musicians all knew each other..and since everyone pretty much lived in houses..somebodys basement had a jam going on..either at lennys or this dude named Bill Bell..or my friend to this day Bert Price..Bert later produced a teen group called IMAJIN..and we had a band with a keyboardist named Eric Cody he went on to play keys in a group called the Jamaica boys with another friend named Dinky..my musical roots are with those dudes
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Is Bernard Wright still into the musicscéne?
/peace Manki

paligap said:

Tha whole mofo crew..