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Shalamar - Big Fun (1979) [2018, Japan] {Remastered with 3 Bonus Tracks}

Posted By: BlondStyle
Date: 5 Oct 2023 18:50:41
Shalamar - Big Fun (1979) [2018, Japan] {Remastered with 3 Bonus Tracks}

Shalamar - Big Fun (1979) [2018, Japan] {Remastered with 3 Bonus Tracks}
R&B, Soul/Funk, Disco | EAC Rip | FLAC, Tracks+CUE+LOG+Scans (JPEG) | 51:09 | 418,70 Mb
Label: Octave Lab/Ultra-Vybe (Japan) | Cat.# OTLCD-5601 | Released: 2018-09-19 (1979-08-30)

"Big Fun" is the 3rd album by American R&B group Shalamar, released in 1979 on the SOLAR label. Big Fun was produced by Leon Sylvers III and is the first album to feature what is considered the 'classic' Shalamar line-up (Jeffrey Daniel, Howard Hewett and Jody Watley), with Hewett having replaced Gerald Brown. The album features the group's biggest hit single, "The Second Time Around". "Big Fun" has been certified Gold in the United States for sales of over 500,000. It peaked at #4 on the R&B chart and #23 on the Billboard chart (Shalamar's highest-placing album on this chart). In the UK it reached #45.
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Stanley Clarke / George Duke - The Clarke/Duke Project II (1983) {Epic}

Posted By: tiburon
Date: 13 May 2023 18:30:43
Stanley Clarke / George Duke - The Clarke/Duke Project II (1983) {Epic}

Stanley Clarke / George Duke - The Clarke/Duke Project II (1983) {Epic}
EAC 0.95b3 | FLAC tracks level 8 | Cue+Log+M3u | Full Scans 300dpi | 263MB + 5% Recovery
MP3 CBR 320 Kbps | 92MB + 5% Recovery
Genre: Jazz-Funk, Fusion

A brilliant player on both acoustic and electric basses, Stanley Clarke has spent much of his career outside of jazz, although he has the ability to play jazz with the very best. He played accordion as a youth, switching to violin and cello before settling on bass. He worked with R&B and rock bands in high school, but after moving to New York, he worked with Pharoah Sanders in the early '70s. George Duke showed a great deal of promise early in his career as a jazz pianist and keyboardist, but has forsaken that form to be a pop producer.
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Stanley Clarke - Time Exposure (1984) {US 1st Pressing}

Posted By: tiburon
Date: 13 May 2023 10:31:48
Stanley Clarke - Time Exposure (1984) {US 1st Pressing}

Stanley Clarke - Time Exposure (1984) {US 1st Pressing}
EAC 0.99pb4 | FLAC tracks level 8 | Cue+Log+M3U | Full Scans 300dpi | 221MB + 5% Recovery
MP3 CBR 320 Kbps | 94MB + 5% Recovery
Genre: Jazz-Funk Lesson

While still deeply into the R&B/funk thing, Clarke's Time Exposure is a cut or two above its immediate neighbors in quality, thanks mostly to some superior tunesmithing on Clarke's part. The title track is the prize of the set and one of the best funk numbers of Clarke's career, an ingratiating fusion of a riff and a tune that won't quit the memory, set to a vigorous groove and hammered out by rock guitarist Jeff Beck. Even the obviously radio-minded ballad "Heaven Sent You" (a number 21 R&B hit) is a better-than-average bit of R&B writing – and here and elsewhere, Clarke wisely leaves the lead vocals mostly to others.
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