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FEBRUARY 15, 1975 1. SUN GODDESS RAMSEY LEWIS -Columbia KC 33195 2. FLYING START BLACKBYRDS-Fantasy F 9472 3: SATIN DOLL BOBBI HUMPREY-Blue Note C **Silt LA -344-G (UA) 4. SOUTHERN COMFORT CRUSADERS -Blue Thumb BTSY 9002-2 (ABC) s. 5. FEEL Following their opening night performance GEORGE DUKE -BASF MC 25355 at Cherry Hill, N.J.'s Latin Casino, Atco's Blue Magic greet members of the press and Atlantic/Atco 6. TOTAL ECLIPSE staff backstage. Pictured from left are: Ted Mills and Richard Pratt -Atlantic SD 18121 of Blue Magic; Barbara Harris, Atlantic/ Atco's director of artist relations; G. Fitz Bartley, 7. BAD BENSON columnist for Soul magazine; Anni Ivil, Atlantic/Atco's director of international publicity; GEORGE BENSON -CTI 6045 (Motown) Keith Beaton, Wendell Sawyer IINGUS and Vernon Sawyer of Blue Magic. 8. PIECES OF DREAMS -Fantasy F 9465 9. TIM WEISBERG 4 A&M SP 3658 Disco File (Continued from page 20) 10. STANLEY CLARKE FILLS Nemperor NE 431 (Atlantic) it's not disco material. Instead, try the B side here too, a somewhat 11. FIRST MINUTE OF A NEW DAY gimmicky version of "You're My Only World," a cut GIL SCOTT -HERON & BRIAN JACKSON - from the George Arista 4030 Clinton Band album mentioned here two weeks ago. Finally, there's 12. INTERSTELLAR SPACE a single that's been out since late last year called "The Joneses" JOHN COLTRANE-Impulse ASD 9277 by (ABC) S.O.U.L. (Musicor), a two-part record (total A time: 7:44) about drug 13. LIVE addiction (the ironic OBLIVION, VOL. 1 chorus: "Try it, you'll like it") that has the sort BRIAN AUGER'S OBLIVION EXPRESS - of Latin beat that may RCA CPL1-0645 not go over everywhere but should be heard anyway. 14. GET UP WITH IT MILES DAVIS-Columbia KG 33236 And if you those are off-the-wall, here are some of the new ROOM. 15. URBAN RENEWAL reports from DJs this week: Bobby Guttadaro at Le Jardin played TOWER OF POWER -Warner Bros. Walter 8S 2834 Heath's "I Thought You Might Like to Know" -a pleasant, very 16. IN CONCERT VOL. 2 laid-back cut from his album "You Know You're Wrong, Don't Ya The room is VARIOUS ARTISTS -CTI 6049 (Motown) Brother" (Buddah)-to what he described as a "wow" response 17. JAMES PLAYS JAMAL and Carnegie Hall. And every AHMAD now feels the cut is 'going to be very big." JAMAL -20th Century T-459 Guttadaro is also playing year Mingus fills it 18. Swamp Dogg's 7:20 "The Mind Does the Dancing While the Body LES McCANN-Atlantic SD 1666 Pulls the Strings" (from his new Island album, "Have You Heard with fans, friends and 19. ONE This Story??") which doesn't BOB JAMES -CTI 6043 (Motown) entirely live up to its title, but should his unique brand of serve as introduction to this bizarre man's 20. STORIES TO TELL work. "Steak" at Newark's swinging, timeless music. FLORA PURIM -Milestone M 9058 Highest Peak is trying the Temptations' long homage to Kahlil Gibran, (Fantasy) 1974 "The Prophet" (from the Song The concert 21. BODY HEAT "A For You" album, Gordy), on a QUINCY JONES-A&M SP 3617 slightly speeded -up turntable because the track itself is so beautifully brought together the 22. WINTER IN AMERICA produced. And he's revived "Super Rod" by Crown Heights Affair current Mingus group GIL SCOTT -HERON -Strata East 19742 (RCA) because he finds the instrumental perfect for the Hustle, a dance with 23. IS IT IN I'm already tired such alumni as -Atlantic SD 1659 of hearing about. Gary Broaddus at Levitucus in New York was , 24. PRICED TO SELL talking about two fine Bobbi Humphrey cuts, "Fun House" INC.-Prestige P 10087 (now a single) and "New York Times" (from "Satin Doll" on Blue John Handy, Charles 25. HOT CITY Note), which seem rather too loose for GENE PAGE -Atlantic SD 18111 disco dancing, but then he McPherson and Jon seems capable of getting his crowd to dance 26. SHE WAS TOO GOOD TO ME to practically anything. Faddis. It was a true CHET BAKER -CTI 6050 Among the new albums, the surprise of the week was Melissa

27. WHERE I HAVE KNOWN YOU BEFORE Manchester's rich "Melissa" (Arista), with a strong, sexy version event and, happily, RETURN TO FOREVER FEATURING of CHICK COREA-Polydor PD 6509 Stevie Wonder's "Love Navin' You Around;" a special tribute to was 28. THE BADDEST TURRENTINE Wonder called "Stevie's Wonder" and done in his style; "Party Music" STANLEY TURRENTINE-CTI 6048 there. (Motown) and "Just Too Many People." There are elements of , Dusty 29. FACING YOU Springfield and Wonder here but for the first time Manchester "Mingus at Carnegie Hall" KEITH JARRETT-ECM 1017 (Polydor) is strong enough to both support and overcome her influences with 30. FRESH FEATHERS a glowing personal style-and the help producer On Atlantic Records JOHN KLEMMER -ABC of Vini Poncia. ABCD 836 Catching Up: Betty Wright's "High 31. HIS GREATEST YEARS, VOL. 3 Voltage" album (Alston) just and Tapes JOHN COLTRANE-Impulse ASH 9278-2 arrived, several months late, but anyone who hasn't picked up on (ABC) her nearly -five-minute "Where Is The Love" is missing, as I 32. SPECIAL have MINGUS EDITION for too long, one of the hottest PAUL HORN -Island ISLD 6 album cuts out now. AT CARNEGIE HALL 33. FIRST LIGHT Recommended: Ecstasy, Passion & Pain's new single, "One Beautiful FAMILY OF MANN -Atlantic SD 1658 Day" (Roulette), the trademark EP&P sound continued under the 34. THRUST production of Bobby Martin; "Sweeter" a Major Lance song in a J HERBIE HANCOCK-Columbia PG 32965 whole new style, produced by Lance and Philadelphia's Stan Watson 35. MYSTERIOUS TRAVELLER (on Playboy); "Back From The WEATHER REPORT -Columbia KC 32494 Dead" by Bobby Byrd, formerly with the entourage, now working 36. THE SADDEST HUBBARD with the Miami Sound FREDDIE HUBBARD-CTI 6047 (Motown) people (producer: Clarence Reid) and definitely in top shape, if a little morbid ("You gave me a 37. MAIN SQUEEZE new start/ like pulling the stake from JIMMY McGRIFF-Groove Merchant my heart," he sings) -also check out the powerful B side, "The Way to GM 534 (PIP) Get Down" (International Brothers/T.K.); "Smokin'," a driving, two- 38. LOVE IS ALL OF US part record by Metropolis (Ebony Sounds) PHAROAH SANDERS-Impulse ASD 9280 and, at the other extreme, (ABC) Del Shannon's "Runaway" as done by the Rhodes Kids (GRC), truly 39. DON'T YOU WORRY 'BOUT A THING bubblegum disco or is it disco bubblegum? And John Gary Williams' SD 1667 Produced by Joel Donn HANK CRAWFORD-Kudu 10 (Motown) "The Whole Is and llhan Mimaroglu (ABC) Damn World Going Crazy," just reissued on Stax nearly a year after its original appearance, is 40. BLACKBYRDS highly recommended. Fantasy 9444 It's a message we can all believe in.

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