MALONE & BARNES AND SPONTANEOUS SIMPLICITY - FREEDOM SERENADE STREET DATE: 2/20/2007

Singer and songwriter Johnny Malone met The album features the nucleus of the Malone & Barnes and Spontaneous Simplicity group and some well-known saxophonist and flutist Allan Barnes while they local guests. Johnny Malone was on lead vocal, piano, were students at Howard University in Washington clavinet, and synthesizer, Allan Barnes on “afro horns,” DC in the 1960's. In addition to being under the clarinet and flutes, Tom Newman on guitar, John Bebbs on drums, Siggie Dillard on bass, Andre Richardson on tutelage of Donald Byrd who was head of Jazz congas, timbales, percussion and Delbert Taylor playing Studies, they were classmates with future stars trumpet, vocals and piano. Guests included Brian like Donny Hathaway, Leroy Hutson, and Angela Jackson, of Gil Scott Heron fame, and Curtis Pope, music Winbush. Barnes was already a member of the director for Wilson Pickett, on trumpet amongst others. hugely popular soul jazz pioneers The Blackbyrds. Malone & Barnes' writing and playing skills also surfaced on other artists' work. They co-wrote several tunes putting When the two friends formed Malone & Barnes and Spontaneous A Taste of Honey on the map with "Boogie Oogie Oogie" Simplicity (named after the tune by Sun-Ra, whose band Barnes and "Disco Dancin'". They released a follow-up album in regularly appeared with when in Washington, DC) the 1984 called The Caretaker which featured Fred Wesley on collaboration yielded Freedom Serenade, an album of super trombone and Larry Fonce and Rod Mizell on production. spacey and spiritual jazz funk. Released in limited quantity in 1976, on their Humpin’ International label, this rare and THIS IS AN EXTREMELY LIMITED EDITION underground album bears the hallmarks of contemporaries like RE-MASTERED RE-ISSUE, AVAILABLE ONLY FOR A the Blackbyrds, the Mizell Brothers and DC neighbors Oneness of SHORT TIME. BUY WHILE IT'S HOT! Ju-Ju. "Warp Ten" features a solo battle between Barnes and FOR FANS OF: trumpeter Curtis Pope (of the Isley Bros and Wilson Pickett BLACKBYRDS, THE MIZELL BROS, PARLIAMENT, FUNKADELIC, FUNK INC. bands). Songs such as "Moonstruck" and "Journey to the Stars" are DJ-friendly futuristic funk tracks with a sci-fi flavored nod to FILE UNDER: peers Funkadelic and Parliament. FUNK, SOUL-JAZZ, JAZZ-FUNK 5% DISCOUNT UP TO 1 WEEK AFTER STREET DATE (CD ONLY) Freedom Serenade was a tribute to Paul Robeson who died in January of the year the album was released. The multi-lingual American actor, athlete, bass-baritone concert singer, writer, civil rights activist, Spingarn Medal winner, and Stalin peace prize CD - CATALOG LHR10052-2 LP - CATALOG LHR10052-1 laureate was a huge influence on the duo. “My father raised me on LIST PRICE: $16.98 LIST PRICE: $16.98 Paul Robeson,” says Malone. “I was enamored, he was such a CD BOX LOT: 30 LP BOX LOT: 50 great individual being intellectual, athletic and an artist – I don’t VINYL IS NON-RETURNABLE have enough words to describe him, we all admired him,” he adds. RECOMMENDED UBIQUITY TITLES:

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