Various Artists ”Can’t Hide Love”

Various Artists

”Can’t Hide Love”
( 2XLP, Compilation, Brown Sugar Records, Germany, 2006 )
Catalog # BSR 1008-1

Tracklisting:
A1 Blackbyrds, The Time Is Movin’ (4:42)
A2 Gary Bartz Feat. Syreeta Funked Up (6:15)
Vocals – Syreeta
A3 Ronnie Foster Funky Motion (8:16)
B1 Rusty Bryant Ga Gang Gang Goong (5:27)
B2 Arthur Adams Feat. James Jamerson Home Brew (4:51)
Bass – James Jamerson
B3 Three Pieces, The Concrete Jungle (5:16)
B4 Azar Lawrence Can’t Hide Love (3:20)
C1 Pleasure Joyous (6:29)
C2 Brass Construction Movin’ (8:31)
C3 Dayton Livin’ For Today (5:15)
D1 Roy Ayers What You Won’t Do For Love (5:51)
D2 Johnny Hammond Tell Me What To Do (5:22)
D3 Bobby Lyle The Genie (5:55)
D4 Carmen McRae Can’t Hide Love (3:53)

Notes:
Subtitle: Deep Jazz/Funk/Disco Rare Grooves
Format:2 x Vinyl, Compilation, LP
Country:Germany
Released:2006

Review:
Plenty of fusion here — a heady brew of jazz, funk, and soul — all put together with a nice sense of tightness that really makes the grooves sparkle! The package is heavy on gems from the Fantasy Records catalog of the 70s — cuts that really define the newly sophisticated sound the label was hitting at the time — as it brought huge changes to the worlds of jazz and soul through its unique fusion of grooves! A number of cuts here are nice and long — the kind of extended numbers that Fantasy always did so well, mixed with a few other key cuts from different labels. Titles include “Time Is Movin” by The Blackbyrds, “Funked Up” by Gary Bartz, “Funky Motion” by Ronnie Foster, “Ga Gang Gang Goong” by Rusty Bryant, “Home Brew” by Arthur Adams, “Concrete Jungle” by Three Pieces, “Joyous” by Pleasure, “Movin” by Brass Construction, “What You Won’t Do For Love” by Roy Ayers, “The Genie” by Bobby Lyle, “Can’t Hide Love” by Carmen McRae, and “Tell Me What To Do” by Johnny Hammond.
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