Instrumental bit.

Classic serpentine Curtis guitar moves.

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Track 6 - Now You're Gone.

Gone a bit Bluesey.

A bit like "The Thrill is Gone" by B.B. King.

He's really really unique and original.

There was no one before like him and there'll never be again.

It's like a complete reinvention of the tradition of the big jazz/R&B band format.

Ellington, Basie et al, as reimagined for the radical black consciousness era and the '70s musical aesthetic.

Hints of Daytripper in the horns.

I could even imagine Ella Fitzgerald or Billy Holiday singing these lead vocal parts.

Last track - Love to Keep You in My Mind.

An oddly simple and straight-forward love song to wrap things up...

Showcasing his idiosyncratic loose, free-form method of revolving the music around a sweetly vague vocal performance.

Well, that was glorious.

One of his best albums.

It is over.

It was perfectly proficient and had a good feel to it but the songs were very weak and every track went on for far too long.

Now to look back at the thread and see what everybody else made of it.

I shall give it 3 stars.