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The jazz-fusion sweet spot runs from 1969 to 1975, a period where electricity pushed and prodded its way ever further into the previously exclusively acoustic instrumental palate. Miles Davis didn't even regard his seminal 1969 LP 'In a Silent Way' (which effectively kick started the movement) as a part of the jazz genre at all, referring to it instead as '...directions in music...'. Les McCann's 'Invitation to Openness' falls bang in the middle of that sweet spot, being recorded in the summer of 1971 and released the following year. 'The Lovers' takes up the whole of side one and is an eastern infused, ethereal masterpiece. Yusef Lateef and Alphonse Mouzon are probably the prominent names from the jazz world on the LP, but who's providing the guitar hook that threads its way through the tune? It's David Spinozza, whose other credits include Paul McCartney's 'Ram', John Lennon's 'Mind Games' and Don McLean's 'American Pie'.
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Thanks for this song, Swede. I didn't listen to them for ages and it's fantastic to artists playing this kind of funk-jazz. Seems like they were ambient before ambient was born.
He's back!
If you play track three backwards it says The Swede Sees All Things.
For a split second I thought you were holding up a Les McKeown (BCRs) album but of course not! Welcome back.
Thanks guys. I'd hesitate to claim this as a comeback, but I'd really like to get a little blog momentum going if I can.
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