Donald Byrd - Kofi (yep HS reissue)
This sits under my rule of no blue notes after blackbird.
He is very very close to the funk soul jazz crossover he was searching for in Blackbyrd, there are real essences of where Miles was going with this, a first time for me. Fascinating modalities but the structure is very much at the edges I of the blues and jazz framework and I can hear what Marc Marc Moulin must have been tapping into for his placebo sessions work. Love the happy gallop of the double bass and drums on fufu... With all that electric piano in downward scales... Minor and major together give it a superb edge with the flute.
A good buy. The mastering on this is nice, these pressings are quieter