ABOUT THIS ITEM

Highlights includes George Benson’s journey from child singer to fathering the genre of smooth jazz… Keyboardist Duke forged a new path and ruled the R&B charts with eccentric funk … Mainstream Records embraced a funky bunch of modern jazz players and soul singers … Billy Cobham was the most technical and disciplined drummer to ever stay in the pocket … Norman Connors was a young drummer trying to keep up in the serious world of spiritual jazz, who traded the rigorous life for expensive cars, fashion models, and R&B hits ... Jamaica Kats rising from the fertile musical soil of Queens, New York … Phil Cohran is the embodiment of spiritual jazz … John Coltrane’s three-song demo for Africa/Brass sees the light of day.