Nature Sounds

There is a confluence of artistic expressions that Weldon Irvine’s 1975 classic “Spirit Man” somehow comfortably houses into a 39-minute blueprint on the virtues of range. As an exact document of the time, the melding of jazz, rock, funk, and fusion became the popular means to “punch-up” jazz, while expanding …

From the fairground organ whimsy actualized in the opening bars of “Blowing Up My Mind” immediately supported with an uptempo female vocal assault in triplicate, to the non-manipulated, sample ready horn line delivered on-beat at the start of “Give It Up”. The Exciters, a dynamic R&B quartet consisting of lead …