Good Times

構成数 : 1枚
合計収録時間 : 00:30:58
Personnel: Claydes Smith (vocals, guitar); Dennis "D.T." Thomas (vocals, flute, alto saxophone, keyboards, percussion, wind); Khalis Bayyan (vocals, alto flute, soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone); Robert "Spike" Mickens (vocals, trumpet, flugelhorn, percussion); Ricky West (vocals, piano, Clavinet, synthesizer, ARP synthesizer); George "Funky" Brown (vocals, keyboards, drums, percussion); Ronald Bell (vocals, keyboards, wind); Robert "Kool" Bell (vocals); Assunta Dell'Aquila (harp); Seymour Miroff, Al Wagner, Sy Mroff, Sandra Guy Zimmerman, Sam Zimmerman (violin); Marty Salyk (viola); Sharon Moe (French horn, horns); Billy Brown (French horn); Bill Brown (horns); Richard Westfield (keyboards). Liner Note Author: Cleveland "Clevie" Browne. Recording information: Media Sound Studio, New York, NY. Illustrator: Alfred Seville. Arranger: Kool & the Gang. Good Times was a bit spotty compared to Music Is the Message, compromising Kool & the Gang's legendary funk instincts for a variety of digressions that don't turn out the way they should. There's much more good than bad though, beginning with the title track, a school's-out jam just in time for summer. "Making Merry Music" is in a similar mold and just as good, while the group leaps into wild, unhinged, horn-driven funk for "Rated X" and "Country Junky." The songs that make it less interesting are the maudlin ballad "Wild Is Love," a salute by music director and tenor Khalis Bayyan to one of his influences with "I Remember John W. Coltrane," and the meandering "North, South, East, West." The closer, "Father, Father," is a solid attempt at recording social-message soul along the lines of Curtis Mayfield, but for much of the time, Good Times sacrifices the group's hallmarks (deep-pocket grooves and fast, intricate ensemble playing) on the altar of artistic experimentation. ~ John Bush
録音 : ステレオ (Studio)