The Blackbyrds - Do It Fluid

ORIGINATION Night Grooves
LAST LISTENED TO januaryish
CHANCE OF WAKING TO IT low again
RATING

The Blackbyrds were out together by jazzer Donald Byrd using a group of his university students. They played a superior brand of jazz funk that should really be described as funk jazz. They had loads of soul, far more than was common in this genre, and none of the horrible, sparse, slappy bass lines that characterises the most tedious of jazz funk and has since given it a bad name.

Do It Fluid, from their 1973 self-titled debut is very funky. It's driven along by the kind of synth that has come to be associated with Stevie Wonder's output of that period. Along with this are some damn fine solos and a near-constant chant of either i like to party or do it fluid. It all adds up to the kind of track you can't sit still through.