DONALD BYRD jazz funk LP “Street Lady” BLUE NOTE orig ’73 MIZELL BROS. SEALED

$

39

Artist:   DONALD BYRD

Title:   “Street Lady”

Label:   BLUE NOTE.  Original stereo pressing with gatefold jacket.  Catalog number is BN-LA140-F.

Year:  1973

Condition: 

Album is STILL SEALED in factory shrink-wrap, as clean as can be found.  The shrink-wrap is sparkling clean.  Shrink wrap is intact except for a small section on front at top right where a piece appears to have been removed along with a retail sticker (see photo), and a small separation at bottom left corner.  Slight wear at corner tips, and a small jigsaw cut at top right corner.  Overall a gorgeous piece that has never seen a stylus!

Track Listing:

Side 1:

• Lansana’s Priestess  –  7.39
• Miss Kane  -  6.20 
• Sister Love  -  6.11

Side 2:

• Street Lady  -  5.40
• Witch Hunt  -  9.42
• Woman of the World  -  6.51

Review: 

“Not so much a fusion album as an attempt at mainstream soul and R&B, Street Lady plays like the soundtrack to a forgotten blaxploitation film.  Producer/arranger/composer Larry Mizell conceived Street Lady as a concept album to a spirited, independent prostitute, and while the hooker with a heart of gold concept is a little trite, the music uncannily evokes an urban landscape circa the early '70s.  Borrowing heavily from Curtis Mayfield, Isaac Hayes, and Sly Stone, Donald Byrd and Mizell have created an album that is overflowing with wah-wah guitars, stuttering electric pianos, percolating percussion, soaring flutes, and charmingly anemic, tuneless vocals.  It's certainly not jazz, or even fusion, but it isn't really funk or R&B, either -- the rhythms aren't elastic enough, and all of the six songs are simply jazzy vamps without clear hooks.  But the appeal of Street Lady is how its polished neo-funk and pseudo-fusion sound uncannily like a jive movie or television soundtrack from the early '70s -- you can picture the Street Lady, decked out in polyester, cruising the streets surrounded by pimps with wide-brimmed hats and platform shoes.  And while that may not be ideal for jazz purists, it's perfect for kitsch and funk fanatics.”

(review courtesy of Stephen Thomas Erlewine, allmusic.com)

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