Byrd's "Street Lady" draws heavily from the spirit of Curtis Mayfield, Isaac Hayes and even Sly Stone while building a creative funky jazz album that simply oozes with pizazz....and a bit of prostitution. Not sure what the album cover art has to do with the music unless Byrd was trying for the urban-thang.....but the music is kind of "loungie"...kind of jazzy...and kind of funky......
The line up is pretty dense with of course the creative genius of Donald Byrd (trumpet), Roger Glenn (flute), Jerry Peters (piano, electric piano), Fonce Mizell (clavinet, trumpet, vocals), Fred Perren (synthesizer, vocals), David T. Walker (guitar), Chuck Rainey (electric bass), Harvey Mason (drums), King Errisson (congas), Stephanie Spruill (percussion) and Larry Mizell (vocals, arranger, conductor).
I love Blue Note's "Rare Groove" series which is now kind of hard to track down many of the titles to...and this one was no exception. I love Donald Byrd and "Street lady" is a splendid journey of all another kind.
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