Roy Porter

CLEAR BLUE VINYL

deluxe vinyl LP with old school tip-on cover

gatefold edition

INCLUDES 7 INCH SINGLE

4 1/2 STARS ALL MUSIC GUIDE

The 1971 debut album from Roy Porter Sound Machine, Jessica, has long been celebrated as one of the greatest examples of heavy jazz/funk fusion. Less celebrated, but no less potent in its own way, is the band's 1975 sequel, Inner Feelings. Here reissued on vinyl for the first time in a while courtesy of Mo-Jazz, the set contains a string of Blaxploitation-era numbers rich in warm and undulating bass, jazzy horn arrangement, flanged guitars and ear-catching electric piano licks.

As you'd expect, Porter's drum-rhythms are excellent throughout, while his Curtis Mayfield-esque vocals do the business on a handful of tracks. If you love the funkier end of the jazz-funk spectrum, you need Inner Feelings in your life.

PERSONNEL:

• Clyde Dunn - (baritone sax)
• Clarence Daniels - (bass)
• Arne Frager - (bass, synthesizer)
• Frank Mastrapa - (congas)
• Demond Gates, Roy Thompson - (drums)
• Tollie Moore - Electric piano)
• Jack Fulks - (flute, tenor sax)
• Harold Grant, Herman Mitchell, Randy Piggy - (guitar)
• Roy Porter - (percussion)
• Charlemagne Payne, Jimmy Allen, Prince Harrison - (tenor sax)
• Wallace Huff - (trombone)
• Hense Powell, Hugh Bell - (trumpet)

Recorded at Spectrum Studios - Venice, CA, March 1975

TRACKS:

• SIDE A
• A1. Party Time
• A2. Love You
• A3. Panama
• A4. Jessica

• SIDE B
• B1. Waver-ing
• B2. Funny Feelin'
• B3. Out On The Town Tonight
• B4. Givin' Me The Blues

• 7 INCH VINYL
• SIDE A: Panama (Muro Re-Edit)
• SIDE B: Panama (Vocal Version)