Roy Porter

• Deluxe vinyl LP with old school tip-on cover

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:

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

Recorded in Venice, California, 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