Rusty Bryant - Friday Night Funk For Saturday Night Brothers (1972) [vinyl>flac]

A sweet sweet change for Rusty Bryant - as electric piano moves in on the usual Hammond heard on most of his funky sessions - with a resulting groove that's outta site! The change in keys makes for more of a soundtrack funk feel than a rough-edged one - not smooth at all, but more in a 70s class sort of area - partly CTI, but still with lots more of that loose energy that makes the Prestige jazz funk sessions so great. Unlike later dates of this nature, the group's still small, and very unified - with Khalid Kenneth Moss on electric piano and a bit of organ, Harold Young On guitar, Fred Masey on drums, and Norman Jones on percussion. Titles include "Friday Night Funk For Saturday Night Brothers", "Have You Seen Her", "Blues for a Brother", and "Mercy Mercy Mercy". © Dusty Groove, Inc.

Prestige Records, PR 10053, 1973

Recorded 17^th July, 1972 at Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey

Personnel:

Rusty Bryant - Alto & Tenor Saxophones

Khalid [Kenneth Moss] - Electric Piano, Organ

Eddie Brookshire - Electric Bass

Fred Masey - Drums

Norman Jones - Conga, Percussion

Track Listing:

A1. Friday Night Funk For Saturday Night Brothers {Kenneth Moss} (6:33)

A2. Down By The Cuyahoga {Fred Masey} (8:27)

A3. Have You Seen Her? {Barbara Acklin, Eugene Record} (5:36)

B1. Mercy, Mercy, Mercy {Joe Zawinul} (6:53)

B2. Blues For A Brother {Rusty Bryant} (8:06)

Credits:

Producer - Ozzie Cadena

Engineer - Rudy van Gelder

Photography - Burt Goldblatt