Keith Mansfield - Night Bird (1979)

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Artist: Keith Mansfield
Title: Night Bird
Year Of Release: 2008
Label: Vocalion[CDSML 8438]
Genre: Jazz, Soul Jazz, Funk
Quality: FLAC (image + .cue,log,scans)
Total Time: 35:09
Total Size: 273 MB(+3%)
WebSite: Album Preview

Tracklist

01. Night Bird [04:14]
02. Making the Cut [04:10]
03. Gladiator [07:49]
04. Don't Call Collect [04:06]
05. Asleep in Your Shadow [03:39]
06. Stumbleweed [05:14]
07. Thunderfoot [05:52]

Some of the funkiest, most soulful disco grooves ever committed to vinyl are heard on this Vocalion release, comprising Keith Mansfield’s 1979 Night Bird album. As well as being among the UK ’s leading composer-arrangers, Keith is one of the legendary names within the world of library music. During the late 1960s and ’70s, along with names like Alan Hawkshaw, Brian Bennett and Johnny Pearson, he was responsible for many of the best jazzy, funky moments contained within the catalogues of publishers including KPM, Amphonic Music, Bruton Music and Conroy. Indeed, Night Bird was recorded in 1979 – the height of the disco era – for Amphonic Music, and here receives its first ever commercial release (library music is normally available only to professionals in the broadcast industries). Recorded at the famous, and now sadly defunct, Lansdowne Studios in London ’s Holland Park , Night Bird demonstrates why Keith is so highly regarded.

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