Tom Scott - Masterpieces: Best Of The GRP Years (2013)

Great later work from Tom Scott – an artist who cut funk records at the start of the 70s, worked on some great soundtrack jazz, and really spun things out strongly in later years too! Despite Tom's placement here on the GRP label, which was then home to a lot of smooth jazz – the Scott-strong sense of bite on the reeds is still strongly in place – tuned a bit differently than in his funk years of the 70s, but still surprisingly soulful here – and with a lot more punch than most of his mellower GRP contemporaries. The track list is great – really does a lot to remind us that Tom was still sounding wonderful at this point – and titles include "Daybreak", "Dirty Old Man", "Target", "Jungle Funk", "Feet First", "Miz Thang", "Reed My Lips", "GBU", "Night Creatures", "Sneakin In The Back", "Tom Cat", "Midtown Rush", and "We Belong Together".