Harold Wheeler Consort - Black Cream (50th Anniversary Edition)Fresh from arranging conducting such Broadway shows as The Wiz and also forging a successful career penning jingles for such clients as McDonald's, Pan Am Airlines, Boone's Farm Wines, Kool Aid, and Coca Cola, composer keyboardist Wheeler released this 1975 cult classic, a soulful, slinky masterpiece of bedroom jazz funk. It's Wheeler's only album, but it may have been singly responsible for an increase in the mid '70s birth rate light some candles

Ramon Pyrmée on synths

Its release was set a week earlier than initially planned in order to combat bootlegging

Moodymann to Bernard Fowler

American hip hop band formed in New York in 1981 as a hardcore punk combo

Both parts melded together on side B pushing near 17 minutes

with Dave Lee’s ‘Flute Reboot’ for that maximum Latin edged jazz-funk feel

Wide Division and Alan Fitzpatrick’s Apex Faction

and Casa Mahler in Spoleto

a bouncy club track built from smooth chords and a dynamic beat decorated with vocal house snippets

Recorded & mixed at Berwick Street Studios

and to truly collaborate with somebody else

together with José James