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Musicians :
Maurice White, Philip Bailey, Verdine White (vocals), Larry Dunn, Jerry Peters (piano), Larry Dunn (organ, moog synthesizer), Johnny Graham, Al McKay (guitar), Verdine White (bass), Phil Bailey (congas), Maurice White ... [Show more]
Description:
Musicians :
Maurice White, Philip Bailey, Verdine White (vocals), Larry Dunn, Jerry Peters (piano), Larry Dunn (organ, moog synthesizer), Johnny Graham, Al McKay (guitar), Verdine White (bass), Phil Bailey (congas), Maurice White (kalimba, timbales), Fred White, Ralph Johnson, Maurice White (drums), Fred White, Ralph Johnson, Al McKay, Andrew Woolfolk, Verdine White, Philip Bailey, Harvey Mason (percussion), Don Myrick, Andrew Woolfolk (saxophone), Charles Loper, George Bohanon, Louis Satterfield (trombone), Lew McCreary (bass trombone), Charle Findley, Michael Harris, Oscar Brashear, Steve Madaio (trumpet), Arthur Maebe, David Duke, Marilyn Robinson, Sidney Muldrow (french horn), Tommy Johnson (tuba), Dorothy Ashby (harp), Dennis Karmazyn, Harry Shlutz, Marie Fera, Ronald Cooper (cello), Barbara Thomason, David Campbell, Denyse Buffum, James Dunham, Lynn Subotnick, Marilyn Baker, Paul Polivnick, Rollice Dale (viola), Asa Drori, Carl La Magne, Haim Shtrum, Harris Goldman, Joy Lyle, Ken Yerke, Sandy Seemore, Winterton Garvey (violin), Charles Veal (concertmaster)
The wise saying "spiritus ubi vult spirat" ("the spirit blows where it wills") is interpreted by Earth, Wind & Fire with impressive clarity. Gentle sounds and modest gestures are foreign to the colourful Afro group, who in their live performances welded together ancient Egyptian Pharaonic mysticism with urban street life. That this spirit, which is found in the LP title and blows all the way through it, was guaranteed not only by the exuberant wind section in the group’s early years. With regard to rhythm, too, the band rolls out almost everything to pave the floor with powerful disco patterns, not forgetting the elegant and finely controlled falsetto, which adds further pep. Out of all this came the highly cultivated and expressive vocals as in Imagine, carefully balanced ballads (Burnin’ Bush), as well as a powerful sound that is so good for dancing to, as in the memorable number Saturday Nite. An extremely wide range of musical genres was brought together by Earth, Wind & Fire in a big-band sound that is "innovative yet popular, precise yet sensual, calculated yet galvanizing" - Rolling Stone Magazine.
Recording : 1976 at Wally Heider Studio 3, Burbank Studios, Hollywood Sound Recorders and Westlake Audio by George Massenburg
Production : Maurice White & Charles Stepney [Hide]
