Inner City Blues

★　Inner City Blues　/　Doc Powell (1996)



This is the album of American jazz guitarist and composer,Doc Powell.
Philip Bailey participated by the lead vocal in "All This Love" written by El DeBarge.

Beautiful melody, voice, and guitar got together!
I'm really certain that we really can get satisfied with his voice!


Wonderful album with wave of funky groove and healed sound harmonized.
It sounds like guiter beginning to talk about with feelings.
Ronnie Laws also participated with the saxophone in the eighth tune "For Old Time' s
Sake "

By the way,other participating artists were also remarkable!
Gorgeous!
For instance, Stanley Clarke, George Duke, Howard Hewwett, Bob James,
Jeffery Osborne, Patrice Rushen, Skip Anderson, Tom Barney, and Gerry Brown, etc.

You have to listen to it!

1. Bahama Momma
2. All This Love
3. Alone With You
4. Mr. Magic 1994
5. A Song For You
6. New Day
7. Inner City Blues
8. For Old Times' Sake
9. On The Other Side
10. Soul Strut
11. Sade's Song
12. We'll Make It Last


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Earth,Wind & Fire

★　EARTH,WIND & FIRE　(ＤＶＤ1994）



It is the DVD of live performance done in Yoyogi Olimpic Pool ,Japan in 1994.
Live started from appeappearance like gramary show with opening tune of Bill Meyers composition.
It got excited.

Medley of hit songs makes enerybody dance and shake!
It was rolled in the whirlpool of the excitement at once ･･･.
It was glad to see sing in the stage where Maurice White and Philip Bailey are still the same.
(It is also glad again that we have Sheldon Reynolds and Sonny E there. )
In live of EWF, it is a charm to make it new arrange the familiar music to fresh version.
I love to listen to the long version of standard number.

Though the CG images of flowing space was good-looking.,the fan wanted to experience the whole live without any cut!
Total time of DVD was too short comparing ｔｈｅ with the real live!

However, 'Cause live was performed ten more years before , members of EWF were young!
The body of Philip Bailey was still slim.

I think that this is the only film that we can see the performance of "Would' t Change A Thing About You ".

MEMBERS OF EWF AT THIS TIME


Maurice White
Philip Bailey
Verdine White
Ralph Johnson
Sheldon Reynolds
Sonny Emory
Freddie Ravel
Morris Plesure
Ray Brown
Gary Bias
Reggie Young
Michael McNight


SONGS

1 September
2 Let Your Feelings Show
3 Let's Groove
4 Runnin'
5 Boggie Wonderland
6 Can't Hide Love
7 Fantasy
8 Kalimba Interlude
9 Evil
10 Shining Star
11Keep Your Head To The Sky
12Reasons
13 Sing A Song
14 That's The Way Of The World
15 Would't Change A Thing About You
16 After The Love Is Gone
17 System Of Survival
18 Sunday Morning（Hidden Track)


There is bonus feature only on DVD!
We can also enjoy the interview with Maurice White, Verdin White, Philip Bailey,Ralph Johnson!
Because of this feature I had to buy this DVD even though I had video of this live already///

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Music Speaks Louder Than Words

★　Music Speaks Louder Than Words (1990)



The project album that hit song writers coraboed with the United States and Russia in 1988.

It is said that it was the first time of the Soviet Union and the United States's having made the tune together with the important meaning.

EWF was offering the tune "One World".
Tune that overflows in love that makes insistence on this album .
.
Children's chorus is beautiful coming in succession with the voice of Maurice White and
Philip Bailey.

It is the masterpiece of music that doesn't fade even if we keep on listening for years.
Every song is full of peace and love.

1. Speak to My Heart - Phoebe Snow

2. Don't Stop Now - The Cover Girls

3. Family of Man - Atlantic Starr

4. I'm from Another Planet - Animotion

5. Cold Sky - Cyndi Lauper

6. One World - Earth, Wind & Fire

7. Together - Mickey Thomas

8. I Know Your Touch - Anne Murray

9. One Heart, One Mind - Ｅｍｍａｎｕｅｌ

10. Underneath One Sky - Roberta Flack

11. There's Always Love - Patti LaBelle




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Korekata

★ Korekata  / Kinihiro Korekat (1993)

Maurice White participated in "Puma Gang" in Japanese guitarist Kinihiro Korekata's 6th solo albunm!

We can listen to the unique Maurice's voice in the later half of this song such as "Well"or "Ahaaaa!"

Maurice's Voice always gives great spices to the song !

9nembers of this album were written by Korekata.

All songs in this albume were named related to animals and

it sounds so funky!

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In Square Circle

★　In Square Circle　／　Stevie Wonder （1985）



Hit album of Stevie Wonder as you know!
Philip Bailey participated as back vocal in single smash-hit "Part-Time Lover"
in this album !

Luther Vandross also was in the name of the credit.
I thought that this lyrics were different from his usual style,
But I like this song so much because it had rhythm that leads us to dance instinctively .

Background chorus is so beautiful!
But I wanted to listen to the duet of Stevie and Philip!

Every song in this album is so easy to remember and never it never gets tired.

1. Part-Time Lover
2. I Love You Too Much
3. Whereabouts
4. Stranger on the Shore of Love
5. Never in Your Sun
6. Spiritual Walkers
7. Land of La La
8. Go Home
9. Overjoyed
10. It's Wrong (Apartheid)


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Matinee

★ Matinee ／ Afterbach  (1981)



I was looking for this album for long time!
A friend of mine in Spain told me the infomation about this album!
Among 8 songs of this album, we can listen to the lead vocal of Robert Brookins!
(1 song is by Michael Brookins) ...

His voice was not so husky comparing from now.


This album was produced by Verdine White!

And Executive Producer is Maurice White!

RB was destined to enter EWF?
Bill Meyers also participated with the keyboard.

Precisely 80s! POP nostalgic feeling !We can feel!


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Boneplicity

★ Boneplicity / Reggie Young



REGGIE YOUNG OF THE EWF HORNS charge of the trumpet released his solo album!
10 songs in this album are Most of his work !

Sophisticated adult music indeed!

I feel really good to listen!

EWF members of the group's full of talent!
That's why they can keep on attractting us always,I think.

Myron Mckinley and Ray Brown participated in this album.

But unfortunately, I could't find the infomaton for purchase ///

I wonder why such kind of good music is not distributed in general way.


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We Are Family

★ We Are Family / Pat Boone (2006)



The EWF members participated in Pat Boone's album!
This is special album that Pat sung classic dance music with original menber of the song!

This album starts with shout of James Brown in "Papa's Got A Brand New Bag" and
 it's so exciting!
Many other great artists were in this,too, such as Sunshine Band, Kool & The Gang, or Ray Paker Jr !

Pat Boone is really great singer because he has the perfect rhymes skills and has refreshing voice.
But my personal impression is that kind of voice is not sutuble for dance music like music below.

"That's The Way Of The World" they said in leaflet that Al Mckay and Johhny Graham partcipated.

And there is a picture named Johhny Graham and Pat.
But the person in this picture was Verdine White!

What a mistake!

I'm afraid that we can't listen to the voice of Philip Bailey or Maurice White!
Instead of them, Philip Ingram played the part of chorus.

But We can listen to soul classic music at once in this!


1. Papa's Got A Brand New Bag - Pat Boone & James Brown

2. Soul Man - Pat Boone & Sam Moore

3. Get Down Tonight - Pat Boone and KC & The Sunshine Band

4. Tears of a Clown - Pat Boone & Smokey Robinson

5. Celebration - Pat Boone & Kool and the Gang

6. I Can't Help Myself - Pat Boone & The Four Tops

7. A Woman Needs Love - Pat Boone & Ray Parker Jr

8. We Are Family - Pat Boone & Sister Sledge

9. Shotgun - Pat Boone & Gerald Albright

10. That's The Way of the World - Pat Boone & Earth Wind&Fire

11. Backbone - Pat Boone & Kool Moe Dee



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