Kool And The Gang - Street Corner Symphony

[rdebo1]

homage to John Coltrane and his rendition of broadway musical, "My Favorite Things"...Check out Coltrane's version and then listen to Kool & the Gang version. Its the TRUTH!

[BBSatin13]

Parliment/funkadelic and George Clinton was hard funk in the beginning. Kool and the Gang ushered in contemporary funk. This album was solid funk y'all. Yeeeah!!!

[Boopey61]

My Homeboys from Jersey City. I love this cut.

[neofunkyman1]

can't get enough of this funky stuff!

[bluezappy]

Tour d'Force piece on the album. Lovin' it!

[BionicBass]

omg sounds like "I cant get enuff of that "funky stuff" wow recycled groove! lol

[SuzumiyaHaruhi0]

~VERY NICE~VERY CUTE~VERY COOL~

[mariontaylor1976]

The Fruitman was my favorite from this album.

[leecool1956]

I was one of those young guys influenced by this cut. Khalis definetly had a style of his own. When I heard this back in 74 I started playing tenor sax and haven't put it down since.

[pinmode]

I got a Hitachi (get this!) a cassette recorder, am/fm combo for Christmas in '74. I recorded songs I liked off the local AFRS station, SCN 790 Pacific/1420 Atlantic, in the former Canal Zone. I just caught the tail end of this one at the end of DJ Joe Krokus' show and it has always stuck in my mind. It wasn't until today, that I heard the first 3:45 of this song, 35 years later! Truly a vintage classic, thanks for posting!

[lowgrau]

Dig the whole ending.

It's My Favorite Things!

(Speaking of Trane)

[glyph56]

Have to agree-one of Khalis Bayyan (Ronald Bell) best solos-though he was influenced by Trane he had a distinct sound of his own that influenced many horn players back then and created a gateway for them to jazz giants such as Coltrane and Joe Henderson

[PhuckHue2]

you can tell Khalis was into Coltrane!

[mrpower328]

When I was a kid back in 1974 my uncle had a stack of albums and I picked this album Light of Worlds out of the stack and I played this album and to this day this is my favorite album of all times.

[bigsteady0033]

A CLASSIC

[owiz9212]

"Light of Worlds" was just an incredible album by the Gang. "Higher Plane and of course, "Summer Madness" were my favorite songs on the album, but "Street Corner Symphony" allowed Kool and The Gang to demonstrate their incredible musical talents. Khalis Bayyan's tenor solo is one of the greatest, if not the greatest sax solo in R&B. He is simply a genius, a term that's granted all too often these days. Khalis and Coltrane were my inspiration to play tenor.

[maxree10]

another ruff house tune from the boys.i remember dancing it up .with my gang in the 70s.

now the gangs are fighting.whats going wrong.

Maybe we should play more of this stuff then they will start to dance for sure.

Some chance EH.

[cordell88]

haha great idea nothing wrong wit trying something positive!

[rousse61]

I agree...but these young kids will have to learn how to dance in platforms like we did back in the 70's...oh, yeah, and what about polyester???? LOL...I miss the 70's...I bought this album when I was just 13, now I am 47!!!!

[andrejacksun]

WOW THE FEELINGS IT INVOKES

[reujack]

listen to the quote from "my favorite things" at the conclusion of this....

[lowgrau]

I don't know if people knew when I mentioned MFT on an earlier response, that I know exactly what you're talkin' about.

And the way the chords all fall in together is a constant delight.

[margcool]

This is the REAL Kool and the Gang. So nice to know this band is still appreciated.

Who's Gonna Take the Weight is one of my favorites but I think the message of Love and Understanding puts that as number 1.

[ebntje]

Gotta find "Rhyme Time People" and "Higher Plane" from this LP.Of course "Summer Madness" is the classic from Light Of Worlds.Sax solo is 2nd only to Maceo Parkers "Soul Power 74"

[URSINHOdePELUCHE]

James Brown himself said that Kool & the Gang were his only commpetition back then :)

[oldschoolruler]

I love James, but I'm sure George Clinton would've had something to say about that...Parliament/Funkadelic scared the hell out of a lot of folks...

[onepiecepimp]

wow rhyme tyme people,higher plane and summer madness are my favorites from this album

[lowgrau]

Greatest tenor solo in Funk history.

(And there are many.)

Just sayin...

[leecool1956]

This solo got me started playing tenor 33 years ago and I havent stopped since. Great solo piece

[lowgrau]

Ronald had his game uptight that day.

MFT

[PhuckHue]

one of my favorites, awesome tenor sax solo from Khalis.

[kalcom2]

Very nicee early kool and the gang