Kool & the Gang

Working with master keyboardist-arranger-producer Eumir Deodato, Kool and the Gang,
who pioneered the raucous, horn-sputtering "party music" that was an early prototype of
late-Seventies disco, have compressed their jazzy exuberance into an understated and
streamlined sound of impeccable polish. Something Special, these ex-rowdies' third album
with Deodato, finds the band comfortably rehashing the successful pop-soul for... More >