Deodato’s Prelude has been reissued as a single CD by CTI; however this CD, made in Australia, also contains Deodato 2. Also Sprach Zarathustra (2001) from Prelude represents the start of Disco; its lush orchestration over nine minutes of funky Latin rhythms were the template for almost everything that followed. The beginnings of anything are of interest but this CD has actually got solos which, after thirty years, still sound interesting. And the sound, particularly played very loudly, as it was supposed to be in 1973, is fantastic. Of course, it’s a Rudy Van Gelder job.
Disco is generally reckoned to be dead naff nowadays, but a lot of good jazz musicians made a lot of money out of it. At the peak of the movement, 85 jazz albums made the Billboard Pop or R&B album charts in 1975; 92 in 1976; and 82 in 1977; most of them Disco albums. Jazz hadn’t been so popular since the swing era - AM
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