Those who saw the Morris/Muhammad name would often find a path which lead to Power Of Soul. There is great power in these four tracks to make you move or reflect or just tap your foot while nodding "yeah" at your speakers imperceptibly.Power Of Sou is the 1974 album by American drummer Idris Muhammad. This is some easy-moving, yet musically complex jazz. Muhammad keeps the pocket wide and Brecker and Washington dance all around in it as James plays the accents furtively. James' arrangements are tight, and everybody gets to solo with a little more freedom and grace. Magic appeared), but also as a talented interpreter of the edges where jazz and soul come together.
While the former is dark and heavy, and the immediately preceding tracks by James and Beck, respectively, are light, fancy, free nods to Creed Taylor's hoping for a jazz radio single, it's "Loran's Dance" that showcases not only Washington as an aspiring writer in his own right (this is only a year before Feels So Good and Mr. While there isn't a weak track in the four, it's Washington's "Loran's Dance" that takes the cake, even over Hendrix. Clocking in at only 34 minutes it's a perfect slice of the raw-onion emotion Muhammad was pulling down at the time. Beck's own solo is special in that he moves against the tempo just a bit, but that only increases the listener's dependence on the groove of Muhammad. The funk flies fast and heavy, particularly on the title track ( Jimi Hendrix's tune), with soaring solos by Grover and James, who fall down in the groove to Muhammad's powerful pace, setting from the heart of the pocket. Featuring the arrangements and keyboards of Bob James, the saxophone punch of Grover Washington, Jr., guitarist Joe Beck, trumpeter Randy Brecker, percussionist Ralph MacDonald, and the knife-edge slick production of Creed Taylor, this 1974 issue is a burning piece of deep, jazzy soul and grooved-out bliss. This album is one of the reasons that Idris Muhammad is regarded as the drumming king of groove.
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