Year : 1974
Label : De-Lite
Genre : Soul
Style : Jazz Funk, Boogie Funk
"Light Of Worlds" keeps Kool & The Gang on the success road started with "Wild & Peaceful" in 1973. The fifth album of the band featuring the Pazant Brothers, includes the highlight song "Summer Madness". This song is a popular raw material for Hip-Hop samples from Gang Starr or Pete Rock & CL Smooth to Snoop Dogg. Titles include Boogie-Funk (Rhyme-Tyme People, Light Of The Worlds, Higher Plane), Jazz Funk (Street Corners Symphony) and pure R'N'B songs (Fruitman, Whiting H. & G, You Don't Have To Change).
MUSICIANS : Robert 'Kool' Bell - bass - Khalis Bayyan - tenor saxophone - Claydes E. X. Smith - guitar - Rick West - keyboards - Dennis 'D.T.' Thomas - alto saxophone - Robert 'Spike' Mickens - trumpet, flugelhorn - George 'Funky' Brown - drums - Alvin Pazant - trumpet - Eddie Pazant - oboe, alto saxophone
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