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Essential Earth, Wind & Fire (CD)

By: Earth, Wind & Fire (Artist)

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Earth, Wind & Fire Artist Snapshot:

Earth, Wind & Fire was the brainchild of musical Renaissance man Maurice White, a successful ex-session drummer who recorded with everyone from Chuck Berry to John Coltrane. Essentially an R&B group, Earth, Wind & Fire expanded its sound to include elements of jazz, rock, funk, traditional African, Latin, and just about every other kind of music. The band was noted for its elaborate stage shows and quasi-mystical thematic influence, but avoided slipping into George Clinton-like self-parody by wisely choosing to emphasize its musicianship and sharp writing. It scored hit after hit throughout the 1970s, doing much to define the sound of that decade.

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DISC 1 for Essential Earth, Wind & Fire (CD) Album By Earth
1   Mighty Mighty
2   Evil
3   Devotion
4   Keep Your Head To The Sky
5   Kalimba Story
6   Shining Star
7   That's The Way Of The World
8   Yearnin' Learnin'
9   All About Love
10   Reasons
11   Sing A Song
12   Can't Hide Love
13   Getaway
14   Saturday Nite
15   Ponta De Areia / Be Ever Wonderful - (Brazilian Rhyme)
16   Open Your Eyes
17   Got To Get You Into My Life
 
DISC 2 for Essential Earth, Wind & Fire (CD) Album By Earth
1   September
2   Serpentine Fire
3   Fantasy
4   I'll Write A Song For You
5   Drum Song
6   In The Stone
7   Can't Let Go
8   After The Love Has Gone
9   Wait
10   You and I
11   Let Me Talk
12   And Love Goes On
13   You
14   Let's Groove
15   Fall In Love With Me
16   Side By Side
17   Boogie Wonderland - (with The Emotions)
 

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Review

Q (1/03, p.132) - 4 stars out of 5 - "...There's still loads to savour..."

Title Note

Earth, Wind & Fire: Maurice White (vocals, kalimba, timbales, drums); Verdine White (vocals, bass, percussion); Philip Bailey (vocals, congas, percussion); Larry Dunn (piano, organ, synthesizer, programming).

Additional personnel includes: Ken Yerke, Harris Goldman (violin); Rollice Dale (viola); Dennis Karmazyn Harry Schultz (cello); Fred Jackson Jr., Herman Riley, Jerome Richardson (saxophone); Tommy Johnson (tuba); Harvey Mason, Paulinho Da Costa (percussion); Beloyd Taylor (background vocals).

Producers: Maurice White, Joe Wissert, Charles Stepney, Al McKay.

Compilation producers: Leo Sacks, Maurice White.

Recorded between 1973 & 1983. Includes liner notes by Leo Sacks, Virginia Prescott, and William C, Rhoden.

All tracks have been digitally remastered.

"These songs are as close as we came to perfection," says group founder and leader Maurice White in the liner notes to THE ESSENTIAL EARTH, WIND & FIRE. Given the quality of the music in this double-disc package, it's hard to argue. Remarkable for both its commercial success and its inventive hybrid of funk, soul, jazz, and African folk music (White's kalimba is featured as a solo instrument on "Evil," for example), Earth, Wind & Fire are deservedly regarded as one of the finest ensembles of the 1970s.

A thorough retrospective of the band's evolution and multiple stylistic directions (often achieved within one song), ESSENTIAL spans from the early, earthy funk of "Mighty Mighty" to the disco-flavored "Boogie Wonderland" (with the Emotions). In between are all of the group's smash hits--the infectious "Shining Star," the feel-good "Sing a Song," their jazzy interpretation of Lennon/McCartney's "Got to Get You Into My Life," and the early '80s dance-floor favorite "Let's Groove," to name a few. Throughout, complex horn parts, rich vocal harmonies, and the formidable chops of the band's instrumentalists dazzle on ballads, heady improvisations, and funk workouts alike. This is the definitive compilation of one soul's mightiest groups.

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