Deodato does disco! I’m maybe four albums into his discography and I already know this one will be one of my least favorites. It doesn’t seem quite as inspired as a few of his others from this era but it still has plenty for the brain and the booty, with tight grooves and great synth-ing over jazz chord progressions. It just seems like an odd choice to me to go full disco towards the end of that craze, but some 80s sounds have entered here with what seem like synth drums and the very 80s hand claps.

There’s only five tracks on this one, but they’re almost all around seven minutes. It doesn’t really make any of the tunes more memorable and I found myself thinking as great as the players are (I don’t recognize any of the names on this one) between solos songs like the title track are almost muzak. There’s some really nice brass somewhere on the album, and the last track, “Lovely Lady”, sounds a lot like the Japanese jazz fusion I love from the same era.

Funnily the part I enjoy most is just an intro, and in fact the intro to the most questionable track: a disco version of Bach’s “Jesu, Joy Of Man’s Desiring”. It’s reminiscent of the Star Wars disco medley, but then this one steps outside of any logic and goes into “Love Is Blue”. I won’t say it doesn’t work. Then it gest funky in a disco way before going back to Bach.

But anyway, the intro is very cool and it reminds me a little of one of my own tunes as EM/FM “The One”!