
João Donato & Deodato – DonatoDeodato
1973 Muse Records MR 5017
Vinyl rip in 24 bit 192 khz | Art at 300 dpi
24-bit 192 khz – 1.22 GB | 24 bit 96 khz – 645 MB | 220 MB 16-bit 44.1 khz
Jazz-Funk – Latin – Brazilian
Dr. Vibes’ 12 Days of Christmas – Day 5: Quite a lineup on this short gem of a record. I mean, if I could have added Chuck Rainey, Idris Muhammad, and Phil Upchurch to it, it would have been PERFECT but heck, I’ll take this… This is a nice, short, mildly psychedelic jazz-funk gem, if not quite the explosive results you might expect for a meeting of the minds like Donato & Deodato. Ray Barretto and Airto are kept on kind of a short leash, for example. Considering the total album time clocks in at around 30 minutes, one wonders why they couldn’t have stretched out a little more on a few of these tunes. The band surely could have handled it.
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