George Butler was head of A&R at Blue Note during the seventies. He co-produced Black Byrd with the Mizells; he signed Bobbi Humprey. When Blue Note closed in 1978, one of his first projects for Columbia was a disco-funk project with the legendary bebop saxophonist Benny Golson, on the cusp of his own comeback.
Golson was at high school with John Coltrane. He featured in a deadly late-fifties Jazz Messengers lineup; also Art Farmer’s Tentet. He wrote I Remember Clifford and Whisper Not.
It’s telling, how the jazz establishment has always despised this record. The title track was a humungous rare groove anthem, guaranteed to tear up a dance with its swinging, swaggering, musically-inspired upfulness, school of Walking In Rhythm and Music Is My Sanctuary.