Slow Traffic to the Right
by Bennie Maupin
- Type: Album
- Released: April 1977
- Label: Mercury
- Country: United States
- Length: 32:29
- Community rating: 3.65/5 from 3 ratings
Album Notes & Community Reviews
Stepping out from his role in Herbie Hancock's Headhunters, multi-reedist Bennie Maupin delivers a slick, highly polished set of jazz-funk with 'Slow Traffic to the Right'. The production incorporates extensive synthesizer layering, tight slap-bass grooves, and smooth R&B vocal accents. It successfully captures the mid-70s transition of complex jazz fusion into more accessible, dance-oriented commercial formats.
Genres
Descriptors: Fusion, fusion, saxophone, groove-laden, rhythmic, melodic
Tracklist
- It Remains To Be Seen (8:03)
- Eternal Flame (4:35)
- Water Torture (4:53)
- You Know The Deal (7:08)
- Lament (1:54)
- Quasar (5:53)
Credits
- Onaje Allan Gumbs - arranged by, conductor, composed by, piano
- Patrice Rushen - clavinet, electric piano [rhodes], piano, clavinet piano Rhodes piano
- James Levi - drums
- Blackbyrd McKnight - electric guitar
- Eddie Henderson - flugelhorn, trumpet, flugelhorn trumpet
- Kraig Kilby - trombone
- Paul Jackson - bass [custom]
- Ralphe Armstrong - bass [g3 gibson]
- Bennie Maupin - Primary Artist, Composed By
- June Monteiro - Written-By
- Kevin Eggel Johnson - Written-By