Platinum Jazz

by WAR

Platinum Jazz cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: July 1977
  • Label: Blue Note
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 1:19:36
  • Community rating: 3.66/5 from 3 ratings

Artists on this release: Jerry Goldstein, Lonnie Jordan, Howard Scott

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Released as a double album on the prestigious Blue Note label, 'Platinum Jazz' collects WAR's most jazz-inflected instrumental cuts alongside expansive new material. The music is characterized by deeply syncopated funk rhythms, Latin percussion, and prolonged, highly interactive saxophone and harmonica improvisations. It highlights the formidable musicianship behind their massive commercial crossover success.

Genres

Descriptors: fusion, groove-laden, rhythmic, percussive, instrumental

Tracklist

  1. War Is Coming! War Is Coming ♪ (7:12)
  2. Slowly We Walk Together (5:53)
  3. Platinum Jazz (7:14)
  4. I Got You (6:04)
  5. L.A. Sunshine (11:52)
  6. River Niger (8:40)
  7. Hâ‚‚ Overture (3:59)
  8. City, Country, City (7:23)
  9. Smile Happy (3:59)
  10. Deliver The Word (5:53)
  11. Nappy Head (Theme From "Ghetto Man") (4:12)
  12. Four Cornered Room (7:15)

Credits

  • WAR - primary artist
  • Dick Sakahara - illustration [album cover lettering]
  • B.B. Dickerson - performer, written-by
  • Charles Miller - performer, written-by
  • Harold Brown - performer, written-by
  • Papa Dee Allen - performer, written-by

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