MARY WATKINS -Something Moving OVIVIA Linda Tillery Jazz R&B Funk Album Vinyl LP

Description: Denver-born and Howard University–educated jazz pianist Mary Watkins was a key player in the Women’s Music collective based around the Olivia label in the ’70s, appearing on many of the albums it released. She and singer-drummer Linda Tillery (a veteran of psych band the Loading Zone plus many records by people like Santana, Coke Escovedo, and Lenny White) led the movement within Olivia that spearheaded jazz, funk, and R&B as opposed to the more folky styles that were the label’s stock in trade. This album, which followed Tillery’s own classic self-titled album by a year, was Watkins’s debut LP and it allowed her to give full rein to all the music and ideas that had been steadily welling up inside her. Given the opportunity to put it all on wax, she didn't let the opportunity go to waste. The album kicks off with one of its two more “conventional” tracks, strategically placed at the beginning of each side. “Yesterday’s Children” is an up-tempo vocal song that leans in a somewhat disco direction and provides an accessible point of entry for the average 1978 listener before giving way to the album's true beating heart, an exquisite instrumental waltz entitled "Black Rap" reminiscent of something Catalyst or Kenny Barron might have done on Muse Records in the mid-seventies.

Price: 19.99 USD

Location: San Pedro, California

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