Pucho & His Latin Soul Brothers: Super Freak (Vinyl LP)
Cubop Records
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The opening track on 1972's Super Freak is a brilliant, nearly side-long medley of three tracks from Curtis Mayfield's Superfly: the title track, Pusherman, and, of course, Freddie's Dead. Heavy, druggy, and psychedelic, with thick organ and wah-wah guitars, the medley sounds more like the psychedelic soul of War or even Funkadelic than the sparkling Latin jazz of Pucho's earlier albums. The rest of Super Freak is a little lighter in tone, but this is still the most groove-oriented and least overtly Latin jazz-oriented of this group's albums, trafficking instead in shuffling grooves like Oak Hurst's Art and vibes-led ballads like Judy's Moods and One More Day. Latin jazz purists may balk, but this later became a classic of the '90s acid jazz movement, which some sources date to the U.K. hip-hop group Galliano pinching a sample from this album's version of Freddie's Dead for the 1989 single Frederick Lies Still. -AllMusic Medley: Superfly / Pusherman / Freddie's Dead, Judy's Moods, Oak Hurst Art, S'cusa S'cusa (Why), Don't Mind the Tears, One More Day
The opening track on 1972's Super Freak is a brilliant, nearly side-long medley of three tracks from Curtis Mayfield's Superfly: the title track, Pusherman, and, of course, Freddie's Dead. Heavy, druggy, and psychedelic, with thick organ and wah-wah guitars, the medley sounds more like the psychedelic soul of War or even Funkadelic than the sparkling Latin jazz of Pucho's earlier albums. The rest of Super Freak is a little lighter in tone, but this is still the most groove-oriented and least overtly Latin jazz-oriented of this group's albums, trafficking instead in shuffling grooves like Oak Hurst's Art and vibes-led ballads like Judy's Moods and One More Day. Latin jazz purists may balk, but this later became a classic of the '90s acid jazz movement, which some sources date to the U.K. hip-hop group Galliano pinching a sample from this album's version of Freddie's Dead for the 1989 single Frederick Lies Still. -AllMusic Medley: Superfly / Pusherman / Freddie's Dead, Judy's Moods, Oak Hurst Art, S'cusa S'cusa (Why), Don't Mind the Tears, One More Day