From the Jam Fans Forum 4 episode of the Where’d You Get Your Funk From? (No. 26) show, here are the 5 Greatest Jazz-Funk Albums of All Time picks from host Scott “DR GX” Goldfine; music & culture journalist and liner notes master A. Scott Galloway; funk crusader, educator and host of the Uncut Funk radio show, Phil Colley; and lifelong music devotee and host of the FJS (Funky, Jazzy and Smooth) with KD radio show, Karl A. Doss.
Each album image is linked to listen and purchase (shown in alpha order).
Mystic Voyage (1975) – Roy Ayers
Music Is My Sanctuary (1977) – Gary Bartz
City Life (1975) – The Blackbyrds
Places and Spaces (1975) – Donald Byrd
Live in Europe (1976) – Billy Cobham/George Duke
Free as the Wind (1977) – The Crusaders
Those Southern Knights (1975) – The Crusaders
Man With the Horn (1981) – Miles Davis
On the Corner (1972) – Miles Davis
Reach for It (1977) – George Duke
Man-Child (1975) – Herbie Hancock
Every Generation (1980) – Ronnie Laws
Don’t It Feel Good (1975) – Ramsey Lewis
Come Into Knowledge (1977) – Ramp
Shout It Out (1977) – Patrice Rushen
Reed Seed (1978) – Grover Washington Jr.
Mobo I & II (1984) – Kazumi Watanabe
Believe It (1975) – The New Tony Williams Lifetime
‘Nard (1981) – Bernard Wright
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