Part of You

One has to hand it to the Japanese for caring for the United States jazz tradition in all its guises better than people in the U.S. do. Consider this 1979 album by Eric Gale. While the funky rubric of soul-jazz was deeply informed by disco in the late '70s, that didn't mean the music being created was without considerable merit. This disc is a case in point – and it cannot be had in the United States. Teamed with the funk-jazz mafia of Richard Tee, Harvey Mason, Steve Gadd, Ralph MacDonald, Dave Grusin, and Grover Washington, Jr., as well as Charles Earland and Idris Muhammad on the stellar groove jam "Trio" (the album's highlight), Gale offers up six midrange tunes that run the gamut from deeply funky…

In this course you will contact your Divine Self and evolve your desire body–the part of your ego that is composed of desires–into a new field of awareness that responds to Divine Will and to your Divine Self rather than to mass consciousness or other people's desires for your life.
Evolving your desire body is more than changing what you desire. Your new desire body becomes a clear channel for the Divine to flow through you. You draw to yourself wonderful opportunities that were not possible before. You can create those things that truly fulfill you and enrich your life.

In the late 60s jazz was at a turning point. Soul music had taken much of its black audience and rock’s intellectualisation was eating up its support amongst college students. The usual story told is that jazz split between those who went out and those who tried to make people dance. The story is more nuanced, and ‘If You’re Not Part Of The Solution’ tries to tell that story.

Her 1988 album "You're a Part Of Me," included a hit cover of Aretha Franklin's “Ain't No Way.”