This was made in 1973, a period where African American music slipped the moorings of jazz, blues and Tamla Motown to head off into uncharted waters. For a decade or more, at the time we were growing up, no one seemed to take this kind of stuff seriously, as its extended compositions and concept albums shared too many features with prog. I know I bought Stanley Clarke in the '80s, but I think we listened with one eyebrow raised and a smirk playing on our lips.
But I think it was when I first heard Prefuse 73, whose very name was a tribute to that era, that I realised that fashions had come full circle again. No direct link from that to this, but it was probably around the same time (2004) that I bought this cosmic jazz suite.
Though music like this can sometimes be polarising, I neither love it nor hate it. I like it more than Journey to Love but less than Sextant.
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