Earth Wind & Fire - Gratitude
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Artist: Earth Wind & FireEdition: Music CD
Format: Extra tracks, Live, Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 1999-07-27
Music Label: Sony
Soundtracks:
- Introduction
- Africano/Power
- Yearnin' Learnin'
- Devotion
- Sun Goddess
- Reasons
- Sing A Message To You
- Shining Star
- New World Symphony
- Interlude #1
- Sunshine
- Sing A Song
- Gratitude
- Celebrate
- Interlude #2
- Can't Hide Love
- Serpentine Fire/Saturday Nite/Can't Hide Love/Reasons
Free Music Notes for Gratitude
Free Music Review: Their best album ever
Hit: 5 Stars
Now that they had finally made it big, the group decided the best thing to do was go all-out, issuing a double album - one half studio, one half live. The live segments of this are among the best music the group has ever made, bringing the group's jazz leanings to the fore ("Sun Goddess"; "Reasons" - my god, I love the soprano sax on "Reasons" and the keyboards on "Sun Goddess"! This group could've definitely made it as a jazz ensemble), keep the energy level as high as possible ("Africano/Power"; "Yearnin' Learnin'", way better than the original - they untap its potential, channeling the energy and adding an awesome wah-wah guitar), give the hits wonderful makeovers ("Devotion"; "Shining Star") and put on a ridiculously entertaining live show. Plus that version of "Devotion" - slowed down, very emotional, with a great bit of audience participation near the end - is debatably my favorite Earth, Wind and Fire song. Yeah, that's a wonderful tune! Add that to the ambitious, excellent synthesis of world music, jazz, and funk "New World Symphony", and you've got a perfect live album. The studio side scales back the ambition considerably, but still results in some fantastically catchy pop songs - the uplifting Top 10 hit "Singasong"; the wonderful ballad "Can't Hide Love", with a strong, heavily accented Philip Bailey vocal and awesome hummed coda (Yeah, they're humming and it sounds awesome!) and the spry, bouncy, gospel-pop title song. I'm not big on the remaining two songs: "Sunshine" and "Celebrate", much like "Yearnin' Learnin'" or "Happy Feelin's", don't do anything the group hadn't done far better anywhere else, but they aren't too bad. But the live material is some of the best they ever cut, and the studio disc's no slouch either. It's not perfect, but it's damn close.
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Earth, Wind & Fire were consolidating their jazz influences into a tighter meld of funk and rock when Gratitude appeared near the end of 1975. Still, the improvisatory spirit burns hard on the three-quarters of the set taken from concert performances in the wake of That's the Way of the World's success. Highlights include hot takes on "Shining Star" and "Sun Goddess," as well as the studio cuts "Sing a Song" and "Can't Hide Love." --Rickey WrightDigipak reissue of 1975 album. 2001.
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