Kool and the Gang 2017 The Now Now by design

The Now Now by design has fewer collaborators than Humanz

Clutching at Straws would prove to be Fish's swan song

Jacco Gardner showed himself to be the best kind of revivalist

and Smokey Robinson in developing the sound of contemporary jazz

" which may provide the name for this album but feels like an uninvited guest among these majestically melodic middle-of-the-road standards

Kool and the Gang 2017 The Now Now by designThe 1970 debut album from Kool and the Gang scored a couple of hits with The Gangs Back Again and the title cut, but more importantly, it heralded the arrival of what was to become a juggernaut on the R&B scene. This all instrumental record is years away from the commercial successes of Jungle Boogie and Celebration, and a few light years away stylistically, too. But that unique mixture of jazz, funk, and R&B punctuated by those tremendous horn