J.A.L.N. Band - Life Is A Fight

Tight funk from the UK. Soulful, funky, smooth grooves with a hint of disco, kind of like George Clinton meets The Blackbyrds. Released on Magnet Records in 1976. People Think Again is dope, with a mellow groove and fitting vocals and Doin' A Parliament Thing is a nice imitation of the Clinton bands.
I'm not sure if it's true but I read that J.A.L.N. stands for Just A Lot of Noise.

1. Welcome Child
2. Finding My Feet
3. Life Is A Fight
4. Ups & Downs
5. People Think Again
6. Disco Music - I Like It
7. Nothing Ever Comes That Easy
8. This 'Ere Feelin
9. Let's Do It Now
10. Doin' A Parliament Thing

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Rick Laird - Soft Focus

Rick Laird, most famous for his time playing bass with The Mahavishnu Orchestra, recorded this album for the Muse/Timeless label in 1976. However, this vinyl copy of mine wasn't released until 1979, so perhaps this is a re-release, maybe someone can shed some light on this. Anyway, this is much more straight jazz than The Mahavishnu Orchestra, although there is some electric involvement. The players are Joe Henderson, who also produced the date, on tenor saxophone, Tom Grant on piano and rhodes and Ron Steen plays drums. There's some really nice and mellow moments on this one, I especially like it when the rhodes and drums stay in the background accompanying Laird and his electric bass.

1. Outer Surge
2. Now You Know
3. Thorn In A White Rose
4. I Love You
5. Soft Focus
6. Tranquility
7. We'll Be Together Again
8. Epilogue

http://rapidshare.com/files/137985027/Rick_Laird_-_Soft_Focus.rar.html

Sundance - Sundance

This is a groovy one from my own neighbourhood of Sweden. A mixture of jazz and funk with some vocals, but its mostly instrumental workouts. Plenty of electronics going on. This one is pretty rare too, I imagine its even rarer outside of sweden so dont skip this one up now that you've come across it. Released on Harvest in 1976. The players are too numerous and I'm too tired to list them all, but check the back cover (included in the zip. file) for full details.

1. Yea Yea
2. Some Drunk
3. Buster
4. Aspects
5. So Soft

http://rapidshare.com/files/133162860/Sundance_-_Sundance.rar.html