James Brown : For Goodness Sakes, Look At Those Cakes
In January of 1979 James Brown released Take a Look at Those Cakes. The rollicking title track, a R+B #52 hit, celebrates the female body parts that make his "groove last long ". He even asks blind superstars Ray Charles and Stevie Wonder whether they've seen those cakes? This album would be followed later in 1979 by the even more unfortunate Original Disco Man.
Art Ensemble of Chicago : Dreaming of the Master
A surprising entry at #29 on the Village Voice's year end Pazz and Jop poll, Nice Guys is the first album in five years from Art Ensemble of Chicago and their first on the ECM label. "Dreaming of the Master" is a nod to the post bop sounds of Miles David and John Coltrane. Members of the band has played on Van Morrison's Astral Weeks a decade earlier.
Millie Jackson: Live and Uncensored (Polydor) 15;
Talking Heads: Fear of Music (Sire) 10;
Art Ensemble of Chicago: Nice Guys (ECM);
Steppin' With the World Saxophone Quartet (Black Saint import);
Van Morrison: Into the Music (Polydor) 10;
Miles Davis: Circle in the Round (Columbia) 10;
Neil Young + Crazy Horse: Live Rust (Warner Bros.) 10;
Robin Williamson and His Merry Band: A Giant at the Kindling (Flying Fish) 9;
James Blood: Tales of Captain Black (Artists House) 8;
Bread and Roses (Fantasy) 8.
Also, billed as the TV special of the year, The Music for UNICEF Concert: A Gift of Song was a benefit concert of popular music held in the United Nations General Assembly in New York City that aired on January 10, 1979. It was intended to raise money for UNICEF world hunger programs and to mark the beginning of the International Year of the Child.
The line up is a big deal at the time :
The Bee Gees
Olivia Newton John
Abba
Donna Summer
John Denver
Earth Wind + Fire
Elton John
Rod Stewart
Kris Kristofferson and Rita Coolidge
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