DBMITW: Milton Nascimento with George Duke

George Duke's Brazilian Love Affair, again. Ao Que Vai Nascer, by Milton Nascimento. I'm glad someone put this onto YouTube, and you will be, too, in a moment:

Groove o' the day: Ricky Lawson — I Need You Now

Getting back to our regular stuff, here, we've got the groove for I Need You Now, from George Duke's Brazilian Love Affair, played by Ricky Lawson:

The accents are for the hihat part only. Visit the previous DBMITW post on this tune for audio.

DBMITW: more George Duke

This is a little bit of a listening test from George Duke's Brazilian Love Affair, again, with Ricky Lawson on drums. It would be easy for a lot of people to give this a cursory listen and dismiss it in ten seconds as a piece of lite R&B fluff, but it's a great piece of music. If that isn't immediately apparent, just take it on faith, give it a few listens through and try to figure it out:

DBMITW: George Duke

Here's Sugar Loaf Mountain, from George Duke's Brazilian Love Affair, one of the three essential albums of his, along with Reach For It and Frank Zappa's Roxy & Elsewhere. That's Ricky Lawson providing the crushing funk groove: