Invitation cover

Invitation

Released

Jazz drummer/composer Norman Connors’ 1979 Invitation is a feast of carefully orchestrated jazz-funk, two-step ballads and superbly played disco. Featuring lead vocals from Adaritha with the Jones Girls and Jean Carn on backing vocals and a roll call of quality jazz and R’n’B musicians, Invitation’s tracks are rich, detailed and perfectly constructed. Mainstream disco may have been begun to lose its appeal as it became over-commercialised by the end of the ‘70s, but the warm inviting production, together with the quality of the songs and the playing here lifts this up above average disco fare. 

Harold Heath

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