It’s My Pleasure

Billy Preston’s tenth album from 1975 saw him utilising the synth programming chops of Cecil and Margouleff, whose T.O.N.T.O. synthesiser is all over the album. Mostly written or co-written by Preston, it’s a soul/R’n’B album that despite the space-age synths still has a very down-home feel to it, mostly due to Preston’s warm and welcoming voice and the rich instrumentation courtesy of guest players like uber-guitarists Shuggie Otis and George Harrison and Stevie Wonder on harmonica. An overlooked album full of Preston’s impressive keyboard — piano, Rhodes, synth, organ and clavinet — wizardry.