Artist: 
The Blackbyrds

City Life

LP
€37,99

Release date: 30 May 2025

Article Number: 515690000

The album City Life by legendary jazz-funk ensemble The Blackbyrds, which topped the Billboard jazz charts, is being reissued by Jazz Dispensary Top Shelf! With ‘Happy Music’ and ‘Rock Creek Park,’ described by AllMusic as ‘one of the high points of “70s jazz-funk” and sampled by artists like De La Soul and Nas, the band is at the height of their hit-making powers. Cut from the original tapes (AAA) by Kevin Gray, pressed on 180 gram vinyl at RTI and packaged in a gatefold sleeve.

Tracklisting:

Side A

  1. Rock Creek Park

  2. Thankful 'Bout Yourself

  3. City Life

  4. All I Ask

Side B

  1. Happy Music

  2. Love So Fine

  3. Flying High

  4. Hash And Eggs