Kool & The Gang – Live At P.J.’s [180 Gram]

The Record That Preceded the Soul-Jazz Movement: Kool and the Gang’s Funky Live at P.J.’s Thrills with Boundless Diversity, Virtuosic Interplay, and Contagious GroovesExperience the Exhilarating 1971 Album in Audiophile Sound: Mobile Fidelity’s Numbered-Edition 180g 33RPM LP Is Strictly Limited to 2,000 Numbered Copies and Plays with Exceptional Detail and ClarityMake it funky. Kool and the Gang do that and much more on Live at P.J.’s, a freewheeling concert album that both preceded the resurgent soul-jazz movement by decades and demonstrated the boundless diversity, virtuosic skill, arrangement chops, and contagious energy of a band that refused to be hemmed in to any particular style. Filled with then-new compositions, this wordless 1971 set comes on like one long, magnetic, ever-shifting groove. No less of an authority than James Brown said of Live at P.J.’s: ‘Don’t play this in the car when you drive. The groove is so funky, you’ll wreck.’ And con