MY WORLD 02/16/2018 Before Gerald Albright began charming

Before Gerald Albright began charming audiences with the sleek saxophone sound of his crossover jazz albums

the believably desperate "Down Again" (featuring a hair-raising vocal from Hughes)

and also brought back guitarist Ron Cornelius

Ron Tooley (horns)

while "Testify" owes as much to Caribbean grooves and soul as jazz

MY WORLD 02/16/2018 Before Gerald Albright began charmingDespite popular belief to the contrary, soul music was alive and well through much of the 1980s and '90s, but while Southern specialist labels like Malaco and Ichiban were still giving traditional R&B shouters a place to be heard, most of their records were made on the cheap with synths and drum machines taking the place of live bands and imaginative productions and arrangements. Thankfully, a new generation of soul enthusiasts has gotten into the