The Shadow Do

Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men? ...

... The Shadow Do

Where does the Shadow Do? ...

The Goodwill on Figueroa south of downtown L.A. ...

I picked this one up sometime last summer searching for sample material, and I still haven't quite gotten over the marriage of tone and rhythm that opens the album on 'Winding Roads':



Gary Bartz - Winding Roads (1975)

Turns out Gary is kind of a big deal. He bumped elbows with Miles Davis and Charles Mingus amongst others and managed to lasso the Mizell Bros. :


into the studio not only for the album pictured above, but also the 1977 release Music Is My Sanctuary. If Mizell is not yet a name in your household check out a compilation of theirs or two - they're the kind of albums that will make you look like a genius and win the approval even of strangers. This song, an outtake from Sanctuary, appears on a collection of the duos' output from their time at the Blue Note label:



Gary Bartz - Funked Up (1977)

But again, while the Mizells may have aided the Shadow in Doing it is, after all the Shadow and the Shadow alone who Does and so before I sign off here is a second piece of evidence that the Shadow does, in fact Do:



Gary Bartz - Love Tones (1975)