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Performance by Esther Phillips released in 1974. Find album reviews, track lists, credits, awards and more at AllMusic.
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- Mark's Music Collection - Jazz
Nov 19, 2011 · Esther Phillips: Performance. The decades-long battle with drug addiction, which ultimately led to her untimely demise, contributed to vocalist Esther Phillips' status as a tragic second-tier figure in the larger annals of popular music history, but her music itself was often a triumph of soul-stirring ecstasy.
Performance is her unheralded 1974 funky soul-jazz masterpiece, the fourth of seven albums she did for the Kudu label. Here, Phillips is at once commanding yet fragile, sassy yet vulnerable: On Dr. John’s “Such a Night” and Eugene McDaniels’ ahead-of-its-time “Disposable Society,” she sounds incontestably spirited despite subtexts ...
Performance, an Album by Esther Phillips. Released in 1974 on Kudu (catalog no. KU-18; Vinyl LP). Genres: Soul, Funk. Rated #1181 in the best albums of 1974. Featured peformers: Esther Phillips (vocals), Richard Wyands (piano), Gary King (bass), Bernard Purdie (drums), Charlie Brown (guitar), Ralph MacDonald (percussion), Hubert Laws (flute ...