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Fly Away With In Flight

Thomas Magnum | NJ, USA | 11/29/2001

(4 out of 5 stars)

"After the mega success of Breezin', George Benson had a tough act to follow. With 1977's In Flight, he continues in the Breezin' vein with another sterling collection of jazz-r&b tunes. "Nature Boy" is a solid take on the old standard, but he really shines on the cover of War's "The World Is A Ghetto", in which he places some inspired riffs, and the beautiful "Valdez In The Country". In Flight again brought him into the top ten, but it, of course, failed to match the success of Breezin'."

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Henry Cooper | Atlanta, GA | 01/06/2005

(5 out of 5 stars)

"I actually love this album since I grew up heavily influenced on most album he put out like 1976's Breezin' (one of my favorites), 1977's, '79's or sumthin Livin' Inside Your Love and 1978's Weekend in LA (LIVE). This is the one that made it big but it failed to reach the commerical success of his previous album Breezin'. 'Cuz that album Breezin' he put out in '76 which one him his 1st Grammy and definitely became the 1st jazz album 2 go platinum. Yeah Big ol' George be putting some real stuff there. I seriously love every song that he did on this album.



1. Nature Boy- More of a sanctified song with a funky-jazz feel with strings attached to it. George will be doing the singing and scatting on this one along w/ his guitar.



2. Wind & I- Really love the tenderness that's in the song. Reminds me of my favorite of all-time of jazz guitarists, Mr. Norman Brown.



3. The World is a Ghetto- A deep cover from the classic remake from the group WAR which I like. It's real disco and more R&B looking



4. I'm Gonna Love You More- Takes me back aside the different artists I listen to Alicia Keys, Mary J. Blige, Bob James, Musiq, Herbie Hancock, Hubert Laws, Quincy Jones, etc. Love the sound of the flutes and strings that's doing that. Like to say a pure jazz song w/ some feel 2 it.



5. Valdez in the Country- Remake tribute to his idol, the late Donny Hathaway (one of my heroes of all-times, love how he sounds w/ his singing and playing similar to my labelmate Stevie Wonder which I'm a huge fan) who is also that same I told you, disco-funk.



6. Everything Must Change- We all that did that one, my main man Quincy Jones on the album "Body Heat" which I already have on LP but soon get it on CD to carry w/ me. This use to be my favorite songs of all-time b/c the power and the message to it. Makes u feel so spirituality.



Great job on this GB. Wish u all the success. Must-have."