Gene Page - Hot City [Remastered & Expanded] (1974/2014)

FunkyTownGrooves 2014 reissue of Gene Page s, 1974, Hot City album has been released, fully expanded for the first time ever and contains two bonus tracks.
Liners Notes by Alex Henderson.
Digitally re-mastered from the original master tapes, by Sean Brennan at Battery Studios.
Arranger Gene Page's appealing orchestrations were a hallmark of million-selling hits by Barry White, various Motown acts, Johnny Mathis & Deniece Williams, Whitney Houston, Peaches & Herb, Kenny Rogers, The Righteous Brothers, Aretha Franklin, Elton John, The Whispers, Gladys Knight and a slew of others.

Gene Page s Hot City is one of the most soulful and romantic albums you ll ever hear, featuring the classics "She's My Main Squeeze" and "Satin Soul". These Page gems are timeless tracks, especially for all those romantic s cleaned in the ultimate sound quality from the original recording.

Hot City is one of the only fully instrumental albums arranged and conducted under the legendry Barry White & Gene Page, including superstar cameo s from Ray Parker Jr. on guitar, White himself on keyboards and Ed Greene on drums.

The album contains arrangements with dynamic ideas, inventive counterpoints and some of the most deliciously jazzed-up flourishes heard in popular music. It s a majestic combination of everything from R&B, jazz, to orchestral soul and classically-influenced easy listening something Page was doing before those folks in Philadelphia got famous for the same thing.