Since Sunday, I had been searching for online information about PRIDE 'N POLITIX to see if anybody else out there besides my blog visitors remembered them....and to see what had become of them following 1991's "Changes". Other than a few other music blogs discussing their hit single "Hold On", plus some assorted uploads to music videos on Youtube, the only other thing I could track down were a couple of websites dedicated to Nikki Romillie...er...Colonel Red. You can currently see a Wordpress blog about his latest music endeavors at http://rufflanguage.wordpress.com/ and an informative interview about his entire career at http://www.basic-soul.co.uk/features/Colonel-Red-33-page.htm, where PRIDE 'N POLITIX is only mentioned briefly. Wish he'd gone into greater detail about his former band and/or offered up some info about the other two members, but chances are, they're either performing solo themselves or are in some other way involved in the music recording business. In the meantime, I'm backing up a few years to Colonel Red's first solo album called "Blue Eye Blak". Whereas his latest offering, "Keep Walkin", is all about his strong, soulful voice, "Blue Eye Blak" can been seen as a funk-filled instrumental jazz album that concentrates on the grooves and the beats more so than the vocals. So, someone like me who's always game for anything that even comes close to sounding like jazz will feel right at home with this album. I didn't have any trouble at all finding a selection that was to my delight.....and I doubt you will either. Each one's at least 5+ minutes long—Track #2's "Gotta Be A Place For Us" lasts for a whopping 8 minutes!—which means you'll have some extra-long grooving to do. The saxophone isn't a major player this time, but there's a great solo coming from it on "Save A Prayer". The Colonel ups the tempo for a few minutes on my favorite track, "Movin On"; if there was a sub-genre called 'contemporary jazz-dance', this song would be the pioneer in defining it:
1. Blue Eye Blak
2. Gotta Be A Place For Us
3. Meet Me In The Middle
4. Sanctify
5. Save A Prayer
6. Everyday People
7. Freeze Frame
8. U Gimmi That Feelin
9. Movin On
10. Night Walker
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