Bob James & Earl Klugh - One On One [55]

Title: Bob James & Earl Klugh - One On One
Year/Genre/Sub-Genre/City: 1979, Contemporary Jazz, Jazz Fusion, Marshall, Missouri / Detroit, Michigan 10/26
Matrix #: FC 36241 (Tappan Zee / Columbia), label AL 36241
Condition: Ex (LM) | Members: Bob J (39' - ), Earl K (53' - ) | Producer: Bob James
Cultural Facts: [55]

1. Discovered at the Music Store: Earl Klugh was a Detroit teenager giving guitar lessons in a local music store when saxophonist Yusef Lateef heard him play. Lateef put the 15-year-old on his 1970 album Suite 16, so Klugh had a major jazz credit before he finished high school.
2. Too Loud for Him: In the mid-'70s Klugh briefly held the guitar chair in Chick Corea's Return To Forever, one of the loudest electric fusion bands of the era. His heart was in the nylon-string acoustic guitar, and he soon left to make the softer, melodic records he became known for.
3. A Grammy for the Duo: One On One paired Bob James's keyboards with Klugh's acoustic guitar over a rhythm section of Ron Carter, Harvey Mason and Ralph MacDonald. It won the Grammy for Best Pop Instrumental Performance, and the pair reunited for Two Of A Kind in 1982.