{"product_id":"donny-hathaway-extension-of-a-man-speakers-corner","title":"Donny Hathaway - Extension Of A Man","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDonny Hathaway – lead vocals (A2-3, A5, B1-2, B5), electric piano, piano, organ (A5), bass (B1) \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.audiosoundmusic.com\/collections\/donny-hathaway\" title=\"Vinyl featuring Donny Hathaway\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #ff8000;\"\u003e[click here to see more vinyl\/SACD featuring Donny Hathaway]\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWillie Weeks – bass (A2 to A5, B2-3)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eStanley Clarke – bass (A1, B5)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGordon Edwards – bass (B4)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRay Lucas – drums (A2-4, B2-3)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFred White – drums (A5, B1)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGrady Tate – drums (A1, B4)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRick Marotta – drums (B5)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCornell Dupree – guitar (A2-5, B2-3)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDavid Spinozza – guitar (A2-3, B5)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKeith Loving – guitar (A3-4, B2-3)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHugh McCracken – guitar (A5, B4), banjo (B4)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePhil Upchurch, Joseph Bishop – guitar (B1)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRalph MacDonald – percussion (A3-4, B2, B4)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMarvin Stamm – trumpet (A1-2, B3-4)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDavid Newman – tenor saxophone (A5)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSeldon Powell – clarinet, tenor saxophone (B1, B3-4)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMyrna Summers \u0026amp; The Interdenominational Singers – choir (A1, B1-2)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCissy Houston, Myrna Smith, Sylvia Shemwell – backing vocals (B5)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOrchestra, Gene Orloff – concertmaster (A1)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eConducted by Donny Hathaway (A1)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eArranged by Donny Hathaway (A1 to B4), Arif Mardin (B5)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWritten by Donny Hathaway (A1 to A4, B1, B3), Edward Howard (A2), Al Kooper (A5), J.R. Bailey \u0026amp; Ken Williams (B2), Danny O'Keefe (B4), Leon Ware (B5)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e1 LP, gatefold jacket\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOriginal analog Master tape : YES\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHeavy Press : 180g\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRecord color : black\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSpeed : 33 RPM\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSize : 12”\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eStereo\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eStudio\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRecord Press : Pallas\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLabel : Speakers Corner\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOriginal Label : Atco\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRecorded October 11, 1971 – November 26, 1972 at A\u0026amp;R Studios, Atlantic Studios, Regent Sound and Bell Sound (New York) and Universal Recording Studio (Chicago)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEngineered by Phil Ramone (A1, B5), Gene Paul (A2-4, B2-4), Jimmy Douglass (A5), Murray Allen (B1)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eProduced by Arif Mardin ; Jerry Wexler (B5)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePhotography, art direction \u0026amp; album design by Jeffrey Blue\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLiner notes by Donny Hathaway, Nikki Giovanni\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOriginally released on June 18, 1973\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReissued in 2026\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTracks:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSide A :\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eI Love The Lord; He Heard My Cry (Parts I \u0026amp; II)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSomeday We'll All Be Free\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFlying Easy\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eValdez In The Country\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eI Love You More Than You'll Ever Know\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSide B :\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCome Little Children\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLove, Love, Love\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Slums\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMagdalena\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eI Know It's You\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReviews\u003c\/strong\u003e :\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e“Ranging from inner-city soul to orchestral grandeur to a bluesy ballad to easy-listening pleasantries, Extension of a Man was Donny Hathaway's most ambitious LP, the justly titled capstone to his phenomenal career. Coming, however, from one of soul music's most widely talented figures, this wasn't exactly a surprise; both of his previous studio full-lengths, Everything Is Everything and Donny Hathaway, treated soul as merely a starting point to express his multitude of ideas concerning music and arrangement, song and performance. On Extension of a Man, the ambition began and peaked with the opener, a six-minute orchestral piece titled \"I Love the Lord; He Heard My Cry, Pts. 1-2.\" Arranged and orchestrated for 45 musicians by Hathaway himself, it applied the buoyant optimism of Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue to a religious context, and segued smoothly into the transcendent \"Someday We'll All Be Free,\" one of Hathaway's most beloved songs. The next two pieces, \"Flying Easy\" and \"Valdez in the Country,\" were also Hathaway originals, first recorded during the late '60s as part of Chess studio groups; the first is a piece of pop-soul fluff lifted up by his superb reading, the second a smooth jazz-fusion jam with Hathaway illustrating on electric piano his excellent improv capabilities. \"Love, Love, Love\" and \"Come Little Children\" were the charting singles, the former a sublime love song heavily influenced by Marvin Gaye's What's Going On. Unfortunately, these disparate pieces, brilliant as they are, don't coalesce into a single work as well as on his masterpiece Everything Is Everything, but Hathaway never stops impressing with his conceptions of arrangement and performance. Crippled by depression, he would never release another solo album during the last five years of his life, though among the projects he'd hoped to record was the four-part concerto Life, to be performed by the Boston Pops Symphony Orchestra with him in the conductor's chair, and the score of an epic biblical film.” AllMusic Review by John Bush\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRatings\u003c\/strong\u003e :\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAllMusic : 4 \/ 5 ; Discogs : 4.47 \/ 5\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"AudioSoundMusic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":59105456161103,"sku":"SD 7029","price":38.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0575\/3811\/7783\/files\/Donny_Hathaway_-_Extension_Of_A_Man_0.webp?v=1792136155","url":"https:\/\/www.audiosoundmusic.com\/fr\/products\/donny-hathaway-extension-of-a-man-speakers-corner","provider":"AudioSoundMusic","version":"1.0","type":"link"}