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10/28/25

Kool and The Gang

 
 

Kool Jazz 

 
 
Kool and The Gang – Kool Jazz

De-Lite Records 1973 – DEP 4001

 
 notes:

Kool Jazz is the second compilation album by the funk band 
Kool & the Gang, released in 1973 on De-Lite Records.

credits:

    Coordinator [Album Coordination] – Gene Redd*
    Design [Album] – Frank Daniel (3)
    Liner Notes – Bob Porter
    Producer, Arranged By – Gene Redd* (tracks: A2, A4, B1, B3, B5), 
    Kool & The Gang (tracks: A1, A3, B2, B4)


The selections are taken from four of their best-selling LPs: [A1, B4, and B2] 
are from "Good Times" (De-Lite 2012); [A3] from "Music Is The Message
(De-Lite 2011); [A2, B1, and A4] from "Live At P.J.'s" (De-Lite 2010); 
and [B5 and B3] are from "Kool And The Gang" (De-Lite 2003).


Recorded at: Media Sound/Bell Sound
Sombrero Sam, Dujii, & Lucky For Me were recorded live.
Recorded at: Media Sound/Bell Sound
Sombrero Sam, Dujii, & Lucky For Me were recorded live.

Tracklist:

A1        I Remember John W. Coltrane
Written-By – Ronald Bell
4:02
A2        Sombrero Sam
Written-By – Charles Lloyd
6:42
A3        Blowin' With The Wind
Written-By – Kool & The Gang
2:32
A4        Dujii
Written-By – R. Westfield*
6:02
B1        Lucky For Me
Written-By – Claydes Smith
3:02
B2        North, East, South, West
Written-By – Rick West*
3:36
B3        Breeze & Soul
Written-By – Gene Redd, Kool & The Gang
2:54
B4        Wild Is Love
Written-By – Geo. Brown*, Robert Mickens*
3:22
B5        Sea Of Tranquility
Written-By – Gene Redd, Kool & The Gang
3:34