℗ 2023 Craft Recordings., Distributed by Concord.
| Released | May 19, 2023 |
| Duration | 38m 18s |
| Record Label | Craft Recordings |
| Catalogue No. | CR06330 |
| Genre | Jazz |
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1.1
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Theme For A New Day
Azar Lawrence |
5:19 | |||
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1.2
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The Awakening
Azar Lawrence |
6:45 | |||
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1.3
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Kickin' Back
Azar Lawrence |
6:42 | |||
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1.4
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People Moving
Azar Lawrence |
5:48 | |||
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1.5
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Can't Hide Love
Azar Lawrence |
4:12 | |||
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1.6
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Canticle For The Universe
Azar Lawrence |
4:53 | |||
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1.7
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Gratitude
Azar Lawrence |
4:39 |
Azar Lawrence’s final album for Prestige, 1976’s People Moving, saw him take different road from 1975's Summer Solstice. It was a more direct, yet slicker, excursion into jazz-funk that saw him team up with some of LA’s finest session musicians, among them Patrice Rushen, Jerry Peters, Lee Ritenour, Harvey Mason and producer/writer Skip Scarborough, who was working with Earth, Wind & Fire at the time. Significantly, the album included Lawrence’s take on two Scarborough-penned EW&F tunes, ‘Can’t Hide Love’ and ‘Gratitude’.
“It was quite different from my other two Prestige records,” admits Lawrence, though the album reveals that funk is a core part of the saxophonist’s musical DNA. “I played with an early version of [the West Coast band] War, also The Watts 103rd Street Band, and Ike & Tina Turner. I also took Maceo’s place with Fred Wesley’s Horny Horns when he went back to rejoin the James Brown organisation. So my roots are in funk and I’ve always been fond of that music because all those rhythms are African rhythms.”
192 kHz / 24-bit PCM – Craft Recordings Studio Masters
Tracks 1-7 – contains high-resolution digital transfers of material originating from an analogue master source
Tracks 1-7 – contains high-resolution digital transfers of material originating from an analogue master source
| Track title | Peak (dB FS) | RMS (dB FS) | LUFS (integrated) | DR | |
Album average Range of values | -0.20 -0.22 to -0.20 | -16.44 -17.88 to -14.97 | -12.93 -14.70 to -11.20 | 11 10 to 12 | |
| 1 | Theme For A New Day | -0.22 | -15.83 | -12.8 | 11 |
| 2 | The Awakening | -0.20 | -15.82 | -12.7 | 11 |
| 3 | Kickin' Back | -0.20 | -17.04 | -13.4 | 12 |
| 4 | People Moving | -0.20 | -14.97 | -11.2 | 10 |
| 5 | Can't Hide Love | -0.20 | -16.35 | -12.7 | 11 |
| 6 | Canticle For The Universe | -0.20 | -17.23 | -13.0 | 11 |
| 7 | Gratitude | -0.20 | -17.88 | -14.7 | 12 |