No.45
LET IT ALL BLOW
THE DAZZ BAND
‘Danceable jazz’ was the raison d’être of the group that singer and saxophonist Bobby Harris wanted to form when he left jazz-fusion band Bell Telefunk in 1976 to start afresh – so he just squeezed the two words together.
The Dazz Band, a melange of regularly changing funk players signed to Motown, were staples of specialist club and disco charts throughout the 80s, but in the UK, only one single made the Top 40.
Let It All Blow wasn’t so much a title as a chant, as lyrically, the track contained little more. The numerous mixes of the song, including the basic 7”, were an exercise in showing off the band’s considerable funk.