''The Music Band – Jazz'' is an album by

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, the fifth and final entry in their "Music Band" series, released on

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in 1983. It consists of outtakes from sessions for their 1979 albums ''

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'' and ''

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'', and features several lineups of the band which existed that year. War were no longer recording for MCA when this album was released, and no singles from the album were issued. Track one was probably recorded/written in 1979 when B. B. Dickerson was still in band and before Charles Miller was murdered. Track two could have been recorded/written anytime up to 1979. The non-pictorial covers used in the Music Band series continued on this, and the previous volume, '' The Best of the Music Band'' (1982) which has a blue cover. Unlike earlier volumes, the last two were not made with elaborate printing methods, but were manufactured using normal four colour printing, without metallic print, embossing, gatefolds or innersleeves.

Track listing

Side one

#"Five Spot" (

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, Harold Brown,

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, Charles Miller,

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) – 10:09 #"Half Note" (Allen, Dickerson, Jordan, Miller) – 10:00

Side two

#"E.R.A." (Allen, Brown, Ron Hammon, Jordan, Oskar, Luther Rabb, Rizzo, Scott) – 5:24 #"Koronos" (Allen, Brown, Jordan, Oskar, Rabb, Rizzo, Scott, Jerry Goldstein) #"Sometimes I Wonder (Is It for Real) (Allen, Brown, Jordan, Oskar, Rabb, Rizzo, Scott) #"A Pattern of Time (Allen, Brown, Jordan, Oskar, Rabb, Rizzo, Scott, Goldstein) – 14:55 (total for tracks 2,3,4)

Personnel

Only the following names are credited on the cover, without listing instruments, which are taken from previous albums. *

– percussion, vocals * Harold Brown – drums, percussion, vocals *Ron Hammon – drums, vocals *

– organ, piano, synthesizer, guitar, percussion, vocals *

– harmonicas, vocals *Luther Rabb – bass, vocals *

– saxophones, vocals *

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– guitar, vocals Not credited, but likely appearing on side one, as they are in the composer credits: *

– bass, vocals * Charles Miller – flute, saxophones, vocals Not credited, but appeared in most 1979 lineups, usually without composer credit, therefore possibly appearing on this album: *Alice Tweed Smith – vocals

Technical personnel

*Jerry Goldstein and Lonnie Jordon in association with Sylvester (Papa Dee) Allen and Howard Scott – producers *Chris Huston – recording and remix engineer *Kevin Gray – mastering *Leon Tsilis – album coordinator {{DEFAULTSORT:Music Band Jazz 1983 albums War (American band) albums MCA Records albums Albums produced by Jerry Goldstein (producer)