The Pazant Brothers were the brainchild of Eddie and Al Pazant and had been gigging around in between Eddie’s stints in the horn section of the Lionel Hampton Band. In amongst certain very big Northern records and chunks of sweet harmony soul was some very fine funk, most of it featuring the Pazant Brothers band in some form or other. The latest of their subjects was the GWP Productions and Records Group. Fortunately for us the boys over at Kent have been looking for the same sort of thing for years, except they don’t really have much use for the rasping horns and the syncopated bass line, They are looking for that uptown soul beat, and so leave us all sorts of wonderful things to salve our appetite for the good groove.
Somehow the attraction of those shiny black circles is enhanced if they come from someplace with an almost mythical aura – Memphis, the windy city or possibly the Big Apple. There are certain things that we always like at BGP and foremost in that list is funky 45s with a groove.
