Extension of a Man by Donny Hathaway

Extension of a Man was Donny Hathaway's last solo studio album, released on Atco in 1973 with Arif Mardin producing, and it followed his Live set. Hathaway was singer, keyboardist, songwriter and arranger all at once, and the players around him include Stanley Clarke, then early in his career and known from Return to Forever, who turns up on two tracks, plus drummer Fred White, Maurice White's brother, who went back with Hathaway to his early days in Chicago and played his concert dates too.

It's soul music with room to breathe, and it holds "Someday We'll All Be Free", which became one of his best-loved songs. Hathaway died in 1979, and no other solo studio album followed.

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