All ’n All by Earth, Wind & Fire

All 'n All, Earth, Wind & Fire's eighth studio album, arrived on Columbia in November 1977, with Maurice White producing and steering a band at full strength. Philip Bailey's falsetto soars against Maurice's tenor, Verdine White's bass pops and rolls, Larry Dunn's keyboards and Minimoog glide overhead, and Al McKay and Johnny Graham's guitars lock into the rhythm while Andrew Woolfolk's sax and flute weave through that dynamic horn section.

It's a record that won't sit still in one genre: disco and deep soul, jazz shadings and pure funk, all bound up with the kalimba shimmer that was part of the band's signature. "Fantasy" is the one that turned up on the countdowns. The public ate it up: it went to number one on the R&B albums chart and number 3 on the Billboard 200, and it has since been certified triple platinum in the US.

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