The album starts off with a funk workout "Your body won't move, if you can't feel the groove." It features some of the great singers who recorded for Philadelphia International -- The Jones Girls, Teddy Pendergrass, Eddie Lavert and McFadden & Whitehead. Stevie Wonder is featured on "No Greater Love," blowing his trademark harmonica to great effect on this romantic instrumental which also features some nice piano playing from Leon. We are even treated to a salsa type rhythmic tune on "Latin Spirit," which is quite the fashion at this current time in world music. "I Ain't Jivin', I'm Jammin'" has been a club favorite for many years and still gets plenty of radio plays. It jogs along at a nice pace and has some nice Hammond B3 organ as well as Leon's great piano playing. "Low Down, Hard Times Blues" is a real blues tune with some nice sax and yet again Leon Huff's piano playing. A nice album and despite it being 19 years old doesn't appear to have aged much.

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