Feb 3, 2017
ALLMUSIC STAFF PICK
Phillip Bent The Pressure 1993 Jazz
If you watched BET in the 1990's, you likely crossed paths with the video for flautist Phillip Bent's banging cover of WAR's "The World is a Ghetto." Filmed in front of white studio backdrop and featuring Bent's stylishly besuited quartet, as well an intercut fly girl-style dancer, the track was one of the great forgotten hits of the "acid jazz" era. Bent's accompanying album, 1993's The Pressure, was an equally thrilling time capsule that, in retrospect, seemed to portend a progressive world, scored to a chic melange of jazz, hip-hop and R&B, that never quite materialized.
- Matt Collar
