I'm Under Your Spell b/w Sunshine Lady Jazz and art directed in accordance

and art directed in accordance with the band’s elaborate original stage props and artwork

Compiled here are 28 of the label’s enduring sides

The Gate City Of The South

drummer James Johnson

Washed out of the recording business by the age of 30

I'm Under Your Spell b/w Sunshine Lady Jazz and art directed in accordanceIn March of 1977, Minneapolis nonet Mind & Matter booked time at Creation Audio on Old Shakopee Road in suburban Bloomington to record Im Under Your Spell and Sunshine Lady. Written by a teenaged Jimmy Jam Harris, these danceable numbers document the prolific songwriter taking baby steps as a budding super producer. A percussionist turned pianist, Harriss playful use of glockenspiel would reappear in subsequent productions for S. O. S. Band,