This is a little bit of a listening test from George Duke’s Brazilian Love Affair, again, with Ricky Lawson on drums. It would be easy for a lot of people to give this a cursory listen and dismiss it in ten seconds as a piece of lite R&B fluff, but it’s a great piece of music. If that isn’t immediately apparent, just take it on faith, give it a few listens through and try to figure it out:
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