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    The Billboard Jazz Chart-topping album City Life by the legendary jazz-funk ensemble The Blackbyrds gets a Jazz Dispensary Top Shelf reissue! Featuring “Happy Music,” and “Rock Creek Park,” described by AllMusic as “one of the pinnacles of ‘70s jazz-funk” and sampled by the likes of De La Soul and Nas, the album finds the band at the height of their hitmaking powers.

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