Idris Muhammad: Power Of Soul (limited edition, numbered, 180g, white vinyl) [MUSIC ON VINYL]

Why you'll love it

Limited to 2,000 individually numbered copies on 180g white vinyl. Bob James arranged and conducted it, with Grover Washington Jr., Randy Brecker and Joe Beck in the band, and AllMusic's Thom Jurek counts it among the reasons Muhammad is regarded as 'the drumming king of groove.'

This edition

• Limited to 2,000 individually numbered copies
• 180g white vinyl
• Music On Vinyl pressing

About the album

Idris Muhammad grew up in New Orleans' 13th Ward next door to a dry cleaner's, and he'd later say the hiss of its steam presser shaped his hi-hat. At 14 he was playing on The Hawketts' 'Mardi Gras Mambo,' two years later on Fats Domino's 'Blueberry Hill,' and by the 1970s he'd made more than 150 recordings for Prestige, Blue Note and CTI.

Power of Soul, his third album, arrived in November 1974 and it's four long grooves: the title track, 'Piece of Mind,' 'The Saddest Thing' and 'Loran's Dance.' James's Fender Rhodes keeps it warm, Washington's saxophone floats over the top, and Muhammad holds the whole thing together without ever showing off. We've yet to meet a dry cleaner who can claim as much.

Tracklist

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Out August 28, 2026 on Music On Vinyl (cat# MOVLP738W), a reissue of the 1974 album.