Leon Haywood – Intimate (Expanded) (1976/2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 47:06 minutes | 1,02 GB | Genre: Funk, Soul
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Columbia – Legacy
Born in Houston, he listened to the blues as a child and started playing piano at the age of three. In his teens, he performed with a local group and worked as an accompanist to blues musician, Guitar Slim. In the early 1960s, he moved to Los Angeles, California, where he worked with saxophonist Big Jay McNeely. McNeely arranged for him to record his first single, “Without a Love”, an instrumental on the small Swingin’ record label. After that, he joined Sam Cooke’s band as keyboardist until the singer’s death. Haywood next recorded two singles for Fantasy Records, and subsequently moved to Imperial Records, where he recorded the single “She’s with Her Other Love”, which made the R&B charts in 1965. He was also part of two session bands organized by Los Angeles disc jockey Magnificent Montague which issued the instrumental hits “Hole in the Wall” (R&B #5/Pop #50, 1965) under the name of The Packers, and “Precious Memories” (R&B number 31, 1967) as the Romeos.
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