lxxx. TAKE 6: I L-O-V-E You

lxxx. TAKE 6

I L-O-V-E You (1990)
Claude V. McKNIGHT III, first tenor or first voice
Mark Kibble, first tenor or second voice
Mervyn Warren, second tenor or third voice
David Thomas, second tenor or fourth voice
Cedric Dent, baritone or fifth voice
Alvin Chea, bass or sixth voice
(3:45)

longer version
(4:19)

From So Much 2 Say.

Warren and Kibble wrote it. "Love is patient / love is kind" is from 1 Corinthians 13:4-8, perhaps the best description of love ever written. (longer version only)

What this group does is so special and amazing. They write tight phrases of harmonic beauty and complexity and yet look like they're just making it up as they go along. It is exquisite music, accompanied by bass and percussion coming right out of their mouths.

The video is also quite striking and a little coy. The old days when VH-1 played jazz videos -- that's when I heard/saw them for the first time.

But not the last.