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MY NEW RELEASE!Check out www.chocolatestar.netGary loves to take nothing and out of nothing create something!.................................................. ...........................................................S o Good is our lastest release featuring the Legendary Richard "Groove" Holmes, Sonjia Rose on vocals and Gary Davis....................................................... ..........................................................St raight outta Camden, NJ it’s Chocolate Star. Starting in 1980 Chocolate Star served as the outlet for the music of Gary Davis. Gary started Chocolate Star with his long time Camden compatriot Dennis "DJ" Jones after a few years spent under the wing of Peter Brown at P&P Records. But Gary’s storied involvement in music goes back further than that, having studied composition and arrangement with the late jazz great Manny Albam. Gary’s musical education actually started earlier than that as one of the people he learned the most from was his Uncle, famed jazz organist Richard "Groove" Holmes. When you combined the funk Mr. Davis inherited from "Groove", with the street-sense of Peter Brown with the skillful composition and arrangements learned from Manny Albam, you’ve got Chocolate Star. Playing with a band composed of (very talented) people from his Camden neighborhood Davis released cut after cut of solid funk filled dance music. They’re all compiled here, from the Joe Sample inspired "Gee Dee", to one of first commercial releases to lay the beat down with a drum machine in "The Pop". Of course prominently featured is the legendary mover "Gotta Get Your Love". "Chocolate Star The Very Best of Gary Davis" has been assembled with Mr. Davis and whenever possible using Gary’s original masters. These cuts bridge the disco era, into Hop Hop and the earliest forms of House. Talented, versatile, and still able to get you out of your chair and shaking your behind... this is Chocolate Star. This is the very best of Gary Davis....................................................... ............................................................ .................................... Movies by Gary DavisJADE AND THE WHITE TIGER, SWEET & INNOCENT, THE SPANISH INN, A SINNER'S PRAYER, ZEN COUNT OSAKA HE IS A SPY, SHE IS A SPY, TERRORISM IS THE SKY, SHE IS A SPY-THE SEQUEL, SHE AIN'T NO SPY, A BULLET FOR BUCK, DUKE McCOY, THE NUBIAN VAMPIRE, and WE'RE ALL THAT........................................................ ............................................................ ...."CHOCOLATE STAR" The very Best of Gary Davis is now available at Traffic Entertainment out of Boston/Quincy, Ma.......................................................... ............................................................ Kenny Dope is working on another re-mix of some of my P&P tunes... Stone Throw is working on a few surpriese as well! James Paints has The Professor coming back doing vocals Traffic is doing a Miami Bass 12"......................................................... .........................................................Ecc entric producer Gary Davis' Chocolate Star Records would later issue bass records out of West Palm Beach but, in its early-'80s New Jersey days, the label was primarily an outlet for Davis' own P&P Records-style funkiness. A re-lick of "Gotta Get Your Love," which Davis originally wrote and produced for Clyde Alexander and Sanction, is among several songs derived from Davis' days with Peter Brown, but it's the Funkadelic-style freakout "The Professor's Here" and Chocolate Star cohort Dennis "DJ" Jones' early LinnDrum hip-hop jam "The Pop" that are the true gems of this archaeological dig.Reviewed by Jesse Serwer • January 1 2007