Pleasure - Future Now (Fantasy Records 1979 /2013)

Released in our Jazz & Funk Classics series, Future Now was Pleasure's penultimate album for Fantasy Records. It saw the band experimenting with a new sci-fi influenced funk sound and gave them their biggest US hit Glide. The jazz funk influence of their mentor, ex-Crusader Wayne Henderson, who discovered them and took them to Fantasy is much less on this album, it being the first the Portland, Oregon funksters produced themselves. On Glide, Space Is The Place and the title track they created a slick contemporary sound. New notes on the album by Dean Rudland. 

 Alto Saxophone – Larry Williams
    Backing Vocals – Clydene Jackson, Julia Tillman Waters, Maxine Willard Waters, Pat Henderson
    Drums – Bruce Carter
    Electric Bass, Bass [Sok], Backing Vocals, Producer [Associate] – Nathaniel Phillips
    Electric Guitar, Acoustic Guitar, Backing Vocals – Marion "The Magician" McClain*
    Keyboards, Vocals, Backing Vocals – Donald Hepburn
    Keyboards, Vocals, Backing Vocals, Producer [Associate], Arranged By [Horns] – Michael Hepburn
    Percussion, Backing Vocals – Bruce Smith (2)
    Soprano Saxophone – Dennis Springer, Larry Williams
    Synthesizer [Moog], Programmed By – Tim Gorman
    Tenor Saxophone – Dennis Springer
    Trombone – Bill Reichenbach (2), Lew McCreary
    Trumpet – Jerry Hey
    Trumpet, Flugelhorn – Tony Collins
    Vocals, Backing Vocals – Sherman Davis