Straight To The Bank (Remastered) Bill Summers

• 1Woo Me Baby03:55
• 2Your Love04:40
• 3Love, Not My Life03:54
• 4Olodo03:21
• 5Straight To The Bank03:40
• 6Creepy Crawlers / Landing And Visit04:58
• 7It's On My Mind04:40
• 8El Barrio05:40
• 9All I Want04:43
• 10Creepy Crawlers / Exit00:23
• 11Straight To The Bank (Disco Mix)07:25
• Total Runtime47:19

Info for Straight To The Bank (Remastered)

From Detroit, as a child, his mother influenced his musical path. In 1953 he was enrolled at the Detroit Conservatory of Music, where he learned Piano, Composition, and Theory for 5 of his 10 Years there. He spent 1970 to 1974 at the Michigan Conservatory of Music learning classical Piano, Composition, and Theory. Summers also attended the University of California, Berkeley, majoring in Ethnomusicology. He plays primarily on conga drums. Summers is probably most well-known due to his work with Los Hombres Calientes along with his friend and co-leader of the group, trumpeter Irvin Mayfield.

However, despite this musical relationship, Summers has a much longer musical career than that, often working behind the scenes on film scores for various movies such as The Color Purple and the television miniseries Roots with Quincy Jones. He also played with Herbie Hancock during the Headhunter years and is mentioned in passing by the liner notes of the Headhunters' 2003 release Evolution Revolution as contributing to that recording. His former wife is Yvette Bostic-Summers, who often sings on Los Hombres' albums.

Leo Miller, vocals
Virginia Ayers, vocals
Bill Summers, percussion, flute, vocals
Fred Washington, bass
Leon Ndugu Chancler, drums
Ray Obiedo, guitar
John Barnes, keyboards
Munyungo Jackson, timbales

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