Max Middleton & Robert Ahwai-Dick Morrissey & Jim Mullen-Another Sleeper & Cape Wrath (1979)

"Another Sleeper" and "Cape Wrath" are two fantastic jazz funk albums released in 1979 seventies by the progressive label Harvest, a subsidiary of Emi-Odeon.
Signed by musicians Max Middleton, Robert Ahwai, Dick Morrissey, and Jim Mullen.
Although for the vast majority of connoisseurs the language of funk-jazz is exclusive to North American musicians such as George Benson, Bob James or The Crusaders, something that on the other hand is not entirely true, we cannot forget that in Britain at the end From the 70s there was also a thriving jazz-funk scene, which was led by bands like Shakatak and Level 42.
This is one of the best albums of the genre made in Great Britain, with a charming and romantic sound of West Coast sound, although with a unique British sensibility, on much of the music of "Another Sleeper", particularly in the fluid rhythms of Robert Ahwai "Dance by the Light of the Moon" and Max Middleton's "Partial Eclipse / Total Madness", where the Fender Rhodes piano and lush string arrangements combine with a wonderful effect. "Another Sleeper" is associated with "Cape Wrath", the second album, by Morrissey & Mullen, which became one of the UK's most successful jazz-funk groups in the 1980s. Cape Wrath was also recorded for EMI's record label Harvest and featured many of the musicians who had appeared on "Another Sleeper," including Max Middleton and Robert Ahwai, which helped give a nice consistency of feel and style to both albums.
Along with the original compositions of the tenor saxophonist Dick Morrissey; "Return to Tooting Broadway" and guitarist Jim Mullen's "Cape Wrath" or "Night Song" also featured soul versions such as Bill Withers' "Lovely Day" or the jazzy "Soul Eyes" by Mal Waldron.
These works showed that, at best, British jazz-funk was easily equal to American jazz and in fact had its own identity and sound.