Here’s Sugar Loaf Mountain, from George Duke’s Brazilian Love Affair, one of the three essential albums of his, along with Reach For It and Frank Zappa’s Roxy & Elsewhere. That’s Ricky Lawson providing the crushing funk groove:
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