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George Benson may be getting on in years, but in the 1970s, he was a strapping pop star, and his 1976 hit single “Breezin’” (the title track to that No.1 album!) barely disguising the talent that John Scofield once described to me, unprompted, as “freakishly great.” Good King Bad is a lost CTI classic from earlier that same year — a monster funk workout anchored by bassist Gary King and drummer Andy Newmark. The music courts popular tastes rather than clandestine club action, but don’t mistake accessibility for a deficit of funk. This record has got it in spades.

The Spinner BT sorted out the Good King album’s heavy ’70s overdubbing like a seasoned magician. Benson’s hollowbody electric guitar solos leapt from the speakers with the kind of bloom I normally associate with a SET amplifier. The stage spread wide, instruments layered cleanly from strings to drums, and the music pulsed with groove, propulsion, and ample energy. The Spinner BT’s strong motor drive paid real dividends in drive and punch. The top end glistened perhaps a shade too brightly, but I didn’t care — I turned it up, and got lost in the groove. Mission accomplished.