All killer and no filler?
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About 50/50! 
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Tried the new Bard AI to identify the model on the cover. Apparently the American actress Diana Sands.
Taken from a well known Bard.
"The ladies on the inside cover of Donald Byrd’s “Street Lady” are the album’s backing vocalists, Stephanie Spruill and Gwen Guthrie. Spruill was a session singer who worked with many artists in the 1970s, including Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye, and Quincy Jones. Guthrie was a singer-songwriter who had her own hit single in 1971 with “Supernatural Thing.” Both women were featured prominently on the “Street Lady” album, and their vocals helped to give the album its distinctive sound.
Here are some additional details about the two women:
- Stephanie Spruill was born in Washington, D.C. in 1950. She began her music career as a backing vocalist for the R&B group The Spinners. In the 1970s, she worked with many other artists, including Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye, Quincy Jones, and Donald Byrd. She also released her own solo album, “Stephanie Spruill,” in 1976.
- Gwen Guthrie was born in New York City in 1950. She began her music career as a songwriter in the 1960s. In the 1970s, she released her own solo albums, “Gwen Guthrie” (1971) and “Supernatural Thing” (1972). She also worked as a session singer for many artists, including Donald Byrd, Herbie Hancock, and Steely Dan. She died in 1979 at the age of 28."
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Here is the Donald Byrd Street Lady lineup from the album.
- Donald Byrd - trumpet
- Roger Glenn - flute
- Jerry Peters - piano, electric piano
- Fonce Mizell - clavinet, trumpet, vocals
- Fred Perren - synthesizer, vocals
- David T. Walker - guitar
- Chuck Rainey - electric bass
- Harvey Mason - drums
- King Errisson - congas and bongos
- Stephanie Spruill - percussion
- Larry Mizell - vocals, arranger, conductor
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Been checking out the AI options for answering questions online. Just shows that you can’t trust the technology yet, if ever!
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Glad your enjoying it @adeypoos
I can also recomend Star Bright recorded in New York in '59 with Hank Mobley, Wynton Kelly who’s piano sounds lovely on this session, Paul Chambers & Art Taylor 
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My first entry on this thread, as I haven’t bought any CD’s for years.
Bought these 4 on Saturday @ HMV in The Bull Ring Birmingham for less than £28 
, where as the 2 Jazz albums on Vinyl I also bought came to £57 
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Two of Camel’s finest!
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Really enjoyed listening to ’Moonmadness’ earlier, even the Bonus material, which I usually shy away from😊
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Don’t think my LP has any bonus tracks………
But it’s OK, my CD does
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The only 2 Camel albums I own.
I now own 5 I think😊
The last CD I bought was Spliff’s (Formerly the Nina Hagen Band) 1980 debut album “The Spliff Radio Show”. Not available to stream on Tidal or Quobuz I ponied up for an import CD.
Not just excellent musicians making great music, this album has great nostalgia value for me. I was a tween living in Munich with only American Forces Radio (talk about culture shock!) to keep me company in my native English, as I didn’t speak any German when we arrived.
Spliff made their concept album in English which helped cement it as an early favorite, though I enjoyed their German language albums just as much. Listening to it again 40 years later it’s stood the test of time for me, though I guess not so universally since their other albums are streamable.
