Consumer Guide Album

Millie Jackson: A Moment's Pleasure [Spring, 1979]
If only because it's so patently unlikely to result in dancefloor hits, the arrant discofication is annoying at first--these songs don't need David Van De Pitte's clamorous strings and horns or bass lines that pine for a kick-drum. But Brandye's back-ups add extra nuance to Jackson's ever subtler singing, and Clayton Ivy's guitar obbligatos insure a flow her declamatory approach often lacks. What's more, the disco touches lend Millie's bawdy moralism special relevance to the latest arena of modern hedonism. If only her lyric on "Seeing You Again" didn't sound like an ad for Eastern Airlines I'd be convinced she was above gross hedonism herself. B+