Fred Wesley & The Horny Horns & Maceo Parker – A Blow For Me, A Toot To You

A Blow for Me, a Toot to You is a 1977 album by funk musician Fred Wesley and the Horny Horns featuring Maceo Parker.
The album contains heavy participation by the P-Funk musical collective, including Garry Shider, Michael Hampton, and Jerome Brailey. The album also contains the heavily sampled track “Four Play” which, due to its title, prevented the track from garnering airplay when it was released as a single.
The album was produced by George Clinton and Bootsy Collins. It was reissued in 1993, first by P-Vine records in Japan, then by Sequel Records in the UK, and lastly AEM in the US. The reissue contains two new remixes of the tracks “Four Play” and “A Blow for Me, a Toot to You”, as well as an interview with George Clinton discussing the background of the recording. Years later, both Horny Horns albums were released on a two-CD set by WEA in the UK.
(Source : Wikipedia)

Track Listing:
1. Up For The Down Stroke - 9:10   2. A Blow For Me, A Toot To You - 7:20   3. When In Doubt: Vamp - 4:21   4. Between Two Sheets - 6:50   5. Four Play - 8:03   6. Peace Fugue - 6:00   7. A Blow For Me, A Toot To You 7:11   8. Four Play 7:07   9. Interview With George Clinton 2:03

Reviews:

1. AllMusic - Alex Henderson
Having been in the employ of James Brown, who gave them a first-class education in funk and soul, Fred Wesley and Maceo Parker were obvious choices to contribute to George Clinton's P-Funk empire (the Godfather of Soul was a major influence on Clinton). In 1977, Clinton and Bootsy Collins produced A Blow for Me, A Toot for You, the debut album by Fred Wesley & the Horny Horns -- a group that boasted Wesley on trombone, Parker on tenor and alto sax, and Rick Gardner and Richard "Kush" Griffith on trumpet. Clinton and Collins did a lot of the writing, and not surprisingly, much of this vinyl LP is pure P-Funk. The album gets off to a gritty start with a remake of Parliament's "Up for the Down Stroke," and the Parliament influence is equally strong on "Between Two Sheets." As for the instrumentals, "Four Play" blends funk and jazz, while Wesley's moody "Peace Fugue" isn't unlike something you would have heard on a CTI recording in the 1970s. "Peace Fugue," in fact, is the least Clinton-sounding thing on the LP. A Blow for Me, A Toot for You may not be in the same class as Parliament's Mothership Connection, Collins' Ahh...The Name is Bootsy, Baby! or Funkadelic's One Nation Under a Groove, but not many LPs were. Overall, it's a likable record that anyone who loves P-Funk should be aware of.