Ray Obiedo (as guitarist) and Norbert Stachel (playing tenor sax as part of the Tower of Power horns) help turn the throbbing retro-soul meets Memphis-flavored soul jam Horn-afication into one of the most memorable cuts on keyboardist Roger Smith's Consider This. Smith begins with the moody undercurrent of the Hammond B-3 beneath the bright, percussive brass, then keeps that brooding texture going beneath a call and response between the horns and his happy-go-lucky keyboard melody. Smith lays back a bit after this on the gentle funk blues of Thinkin' Bout Ya! and the pleasantries of I'll Always Love You, which wouldn't draw much excitement but for vocals courtesy of the Temptations. Led by flügelhornist Mike Bogart, Just for Love plays like a languid Chris Botti tune. It's not until Smith gets back in your face with a raucous hip-hop cover of Michael Jackson's Remember The Time that he taxes his chops in the funk and improvisational areas. Odd that he chooses a cover to show some of his best piano work. Smith also goes hog wild on the percussive insanity of the fusion piece Hopscotch, which finds him racing circles around Michael Gregory's scorching electric guitar edges. Those whose heads are spinning after that will find solace in the gently rhythmic keyboard-acoustic guitar duet Workin' It, written by Peter White and featuring his friendly melodic grace. The two get a little more frisky on a bouncy cat-and-mouse approach to their other collaboration Uptown. Smith is sort of the anti-Steve Cole; while Cole thrives by keeping nearly every tune in a similar pocket, Smith does so by ordering the rhythmic and stylistic smorgasbord. ~ Jonathan Widran, Rovi

1		Horn-Afication
2		Thinkin' Bout Ya!
3		I'll Always Love You
4		Just for Love
5		Full Moon
6		Remember the Time
7		Hopscotch
8		Workin' It
9		Sweet Lady
10		Consider This
11		Uptown
12		No Clue