Gears is Johnny Hammond's 1975 album with producers Larry and Fonce Mizell, the team behind Donald Byrd's run of jazz-funk classics, and it stands alongside that work at the peak of their sound. Hammond's organ and electric keys float over lush strings, wah guitar and deep pocket grooves, with Shifting Gears and Los Conquistadores Chocolates long since established as dance floor favorites and sampled widely by hip-hop and house producers. This deluxe 40th anniversary edition is newly transferred from the original masters and expanded with six previously unreleased tracks across two LPs.