Stevie Wonder: Innervisions (Tamla)

I WASN'T very impressed when Stevie played the songs from Innervisions live at the Newport Jazz Festival in July. When, later that month, his publicists blindfolded members of the press and played the album for them, I liked the album better — it is a great dance record, even if you're temporarily disoriented by sightlessness — but there's something questionable about devoting an entire piece to a joke that's in questionable taste. So I held off.