Sometimes you just have to relax and have a little fun.

Lenny White’s first album credit as a drummer, at the tender age of 19, appears on the landmark Miles Davis jazz-fusion album, Bitches Brew, in 1969. After surviving that intense trial by fire, the 1970s saw White joining Return To Forever, a group led by former Davis keyboardist Chick Corea, creating even more landmark jazz-fusion with the most virtuosic and innovative players in the genre.

In 1979, after a decade of demanding and complex drumming, walking a high wire of concentration and improvisation, White needed a different kind of outlet. A silly outlet. A funky outlet.

With that in mind, White formed Twennynine.

Made up of non-jazzers, Twennynine mostly focused on easy breezy pop-R&B, but they also liked to bring the fun and the funk. “Peanut Butter” takes a page out of Parliament’s playbook by adding a cartoonish element to Twennynine’s groovetastic licks. The track was a million miles away from White’s previous work and would prove to be the band’s biggest hit, peaking at #3 on the R&B chart and climbing up to the lower reaches of the Hot 100.

Twennynine only released three albums in total before White returned to serious jazz, but for the rest of his career he made sure to throw in the occasional more relaxed project. Although never again would he make anything as silly as “Peanut Butter.” Now get up and jam.