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With a restrained yet potent funk band and a few cameos from luminaries in the jazz world, Al Jarreau gets plenty of opportunities to wrap his rubbery, ever-changing timbre around an agreeable collection of tunes, the majority of which he wrote or co-wrote. Of the cover tunes, Jarreau completely transforms Kenny Loggins' "Wait a Little While," the Beatles' "She's Leaving Home" and Otis Redding's "Dock of the Bay" into personal vehicles for vocal acrobatics, and his own "Fly" revives his uncanny ability to skitter and sail along with a Brazilian-based rhythm track. Freddie Hubbard puts in a soulful guest appearance on flugelhorn on Dave Frishberg's "I'm Home" and applies a more outgoing obligato to "Fly"; Lee Ritenour and Paulinho Da Costa also make appearances on the record. While Jarreau could still be technically classified as a jazz singer at this point, he is really inhabiting a zone of his own.
© Richard S. Ginell /TiVo
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LYNN BLESSING, Keyboards, Organ, Synthesiser, Vibes - HANK CICALO, Engineer - LEE RITENOUR, Guitar - LARRY WILLIAMS, Additional Keyboards, Additional Synthesiser - Paulinho Da Costa, Percussion - Al Schmitt, Producer - Freddie Hubbard, Flugelhorn - Noel Newbolt, Co-ordinator Production - TOM CANNING, Keyboards, Piano, Writer, Synthesiser - Al Jarreau, Writer, Background Vocals, MainArtist - Joe Correro, Drums - Linda Tyler, AssistantEngineer - Jim Ryan, Additional Keyboards, Additional Synthesiser - Reggie McBride, Bass - John Sands, AssistantEngineer - Rick Ruggieri, Mixer
© 1978 Warner Records Inc. ℗ 1978 Warner Records Inc.
David Frishberg, Writer - LYNN BLESSING, Keyboards, Organ, Synthesiser, Vibes - HANK CICALO, Engineer - LEE RITENOUR, Guitar - LARRY WILLIAMS, Additional Keyboards, Additional Synthesiser - Paulinho Da Costa, Percussion - Al Schmitt, Producer - Freddie Hubbard, Flugelhorn - Noel Newbolt, Co-ordinator Production - TOM CANNING, Keyboards, Piano, Synthesiser - Al Jarreau, Background Vocals, MainArtist - Greg Mathieson, Writer - Joe Correro, Drums - Linda Tyler, AssistantEngineer - Jim Ryan, Additional Keyboards, Additional Synthesiser - Reggie McBride, Bass - John Sands, AssistantEngineer - Rick Ruggieri, Mixer
© 1978 Warner Records Inc. ℗ 1978 Warner Records Inc.
LYNN BLESSING, Keyboards, Organ, Synthesiser, Vibes - HANK CICALO, Engineer - LEE RITENOUR, Guitar - LARRY WILLIAMS, Additional Keyboards, Additional Synthesiser - Paulinho Da Costa, Percussion - Al Schmitt, Producer - Freddie Hubbard, Flugelhorn - Noel Newbolt, Co-ordinator Production - TOM CANNING, Keyboards, Piano, Synthesizer - Al Jarreau, Writer, Background Vocals, MainArtist - Joe Correro, Drums - Linda Tyler, AssistantEngineer - Jim Ryan, Additional Keyboards, Additional Synthesiser - Reggie McBride, Bass - John Sands, AssistantEngineer - Rick Ruggieri, Mixer
© 1978 Warner Records Inc. ℗ 1978 Warner Records Inc.
LYNN BLESSING, Keyboards, Organ, Synthesiser, Vibes - HANK CICALO, Engineer - LEE RITENOUR, Guitar - LARRY WILLIAMS, Additional Keyboards, Additional Synthesizer - Paulinho Da Costa, Percussion - Al Schmitt, Producer - Freddie Hubbard, Flugelhorn - Noel Newbolt, Co-ordinator Production - TOM CANNING, Keyboards, Piano, Writer, Synthesiser - Al Jarreau, Writer, Background Vocals, MainArtist - Joe Correro, Drums - Linda Tyler, AssistantEngineer - Jim Ryan, Additional Keyboards, Additional Synthesiser - Reggie McBride, Bass - John Sands, AssistantEngineer - Rick Ruggieri, Mixer
© 1978 Warner Records Inc. ℗ 1978 Warner Records Inc.
LYNN BLESSING, Keyboards, Organ, Synthesiser, Vibes - HANK CICALO, Engineer - LEE RITENOUR, Guitar - LARRY WILLIAMS, Additional Keyboards, Additional Synthesiser - Paulinho Da Costa, Percussion - Al Schmitt, Producer - Freddie Hubbard, Flugelhorn - Noel Newbolt, Co-ordinator Production - TOM CANNING, Keyboards, Piano, Synthesiser - Al Jarreau, Writer, Background Vocals, MainArtist - Joe Correro, Drums - Linda Tyler, AssistantEngineer - Jim Ryan, Additional Keyboards, Additional Synthesiser - Reggie McBride, Bass - John Sands, AssistantEngineer - Rick Ruggieri, Mixer
© 1978 Warner Records Inc. ℗ 1978 Warner Records Inc.
Eva Ein Loggins, Writer - LYNN BLESSING, Keyboards, Organ, Synthesiser, Vibes - HANK CICALO, Engineer - LEE RITENOUR, Guitar - LARRY WILLIAMS, Additional Keyboards, Additional Synthesiser - Paulinho Da Costa, Percussion - Al Schmitt, Producer - Freddie Hubbard, Flugelhorn - Noel Newbolt, Co-ordinator Production - TOM CANNING, Keyboards, Piano, Synthesiser - Al Jarreau, Background Vocals, MainArtist - Joe Correro, Drums - Linda Tyler, AssistantEngineer - Jim Ryan, Additional Keyboards, Additional Synthesiser - Reggie McBride, Bass - John Sands, AssistantEngineer - Ken Loggins, Writer - Rick Ruggieri, Mixer
© 1978 Warner Records Inc. ℗ 1978 Warner Records Inc.
LYNN BLESSING, Keyboards, Organ, Synthesiser, Vibes - John Lennon, Composer, Lyricist, Writer - Paul Mccartney, Composer, Lyricist, Writer - HANK CICALO, Engineer - LEE RITENOUR, Guitar - LARRY WILLIAMS, Additional Keyboards, Additional Synthesiser - Paulinho Da Costa, Percussion - Al Schmitt, Producer - Freddie Hubbard, Flugelhorn - Noel Newbolt, Co-ordinator Production - TOM CANNING, Keyboards, Piano, Synthesiser - Al Jarreau, Background Vocals, MainArtist - Joe Correro, Drums - Linda Tyler, AssistantEngineer - Jim Ryan, Additional Keyboards, Additional Synthesiser - Reggie McBride, Bass - John Sands, AssistantEngineer - Rick Ruggieri, Mixer
© 1978 Warner Records Inc. ℗ 1978 Warner Records Inc.
LYNN BLESSING, Keyboards, Organ, Synthesiser, Vibes - HANK CICALO, Engineer - LEE RITENOUR, Guitar - LARRY WILLIAMS, Additional Keyboards, Additional Synthesiser - Paulinho Da Costa, Percussion - Al Schmitt, Producer - Freddie Hubbard, Flugelhorn - Noel Newbolt, Co-ordinator Production - TOM CANNING, Keyboards, Piano, Writer, Synthesiser - Al Jarreau, Writer, Background Vocals, MainArtist - Joe Correro, Drums - Linda Tyler, AssistantEngineer - Jim Ryan, Additional Keyboards, Additional Synthesiser - Reggie McBride, Bass - John Sands, AssistantEngineer - Rick Ruggieri, Mixer
© 1978 Warner Records Inc. ℗ 1978 Warner Records Inc.
LYNN BLESSING, Keyboards, Organ, Synthesiser, Vibes - Otis Redding, Writer - Steve Cropper, Writer - HANK CICALO, Engineer - LEE RITENOUR, Guitar - LARRY WILLIAMS, Additional Keyboards, Additional Synthesiser - Paulinho Da Costa, Percussion - Al Schmitt, Producer - Freddie Hubbard, Flugelhorn - Noel Newbolt, Co-ordinator Production - TOM CANNING, Keyboards, Piano, Synthesiser - Al Jarreau, Background Vocals, MainArtist - Joe Correro, Drums - Linda Tyler, AssistantEngineer - Jim Ryan, Additional Keyboards, Additional Synthesiser - Reggie McBride, Bass - John Sands, AssistantEngineer - Rick Ruggieri, Mixer
© 1978 Warner Records Inc. ℗ 1978 Warner Records Inc.
Album review
With a restrained yet potent funk band and a few cameos from luminaries in the jazz world, Al Jarreau gets plenty of opportunities to wrap his rubbery, ever-changing timbre around an agreeable collection of tunes, the majority of which he wrote or co-wrote. Of the cover tunes, Jarreau completely transforms Kenny Loggins' "Wait a Little While," the Beatles' "She's Leaving Home" and Otis Redding's "Dock of the Bay" into personal vehicles for vocal acrobatics, and his own "Fly" revives his uncanny ability to skitter and sail along with a Brazilian-based rhythm track. Freddie Hubbard puts in a soulful guest appearance on flugelhorn on Dave Frishberg's "I'm Home" and applies a more outgoing obligato to "Fly"; Lee Ritenour and Paulinho Da Costa also make appearances on the record. While Jarreau could still be technically classified as a jazz singer at this point, he is really inhabiting a zone of his own.
© Richard S. Ginell /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 9 track(s)
- Total length: 00:39:04
- Main artists: Al Jarreau
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Warner Records
- Genre: Jazz
© 1978 Warner Records Inc. ℗ 1978 Warner Records Inc.
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