Platinum Collection

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合計収録時間 : 01:15:43
Personnel includes: Grover Washington Jr. (soprano & tenor saxophones, flute); Bill Withers, Patti Labelle, Grady Tate (vocals); Billy Childs (piano, synthesizer); Richard Tee (Fender Rhodes piano, keyboards); Marcus Miller (synthesizer, bass); Dexter Wansel (synthesizer); Eric Gale, Lee Ritenour (guitar); Cedric Napoleon, Abe Laboriel (bass); Steve Gadd, Harvey Mason, Buddy Williams (drums); Ralph MacDonald (congas, Syndrums, shaker, bells, percussion); Victor Feldman, Leonard "Doc" Gibbs (percussion). Producers: Grover Washington Jr., Ralph MacDonald, Dexter Wansel, Nathan Sassover. Compilation producer: Barry Benson. Engineers include: Richard Alderson, Pete Humphries, Dennis Sands. Includes liner notes by Janine Coveney. Digitally remastered by Dan Hersch and Bill Inglot (DigiPrep). Rhino in the U.K. issued this so-called Platinum Collection. It is a single disc of 13 tracks from Grover Washington, Jr.'s period with Elektra, beginning with 1980's Come Morning and running through 1984's Inside Moves, when he jumped ship for Columbia. There were certainly hit records during the period, "Winelight" being the biggest, and Washington's singles charted, but his albums had become lackluster and the compilers of this knew it, which is why there are cross-licensed tunes from other labels such as the smash duet with Bill Withers on the Ralph McDonald-penned "Just the Two of Us." Truth of the matter is, this is an exact copy of the WEA International compilation called Definitive Grover Washington, Jr.: The Elektra Years and the previous Rhino edition called 20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The Best of Grover Washington, Jr. It has little to recommend it. Any real Grover Washington collection has to include cuts from his Kudu and Motown periods just to get started. It is far more advisable to pick up the Hip-O collection entitled Ultimate Collection. ~ Thom Jurek
録音 : ステレオ (Studio)