Saturday 26 January 2019

For Y'all Players - 1987 Players

One of the greatest Jazz/fussion e'er made, amongst Jeff Berlin, Scott Henderson, T.Lavitz together with Steve Smith...amazing compositions together with performance, 8 tracks of gold!! Totally recommended for practiced Jazz - fussion lovers.

Recorded alive at Hop Sing's past times the Record Plant, Los Angeles, mobile unit of measurement # iii on Jan. 19, 1986.

Scott Henderson (born August 26, 1954) is an American jazz fusion together with blues guitarist best known for his function amongst the band Tribal Tech.
Born inwards West Palm Beach, Florida, United States, Scott Henderson began playing guitar at an early on age. His formative musical years were spent listening to rock, blues, funk, together with soul, piece his involvement inwards jazz developed afterward on, thank y'all to the music of John Coltrane, Miles Davis, together with others. He soundless professes to beingness a blues business office participant at heart.

After graduating from Florida Atlantic University, Henderson moved to Los Angeles together with began his career inwards earnest, playing stone amongst Twilight, a four-piece comprehend band that included Alice Long on bass together with vocals. Soon, Henderson was recording amongst violinist Jean-Luc Ponty, bassist Jeff Berlin together with "Players", together with Weather Report's Joe Zawinul. Henderson kickoff began receiving serious attending equally the master copy guitarist for the Chick Corea Elektric Band together amongst Carlos Rios. But he stayed alone half dozen months amongst Corea together with left after a disagreement.

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Terry "T" Lavitz (April 16, 1956 – Oct 7, 2010) was an American jazz-rock/fusion keyboardist, composer together with producer. He is best known for his function amongst the Dixie Dregs together with Jazz Is Dead.
Born on Apr 16, 1956, Lavitz grew upwards inwards New Jersey. He started taking pianoforte lessons at the historic menstruum of vii together with was offered a scholarship at the Interlochen Arts Academy inwards Michigan where he studied keyboard together with saxophone. After high schoolhouse he attended University of Miami's School of Music. In his senior yr at the UM he was asked to bring together the Dixie Dregs. He accepted the invitation together with played his kickoff exhibit inwards Jan 1980. 'Dregs of the Earth', released inwards 1980, was the kickoff Dregs album he could endure heard on. In 1981 he won the 'Best New Talent' category of Keyboard Magazine's Annual Readers Poll.

The Dregs broke upwards inwards Jan 1983 together with T Lavitz, Rod Morgenstein together with Andy West went on tour amongst one-time Little Feat guitarist/singer Paul Barrere. 'Extended Play', a 5 vocal EP, was released inwards 1984. The album too featured hereafter Dregs together with Steve Morse Band bass business office participant Dave LaRue. In 1985 Lavitz joined the Bluesbusters, a blues-rock quintet too featuring Paul Barrere, guitarist/singer Catfish Hodge, bass business office participant Freebo (Bonnie Raitt) together with drummer Larry Zack. They released ii albums together with toured extensively. His kickoff solo album 'Storytime' was released inwards 1986. The critically acclaimed 'Players' album amongst Jeff Berlin, Steve Smith together with Scott Henderson was released inwards 1987.

Jeffrey Arthur Berlin (born Jan 17, 1953) is an American jazz fusion bassist.
Berlin was born inwards Queens, New York, on Jan 17, 1953. He studied violin for 10 years until he was 14, when he was inspired to play bass after seeing the Beatles. He together with hence attended Berklee College of Music to report bass. Berlin's playing agency has been compared to that of Jaco Pastorius; however, Berlin has repeatedly stated his distaste for Jaco-imitators.
On August thirty 2013, he married Gabriela Sinagra, a jazz vocalist together with vocal coach from Rosario, Argentina.

Steven Bruce "Steve" Smith (born August 21, 1954) is an American drummer best known equally a fellow member of the stone band Journey, rejoining the grouping for the tertiary fourth dimension inwards 2015.[1] Modern Drummer magazine readers direct maintain voted him the #1 All-Around Drummer 5 years inwards a row. In 2001, the publication named Smith 1 of the Top 25 Drummers of All Time, together with inwards 2002 he was voted into the Modern Drummer Hall of Fame. He was inducted into the Rock together with Roll Hall of Fame equally a fellow member of Journey on Apr 7, 2017.

Smith received his kickoff drum kit at historic menstruum ii together with inwards 1963 he began taking formal lessons amongst local Boston expanse drum instructor Bill Flanagan, who played inwards big bands inwards the swing era. Smith got his kickoff “real” drum ready when he was 12 years old. On many nights, Steve could endure heard practicing inwards a small-scale shed inwards the backyard of his Harvard Street home. Smith performed inwards the park schoolhouse band plan together with garage bands piece inwards his teens, including Clyde, a South Shore sensation, simply too began to broaden his performing sense past times playing inwards a professional person concert band together with the big band at local Bridgewater State College.

Smith's kickoff “paid gig” was amongst a garage band. He graduated from high schoolhouse inwards 1972, together with at xix joined the 'Lin Biviano Big Band' playing amongst them for ii years. After high school, Smith attended the Berklee College of Music inwards Boston, Massachusetts studying amongst Alan Dawson.

He has worked equally a session instrumentalist for popular artists including Mariah Carey, Andrea Bocelli, Elisa, Vasco Rossi, Zucchero, Savage Garden, Bryan Adams, equally good equally world musicians Zakir Hussain together with Sandip Burman. Additionally, he has played amongst well-known jazz artists including Mike Mainieri's Steps Ahead, Wadada Leo Smith, Tom Coster, Ahmad Jamal, Dave Liebman, Larry Coryell, Victor Wooten, Mike Stern, Randy Brecker, Scott Henderson, Frank Gambale, Stuart Hamm, Dweezil Zappa, Anthony Jackson, Aydın Esen, Torsten de Winkel, George Brooks, Michael Zilber, Steve Marcus, Andy Fusco, Kai Eckhardt, Lee Musiker, Howard Levy, Oteil Burbridge, Jerry Goodman, Tony MacAlpine together with Bill Evans. Smith has led his ain jazz group, Vital Information since 1977.
In the early on 1990s, Smith studied amongst Freddie Gruber together with equally a result, his playing agency completely changed.

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I know this cd is out of impress long fourth dimension ago, simply if y'all are lucky to direct maintain this cd, y'all know what i`m talking about. This is the super cd past times super fusion grouping led past times Scott Henderson, Steve Smith, Jeff Berlin together with T. Lavitz. One of the best fusion albums from 80`s!

Track listing:

1. Crystal (T Lavitz) - 4:23
2. Valentine (Scott Henderson) - 5:28
3. 50/50 (Dave Wilczewski, Steve Smith) - 4:36
4. Vehicle (T Lavitz) - 4:18
5. Freight Train Shuffle (Jeff Berlin) - 5:26
6. Between Coming And Going (T Lavitz) - 5:25
7. The Creeping Terror (Scott Henderson) - 5:44
8. 20,000 Players (Jeff Berlin) - 6:39

Total Time: 41:56

Personnel:

T Lavitz - keyboards
Jeff Berlin - bass
Steve Smith - drums
Scott Henderson - guitar


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