GEORGE BENSON Give Me The Night TEST PRESS Audiophile LP UK 2015 RE Funk SOUL
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GEORGE BENSON Give Me The Night TEST PRESSING LP UK 2015 (Warner Bros. / Qwest / Pure Pleasure) -/MINT- (new)
INFORMATION: Brand new unplayed TEST PRESSING. Only 5 Made
Product Details UPC: PPAN HS3453 Artist: George Benson Title: Give Me The Night
Stereo Recording
This is the peak of George Benson's courtship of the mass market -- a superbly crafted and performed pop album with a large supporting cast -- and wouldn't you know that Quincy Jones, the master catalyst, is the producer. Q's regular team, including the prolific songwriter Rod Temperton and the brilliant engineer Bruce Swedien, is in control, and Benson's voice, caught beautifully in the rich, floating sound, had never before been put to such versatile use.
On "Moody's Mood," Benson really exercises his vocalese chops and proves that he is technically as fluid as just about any jazz vocalist, and he become a credible rival to Al Jarreau on the joyous title track. Benson's guitar now plays a subsidiary role -- only two of the ten tracks are instrumentals -- but Q has him play terrific fills behind the vocals and in the gaps, and the engineering gives his tone a variety of striking, new, full-sounding timbres. The instrumentals themselves are marvelous: "Off Broadway" is driving and danceable, andIvan Lins' "Dinorah, Dinorah" grows increasingly seductive with each play. Benson should have worked with Jones from this point on, but this would be their only album together.
By Richard S. Ginell/AMG
Reviews: hifi news May 2015 by Ken Kessler
"Is it really 35 years since this stunning, Quincy Jones-produced release first appeared? Virtuoso jazz guitarist, Benson forged a mainstream soul/pop solo career with polished efforts like this, he post-rock era equivalent of the lounge balladry that, 25 years earlier, would have been Sinatra’s turf. The big difference, and the only aspect that dates it, is the use of a disco beat – de rigueur of the times. To remind those of you above a certain age and inform those of you below, this reached No l in the Soul and Jazz albums charts, and made No 3 in Billboard’s Pop Albums Charts, while the title track was a No l soul single". Slick? Believe it. KK
Sound Quality 89%
Audiohile Audition - Robbie Gearson Feb 2015
"The vinyl format defines the swirling textures of the sumptuous Quincy Jones production (similar to Michael Jackson’s Off The Wall). There are numerous players on every track".
http://audaud.com/2015/02/george-benson-give-me-the-night-qwest-records-warner-brothers-pure-pleasure-vinyl/
Personnel:Vocals – George Benson (tracks: A1, A3, A4, B3 to B6), Patti Austin (tracks: A3, B3) Guitar – George Benson (tracks: A1 to B1, B4 to B6), Lee Ritenour (tracks: A2, A4, B1, B4, B5) Bass – Abraham Laboriel (tracks: A1, A3 to B1, B3, B 4), Louis Johnson (tracks: A1, A2, B2, B6) Drums – Carlos Vega (tracks: B3, B5), John Robinson (tracks: A1 to B2, B4, B6)
Electric Piano – Herbie Hancock (tracks: A4, B4) Keyboards – Greg Phillinganes (tracks: A1 to A3, B6) Keyboards [Fender Rhodes] – Herbie Hancock (tracks: B3, B4) Percussion – Paulinho Da Costa (tracks: A1, A2, A4, B1 to B4, B6)
Saxophone, Flute – Kim Hutchcroft (tracks: A1, A2, A4, B1, B2, B5), Larry Williams (tracks: A1, A2, A4, B1, B2, B5) Synthesizer – Greg Phillinganes (tracks: A2, A3), Herbie Hancock (tracks: B2 to B5), Michael Boddicker (tracks: A4, B1, B4), Richard Tee (tracks: B4 to B6)Trumpet– Jerry Hey (tracks: A1, A2, A4, B1, B2, B5)
Backing Vocals – Diva Gray (tracks: A1, A4, B4), Jim Gilstrap (tracks: A1, A4, B4), Jocelyn Allen(tracks: A1, A4, B4), Patti Austin (tracks: A1, A4, B2, B4, B6), Tom Bahler (tracks: A1, A4, B4, B6
Tracklisting
Side A: 1.Love X Love 2.Off Broadway 3. Moody's Mood 4.Give Me The Night
Side B: 1.What’s On Your Mind 2.Dinorah, Dinorah 3.Love Dance 4.Star Of A Story (X) 5.Midnight Love Affair 6.Turn Out The Lamplight
Label: QWest
Cat No: PPAN HS3453
Format: 180 gram LP
Re-mastering by: Ray Staff at Air Mastering, Lyndhurst Hall, London
Recorded & Mixed by: Bruce SwedienProduced by: Quincy Jones
Recorded: 1980
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