George Howard - Love And Understanding (1991)

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Title: Love And Understanding
Year Of Release: 1991
Label: GRP [GRD-9629]
Genre: Jazz, Soul Jazz, Funk
Quality: FLAC (tracks + .cue,log,scans) | MP3/320 kbps
Total Time: 49:09
Total Size: 335 MB(+3%) | 117 MB(+3%)
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Tracklist

1 Hopscotch 5:22
2 Only Here For A Minute 5:21
3 Baby, Come To Me 6:34
4 Interlude 0:50
5 Love & Understanding 5:20
6 Everything I Miss At Home 5:11
7 Love Struck 5:17
8 Talk To The Drum 4:36
9 Red, Black 'N' Blue 5:11
10 Borad Street 5:10
George Howard - Love And Understanding (1991)

personnel :

George Howard - soprano sax, congas, 808 Drum Fill, drum programming
Victor Bailey - bass, synth bass, keyboards, drum programming, chimes
George Duke - keyboards, synclavier, synth flute, drum programming, KX88 Rhodes
Alex Acuna - percussion, congas
Lenny Castro - timbales, percussion, bongos
Munyungo Jackson - percussion, congas, shakers, shakere
Jerry Brown - live drum fills
Doug Grisby - drum programming, keyboards
Tim Gant - keyboard, synth strings, bass
Kevin Chokan - guitar, acoustic guitar
Alexandra Brown - background vocals
Carl Carwell - background vocals
Keith John - background vocals
Debra Parson - background vocals

After eight albums, the late soprano saxophonist George Howard found a comfortable and solid if slightly predictable niche in the intensifying realm of instrumental R&B. On Love & Understanding, his first original GRP outing (after a re-release of 1985's Dancing in the Sun), he sticks to the basic funk and romance formulas which made him one of the most consistent suppliers of sweet and nasty improvisational soul over the previous half decade. As always, his smooth yet bouncy lines and frequent circular breathing patterns stand out over the even most tried and true material, but he earns some kudos with "Talk to the Drum," an adventurous sax/percussion duet with masters Lenny Castro and Munyungo Jackson.~Jonathan Widran