George Benson - Songs & Stories
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Artist: George BensonEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
CD Release Date: 2009-08-25
Music Label: Concord Records
Soundtracks:
- Don't Let Me Be Lonely Tonight
- Family Reunion
- Show Me The Love
- A Telephone Call Away
- Someday We'll All Be Free
- Nuthin' But A Party
- Come In From The Cold
- Exotica
- Rainy Night In Georgia
- One Like You
- Living In High Definition
- Sailing
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Free Music Review: HE SET THE STANDARD AND KEEPS IT HIGH 30+ YEARS LATER
Hit: 5 Stars
Although well-known and respected prior, George Benson's 1976 million-selling album "Breezin'," with its Record Of The Year Grammy Award winning cover of Leon Russell's "This Masquerade," almost single-handedly created the genre of contemporary/smooth jazz. Approximately 33 1/3 years later his new CD "Songs And Stories" proves he is still the master of the form and is still in top form both instrumentally and vocally.
Flawlessly produced and brilliantly recorded, "Songs And Stories" presents us with tunes by great writers such as James Taylor ("Don't Let Me Be Lonely Tonight,") Rod Temperton of Heatwave and "Thriller" fame ("Family Reunion"), Bill Withers ("A Telephone Call Away",) Tony Joe White ("Rainy Night In Georgia"), Smokey Robinson ("One Like You") and Christopher Cross ("Sailing"), all with those special, smooth George Benson vocals and guitar.
If George's presence alone is not enough for you, he has surrounded himself with a "who's who" of studio musicians and vocalists including co-producer Marcus Miller on bass, Greg Phillinganes and Rod Temperton on keyboards, Tom Scott and Gerald Brown on saxophones, Wah Wah Watson and Norman Brown on guitars, Paulinho Da Costa on perccussion and Lalah Hathaway and Patti Austin on featured and background vocals. Not surprisingly everyone is at the top of their game and George Benson is not afraid to step back and let them shine.
There is not a weak cut on the CD but my special favorites are "Show Me The Love" in which, for all intents and purposes, George becomes a member of Toto, the truly soulful rendition of Donny Hathaway's "Someday We'll All Be Free," the wonderful horn arrangement from Tom Scott on "Come In From The Cold," and the extended swinging tour-de-force "Living In High Definition" with its perfect cooling down successor "Sailing."
George Benson invented the formula and could just phone it in as some of his fellow smooth jazz artists sadly do and it would still work. But this is a vivid, engaging, energizing and delicious musical confection. Still breezin' after all these years - and we the listeners are the better for it.
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George Benson is truly a legend; a guitarist of unparalleled chops and a vocalist with great emotional range and sophistication, and his latest release finds him at his very best! Songs and Stories is a collection of tunes penned by some of the most prolific and enduring songwriters of the last half-century such as James Taylor, Smokey Robinson, Lamont Dozier, Bill Withers, Donny Hathaway, and several others. The album also includes guest performances by David Paich, Gerald Albright, Lalah Hathaway, Lee Ritenour, Norman Brown, Patti Austin, Steve Lukather, Tom Scott and many more.Jazz Music CDs
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