02/11/2019

Twennynine Featuring Lenny White "Best Of Friends" (1979) -Jazz Funk-



Label : Elektra / Asylum Records


États-Unis Side One

01 - Citi Dancin' (Lenny White & Barry Johnson)
02 - Take Me Or Leave Me (Eddie Martinez)
03 - Best Of Friends (Lenny White, Denzil Miller & Leslie René)
04 - Peanut Butter (Donald Blackman)

Side Two

01 - Betta (Barry Johnson)
02 - Morning Sunrise (Donald Blackman)
03 - Oh, Sylvie (Denzil Miller & Valmon Burke)
04 - Tropical Nights (Lenny White)


Lenny White : Drums, Percussion, Synthesizer, Bat on Wall
Nick Moroch : Lead Guitars, Glockenspiel, Solo on "Tropical Nights" & "Oh, Sylvie"
Denzil Miller : Keyboards, Rhythm Guitar on "Oh, Sylvie"
Eddie Martinez : Guitars, Lead on "Tropical Nights", Solo on "Take Me Or Leave Me"
Barry Sonjohn : Bass & Vocals
Donald Blackman : Acoustic Piano, Organ, Electric Piano, Synthesizer, Clavinet & Vocals, Solo on "Tropical Nights"

Additional Musicians :
Percussion : Paulinho Da Costa
Horns : Louis Satterfield, Don Myrick, Andres Woolfolk, Michael Davis, Robert Bryant, Elmer Brown, George Bohannon, Garnett Brown, Sidney Muldrow & Marilyn Robinson
Los Angeles Strings
Synthesizer & Synthesizer Programming : Larry Dunn

Recorded at The Indigo Ranch, Malibu, May-June 1979
Engineers : Chris Brunt & Dennis Hansen
Cook & Second Engineering : Mark Elman & Jim Baron
Horns Recorded at Jennifudy Studios, Los Angeles
Strings Recorded at Warner Bros., Burbank Studios
Equipment : Mark Wissing (Hand Clapping) & Rick Thompson
Horns Arranged on "Citi Dancin'" by Lenny White, Eddie Del Barrio & Larry Dunn
Horns on "Tropical Nights" Arranged by Eddie Del Barrio & Larry Dunn
Strings on "Best Of Friends", "Tropical Nights" & "Morning Sunrise" Arranged by Jorge Del Barrio
Background vocals : Dee Dee Bridgewater, Lynn Davis, Barry Johnson, Donald Blackman & Googie Coppola
Vocal Orchestrations by Donald Blackman

Produced by Larry Dunn & Lenny White*
Executive Producer : Don Mizell
*Berry Boo Enterprises, Inc.