30/11/2024

Earth Wind & Fire "All 'N All" (1999) -Funk / Westcoast Soul-



Label : Sony Music Entertainment, Inc.


États-Unis 01 - Serpentine Fire (Maurice White, Verdine White & Sonny Burke)
02 - Fantasy (Maurice White, Eddie Del Barrio & Verdine White)
03 - In The Market Place (Interlude) 
04 - Jupiter (Maurice White, Verdine White, Larry Dunn & Philip Bailey)
05 - Love's Holiday (Maurice White & Skip Scarborough)
06 - Brazilian Rhyme (Interlude)
07 - I'll Write A Song For You (Al McKay, Philip Bailey & Steve Beckmeier)
08 - Magic Mind (Maurice White, Verdine White, Fred White, Larry Dunn, Philip Bailey & Al McKay)
09 - Runnin' (Maurice White,, Larry Dunn & Eddie Del Barrio)
10 - Brazilian Rhyme (Interlude) (Maurice White, Larry Dunn & Eddie Del Barrio)
11 - Be Ever Wonderful (Maurice White & Larry Dunn)

Previously Unreleased - Bonus Tracks

12 - Would You Mind (Demo Version of Love's Holiday)
13 - Runnin' (Original Hollywood Mix)
14 - Brazilian Rhyme (Recorded Live on Oct. 25, 1980, at Maracanazinho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)


Original Recordings Produced by Maurice White for Kalimba Productions
Engineered by George Massenburg

Originally Released in 1977 as Columbia 34905

Maurice White : Vocals, Drums, Kalimba
Verdine White : Vocals, Bass
Philip Bailey : Vocals, Congas, Percussion
Larry Dunn : Piano, Oberheim, Moog Synthesizer
Al McKay : Guitar
Fred White : Drums
Ralph Johnson : Drums
Johnny Graham : Guitar
Andrew Woolfolk : Tenor Saxophone

Our Horn Section :
Donald Myrick : Alto, Tenor & Baritone Saxophones
Louis Satterfield : Trombone
Michael Harris : Trumpet

Production Assistants : Verdine White & Larry Dunn
Vocal Collaborations : Maurice White & Philip Bailey 

Horn & String Arrangements by Tom Tom 84
Horn & String Arrangements by Eumir Deodato on "Brazilian Rhyme" & "I'll Write A Song For You"

Engineering & Remixing by George Massenburg
Additional Engineering by Warren Dewey
Mastered at The Mastering Lab by Mike Reese 

Horn Solos on "Runnin'" : Donald Myrick & Michael Harris
Guitar Solo on "Love's Holiday" : Johnny Graham & "Runnin'" : Al McKay

Special Thanks to the following Musicians :
Eddie Del Barrio & Skip Scarborough : Piano
Paulinho Da Costa : Percussion

Trumpets : Oscar Brashear, Chuck Findley & Steve Madaio
Trombones : George Bohannon & Garnett Brown
Flutes : Philip Ayling, Terry Harrington, Fred Jackson Jr. & Abe Most
French Horns : David Duke, Richard Klein, James M. McGee, Alan Robinson, Gale Robinson & Marilyn Robinson 
Tuba : Roger Bobo
Violins : Blanche Belnick, Ronald Clark, Harris Goldman, Jack Gootkin, Janice Gower (Concertmaster), Ruth Henry, Betty LaMagna, Carl LaMagna, Mary D. Lindquist, Sheldon Sanov, Haim Shtrum, Barry Socher, Lya Stern, David Stockhammer & Marcia Van Dyke
Violas : Norman Forrest, Renita Kove, Linda Lipsett & Barbara Thomason 
Cellos : Ronald Cooper, Jan Kelly & Daniel Smith
Bass : Susan Ranney & Meyer Rubin
Harp : Dorothy Ashby

Recorded at Hollywood Sound, Sunset Sound & The Burbank Studios, California 

Produced for Reissue by Leo Sacks
Mastered by Mark Wilder at Sony Music Studios, New York
Legacy A&R : Steve Berkowitz
Bonus Tracks Mixed by Paul Klingberg, Leo Sacks & Maurice White on February 27, 1999 at Magnet Vision Studios, Santa Monica, CA
Assisted by Cameron Marcarelli