23/10/2025

Raul de Souza "Don't Ask My Neighbors" (1978) -Jazz Fusion / Jazz Funk-



Label : Capitol Records


Brésil Side 1

01 - Don't Ask My Neighbors (Skip Scarborough)
02 - La La Song (Harvey Mason)
03 - Daisy Mae (George Duke)
04 - Beauty And The Beast* (Wayne Shorter)
05 - Fortune (Raul de Souza & Marilyn Castles)

Side 2

01 - Overture (Michel Colombier)
02 - At The Concert (Michael Henderson)
03 - I Believe You* (Dick & Don Addrisi)
04 - Jump Street (Raul de Souza)


Produced by George Duke for George Duke Enterprises
Executive Producer : Larkin Arnold
Arranged by George Duke or *Raul de Souza
Recorded at Paramount Recording Studio, Los Angeles
Engineer : Kerry McNabb
Assistant Engineer : Mitch Gibson
Mixed at Paramount Recording Studio, Los Angeles
Mastered at Capitol Records by Wally Traugott

Musicians :
Raul de Souza : Souzabone, Tenor-Bass Trombone
Robert Popwell : Bass on Side 1, Songs 04 & 05; Side 2, Songs 01, 02, 04
Byron Miller : Bass on Side 1, Songs 01, 02, 03; Side 2, Song 03
Roland Bautista : Guitar on Side 1, Songs 02, 03, 04, 05; Side 2, Song 03
Charles 'Icarus' Johnson : Guitar on Side 1, Songs 01, 03; Side 2, Songs 01, 02
Bobby Lyle : Rhodes, Yamaha, Electric Grand on Side 1, Songs 02, 04, 05; Side 2, Songs 01, 03, 04
Dawilli Gonga : Rhodes, Yamaha on Side 1, Songs 01, 02, 03; Side 2, Songs 01, 02, 03, Synthesizer, Cabasa on Side 2, Song 03
Harvey Mason : Drums on Side 1, Songs 02, 04, 05; Side 2, Song 03
Leon 'Ndugu' Chancler : Drums on Side 1, Songs 01, 03; Side 2, Songs 01, 02, 04
Manolo Badrena : Percussion on Side 2, Songs 02, 03
Airto Moreira : Percussion on Side 1, Song 04; Side 2, Songs 02, 04
Azar Lawrence : Soprano, Tenor Saxes on Side 1, Songs 02, 05; Side 2, Song 03
Delbert Taylor : Flugelhorn on Side 1, Song 02

Background vocals :
Josie James on Side 1, Songs 01, 02; Side 2, Songs 01, 02
Sharon Hendrix on Side 1, Songs 01, 02, 05; Side 2, Songs 01, 02
Petsye Powell on Side 1, Songs 01, 02, 05; Side 2, Songs 01, 02