Streamline (Lenny White album)
Streamline is the fourth studio album by drummer Lenny White, released in 1978 through Elektra Records and reissued in 2002 through Wounded Bird Records.[3] The album reached No. 27 on the Billboard Jazz Albums chart.[4]
Critical reception
Alex Henderson at AllMusic gave Streamline three stars out of five, saying that it "isn't a five-star gem, but it isn't bad either" and calling it a "generally decent, if mildly uneven, collection of instrumental jazz fusion and R&B vocal numbers." He noted White's cover of the Beatles' "Lady Madonna" as an "interesting" highlight; other songs such as "Night Games", "Struttin'" and "Pooh Bear" he described as "enjoyable even though they fall short of the brilliance of the material on The Adventures of Astral Pirates [1978] and Venusian Summer [1975]."[1]
Track listing
Personnel
- Lenny White – drums, percussion, production
- Chaka Khan – lead vocals (track 2)
- Dianne Reeves – vocals (track 4), background vocals
- Don Blackman – vocals (track 6), keyboard, Minimoog (track 4), synthesizer (track 7), Rhodes piano (track 10), piano (track 11), organ (track 3)
- Nick Moroch – guitar (except tracks 1, 3, 10)
- Jamie Glaser – guitar (tracks 1, 3, 10)
- Denzil Miller, Jr. – keyboard (track 8), Minimoog (track 9), rhythm arrangement (track 2)
- Larry Dunn – Minimoog (track 1), synthesizer programming, production
- Marcus Miller – bass
- Chris Brunt – engineering
- Richard Kaplan – engineering
- Steve Hirsch – engineering
- Don Mizell – executive production
References
