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| 1. | Drum Boogie
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| 2. | We Know
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| 3. | Forever
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| 4. | Dark Moon
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| 5. | Gazelle
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| 6. | If U Dare
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| 7. | Election Day
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| 8. | Coming Down
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| 9. | Catlett Out of the Bag
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| 10. | Water Changes Everything
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| 11. | Anthem
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| 12. | The Wait Has Lifted the Weight
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Jazz
Andrei Tommassi - Engineer, Mixing
Arjun Mitra - Cover Design
Bernard Wright - Composer, Keyboards, Piano, Soloist, Synthesizer Bass
Carl L. Hager - Liner Notes
Charles Fambrough - Bass (Acoustic)
Chris Williams - Lead, Vocals (Background)
Dan Koneff - Engineer, Mixing
Daniel Imana - Engineer
Danny Walsh - Sax (Alto), Sax (Tenor)
David Bendeth - Engineer, Guitar, Mixing, Soloist
David Gilmore - Composer, Guitar
Donald Blackman - Organ, Piano, Soloist
Dragan "Chach" Cacinovic - Mixing
George Coleman - Organ
George Colligan - Composer, Keyboards
Gregory Clarke - Lead, Vocals (Background)
Ian Boxill - Mixing
Irene James - Vocals (Background)
Jerry Z - Organ
Jimmy Herring - Guitar, Soloist
Joe Henderson - Composer
Lenny White - Composer, Drums, Engineer, Keyboards, Mixing, Musician, Orchestration, Percussion, Producer, Spoken Word
Lou Guisto - Engineer
Manfred Knoop - Engineer, Mixing
Manfred Koop - Mixing
Michael Weintrob - Photography
Michelle Weeks-Reynoso - Vocals (Background)
Mike Clark - Composer, Drums
Nick Moroch - Composer, Guitar, Soloist
Nicki Richards - Composer, Lead, Producer, Vocals (Background)
Pablo Arriya - Engineer, Mixing
Rennie Hurst - Composer
Richie Goods - Bass
Sammie Williams - Composer
Scott Liken - Inside Photo
Souvik Dutta - Project Coordinator
Stanley Clarke - Bass
Tim Ouimette - Trombone, Trumpet
Tom Guarna - Composer, Guitar
Vaneese Thomas - Lead, Vocals (Background)
Victor Bailey - Bass, Bass (Acoustic)
Vince Evans - Keyboards
Following his triumphant worldwide reunion tour with Return To Forever in 2008 and separate trio tours in 2009 with Chick Corea and Stanley Clarke and pianist Hiromi with Clarke, drummer Lenny White was primed to put out his own recording, his first as a leader in ten years. With Anomaly, the pioneering jazz-rock drummer returns to his roots, blending powerhouse backbeats and improvisational abandon in a bold, unapologetically aggressive manner that characterized the early 70s fusion movement. On that RTF tour he told sold-out crowds every night: ''This is not a boy band, this is a man band. And we need to take back the music as musicians.''
''And I really meant that,'' says White. ''We need to restart a revolution so that we can take back the music and stop the fluff. And I'm hoping that this new album is a representation of that.''
Accompanied by a crew of guitar killers in Jimmy Herring (Widespread Panic), Nick Moroch (a former member of White's Astral Pirates), David Gilmore, Tom Guarna and David Bendeth, keyboardists George Colligan, Bernard Wright, Donald Blackman (another Astral Pirate) and Vince Evans and bassists Victor Bailey, Richie Goods, Charles Fambrough and his RTF bandmate Stanley Clarke, White unleashes with Zeppelinesque fury on Anomaly, his tenth overall recording as a leader.
Largely self-taught on drums, native New Yorker White broke into the jazz world in 1968 with alto saxophonist Jackie McLean. The following year he participated in Miles Davis' Bitches Brew, generally regarded as the album that birthed the fusion movement. He subsequently recorded with a Who's Who in Jazz, including trumpeters Freddie Hubbard and Woody Shaw, tenor saxophonists Joe Henderson, Gato Barbieri and Stan Getz and renowned composer-bandleader Gil Evans, among others. As a member of Return To Forever from 1973 to 1976, White gained a solid reputation as one of the top fusion drummers of the day. ''I'm basically a jazz guy, and that's what I grew up playing,'' he says. ''But when this new thing happened with jazz-rock through Bitches Brew and bands like Tony Williams Lifetime and Return To Forever, I found myself on the ground floor of a movement. And this musical movement co-existed with other forms of music that came in during the latter part of the 20th century. I was fortunate when I started to make music,'' he continues. ''I made music at the same time that Igor Stravinksy was making music, at the same time that Jimi Hendrix and James Brown were making music, at the same time that Duke Ellington and Miles Davis and John Coltrane were making music. Led Zeppelin co-existed at the same time that Return To Forever did. All these artists co-existed at the same time and I listened to all that music and was influenced by all of it. So now when I put together an eclectic project I sometimes hear people say, ''Oh man, what is he trying to do? But the truth is, I'm not trying to do anything. I'm just representing the music that I came up listening to.''
He represents it well on Anomaly.
Lenny White
Active Decades: '70s, '80s, '90s and '00s
Born: Dec 19, 1949 in New York, NY
Genre: Jazz
Styles: Crossover Jazz, Funk, Fusion, Jazz-Funk, Neo-Bop, Post-Bop, Soul
A versatile drummer, Lenny White is still best-known for being part of Chick Corea's Return To Forever in the 1970's. White was self-taught on drums and he largely started his career on top, playing regularly with Jackie McLean (1968) and recording "Bitches Brew" with Miles Davis in 1969. White was soon working with some of the who's who of jazz including Freddie Hubbard, Joe Henderson, Woody Shaw, Gato Barbieri, Gil Evans, Stanley Clarke and Stan Getz among others. As a member of Return To Forever during 1973-76, White gained a strong reputation as one of the top fusion drummers, but he was always versatile enough to play in many settings. After the breakup of RTF, Lenny White headed several fusion projects but none of the recordings (for Nemperor and Elektra) have dated well at all, emphasizing commercial funk. However his work with the Echoes Of An Era and Griffith Park all-star groups were been more successful and he has been a valuable sideman for a wide variety of projects.
---Scott Yanow, All Music Guide |
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