Credits
Main
Performer: The George Benson Quartet
Release Coordinator: Robert Silverberg
Overdubs:
Al Schmitt
Assistant Engineer: Koji Egawa
Producer: Kenny "Dope"
Gonzalez
Vocals (Background): Claudia Acuña
Drums: Cindy Blackman
Drums:
Steve Gadd
Engineer: Jon Fausty
Overdubs: Elliot Scheiner
Graphic Design:
Isabelle Wong
Bass: Christian McBride
Percussion: Luisito Quintero
Vocals
(Background): Richard Shade
Main Performer: The George Benson Quartet
Synthesizer
Arrangements, Organ (Hammond):
Ricky Peterson
Main Performer: George Benson
Engineer:
James Farber
Producer: Little Louie Vega
Photography: Kwaku Alston
Assistant
Engineer: Kayo Teramoto
Synthesizer Arrangements, Organ (Hammond):
Joe
Sample
Producer: Tommy LiPuma
Vocals (Background): Lisa Fischer
Vocals
(Background): Roy Ayers
Mastering: Doug Sax
Arranger: Arif Mardin
Drums:
Vidal Davis
Release Coordinator: Stuart Pressman
Timbales: Luis Conte
Bass:
Carlos Henríquez
Art Direction: Hollis King
Mixing: Steven Barkan
Photography:
Jeffrey Scales
Mixing: Bill Schnee |
 "I
was waiting to hear it. As a young musician I heard the sound vaguely in my head
but it was raw and undefined. I knew that what I wanted to hear had deep straight-ahead
jazz roots and at the same time was modern, funky and soulful. Then I heard George
Benson and there it was everything I had been waiting for. Before I had "officially"
decided to become a guitar player, George Benson was playing at a nearby club.
I was waiting on tables at the time and couldn't afford a ticket. It was pouring
rain so I ducked under an awning and peered through the crack in the door. Luckily
Mr. Benson was in my direct line of sight. Two exhilarating hours later, I didn't
know it, but the seeds of my future had been firmly planted that night."
- Joyce Cooling |  "George
and I go back over 30 years as friends. I've known him since the '60's of course,
since he was one of my all time favorite guitarists then, and still is. I recall
his playing with Brother Jack (McDuff) with the inimitable Joe Dukes." -
John McLaughlin | |
