Essentials [Original recording remastered, Import]

Grover Washington Jr. | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (February 25, 2003)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Original recording remastered, Import
• Label: Wea
• ASIN: B00008OQSU
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #599,813 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Just the Two of Us

2. Be Mine (Tonight)

3. Tell Me About It Now

4. Let It Flow

5. The Best Is Yet to Come

6. In the Name of Love

7. Winelight

8. Jamming

9. East River Drive

10. Cassie's Theme

11. Jet Stream

12. Inside Moves

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

This collection contains the most popular hits of jazz saxophonist Grover Washington Jr. The tracks on this disc, taken from 1979 to 1984, are from Washington's successful stint on the Elektra label, which followed his long association with Motown/CTI in the '70s and preceded his '80s and '90s releases on the Columbia-Sony label. Featuring Washington's trademarked, blues-based sax lines, these sides with percussionist Ralph MacDonald, bassist Marcus Miller, and drummer Steve Gadd yielded tracks with some of the saxophonist's most high-powered vocal guests. There's the Afro-Caribbean tinged "Just the Two of Us," with Bill Withers's down-home vocals, and Patti Labelle's gospel-honed performance on "The Best Is Yet to Come." Instrumentally, Washington swings on the in-the-pocket "Let It Flow (for Dr. J.)" and lays down jazzy reggae riddims on his bouncy cover of Bob Marley's "Jamming." These cuts by the late saxophonist are the building blocks of today's contemporary jazz. --Eugene Holley Jr.

Product Description

Featuring a dozen remastered love songs by the world-famous jazz/R&B/pop sax player who helped define smooth jazz in the late 70s & early 80s. Elektra. 2003.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5.0 out of 5 stars A good anthology of his Elektra days, December 10, 2005

By 

Henry Cooper ""Still One Me"" (Atlanta, GA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Essentials (Audio CD)

I'm really enjoying now. Just purchased this on tape for a very low price. This man had it all in his Spirit when he's playing. Nobody can do it nor feel the sound of this Sax-Sensational Genius of all Mr. Grover Washington, Jr. He consider to me as my All-Time Main Sax Player and truly on my Top Lists, no matter what. That boy can play and blow his chops. Like Marvin Gaye can sing like an instrument as with Ray Charles can sing like a whoever or plays professionally as a Art Tatum, Nat Cole, or else Duke Ellington.

Good work on this anthology and hopefully I'll hear the rest on other greatest hits and compilations, etc. RIP to the Genius that did it and help create this smooth jazz-Jazz Funk genre. A Absolute Must.