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West Side Stories

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Released
  
November 8, 1994

Length
  
49:53

Recorded
  
1994

Label
  
Verve Forecast

Genre
  
Smooth Jazz Jazz fusion

Producer
  
Jeff Lorber, Marlon McClain Guy Eckstine

West Side Stories is the twelfth studio album by a Grammy Award nominated composer, keyboardist and pioneer of the smooth jazz genre, Jeff Lorber, released on Verve Forecast in 1994.

The collection of eleven songs written mostly by Lorber himself included several featured artists. Among them, Eric Benét, Paulinho da Costa, Paul Jackson, Jr., Michael Landau, Hubert Laws, Kongar-ol Ondar, CeCe Peniston, Kongar-ol Ondar, Paul Pesco (guitarist on the Madonna's The Virgin Tour), or Art Porter, Jr..

The album scored in the U.S. Billboard Top Contemporary Jazz Albums chart at number five.

Personnel

  • Jeff Lorber – writer, producer, engineer, arranger, piano, steinway piano, minimoog, wurlitzer electric piano, synthesizers, B3, percussion, electric bass, wa guitar, melody guitar
  • Eric Benét - writer, assistant producer, lead vocal, back vocal
  • CeCe Peniston - lead vocal
  • Shades of Soul - back vocal
  • Jeff Pescetto - writer, back vocal
  • Kongar-ol Ondar - throat singing
  • Gary Meek - soprano saxophone
  • Michael Landau - solo guitar, nylon, electric guitar
  • Paul Jackson, Jr. - rhythm guitar, electric guitar
  • Nate Phillips - electric bass
  • John Robinson - drums, loop
  • Paulinho da Costa - congas, shaker, castanets, percussion
  • Alec Milstein - writer, arranger, synth bass, percussion, electric bass, bass pops
  • Paul Pesco - rhythm guitar, wa-wa guitar, steel guitar
  • Marlon McClain - writer, rhythm guitar, steel guitar, electric guitar, producer
  • Hubert Laws - flute
  • Art Porter, Jr. - solo soprano saxophone, soprano saxophone
  • Sergio Gonzales - drums
  • Oliver Leiber - mutron, rhythm guitar
  • Guy Eckstine - executive producer
  • Jessica Lorber - associate producer, second engineer
  • Alan Meyerson - mix, live drums engineer
  • David Frank - assistant producer
  • Randi Bach, CPA - album coordination, business management
  • Nate Herr - product manager
  • Margery Greenspan - art director
  • Lili Picou - design
  • Dennis Keeley - photography
  • JHL Sound, Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles - recording studio, mix

    • References

    West Side Stories Wikipedia
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