Dreams (band)

Dreams was an American jazz rock band. She was one of the bands in the early days of jazz rock in the late 1960s and early 1970s; she recorded two albums for Columbia Records .

Band history

The formation Dreams was founded by Jeff Kent and Doug Lubahn , who composed and arranged all songs. Although initially founded as a trio, the band increasingly distinguished itself through its distinctive brass section .

Dreams chose Fred Weinberg as producer, composer and sound engineer for their first album , who had already produced albums for salsa musicians Eddie Palmieri , Tito Puente , La Lupe , Mongo Santamaría and Celia Cruz . Phil Ramone helped Weinberg record and mix the Dreams LP at the CBS studios in New York. The album was advertised full-page and discussed benevolently on the Billboard .

Dreams' second and final album, Imagine My Surprise , was produced in Memphis by Steve Cropper . In order to "help the audience to understand the group better", Cropper underlined the band in his production "funky, more commercial rhythms" while at the same time trying to "keep jazz in the foreground".

One of the main differences between Dreams and most other brass-heavy bands was the emphasis on spontaneity. The brass section "develops spontaneous arrangements while jamming , which always leave plenty of room for interpretation from evening to evening." Although Dreams did not have the commercial success of other fusion bands such as Chicago or Blood, Sweat & Tears , the group was the springboard for many later prominent fusion musicians.

Dreams was involved with the musical theme for The Dealers Sketch on the soundtrack of the film The Groove Tube (1974, with Richard Belzer and Chevy Chase ).

Musician

• Randy Brecker - trumpet , flugelhorn
• Michael Brecker - saxophone , flute
• Billy Cobham - drums
• Jeff Kent - keyboard , guitar , vocals
• Doug Lubahn - electric bass , vocals (directed Clear Light and played bass for The Doors )
• Barry Rogers - trombone , Wagner tuba (later played for James Taylor , Aretha Franklin and Spyro Gyra )
• Edward Vernon - vocals
• John Abercrombie - guitar
• Angel Allende - percussion (later played for Harry Belafonte , Lonnie Liston Smith and Bette Midler )
• Bob Mann - guitar, flugelhorn, vocals (later with Mountain ; session musician for Gloria Gaynor , Bonnie Raitt and James Taylor )
• Will Lee - electric bass (later in the CBS Orchestra under the baton of Paul Shaffer , the house band of the David Letterman show, but also performed with Barbra Streisand , Gloria Estefan , George Benson , Bob Mintzer , Steely Dan , Donald Fagen , BB King , Cat Stevens , Michael Bolton , Ringo Starr , Gloria Estefan & the Miami Sound Machine, Cyndi Lauper , James Brown , Cher , Al Green , Billy Joel , Liza Minnelli , Frank Sinatra on)
• Don Grolnick - keyboard
• Alan Schwartzberg - drums (later with Mountain and Roxy Music )
• Steve Gadd - drums (later with Paul Simon, among others )

Discography

• Dreams (1970)
• Imagine My Surprise (1971)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Introducing Dreams on Columbia Records . In: Billboard . November 7, 1970, p. 11. Retrieved August 15, 2011.
2. ↑ Dreams . In: Billboard . November 21, 1970, p. 78 (accessed January 6, 2012)
3. ↑ Bob Glassenberg: Studio Track . In: Billboard . September 11, 1971, p. 4. (accessed January 6, 2012)
4. ^ Bill Milkowski: Liner notes, Dreams . Columbia Records, 1992.
5. ↑ Information (IMDb)

Web links

• Michael Fitzgerald: Dreams Leader Entry (JazzDiscography.com) (accessed January 6, 2012)