Lenny White
Lenny White , actually: Leonard White III (* 19th December 1949 in New York ) is an American jazz-rock - drummer . He was best known as the drummer for Chick Corea's Return to Forever band .
He taught as a teenager playing even with, then appeared in several local bands, belonged to George Cables and Clint Houston to house band of Slug's Saloon before it in the late 1960s regularly Jackie McLean starred. In 1969 he played with Miles Davis on the album Bitches Brew , which was recorded directly after the Woodstock Festival in just three days. The album was very unusual, was controversial, but sold outstandingly and is now considered the nucleus of fusion music.
In 1973 he went to the band Return to Forever. When the group broke up in 1976, his career as a band leader began. Since then he has produced more than thirteen albums, which, however, did not match his great successes with Miles Davis and Chick Corea.
White has played with many well-known jazz musicians in the course of his career, including Geri Allen ( The Gathering 1998), Freddie Hubbard , Joe Henderson , Woody Shaw , Gato Barbieri , Gil Evans , Andrew Hill , Stanley Clarke , Hiromi Uehara , Jaco Pastorius and Stan Getz , 2019 with Charles Tolliver ( Connect ).
In 1990 he was involved in the music for the film House Party .
Discographic notes
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- 1975: Venusian Summer (Nemperor)
- 1976: Big City (Nemporer)
- 1977: The Adventures of Astral Pirates (Elektra)
- 1978: Streamline (Elektra)
- 1979: Best of Friends (Elektra)
- 1980: 29 (Elektra)
- 1983: Attitude (Wounded Bird)
- 1983: In Clinic (DCI)
- 1995: Present Tense (Hip Bop / Koch)
- 1996: Renderers of Spirit (Hip Bop Essence)
- 1999: Edge (Hip Bop Essence)
- 2002: Collection (Hip Bop)
- 2004: Tribute to Earth, Wind, and Fire (Trauma)
- 2009: Jazz in the Garden ( Stanley Clarke Trio with Hiromi and L. W, Heads Up)
- 2010: Anomaly (Abstract Logigx)
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| SURNAME | White, Lenny |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | White, Leonard III (real name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American jazz drummer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 19, 1949 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | New York City , New York , USA |