White Rabbit (album)

White rabbit
George Benson's studio album
Publication (s)	1972
Label (s)	CTI Records
Format (s)	LP, CD
Genre (s)	Jazz , soul jazz
Title (number)	5
running time	36 min: 04 sec
occupation	George Benson - guitar Jay Berliner - acoustic guitar Earl Klugh - acoustic guitar (on El Mar ) Ron Carter - bass Herbie Hancock - piano Billy Cobham - drums Airto Moreira - percussion , vocals Gloria Agostini - vibraphone , percussion Phil Bodner - flute , alto flute , oboe , cor anglais Hubert Laws - flute, alto flute, piccolo flute George Marge - flute, alto flute, clarinet , oboe, English horn Romeo Penque - English horn, oboe, alto flute, clarinet, bass clarinet Jane Taylor - bassoon Wayne Andre - trombone , baritone horn Jimmy Buffington - French Horn John Frosk - trumpet , flugelhorn Alan Rubin - trumpet, flugelhorn
production	Creed Taylor
chronology Beyond the Blue Horizon (1971) White rabbit Body Talk (1973)

White Rabbit is a jazz album by George Benson . It was recorded in November 1971 and released by CTI Records in 1972 . The title of the album refers to the Jefferson Airplane song White Rabbit written by Grace Slick .

background

On White Rabbit , George Benson, supported by well-known jazz musicians such as Herbie Hancock , Ron Carter , Billy Cobham , Airto Moreira and the then seventeen-year-old Earl Klugh , played soul jazz versions of hits like White Rabbit and California Dreamin ' with a Spanish touch by producer Creed Taylor and the arranger Don Sebesky with great orchestration.

In 2011, CTI released a remastered version for the 40th anniversary of the recording.

reception

John Kelman is cautious about the new edition of the album on All About Jazz :

“An anomaly in Benson's catalog, perhaps, and one with its fair share of weaknesses to offset its many strengths, this CTI Masterworks reissue of White Rabbit remains, in many ways, a curiosity that transitions between his more mainstream efforts and the soulful jazz / pop star he was about to become; not without its merits, but not essential either. "

“Perhaps an anomaly in Benson's catalog, and with its fair share of weaknesses to make up for its many strengths, this CTI Masterworks remake of White Rabbit remains a curiosity in many ways that crosses the transition between his more mainstream endeavors and soulful jazz / Marked the pop star he was about to become; not without value, but also not necessarily essential. "

Richard S. Ginell rated the album four out of five stars on Allmusic and wrote:

“For George Benson's second CTI project, producer Creed Taylor and arranger Don Sebesky successfully place the guitarist in a Spanish-flavored setting full of flamenco flourishes, brass fanfares, moody woodwinds and such. … In this prime sample of the CTI idiom, everyone wins ”

"For George Benson's second CTI project, the producer Creed Taylor and the arranger Don Sebesky successfully placed the guitarist in a Spanish-influenced environment full of flamenco flourishes, brass fanfares, atmospheric woodwinds and so on ... In this best example of a CTI idiom, everyone wins."

In the 1994 edition of the Penguin Guide to Jazz , Richard Cook and Brian Morton only rated the album with two stars and count White Rabbit with Body Talk (1973) and Bad Benson (1974) among the less successful productions from its CTI phase, " terribly poor work for someone who had worked on Miles in the Sky [by Miles Davis ] a few years earlier . "

Track list

1. White Rabbit ( Grace Slick ) - 6:55
2. Theme from Summer of '42 ( Michel Legrand ) - 5:08
3. Little Train (from Bachianas Brasileiras No.2) ( Heitor Villa-Lobos ) - 5:47
4. California Dreamin ' ( John Phillips , Michelle Phillips ) - 7:22
5. El Mar ( George Benson ) - 10:49

Individual evidence

1. ↑ George Benson White Rabbit at discogs.com. Retrieved February 16, 2013 . 
2. ↑ George Benson White Rabbit Review at allaboutjazz.com. Retrieved February 15, 2013 . 
3. ↑ George Benson White Rabbit Review at allmusic.com. Retrieved February 16, 2013 . 
4. ↑ Cook / Morton 1994, p. 111 f.