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George Benson — Give Me The Night George Benson was already a well established jazz legend when he began to make crossroads into the pop world. While many jazz aficiondos may have regreted the trend to commercialism in his music, it did help introduce a whole generation of music lovers, yours truly included, to jazz. Give Me The Night is the best ever fusion of jazz and pop. Quincy Jones had already established himself as the premier music producer with the success of Michael Jackson's Off The Wall. A big part of that album's success was the songwriting of Rod Temperton whose songs are featured prominently on Give Me The Night (including the title track). Other featured players include Patti Austin (she sings co-lead on Moody's Mood) and Lee Ritenour (plays beautiful acoustic guitar on Love Dance). |
