Breezin

Description

In 1976, George Benson redefined the world of jazz by garnering the first platinum jazz album with his trailblazing Breezin. A true virtuoso performance, the passionate 6-song set was produced by Tommy LiPumaand finds the gifted singer/guitarist flanked by keyboardists Ronnie Foster and Jorge Dalto, rhythm guitarist Phil Upchurch, drummer Harvey Mason, bass player Stanley Banks and percussionist Ralph MacDonald.

Leon Russells This Masquerade (the first song in music history to occupy the No. 1 spot on the jazz, pop and R&B charts), features a soulful vocal turn from Benson as well as his trademark guitar-voice scatting technique, and is the albums only non-instrumental. The other numbers include Bobby Womacks title cut, Phil Upchurchs Six To Four, Jose Felicianos Affirmation, and Bensons own So This is Love?

A career and music history making moment, Breezin stands as the biggest-selling jazz album of all-time! It was also nominated for multiple 1977 Grammy awards including Album of the Year and took home hardware for Best Pop Instrumental Performance, Record of the Year for Masquerade and Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical.