WINELIGHT
Winelight is a 1980 album by jazz musician Grover Washington, Jr. It received the Grammy Award for Best Jazz Fusion Performance in 1982. The album was released by Elektra Records. It includes the Grammy Award-winning hit "Just the Two of Us" sung by Bill Withers. The track "In the Name of Love" from the album was also released in rearranged form, without Washington's saxophone track, under the name of Ralph MacDonald and Bill Withers (on vocals). (More from Wikipedia)
Winelight by Grover Washington, Jr. was Ernie Guyton's curve ball in his birthday present to me; I had only vaguely heard of him but later read that he is one of the nation's leading saxophone players. I liked the album so much that I picked up a two-album retrospective by another of the smooth-jazz pioneers, George Benson that I enjoyed just as much. There were other albums as well, but these are some highlights that I remember. And that is just the kind of eclectic mix of albums that I gather myself on the too-few occasions that I go out shopping for records.
(November 2012)
