''Like a River'' (1993) is the ninth studio album (10th overall) from the jazz group

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, and their fifth studio album (sixth overall) for

GRP Records GRP® Records (Grusin-Rosen Productions) is a jazz record label founded by Dave Grusin and Larry Rosen (producer), Larry Rosen in 1978. Distributed by Verve Records, GRP® was originally known for its digital recordings that focuses on its jazz ...

. The album was nominated for "Best Contemporary Jazz Recording"

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.The album reached a peak position of number three on ''

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'' Top Contemporary Jazz Albums chart. The tracks "My Old School" and "Dewey (for Miles)" are frequently included in Yellowjackets' set lists, the former being included in their live album "Twenty Five." The album is dedicated to the memory of

Jeff Porcaro Jeffrey Thomas Porcaro (; April 1, 1954 – August 5, 1992) was an American drummer, songwriter, and record producer. He is best known for his work with the rock band Toto but is one of the most recorded session musicians in history, working on ...

, who had died in 1992.

Track listing

Personnel

Yellowjackets *

Russell Ferrante Yellowjackets is an American jazz fusion band founded in 1977 in Los Angeles, California. History In 1977, guitarist Robben Ford, for his first solo album, recruited keyboardist Russell Ferrante, electric bassist Jimmy Haslip and drummer Rick ...

– acoustic piano, synthesizers *

Jimmy Haslip James Robert Haslip (born December 31, 1951) is an American bass guitarist who was a founding member of the jazz fusion group the Yellowjackets, which he left in 2012. He was also an early user of the five-string electric bass. Early life and ...

– 6-string bass, Tobias semi-hollow body electric bass, vocals * Will Kennedy – drums *

Bob Mintzer Robert Alan Mintzer (born January 27, 1953) is an American jazz saxophonist, composer, arranger, and big band leader. Early life Mintzer was born and raised in a Jewish family in New Rochelle, New York, on January 27, 1953. He attended the Inter ...

– soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone,

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, EWI Guest Musicians * Steve Croes –

Synclavier The Synclavier is an early digital synthesizer, polyphonic digital sampling system, and music workstation manufactured by New England Digital Corporation of Norwich, Vermont. It was produced in various forms from the late 1970s into the early 1 ...

Naná Vasconcelos Juvenal de Holanda Vasconcelos, known as Naná Vasconcelos (2 August 1944 – 9 March 2016), was a Brazilian percussionist, vocalist and berimbau player, notable for his work as a solo artist on over two dozen albums, and as a backing musician wi ...

– percussion, vocals * Judd Miller – EWI programming * Tim Hagens – trumpet * Bill Gable – vocals

Production

– producers *

Mick Guzauski Nathan "Mick" Guzauski is an American multi-platinum mixing engineer and sound engineer. His work spans a wide range of styles, including jazz, R&B, Latin, rock, pop, easy listening, funk and hip hop. He won a 2002 Latin Grammy for Thalía's ...

– recording engineer, mixing * Bill Jackson – overdub engineer * Michael Verdick – additional mixing * Chad Blinman – assistant overdub engineer, mix assistant * Gil Morales – assistant engineer * Kevin Gray – mastering * Michael Pollard – GRP production coordinator * Sally G. Poppe – production coordinator * Joseph Doughney – post-production * Michael Landy – post-production * Adam Zelinka – post-production * Andy Baltimore – GRP creative director * Margi Denton (Denton Design Associates) – design * Elizabeth Burrill (Denton Design Associates) – design * Richard Laird – photography * Gary Borman – artist management Studios * Recorded at

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(Los Angeles, CA). * Overdubs recorded at The Complex (Los Angeles, CA) * Mixed at The Complex (Los Angeles, CA). * Mastered at Location Recording Service (Burbank, CA). * Post-Production at The Review Room (New York, NY).

Charts

References

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