''Silhouettes'' is an album by keyboardist

Lonnie Liston Smith Lonnie Liston Smith Jr. (born December 28, 1940) is an American jazz, soul, and funk musician who played with such jazz artists as Pharoah Sanders and Miles Davis before forming Lonnie Liston Smith and the Cosmic Echoes, recording a number of ...

, featuring performances recorded and released by the

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label in 1984.Both Sides Now: Doctor Jazz Label Discography
accessed November 31, 2019

Reception

In his review for

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, Richard S. Ginell stated that the album, "continues the Lonnie Liston Smith string of sweetly ingratiating pop/jazz background albums. If anything, Smith's keyboard work is even more stripped down and lightly melodic than before, and his new cohorts create more mild-mannered, semi-funky backdrops that won't disturb anyone's sleep".

Track listing

All compositions by Lonnie Liston Smith except where noted # "Warm" (

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) − 3:09 # "If You Take Care of Me" ( Robert Thiele Jr.,

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) − 5:10 # "Silhouettes" − 4:38 # "Summer Afternoon" − 5:49 # "Enlightenment" (Robert Thiele, Jr., Sigerson, Smith) − 4:51 # "City of Lights" (Eric Paul Saunders) − 5:11 # "Once Again Love" (Tom Barney) − 5:02 # "Just Us Two" − 4:17

Personnel

− electric piano, acoustic piano * Premik − soprano saxophone, alto flute (tracks 1, 3, 4, 6 & 7) *Joy Askew (tracks 4, 5 & 7), Barry Eastmond (track 2), Robert Thiele, Jr. (tracks 2 & 5) − synthesizer *Abdul Wuali − guitar (tracks 4-6) *

Tom Barney Tom Barney is an American bass guitarist. Career Barney first came to prominence in the late 1970s, when he appeared on different jazz albums by Turk Mauro and Walter Davis Jr., following to appear on records by such artists as Chaka Khan, Ju ...

(tracks 2-5 & 7), Anthony Jackson (track 6) − bass * Buddy Williams − drums (tracks 2-7) *

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(tracks 1 & 4-6),

Kimati Dinizulu ''Nana'' Kimati Dinizulu (27 September 1956 – 7 July 2013) was an American virtuoso percussionist, widely acclaimed for his artistry with African percussion (including apentemma, apente, sankofa, kyene, djembe, and caxixi) in jazz, folk, c ...

(track 1), Robert Thiele Jr. (track 5), Keven P. Green (track 5), Miles Watson (track 5), Steve Thornton (tracks 2 & 3) − percussion *Donald Smith − lead vocals (track 2) *Babi Floyd, Kurt Yahjian − backing vocals (track 2)

References

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