''Live in Paris Zenith '88'' is the second live album by

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singer

Burning Spear Winston Rodney Order of Distinction, OD (born 1 March 1945), better known by the stage name Burning Spear, is a Jamaican roots reggae singer-songwriter, vocalist, and musician. Burning Spear is a Rastafarian movement, Rastafarian and one of the ...

, released in 1988. It was nominated for a

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for

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at the

32nd Grammy Awards The 32nd Annual Grammy Awards were held on February 21, 1990, and hosted by Garry Shandling. They recognized accomplishments by musicians from the previous year. Performers * Bette Midler - Wind Beneath My Wings * Gloria Estefan - Don't Wa ...

in 1990.

Track listing

#"Spear Burning" #"We Are Going" #"The Youth" #"New Experience" #"African Postman" #"Happy Day" #"Woman I Love You" #"Queen of The Mountain" #"Creation Rebel" #"Mistress Music" #"Built This City" #"The Wilderness" #"Driver" #"Door Peep" (only on double CD and vinyl) Content of 2CD Reissue in 2003 CD1 : #"Spear Burning" #"We Are Going" #"The Youth" #"New Experience" #"African Postman" #"Happy Day" #"Woman I Love You" #"Travelling" CD2 : #"Queen of The Mountain" #"Creation Rebel" #"Mistress Music" #"Built This City" #"The Wilderness" #"Driver" #"Door Peep" #"Old Marcus Garvey" #"Swell Headed"

Credits

*All songs written by

Winston Rodney Winston Rodney OD (born 1 March 1945), better known by the stage name Burning Spear, is a Jamaican roots reggae singer-songwriter, vocalist, and musician. Burning Spear is a Rastafarian and one of the most influential and long-standing roots a ...

*Executive Producer – Blue Moon Productions *Recorded in digital at the Zenith on May 19, 1990 with Mobile Studio Le Voyageur (Paris) *Sound engineer – Andrzej (Andy) Gierus *Assistant engineers – Rene Weiss, Pierre Allesandri and

Jonathan Dee Jonathan Dee (born May 19, 1962) is an American novelist and non-fiction writer. His fifth novel, ''The Privileges'', was a finalist for the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Early life Dee was born in New York City. He graduated from Yale Univer ...

*Mixed on 48 digital track at Marcus Studio Recording, London by

and

Nelson Miller Nelson Miller (12 November 1954 – 30 June 2019) was a Jamaican drummer and record producer. Miller was born and raised in Port Antonio.''Modern Drummer'', Volume 7, Issues 7-12, p. 20, 1983 Influenced by Lloyd Knibb, Carlton "Santa" Davis, an ...

*Assistant Engineer –

*Mastered by Tom Baker at Future Disc Systems, Hollywood, CA *Art concept and design – Jon Sellers and Virginia Hodge *Art work – Compodesign, Paris *Photos by Jean-Bernard Sohiez *This LP is dedicated to Florence *Love Always To All Burning Spear Fans *Thanks to Eric Greenspan,

and

for their trust and to Garance Production, Le Voyageur, Jeremy Jones (Marcus Studio Recording), Vu a la Tele, Duran Production,

Dennis Bovell Dennis Bovell (born 22 May 1953) is a Barbados-born reggae guitarist, bass player and record producer, based in the United Kingdom. He was a member of a progressive rock group called Stonehenge, who later changed name and became the British r ...

, Andy, Pascal Soalhat, Blue Moon Music and all the Burning Band.

Musicians

– lead vocal and percussion *

– drums * Devon Bradshaw – bass * Anthony Bradshaw – guitar * Lenford Richards – lead Guitar * Alvin Haughton – percussion *

Pamela Fleming Pamela Fleming (born 10 October 1957) is an American musician who composes and plays trumpet and flugelhorn. Born in New York City, her family moved to the suburb of New City, New York when she was a child. She grew up in New City and graduated ...

– trumpet *

Jennifer Hill Jennifer Lynn Hill (born 1969) is an American statistician specializing in causal inference with applications to social statistics. She is a professor of applied statistics at New York University in the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, an ...

– saxophone * Nilda Richards – trombone * Richard Anthony Johnson – synthesizer and keyboard

References

{{Authority control 1989 live albums Burning Spear live albums Slash Records live albums