This Time (Al Jarreau album)
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| Studio album by Al Jarreau | ||||
| Released | 1980 | |||
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Jazz R&B | |||
| Length | 42:19 | |||
| Label | Warner Bros. | |||
| Producer | Jay Graydon | |||
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This Time is the fourth studio album by Jazz vocalist Al Jarreau, released in 1980 on Warner Bros. Records. The release marked a change in Jarreau's sound to a more R&B-oriented flavor. As a result, the album achieved more success on the mainstream charts than his previous works, while also topping the Jazz Charts. It also reached #6 on the R&B charts and #27 on the Billboard 200.[2]"
This Time marked Jarreau's first foray into the top 40 on the Hot 200 or top ten on the R&B charts, as well as his first #1 on the Jazz charts.[3] His next album would prove even more successful, topping both the Jazz and R&B charts.
Track listing
- "Never Givin' Up" (Tom Canning, Jarreau) – 3:56
- "Gimme What You Got" (Tom Canning, Jarreau) – 3:43
- "Love Is Real" (Tom Canning, Jarreau, Tom Kellock) – 4:23
- "Alonzo" (Jarreau) – 5:25
- "(If I Could Only) Change Your Mind" (Tom Canning, Allee Willis) – 4:16
- "Spain (I Can Recall)" (Chick Corea, Jarreau, Artie Maren) – 6:31
- "Distracted" (Jarreau) – 5:51
- "Your Sweet Love" (Tom Canning, Jarreau, Tom Kellock) – 4:13
- "(A Rhyme) This Time" (Jarreau, Earl Klugh) – 3:42
Charts & Awards
"Never Givin' Up" peaked at #26 R&B, while "Distracted" and Gimme What You Got" peaked at #61 and #63 on the R&B charts.[4]
"Never Givin' Up" received a Grammy Award nomination for Best R&B Vocal Performance, Male in 1981, Jarreau's first nomination in the R&B field. It lost to Jarreau's Warner Bros. labelmate George Benson for the Give Me the Night album,[5] who had recently undergone a similar change in sound.[6]
Personnel
- Al Jarreau - lead vocals (All tracks), background vocals (tracks 1-3, 5, 7), vocal percussion (1, 4), rhythm arrangements (1-4, 7-9)
- George Duke - Fender Rhodes (tracks 1-8)
- David Foster - additional piano (track 2), Fender Rhodes piano (3, 9)
- Greg Mathieson - acoustic piano (track 1), synth strings (1, 3-5)
- Oscar Castro-Neves - acoustic guitar (track 1)
- Dean Parks - electric guitar (tracks 3, 5)
- Earl Klugh - acoustic guitar, rhythm arrangements (track 9)
- Tom Canning - Fender Rhodes piano (tracks 2, 4-5, 8), additional piano (3), rhythm arrangements (1-2, 5, 8), All pianos (5, 8), bells (8)
- Abraham Laboriel - bass (All tracks)
- Steve Gadd - drums (tracks 6-8)
- Ralph Humphrey - drums (tracks 1, 4-5, 9), percussion (4)
- Carlos Vega - drums (tracks 2-3)
- Earl Lon Price - saxophone (track 7)
- Jerry Hey - trumpet (tracks 3, 7), flugelhorn (1-2, 7-8), horn arrangements (1, 3, 7)
- Chuck Findley - trumpet (tracks 3, 7)
- Steve George - synthesizer (track 7)
- Jay Graydon - synthesizer programming (tracks 1-3, 5, 8), electric guitar (1-3, 5, 7-8)
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