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Echoes Of An Era
Chaka Khan / Freddie Hubbard / Joe Henderson / Chick Corea / Stanley Clarke / Lenny White · 1982 · Elektra
Personnel
When Lenny White played drums on Miles Davis's Bitches Brew in 1969, he was still a teenager and virtually unknown. The album that dissolved the line between jazz and rock turned out to be the session that launched his career.
Stanley Clarke helped define electric-bass fusion on Return to Forever (1972), yet a decade later he turned up in a very different room: Echoes Of An Era (1982), a session built around a pop/R&B singer performing straight jazz standards.