{"id":4560,"date":"2014-08-21T08:31:30","date_gmt":"2014-08-21T08:31:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/administrator_wordpress\/index.php\/2014\/08\/21\/audio-fidelity-to-release-jazz-legend-george-bensons-breezin-on-multichannel-51-surround-sound-hybrid-sacd\/"},"modified":"2014-08-21T08:31:30","modified_gmt":"2014-08-21T08:31:30","slug":"audio-fidelity-to-release-jazz-legend-george-bensons-breezin-on-multichannel-51-surround-sound-hybrid-sacd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2014\/08\/21\/audio-fidelity-to-release-jazz-legend-george-bensons-breezin-on-multichannel-51-surround-sound-hybrid-sacd\/","title":{"rendered":"Audio Fidelity To Release Jazz Legend George Benson&#8217;s &#8216;Breezin&#8217; On Multichannel 5.1-Surround Sound Hybrid SACD"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1408601178981_45613\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0in;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.audiofidelity.net\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/BensonSACDMockupslipcase.preview.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"217\" height=\"188\" \/><br \/>Jazz  fans worldwide are buzzing with excitement over the release of  &#8216;Breezin&#8217; by legendary jazz singer and guitarist George Benson on Multichannel 5.1-Surround Sound Hybrid SACD from Marshall Blonstien&#8217;s Audio Fidelity. George Benson&#8217;s &#8216;Breezin&#8217; is the best-selling jazz album of all time. It is a true virtuoso performance: a four-time Grammy nominee and two-time winner, the first album by a jazz artist to earn platinum certification.  <!--more-->  <\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-bottom: 0in;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-bottom: 0in;\">Originally released in 1976, &#8216;Breezin&#8217;, spearheaded by the hit single \u201cThis Masquerade\u201d, was the album that first alerted the public at large to Benson&#8217;s talents. Long before that, however, he was known to jazz fans as \u201cvery probably the most gifted guitarist since Wes Montgomery.\u201d<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-bottom: 0in;\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1408601178981_50805\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0in;\">Produced by Tommy Lipuma, Breezin&#8217; features Benson with keyboardists Ronnie Foster and Jorge Dalto, rhythm guitarist Phil Upchurch, drummer Harvey Mason, bass player Stanley Banks and percussionist Ralph MacDonald.<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-bottom: 0in;\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1408601178981_50831\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0in;\">Leon Russell&#8217;s \u201cThis Masquerade\u201d (the first song in music history to occupy the #1 spot in jazz, pop and R&amp;B charts), featuring Benson&#8217;s soulful vocal and his trademark guitar-voice scatting technique, is the album&#8217;s only non-instrumental. The other numbers include Bobby Womack&#8217;s title song, the winner of Grammies for Record of the Year and Best Pop Instrumental.<\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1408601178981_50829\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0in;\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1408601178981_50806\" style=\"text-align: center; margin-bottom: 0in;\">\u201c&#8230;among the half dozen best jazz albums ever made by a contemporary jazz musician.\u201d<\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1408601178981_50826\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0in;\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1408601178981_50825\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0in;\">Tracks:<\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1408601178981_53401\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0in;\">1. Breezin&#8217;<\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1408601178981_50824\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0in;\">2. This Masquerade<\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1408601178981_53402\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0in;\">3. Six to Four<\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1408601178981_53403\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0in;\">4. Affirmation<\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1408601178981_50823\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0in;\">5. So This is Love?<\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1408601178981_50822\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0in;\">6. Lady<\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1408601178981_50807\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0in;\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1408601178981_50808\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0in;\">Produced by Tommy Lipuma<\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1408601178981_50810\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0in;\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1408601178981_50812\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0in;\">Multichannel SACD 5.1 mix: Al Schmitt at Capitol Records<\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1408601178981_50813\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0in;\">Multichannel SACD 5.1 mastering: Doug Sax at The Mastering Lab<\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1408601178981_50816\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0in;\">Stereo CD and SACD mastering: Steve Hoffman at Stephen Marsh Mastering<\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1408601178981_50817\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0in;\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1408601178981_50818\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0in;\">Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.audiofidelity.net\/content\/george-benson-breezin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.audiofidelity.net<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jazz fans worldwide are buzzing with excitement over the release of &#8216;Breezin&#8217; by legendary jazz&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4560\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}