George Benson: Breezin – COMPACT DISCS

Title: Breezin
Artist: George Benson
Label: Warner Records
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 075992733427
Genre: Jazz
Release Date: 1990-10-25
Number of Discs: 1

George Benson / BREEZIN – ten time Grammy Award winning American musician/guitarist/vocalist. This one-time child prodigy topped the Billboard 200 in 1976 with the triple-platinum album, Breezin.-With the 1976 release Breezin, his debut album for Warner Brothers, Benson began to put his vocal on tracks such as This Masquerade. Breezin topped the Pop, Jazz and R&B album charts in Billboard.- At the 19th Grammy Awards (1976) Breezin’ won Best Pop Instrumental Performance for Benson and Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical for Al Schmitt, while “This Masquerade” won Record of the Year for producer Tommy LiPuma and Benson-Benson uses a rest-stroke picking technique similar to that of gypsy jazz players such as Django Reinhardt. -In recent years, Benson received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Tracks:
1.1 Breezin’
1.2 This Masquerade
1.3 Six to Four
1.4 Affirmation
1.5 So This Is Love
1.6 Lady