Streamline (Lenny White album)

Streamline
Studio album by Lenny White
Released	1978 (1978)
Recorded	July–August 1978
Studio	Wally Heider (Hollywood) Indigo Ranch (Malibu) Hollywood Sound (Hollywood)
Genre	Jazz fusion, jazz-funk, post-bop
Length	37:01
Label	Elektra
Producer	Lenny White Larry Dunn
Lenny White chronology
Big City (1977) Streamline (1978) Best of Friends (1978)

Streamline is the fourth studio album by drummer Lenny White, released in 1978 by Elektra Records. ^[1] The album reached No. 27 on the Billboard Top Jazz Albums chart. ^[2]

Critical reception

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[3]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide	[4]

Alex Henderson at AllMusic wrote that the album "isn't a five-star gem, but it isn't bad either" and calling it a "generally decent, if mildly uneven, collection of instrumental jazz fusion and R&B vocal numbers." He noted White's cover of the Beatles' "Lady Madonna" as an "interesting" highlight; other songs such as "Night Games", "Struttin'" and "Pooh Bear" he described as "enjoyable even though they fall short of the brilliance of the material on The Adventures of Astral Pirates [1978] and Venusian Summer [1975]." ^[3]

Track listing

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Struttin'"	Jamie Glaser	4:45
2.	"Lady Madonna"	John Lennon, Paul McCartney	3:54
3.	"12 Bars From Mars"	Nick Moroch	3:10
4.	"Earthlings"	Lenny White, Don Blackman	4:48
5.	"Spazmo Strikes Again"	White	0:25
6.	"Time"	Blackman	2:58
7.	"Pooh Bear"	White, Weldon Irvine	5:02
8.	"Lockie's Inspiration"	Denzil Miller, Jr.	0:41
9.	"I'll See You Soon"	White	6:30
10.	"Night Games"	Marcus Miller	3:58
11.	"Cosmic Indigo"	Blackman	0:50
Total length:			37:01

Personnel

Credits adapted from LP liner notes. ^[5]

Musicians

• Lenny White – drums, percussion; drum solo (5, 10)
• Nick Moroch – guitars; guitar solo (2–6, 8–9)
• Donald "Captain Keyboards" Blackman – keyboards, vocals; organ solo (3), Minimoog solo (4), Oberheim synthesizer solo (6), acoustic piano solo (8), Rhodes piano solo (9), piano solo (10)
• Jamie Glaser – guitars; guitar solo (1, 3, 9)
• Marcus Miller – bass guitar; bass guitar solo (8, 10)
• Denzil "Broadway" Miller – keyboards; keyboard solo (7), Minimoog solo (8)

Additional musicians

• Chaka Khan – lead and background vocals (2)
• Dianne Reeves – background vocals
• Larry Dunn – synthesizer programming; Minimoog solo (1)

Technical

• Lenny White – producer
• Larry Dunn – producer
• Denzil Miller – rhythm track arranger (2)
• Chris Brunt – engineer
• Richard Kaplan – engineer
• Steve Hirsch – engineer
• Moshe Brakha – photography

Charts

Chart (1978)	Peak position
US Billboard Jazz Albums [6]	27

References

1. Lenny White: Streamline. Elektra Records. November 1978.
2. Billboard Best Selling Jazz LPs (PDF). Billboard Magazine. December 2, 1978.
3. Henderson, Alex. "Lenny White: Streamline". allmusic.com. AllMusic.
4. Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 207. ISBN   0-394-72643-X.
5. Streamline (LP liner notes). New York: Elektra Records. 6E-164 SP.
6. "Streamline - Lenny White | Awards". AllMusic . All Media Network. Retrieved 2014-12-23.