Reception

Track listing

1. Drive My Car - (John Lennon
   John Lennon
   John Winston Lennon, MBE was an English musician and singer-songwriter who rose to worldwide fame as one of the founding members of The Beatles, one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed acts in the history of popular music...
   
    & Paul McCartney
   Paul McCartney
   Sir James Paul McCartney, MBE, Hon RAM, FRCM is an English musician, singer-songwriter and composer. Formerly of The Beatles and Wings , McCartney is listed in Guinness World Records as the "most successful musician and composer in popular music history", with 60 gold discs and sales of 100...
   
   ) 3:05
2. Zimba Ku 4:31
3. Questions & Conclusions 4:09
4. Something Extra 3:52
5. Feel Like A Child 3:48
6. Last Dance 2:38
7. Baby You'll See 4:05
8. Love 3:16
9. Prince Duval 4:20
10. Live Together 2:49
11. Keep On Runnin' 5:48

Personnel

• Johnell Gray - Keyboards, Vocals
• Naamon Jones - Bass, Lead Vocals
• James Duval - Lead Guitar, Rhythm Guitar
• Esco Cromer - Drums
• Rodney Edwards - Trumpet, Flugelhorn
• Ray Thompson - Saxophone, Flute
• Raymond Green - Congas
• Jimmy Douglass
  Jimmy Douglass
  Jimmy Douglass is an American four-time Grammy winning recording engineer and record producer, whose prolific career has spanned more than four decades.-Career:...
  
  , Rodney Edwards - Bass
• Randy Brecker
  Randy Brecker
  Randal "Randy" Brecker is an American trumpeter and flugelhornist. He is a highly sought after performer in the genres of jazz, rock, and R&B, and has performed or recorded with Stanley Turrentine, Billy Cobham, Bruce Springsteen, Lou Reed, Sandip Burman, Charles Mingus, Blood, Sweat & Tears,...
  
   - Tenor Saxophone
• Michael Brecker
  Michael Brecker
  Michael Leonard Brecker was an American jazz saxophonist and composer. Acknowledged as "a quiet, gentle musician widely regarded as the most influential tenor saxophonist since John Coltrane," he has been awarded 15 Grammy Awards as both performer and composer and was inducted into Down Beat Jazz...
  
    - Horn
• Tom Malone - Trombone
• Ken Bichel - Synthesizer

Charts

Samples & Covers

• Cash Money and Marvelous sampled "Zimba Ku" on their song "Marvelous Drawls" on their album Where's The Party At? in 1988.
• Biz Markie
  Biz Markie
  Marcel Theo Hall better known by his stage name, Biz Markie, is an American rapper, beatboxer, DJ, comedian, singer, reality television personality, and commercial spokesperson. He is best known for his single "Just a Friend", an American Top 10 hit in 1989...
  
   sampled "Zimba Ku" on his song "Return of the Biz Dance" on his album Goin' Off
  Goin' Off
  Goin' Off is the debut studio album by Biz Markie, a US hip hop musician. The album was released by Cold Chillin' Records, and produced by Marley Marl. The album was praised for its wit and humor. Big Daddy Kane wrote the lyrics of the album's first five songs...
  
   in 1988.
• Kool G Rap
  Kool G Rap
  Nathaniel Thomas Wilson , better known by his stage names Kool G Rap , Kool G. Rap, and Giancana , is an American rapper, from the Corona neighborhood of Queens, New York. He began his career in the mid-1980s as one half of the group Kool G Rap & DJ Polo and as a member of the Juice Crew...
  
   & DJ Polo sampled "Zimba Ku" on their song "Erase Racism" on their albums Wanted: Dead or Alive in 1990.
• Chi Ali
  Chi Ali
  Chi-Ali Griffith professionally known as Chi-Ali, is an American rapper, best known musically for his album The Fabulous Chi-Ali, which he recorded at the age of 14.-Music career:...
  
   sampled "Zimba Ku" on his song "Step Up" on his album The Fabulous Chi-Ali
  The Fabulous Chi-Ali
  The Fabulous Chi-Ali is the first and only album by rapper Chi-Ali, a member of the Native Tongues.-Reception:It was released on March 24, 1992, on Relativity Records and was produced by The Beatnuts and Black Sheep's Mista Lawnge...
  
  in 1992.

External links

• Black Heat-Keep On Runnin' at Discogs