Personnel

• Dave Koz
  Dave Koz
  Dave Koz is an American smooth jazz saxophonist.- Life and career :Dave Koz was born on March 27, 1963 in Encino, California....
  
   - Saxophones
• Gloria Agustus - Background Vocal
• Marc Antoine
  Marc Antoine
  Marc Antoine is a jazz fusion guitarist. Marc currently resides in Madrid, Spain. His guitar play style is based on Roma music.-Early life:...
  
   - Spanish Guitar
• Burt Bacharach
  Burt Bacharach
  Burt F. Bacharach is an American pianist, composer and music producer. He is known for his popular hit songs and compositions from the mid-1950s through the 1980s, with lyrics written by Hal David. Many of their hits were produced specifically for, and performed by, Dionne Warwick...
  
   - Piano
• Glen Ballard
  Glen Ballard
  Glen Ballard is an American songwriter and record producer, best known for co-writing and producing Alanis Morissette's Jagged Little Pill , which won Grammy Award for "Best Rock Album", and "Album of the Year" amongst others, and is ranked by the Rolling Stone amongst The 500 Greatest Albums of...
  
   - Keyboards
• David Benoit
  David Benoit
  David Benoit, is an American jazz fusion/smooth jazz pianist, composer and producer from Los Angeles, California. He has been nominated for five Grammy Awards...
  
   - Piano
• Wayne Bergeron
  Wayne Bergeron
  Wayne Bergeron, American jazz musician and trumpet player, was born in 1958 in Hartford, Connecticut and grew up Southern California. His interest in music started on the French Horn before he switched to, his claim to fame, the trumpet, in 8th grade...
  
   - Flugelhorn, Trumpet
• Chris Botti
  Chris Botti
  Christopher Stephen "Chris" Botti , is an American trumpeter and composer. In 2007, Botti was nominated for two Grammy Awards including Best Pop Instrumental Album. On December 4, 2009, he was nominated for three more Grammy Awards including Best Pop Instrumental Album and Best Long Form Music Video...
  
   - Trumpet
• Terry Bradford - Background Vocal
• Jonathan Butler
  Jonathan Butler
  Jonathan Butler is a singer-songwriter and guitarist. His music is often classified as R&B, jazz fusion or worship music.-Biography:...
  
   - Acoustic Guitar, Vocal
• Sue Ann Carwell - Background Vocal
• Lenny Castro
  Lenny Castro
  Lenny Castro is an American freelancing percussionist in the studio recording industry in the Los Angeles area.-Early life:Castro is a percussionist of Puerto Rican descent and was born and raised in New York City. His father, Hector Castro, played the keyboard in a Latin style and gave his son...
  
   - Percussion
• Matt Chamberlain
  Matt Chamberlain
  Matthew Chamberlain is an American drummer, producer and sound engineer. He is currently based in Los Angeles, California.-Early life:...
  
   - Drums
• Garron Chang - Sample Loan
• Vinnie Colaiuta
  Vinnie Colaiuta
  Vincent Colaiuta is an American drummer based in Los Angeles. Originally from Republic, Pennsylvania, he began playing drums as a child and received his first full drum kit from his parents at the age of 14...
  
   - Drums
• Brad Cole
  Brad Cole
  Brad Cole is a Canadian professional ice hockey player for the Greenville Road Warriors of the ECHL.-Playing career:...
  
   - Keyboards
• Luis Conte
  Luis Conte
  Luis Conte is a Cuban percussionist.-Early years:As a child in Cuba, Conte began his musical odyssey playing the guitar. However, he soon switched to percussion, and that has remained his mode since....
  
   - Percussion
• Schappell Crawford - Keyboards
• Paulinho Da Costa
  Paulinho Da Costa
  Paulinho da Costa is a Brazilian percussionist born in Rio de Janeiro, considered one of the most recorded musicians of modern times. Playing over two hundred percussion instruments, he has participated in thousands of recording sessions, Grammy Award-winning albums, hit songs, soundtracks, radio...
  
   - Percussion
• Nathan East
  Nathan East
  Nathan Harrell East is a jazz, R&B and rock bass player and vocalist. East holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Music from the University of California, San Diego...
  
   - Bass
• Ethan Farmer - Bass
• Steve Ferrone
  Steve Ferrone
  Steven "Steve" Ferrone is a British drummer.He was a member of the Average White Band, and has recorded and performed with numerous other high-profile acts, including Slash, Chaka Khan, Eric Clapton, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers and Scritti Politti...
  
   - Drums
• Kathy Hazzard - Background Vocal
• Paul Jackson, Jr.
  Paul Jackson, Jr.
  Paul Jackson, Jr. is a fusion/urban jazz composer, arranger, producer and guitarist. He was born and raised in Los Angeles. Jackson knew by the age of fifteen that he wanted to become a professional musician...
  
   - Guitar
• George Johnson
  George Johnson
  -Politics: *George W. Johnson , Confederate Governor of Kentucky*George A. Johnson , Attorney General of the State of California...
  
   - Drums
• Shae Jones
  Shae Jones
  Shae Jones is an American R&B singer born on July 27,1978, in Kansas City, Missouri. She was discovered in the late 1990s by R&B star Montell Jordan, who liked the fact that her voice did not sound like other voices....
  
   - Background Vocal
• Montell Jordan
  Montell Jordan
  Montell Jordan is a former American R&B singer-songwriter and record producer. Jordan became the main solo male artist on its Def Soul imprint until leaving the label in 2003. Of his live performances it is often regarded that he is a rock oriented musician, with Jordan even going as far as to...
  
   - Vocal
• Randy Kerber
  Randy Kerber
  Randy Kerber is a composer, orchestrator, keyboard player, born September 25, 1958 in Encino, California, who has had a prolific career in the world of cinema...
  
   - Piano
• Brian Kilgore - Percussion
• Jeff Koz - Guitars, Keyboards
• Michael Landau
  Michael Landau
  Michael Landau is a prolific session musician and guitarist who has played on a large number of albums since the early 1980s with artists as varied as Seal, James Taylor, Helen Watson, Richard Marx, Steve Perry, Pink Floyd and Miles Davis...
  
   - Guitars
• Nick Lane
  Nick Lane
  Nick Lane is a British biochemist. He holds the post of honorary reader and is the first Provost's Venture Research Fellow at University College London and was formerly strategic director at Adelphi MediCine, a medical multimedia company. He is the author of three popular science books and many...
  
   - Trombone

• Ricky Lawson
  Ricky Lawson
  - Overview :Ricky Lawson started playing drums at the age of 16. He would borrow is Uncle's drum set, and would carry it to his house all the way across town via the Detroit Buses that ran in the town. In high school Lawson played in his high school jazz band, which consisted of only 5 members...
  
   - Drums
• Jeff Lorber
  Jeff Lorber
  Jeff Lorber is an American Grammy Award-nominated keyboardist, composer, and record producer.After leading his own group, The Jeff Lorber Fusion, he went on to pioneer the smooth jazz genre....
  
   - Keyboards
• Tony Maiden - Guitar
• Al McKay
  Al McKay
  Al McKay is a guitarist, songwriter, producer and former member of the American funk band Earth, Wind & Fire. Al used to lead his own group Al McKay's L.A...
  
   - Guitar
• Janet Mims - Background Vocal
• Cindy Mizelle - Background Vocal
• Ricky Nelson - Background Vocal
• Kevin Owens - Background Vocal
• Timothy Owens - Background Vocal
• Dean Parks
  Dean Parks
  Dean Parks is an American session guitarist and record producer from Ft. Worth, TX.-Albums:Dean was member of The North Texas State One O'clock Lab Band before moving to Los Angeles to work with Sonny and Cher in 1970. Dean is best-known through his many contributions to albums by Steely Dan...
  
   - Guitars
• John Pena - Bass
• Greg Phillinganes
  Greg Phillinganes
  Greg Phillinganes is an active session keyboardist in Los Angeles, California. He is a graduate of Cass Technical High School, Detroit Michigan....
  
   - Keyboards
• Mark Portmann
  Mark Portmann
  Mark Portmann is a record producer and songwriter who worked with Celine Dion and Josh Groban. Portman began to learn classical piano as a child, but later turned to pop music and jazz. He went to the Eastman School of Music on a scholarship, studying composition, and attended the University of Miami...
  
   - Keyboards
• John Robinson
  John Robinson
  -Academics:*John Martin Robinson , English Officer of Arms and historian*John Alan Robinson , philosopher and mathematician*John Thomas Romney Robinson , Irish astronomer and physicist*John T. Robinson, paleontologist...
  
   - Drums
• Evan Rogers - Background Vocal
• Bill Sharpe - Bass
• Alfie Silas - Background Vocal
• Jackie Simley Stevens - Background Vocal
• Neil Stubenhaus
  Neil Stubenhaus
  Neil Stubenhaus is an American bass guitarist.-Career:He started his musical training playing drums and switched to bass guitar at the age of 12. He studied at the Berklee College of Music where he graduated in 1975...
  
   - Bass
• Carl Sturken - Guitars, Keyboards
• David Thomas - Background Vocal
• Michael Thompson
  Michael Thompson
  Michael Thompson may refer to:*Mike Thompson , United States Representative from California's 1st congressional district*Michael Thompson *Michael Thompson , American guitarist...
  
   - Guitars
• Luther Vandross
  Luther Vandross
  Luther Ronzoni Vandross was an American singer-songwriter and record producer. During his career, Vandross sold over twenty-five million albums and won eight Grammy Awards including Best Male R&B Vocal Performance four times...
  
   - Background Vocal
• Alejandra Vargas - Spoken Word
• Mervyn Warren
  Mervyn Warren
  Mervyn Edwin Warren is an American film composer, record producer, music conductor, music arranger, lyricist, songwriter, pianist, and vocalist. Warren is a five-time Grammy Award winner and a 10-time Grammy Award nominee...
  
   - Vocal
• Freddie Washington
  Freddie Washington
  Freddie Washington was an American jazz pianist.Washington moved to California around the year 1918, where he joined Kid Ory's band in 1921. He recorded with Ory's band, and it is for his role in these sessions that he is primarily known. He led his own band in the 1920s and 1930s, in addition to...
  
   - Bass
• Audrey Wheeler - Background Vocal
• Urs Wiesendanger - Keyboards
• Jay Williams
  Jay Williams
  Jay Williams may refer to:*J.Williams , New Zealand R&B singer*Jay Williams , also known as Jason Williams, professional basketball player*Jay Williams , professional football player...
  
   - Acoustic Guitar
• BeBe Winans
  BeBe Winans
  Benjamin "BeBe" Winans is a gospel and R&B singer. He is a member of the noted Winans family, most members of which are also gospel artists.-The PTL Club:...
  
   - Vocal
• Gota Yashiki
  Gota Yashiki
  Gota Yashiki is both an independent acid jazz artist and drum player, as a member of the band Simply Red. He was born in Kyoto, Japan, on 26 February 1962, where at a young age he learned how to play traditional Japanese drums. This interest in drumming propelled him into the music scene, and he...
  
   - Drum Samples

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