5, Breezin' will be newly available on vinyl, pressed on blue wax. Read More: February 1982: George Benson Hits Top 5 with "Turn Your Love Around" Lalbum In Flight (1977) sera lui aussi emblématique du jeu très particulier de Benson à la guitare, qui chante simultanément les notes des solos quil improvise, avec un phrasé jazz sur un rythme et des arrangements funk. "Because when music is being played at such fast tempos, it goes by like a blip. avec lalbum Breezin qui remportera trois Grammy Awards dont celui du disque de lannée pour la chanson This Masquerade. I never understood that until Breezin' came out," he said. "Wes Montgomery heard me back then and his comment was, Boy, when he slows down, he’s gonna be a monster. Speaking with years later, Benson revealed another lesson from Breezin'.
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"Some of the people who bought it, thinking they were gonna hear an album full of vocals, were disappointed at first until they realized they had what the world is now calling a classic album.So it’s really good that album has catapulted me into another category all of my own." "The fortunate thing about the Breezin’ album was that it was not overburdened with too many vocals," Benson said in 1978. Il y eut un avant et après Breezin’ dans la carrière de George Benson Avec cet album produit par Tommy LiPuma paru chez Warner Bros. Read More: Summer 1980: George Benson Releases 'Give Me The Night'
While "This Masquerade" is the only vocal track on Breezin' - the rest is indeed chock full of instrumental power, with Benson and pianist/keyboardists Jorge Dalto and Ronnie Foster trading dazzling solos over stirring orchestral arrangements - it shifted how Benson could connect with an audience. When the dust settled, Breezin' had sold more than three million copies - unheard of for a jazz album - and George added a pair of Grammys to his shelf: one for Best Pop Instrumental (for the Bobby Womack-penned title track) and one for Record of the Year (for "This Masquerade"). 10 on the Billboard Hot 100 and Breezin' to the top of the magazine's overall albums chart. Radio stations began to play an edit of "This Masquerade," pushing the track to No. Benson had sung on record before, but his passionate delivery (including dazzling wordless scats to match his fleet-fingered solos) was too good for pop audiences to ignore.
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