Chris Hinze Combination - 1978 - Bamboo Magic

Chris Hinze Combination

1978

Bamboo Magic

01. Bamboo Magic 4:21
02. Venga 3:15
03. Until The Sun Stops Shining 8:40
04. Essence 4:41
05. People's Champion 4:13
06. I'm Gonna Love You 7:03
07. Le Mistral 7:13
08. Going To The Movie No. 1 0:18

Acoustic Guitar – Jan Goudswaard
Alto Saxophone, Baritone Saxophone – Ronnie Cuber
Backing Vocals – Cheryl Alexander, Cissy Houston, Peggi Blu, Tasha Thomas, Tawatha Agee
Bass – John Turner
Bass Trombone – Dave Taylor
Clavinet – Dwight Brewster
Drums – Gerry Brown
Electric Bass – John Lee
Electric Piano [Rhodes] – Hubert Eaves III, James Batton
Flute, Piano – Chris Hinze
Grand Piano – Richard Tee
Guitar – Joe Caro, Philip Catherine, Reggie Lucas, Stephan Diez
Percussion – Mtume, Raphael Cruz, Sammy Figueroa
Synthesizer – Rob Franken
Tenor Saxophone – Bob Malach, Michael Brecker
Trumpet – Joseph James Shepley, Lew Soloff, Marky Markowitz, Randy Brecker
Vocals – Arnold McCuller, Norma Winstone

Gentle and soft arrangements, strings, horns section, soul singers in the background, great flute solos, like an orchestrated easylistening, but contrary to that the compositions are everything but typical, a lot of interesting stuff happening all the time, elegant harmony shifts etc. If some more complex Canterbury fusion album were interpreted by Andrew Lloyd Webber or something like that. I'd call it progressive easylistening.

You wish you knew about this kind of stuff. I mean actually lived in this era. Good mellow flutes here, Undisputed Truth type vocals with light orchestral disco, jazz and funk. WHO loses in this combination? WHO? Nobody.