Artist: George Benson
Album: Breezin’
Genre: Jazz
Release Date: 1976/2005
Audio Format:: FLAC (tracks) 24 bit, 96 kHz
Duration: 38:50
Total Tracks: 6
Total Size: 602 MB

Tracklist:

1. George Benson – Breezin’ (05:41)
2. George Benson – This Masquerade (08:04)
3. George Benson – Six To Four (05:10)
4. George Benson – Affirmation (06:51)
5. George Benson – So This Is Love (07:00)
6. George Benson – Lady (06:01)

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The 1976 triple-platinum album by 10X Grammy Winner George Benson marked the beginning of the guitarist and singer most successful commercial period. The album garnered 4 Grammys, including Best-Engineered Album, Non Classical and “Record of the Year” for the massive hit (and Leon Russell cover) “This Masquerade,” which topped the Pop, Jazz, and R&B charts.All of a sudden, George Benson became a pop superstar with this album, thanks to its least representative track. Most of Breezin’ is a softer-focused variation of Benson’s R&B/jazz-flavored CTI work, his guitar as assured and fluid as ever with Claus Ogerman providing the suave orchestral backdrops and his crack then-working band (including Ronnie Foster on keyboards and sparkplug Phil Upchurch on rhythm guitar) pumping up the funk element. Yet it is the sole vocal track (his first in many years), Leon Russell’s “This Masquerade” — where George unveiled his new trademark, scatting along with a single-string guitar solo — that reached number ten on the pop singles chart and drove the album all the way to number one on the pop (!) LP chart. The attractive title track also became a minor hit single, although Gabor Szabo’s 1971 recording with composer Bobby Womack is even more fetching. In the greater scheme of Benson’s career, Breezin’ is really not so much a breakthrough as it is a transition album; the guitar is still the core of his identity.