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    The document summarizes an album called 'Yesterdays Dreams' by Alphonso Johnson from 1976. It was a jazz fusion album featuring many talented musicians. The album includes songs that blend genres like funk, jazz, rock and folk through instrumental performances. The album showcases the broad stylistic and playing abilities of 70s jazz/funk instrumentalists.

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    Alphonso Johnson - 1976 - Yesterdays Dreams

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    Alphonso Johnson
    1976
    Yesterdays Dreams

    01. Love's The Way I Feel 'Bout Cha4:43


    02. As Little As You3:22
    03. Scapegoat5:09
    04. Show Us The Way4:54
    05. Balls To The Wall4:59
    06. Tales Of Barcelona2:15
    07. Flight To Hampstead Heath5:55
    08. One To One3:52
    Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar – Lee Ritenour
    Baritone Saxophone, Flute – Ernie Fields
    Bells [Orchestra], Marimba, Vibraphone – Ruth Underwood
    Congas, Percussion – Sheila Escovedo
    Drums – Chester Thompson, Mike Clark
    Electric Guitar – Ray Gomez
    Keyboards – Patrice Rushen
    Organ – David Foster, Mark Jordan
    Synthesizer – Ian Underwood
    Tenor Saxophone – Ernie Watts, Grover Washington, Jr.
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    Trombone – Garnett Brown, George Bohannon
    Trumpet – Chuck Findley
    Trumpet, Flugelhorn – Gary Grant
    Vocals – Diane Reeves, Jon Lucien, Phillip Bailey
    Vocals, Bass, Acoustic Guitar – Alphonso Johnson

    Assembling the same jazz-fusion dream team as on his debut,Alphonso Johnson's


    sophomore album kicks off with the harmonically expansive big band jazz funk of "Love's
    The Way I Feel About Cha"-with Alphonso and Dianne Reeves voices ascending into the
    musical stratosphere. "As Little As You" creates an internally funky extravaganza-with
    stop/start rhythms emerging with each refrain and the descending wah wah effects coming
    up from the Headhunters' Mike Clark keeping up pace.

    "Scapegoat" comes out with a steady,electric piano fueled groove that rolls right along with
    a superb clip while Johnson and Lee Ritenour accompany creamy baritone Jon Lucien on
    this swelling acoustic jazz/funk number. "Balls To The Walls" opens up with a very Zappa-
    like progressive metal number with Ray Gomez snarling some blues in a slow crunching
    rhythm section. The stripped down bass/guitar duet of Tales Of Barcelona" opens the door
    for the amazing instrumental interplay of the hard core fusion instrumental "Flight To
    Hampstead Heath"-led along by Zappa's renowned vibraphonist Ruth Underwood. The
    album closes with stomping keyboard/horn laden funk of "One To One".

    Though many pop music listeners today sometimes don't remember it, it's important to
    keep hearing the musicians eternal callings about the stylistic breadth,playing ability and
    compositional beauty of which the 70's jazz/funk instrumentalists such as Alphonso
    Johnson were capable of. Coming out of Weather Report,of whom even Arsenio Hall has
    sung the praises of,this is an example how Miles Davis's fusion innovation led the way to
    groups who themselves spawned some of the very finest players of the era such as
    Johnson. Blending funk,jazz,rock and folk with an flexibly elastic instrumental approach?
    This is a must have album from that wonderfully funky year of 1976!

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