A friend recently hooked me up with a copy of Grover Washington Jr’s Winelight. I’ve always been intrigued by this album, fascinated by the cheesier-than-thou album cover. It just screams satin boxer shorts and sax. Those early 90s black-and-white framed ‘romance’ photos that were popping up all over the place.
The album is classic smooth jazz funk, propelled by Marcus Miller on bass. You can check it out a live video of Washington and co hitting the title track here.
For better or worse, Grover is considered one of the founders of smooth jazz. That’s the jazz genre that gave the world George Benson, John Klemmer, David Sanborn, Bob James, Chuck Mangione, Herb Alpert, Spyro Gyra and Kenny G.
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