Roberta Flack: Oasis 1988 (Earl Klugh, David Sanborn) CD-New $52.99

Description

Oasis is Roberta Flack‘s first solo album of newly recorded songs since 1982’s I’m the One. (Subsequent to her 1983 duet album with Peabo Bryson: Born to Love, Flack had with producer Ahmet Ertegun in 1985 recorded fourteen lesser known mid-twentieth century R&B songs but the tracks, intended for a Miss Melody and the Uptown Harlem Stompers album, were not completed to the satisfaction of Flack who put the project “on hold”: the tracks remain unreleased.) Released 1 November 1988, Oasis features the number-one U.S. singles, “Oasis” (R&B), and “Uh-uh Ooh-ooh Look Out (Here It Comes)” (Dance/Club Play).

Video: Roberta Flack – Oasis (1988)

Tracklist:

• 1.   “Oasis” (Marcus Miller, Mark Stephens) – 6:09
• 2.   “All Caught Up in Love” (Siedah Garrett, Marvin Hamlisch) – 4:06
• 3.   “Uh-Uh Ooh-Ooh Look Out (Here It Comes)” (Nickolas Ashford, Valerie Simpson) – 4:40
• 4.   “Shock to My System” ; Duet with Simon Climie (Franne Golde, Andy Goldmark, Dennis Lambert) – 4:24
• 5.   “You Who Brought Me Love” (Andy Goldmark) – 4:00
• 6.   “Something Magic” (Marcus Miller, Mark Stephens) – 4:04
• 7.   “And So It Goes” (Roberta Flack, Maya Angelou, Barry Miles) – 3:34
• 8.   “You Know What It’s Like” (Roberta Flack, Barry Miles, Brenda Russell) – 4:45
• 9.   “And So It Goes (Reprise)” (Roberta Flack, Maya Angelou, Barry Miles) – 1:00
• 10. “My Someone to Love” (Roberta Flack, Marcus Miller) – 5:51
• 11. “(His Name) Brazil” (Roberta Flack, Henry Gaffney, Andy Goldmark) – 4:51

Personnel:

• Roberta Flack – lead vocals, backing vocals (1, 7, 9, 10), acoustic piano (10)
• Marcus Miller – keyboards (1, 10), bass (1, 6, 10), backing vocals (1, 6, 10), synthesizers (6)
• Jason Miles – synthesizer programming (1, 4, 5, 10), keyboards (4, 5), additional synthesizer programming (6, 8)
• Michael Omartian – keyboards (2), drums (2), arrangements (2)
• Randy Kerber – keyboards (3, 11), synthesizers (7, 8, 9), synthesizer programming (11)
• Michael Boddicker – synthesizers (3)
• John Barnes – keyboards (4), synthesizer programming (4)
• Andy Goldmark – keyboards (4, 5, 11), synthesizer programming (4, 5, 11), drum programming (4, 11), instrumental arrangements (4), drum machine (5)
• Greg Phillinganes – keyboards (4, 5, 11), synthesizer programming (4, 5, 11)
• J. Peter Robinson – keyboards (4, 5, 11), synthesizer programming (4, 5, 11)
• Jeff Bova – synthesizer programming (6)
• Barry Miles – synthesizers (7, 9), arrangements (7, 8, 9), LinnDrum (8), sequencing (8), electric piano (10)
• Jeff Lorber – keyboards (11), synthesizer programming (11)
• Dann Huff – guitar (2)
• Michael Landau – guitar (3, 7, 8, 9)
• Paul Jackson Jr. – guitar (4, 11)
• Earl Klugh – acoustic guitar solo (7, 9)
• Chieli Minucci– guitar (11)
• Neil Stubenhaus – bass (3, 7, 9)
• Nathan East – bass (11)
• Harvey Mason – drums (3)
• Jimmy Bralower – drum overdubs (4)
• Steve Ferrone – drum overdubs (4)
• John Robinson – drums (7, 8, 9), Forat F16 (8)
• Buddy Williams – drums (8), Forat F16 (8)
• Steve Gadd – drums (10)
• Steve Thornton – percussion (1, 6)
• Paulinho da Costa – percussion (3, 5, 11)
• Michael Fisher – percussion (7, 8, 9)
• Don Alias – percussion (10)
• David Sanborn – alto sax solo (1)
• Larry Williams – saxophone solo (2), keyboards (5), synthesizer programming (5), synthesizers (7, 8, 9)
• Dan Higgins – saxophone (3, 8)
• Roger Byam – tenor sax solo (10)
• Jerry Hey – trumpet (3), arrangements (3, 7, 8, 9)
• Dennis Collins – backing vocals (1)
• Lani Groves – backing vocals (1)
• Chude Mondlane – backing vocals (1)
• Mark Stevens – backing vocals (1, 6)
• Brenda White-King – backing vocals (1)
• Phil Perry – backing vocals (3, 7, 8, 9)
• Simon Climie – lead vocals (4)
• Tawatha Agee – backing vocals (6)
• Yvonne Lewis – backing vocals (6)
• Lori Ann Velez – backing vocals (6)
• Gabrielle Goodman – backing vocals (7, 8, 9, 11)
• George Duke – backing vocals (11)
• Robert Henley – backing vocals (11)