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)
