Benson, George: Breezin

George Benson: Breezin - COMPACT DISCS

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Title:

Breezin

Artist:

George Benson

Label:

Warner Records

Product Type:

COMPACT DISCS

UPC:

075992733427

Genre:

Jazz

Release Date:

1990-10-25

Number of Discs:

1

George Benson / BREEZIN - ten time Grammy Award winning American musician/guitarist/vocalist. This one-time child prodigy topped the Billboard 200 in 1976 with the triple-platinum album, Breezin.-With the 1976 release Breezin, his debut album for Warner Brothers, Benson began to put his vocal on tracks such as This Masquerade. Breezin topped the Pop, Jazz and R&B album charts in Billboard.- At the 19th Grammy Awards (1976) Breezin' won Best Pop Instrumental Performance for Benson and Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical for Al Schmitt, while "This Masquerade" won Record of the Year for producer Tommy LiPuma and Benson-Benson uses a rest-stroke picking technique similar to that of gypsy jazz players such as Django Reinhardt. -In recent years, Benson received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

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