Gears (album)

Gears is an album by jazz keyboardist Johnny Hammond. It was released in 1975 and produced by Larry and Fonce Mizell.

Track listing

Tell Me What to Do 5:16
Los Conquistadores Chocolates 5:56
Lost on 23rd Street 6:36
Fantasy 6:06
Shifting Gears 5:19
Can't We Smile 4:35

Personnel

Johnny "Hammond" Smith - Organ, Synthesizer, Electric Piano
Larry Mizell - Keyboards, Backing Vocals
Fonce Mizell - Clarinet, Backing Vocals
Jerry Peters - Electric Piano, Piano
Harvey Mason - Drums
Chuck Rainey - Electric Bass
Craig McMullen, John Rowin - Guitar
Roger Glenn - Flute, Vibraphone
Kenneth Nash - Cymbal, Gong, Percussion
Hadley Caliman - Tenor Saxophone
Julian Priester - Trombone
Michael White - Violin

Samples

Several tracks have either sampled or taken inspiration from tracks on the album, most notably "Los Conquistadores Chocolates". A track titled "When You Gonna Learn" by UK group Jamiroquai, led by founding member Jay Kay, has chord progressions that bear a striking resemblance to the original chord progressions of a Smith's track "Los Conquistadores Chocolates". However, this was not by accident, as the booklet of the Acid Jazz Records release of the single bears a "special thanks" note to Smith, who gave permission to Jay Kay to use the composition's structure.