Urban Daydreams
Urban Daydreams is an album by American pianist David
Benoit released in 1989, recorded for the GRP label. The album reached #3 on Billboard's Contemporary Jazz chart.
Track listing
All tracks composed by David Benoit; except where indicated- "Sailing Through the City" - 5:12
- "Cloud Break" - 4:24
- "Urban Daydreams" - 5:48
- "When the Winter's Gone" - 4:11
- "Snow Dancing" - 5:51
- "Safari" - 5:11
- "Wild Kids" - 4:22
- "Looking Back" - 2:09
- "Seattle Morning" - 4:06
- "As If I Could Reach Rainbows" - 3:51
Personnel
- David Benoit – acoustic piano, keyboards, arrangements, orchestra conductor, synthesizer programming
- Don Grusin – synthesizer programming, arrangements, drum programming, keyboards
- Oscar Castro-Neves – acoustic guitar
- Jimmy Johnson – bass
- Abraham Laboriel – bass
- Carlos Vega – drums
- Alex Acuña – drums
- Eric Marienthal – alto saxophone, soprano saxophone
- Gary Herbig – alto saxophone, clarinet
- Judd Miller – electronic valve instrument
- Bruce Dukov – concertmaster
- Gina Kronstadt – orchestra contractor
- The Warfield Avenue Symphony Orchestra
- Jennifer Warnes – vocals
Production
- Dave Grusin – executive producer
- Larry Rosen – executive producer
- David Benoit – producer
- Don Grusin – producer
- Don Murray – engineer, mixing
- Leslie Ann Jones – additional engineer
- Greg Barrett – assistant engineer
- Peter Doell – assistant engineer
- Sam Gladstein – assistant engineer
- David Glover – assistant engineer
- David Knight – assistant engineer
- Charlie Paakkari – assistant engineer
- Brian Sauter – assistant engineer
- Squeak Stone – assistant engineer
- Wally Traugott – mastering
- Tim Olsen – music coordinator
- Suzanne Sherman – GRP production coordinator
- Andy Baltimore – GRP creative director, graphic design, front and back cover photography
- David Gibb – graphic design
- Dave Kunze – graphic design
- Dan Serrano – graphic design
- Mitchell Hartman – front and back photo illustration
- Chris Cuffaro – black and white photography, back cover photo of David Benoit
- Ted Cohen – management
- Digital editing at CMS Digital
- Digitally mixed and mastered at Capitol Studios.