(Fusion) Noel Pointer - Never Lose Your Heart - 1993, FLAC (tracks+.cue), lossless

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Noel Pointer / Never Lose Your Heart
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REM GENRE Jazz
REM DATE 1993
REM DISCID 6109B208
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Pointer's last release found him resurfacing on a label (Shanachie) known for almost everything but fusion. This record sounds much like the ones he made in the late '70s and 1980s, except that he also does some competent vocals. These are pleasant, heavily produced and arranged tracks with minimal improvisation and limited energy and intensity. They are jazz only in the broadest sense and are not aimed at hardcore listeners or purists. If easy listening instrumental fare is up your alley, then Pointer's light solos and heavily arranged music work. Otherwise, avoid it.

Noel Pointer - Zeta violin, violin, viola, keyboards, vocal, background vocals
Paulette McWilliams - vocals, background vocals
Chieli Minucci, Philip Hamilton, Philip Hamilton - guitar
Peter Moffitt - cello, keyboards, synthesizer
Wayne Cobham - trumpet
Bernard Wright - organ, bass synthesizer
Greg Spooner - keyboards, bass synthesizer
Lenny Underwood, Rex Rideout, Ronald Granger, Nat Adderley, Jr., Clyde Criner - keyboards
Norbert Sloley - bass guitar
Francisco Centeno - bass, bass guitar
Graham Hawthorne - bass, drums
Dave Metcen - bass
Dwayne Purdue, Omar Hakim - drums
Manolo Badrena, Emedin Rivera - percussion
Katreese Barnes, Kevin Owens, The Darryl Douglass Workshop Company - background vocals
Recorded at Platinum Island; Planet Sound Studio, New York; Master Sound, Astoria, Queens, New York.