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, Marcus Miller and

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. It was released on August 12, 2008 via

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. Recording sessions took place at Hannibal Studio and Threshold Sound + Vision in

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, at House of Blues Studios in Encino, at

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and Le Gonks West in

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, at VixMix Studios in Nashville, and at Ryan's Place in

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. The entire album was produced by Marcus Miller with co-production by Clarke and Wooten. It features contributions from Antoinette "Butterscotch" Clinton on vocals, George Duke, Ruslan Sirota, Ariel Mann, Chick Corea and Karlton Taylor on keyboards,

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, Derico Watson and J. D. Blair on drums, Kevin Ricard on percussion, Michael "Patches" Stewart on trumpet, and Steve Baxter on trombone. The album peaked at #186 on the ''Billboard'' 200 albums chart in the United States.

Track listing

Personnel

;SMV * William Henry Marcus Miller Jr. –

bass guitar The bass guitar, electric bass or simply bass (), is the lowest-pitched member of the string family. It is a plucked string instrument similar in appearance and construction to an electric or an acoustic guitar, but with a longer neck and ...

fretless bass A fretless bass is a bass guitar whose neck does not have any frets. While the instrument is played in all styles of music, it is most common in pop, rock, and jazz. It first saw widespread use during the 1970s, although some players used them befo ...

(track 7), bass clarinet (tracks: 1, 9), alto &

tenor saxophone The tenor saxophone is a medium-sized member of the saxophone family, a group of instruments invented by Adolphe Sax in the 1840s. The tenor and the alto are the two most commonly used saxophones. The tenor is pitched in the key of B (while ...

(track 1), synthesizers (tracks: 2-7, 9, 11, 13), minimoog (track 4),

drum programming Programming is a form of music production and performance using electronic devices and computer software, such as sequencers and workstations or hardware synthesizers, sampler and sequencers, to generate sounds of musical instruments. These ...

(tracks: 2, 6, 9), producer, recording *

– bass guitar (tracks: 1-6, 10-13),

double bass The double bass (), also known simply as the bass () (or by other names), is the largest and lowest-pitched bowed (or plucked) string instrument in the modern symphony orchestra (excluding unorthodox additions such as the octobass). Similar i ...

(tracks: 7, 9), co-producer * Victor Lemonte Wooten – bass guitar (tracks: 1-11, 13), co-producer, recording ;Additional musicians * Antoinette Clinton –

vocals Singing is the act of creating musical sounds with the voice. A person who sings is called a singer, artist or vocalist (in jazz and/or popular music). Singers perform music (arias, recitatives, songs, etc.) that can be sung with or withou ...

(tracks: 2, 9),

beatboxing Beatboxing (also beat boxing) is a form of vocal percussion primarily involving the art of mimicking drum machines (typically a TR-808), using one's mouth, lips, tongue, and voice.

(tracks: 2, 11) * George Duke – clavinet (track 3), minimoog (track 6) * Ariel Mann – synthesizer (track 1) * Ruslan Sirota – keyboards (track 1) * Armando Anthony Corea –

piano The piano is a stringed keyboard instrument in which the strings are struck by wooden hammers that are coated with a softer material (modern hammers are covered with dense wool felt; some early pianos used leather). It is played using a keybo ...

(track 4) * Karlton Taylor – keyboards (track 9) *

– drums (tracks: 1, 10, 13) * Charles Bell Jr. – drums (tracks: 5, 6) * Derico Watson – drums (track 3) * J. D. Blair – drums (track 9) * Kevin Ricard –

percussion A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a beater including attached or enclosed beaters or rattles struck, scraped or rubbed by hand or struck against another similar instrument. Ex ...

(tracks: 4, 5, 7) * Michael "Patches" Stewart –

trumpet The trumpet is a brass instrument commonly used in classical and jazz ensembles. The trumpet group ranges from the piccolo trumpet—with the highest register in the brass family—to the bass trumpet, pitched one octave below the standard ...

(tracks: 1, 6) * Steve Baxter –

trombone The trombone (german: Posaune, Italian, French: ''trombone'') is a musical instrument in the brass family. As with all brass instruments, sound is produced when the player's vibrating lips cause the air column inside the instrument to vibrate ...

(tracks: 1, 6) ;Technical * Gerry E. Brown – mixing & recording *Dave Rideau – mixing *David Isaac – mixing *Goh Hotoda – mixing *Peter A. Barker – additional recording *Erik Zobler – additional recording *Milton Gutiérrez Ruezga – assistant engineer *Antonio Resendiz – assistant engineer *Sharon Brencius – assistant engineer *Ursula Arevalo – assistant engineer *Scott Coslett – assistant engineer *Todd Bergman – assistant engineer *Doug Tyo – assistant engineer * Robert C. Ludwig – mastering *Steven Parke – art direction, design, photography *Danette Albetta – management *Bibi Green – management

Chart history

References

External links

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