''Elixir'' is the third studio album by

Fourplay Fourplay (stylized as fOURPLAY) is a contemporary American smooth jazz quartet. The original members of the group were Bob James (keyboards), Lee Ritenour (guitars), Nathan East (bass), and Harvey Mason (drums). In 1997, Ritenour left the ...

, released in 1995. Among the guest vocalists on this album are

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, and

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Track listing

Personnel

Fourplay * Bob James – Yamaha C7 MIDI grand piano, keyboards, synthesizers, programming, synthesizer orchestrations, arrangements (4, 8) *

Lee Ritenour Lee Mack Ritenour ( ; born January 11, 1952) is an American jazz guitarist who has been active since the late 1960s. Biography Ritenour was born in 1952, in Los Angeles, California. At the age of eight he started playing guitar and four years l ...

– electric guitars,

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guitar synthesizer A guitar synthesizer is any one of a number of musical systems that allow a guitarist to access synthesizer capabilities. Overview Today's guitar synths are direct descendants of 1970s devices from manufacturers (often in partnership) such as ...

, additional synthesizer and computer programming, arrangements (3) *

Nathan East Nathan Harrell East (born December 8, 1955) is an American jazz, R&B, and rock bass guitarist and vocalist. With more than 2,000 recordings, East is one of the most recorded bass players in the history of music. East holds a Bachelor of Arts ...

– 5 and 6-string bass guitars,

fretless bass A fretless bass is an electric bass guitar whose neck lacks frets and thus is smooth like traditional string instruments, and like the neck of an acoustic double bass. While the fretless bass is played in all styles of music, it is most common in ...

, vocals (5, 9), vocal arrangements (8), arrangements (8), scat (9) *

Harvey Mason Harvey William Mason (born February 22, 1947) is an American jazz drummer, record producer, and member of the band Fourplay. He was the original drummer for Herbie Hancock's band The Headhunters. Life and career Mason was born and grew ...

– drums, acoustic percussion, electronic percussion,

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marimba The marimba ( ) is a musical instrument in the percussion family that consists of wooden bars that are struck by mallets. Below each bar is a resonator pipe that amplifies particular harmonics of its sound. Compared to the xylophone, the mari ...

Jew's harp The Jew's harp, also known as jaw harp, juice harp, or mouth harp, is a lamellophone instrument, consisting of a flexible metal or bamboo tongue or reed attached to a frame. Despite the colloquial name, the Jew's harp most likely originated in ...

, arrangements (8) Additional Musicians * Harvey Mason, Jr. – synthesizer and computer programming, vocal arrangements (11) * Ken Freeman – additional synthesizer and computer programming *

– vocals (4) *

– vocals (8) *

– vocals (8) * Vern Arnold – backing vocals (11) * Cisco – backing vocals (11) * Heather Mason – backing vocals (11)

Production

* Bob James – executive producer * Fourplay – producers * Nathan East – vocal producer (8) * Don Murray – recording, mixing * Thom Kidd – additional recording * Harvey Mason, Jr. – additional recording * Lee Ritenour – additional recording * Mike Kloster – assistant engineer * Kevin Lively – assistant engineer * Robert Vosgien – digital editing * Wally Traugott – mastering * Linda Cobb – art direction, design * James Minchin – photography Studios * Recorded at

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(Hollywood, CA); Masong Studios (Los Angeles, CA); Starlight Studios (Malibu, CA); DARP Studios (Atlanta, GA); Remidi Studios (Ardsley-On-Hudson, NY). * Edited at CMS Digital (Pasadena, CA). * Mastered at Capitol Mastering (Hollywood, CA).

Reception

References

{{Authority control 1994 albums Fourplay albums Warner Records albums