Al Jarreau – All Fly Home (Half-speed Mastering)
Vocals – Al Jarreau
Flugelhorn – Freddie Hubbard [click here to see more vinyl featuring Freddie Hubbard]
Guitar – Lee Ritenour
Drums – Joe Correro
Bass – Reggie McBride
Keyboards – Larry Williams
Keyboards, Piano, Synthesizer – Tom Canning
Keyboards, Vibraphone, Organ, Synthesizer – Lynn Blessing
Percussion – Paulinho Da Costa
Written by Al Jarreau (A1, A3-5, B3), Tom Canning (A1, A4, B3), Dave Frishberg (A2), Greg Mathieson (A2), Eva Ein Loggins (B1), Kenny Loggins (B1), John Lennon (B2), Paul McCartney (B2), Otis Redding (B4), Steve Cropper (B4)
1 LP, standard sleeve
Original analog Master tape : YES
Half-speed Mastering
Heavy Press : 180g
Record color : black
Speed : 33RPM
Size : 12”
Stereo
Studio
Record Press : Victor Company Of Japan
Label : MOFI
Original Label : Warner
Recorded at Sound Labs in May & June 1978
Engineered by Hank Cicalo
Mixed by Rick Ruggieri at Cherokee Studios
Produced by Al Schmitt
Mastered by Stan Ricker at Victor Company Of Japan
Lacquer cut at JVC Cutting Center
Originally released in 1978
Reissued in September 1979
Tracks:
Side A:
- Thinkin' About It Too
- I'm Home
- Brite 'N'Sunny Babe
- I Do
- Fly
Side B:
- Wait A Little While
- She's Leaving Home
- All
- (Sittin' On) The Dock Of The Bay
Reviews :
“With a restrained yet potent funk band and a few cameos from luminaries in the jazz world, Al Jarreau gets plenty of opportunities to wrap his rubbery, ever-changing timbre around an agreeable collection of tunes, the majority of which he wrote or co-wrote. Of the cover tunes, Jarreau completely transforms Kenny Loggins' "Wait a Little While," the Beatles' "She's Leaving Home" and Otis Redding's "Dock of the Bay" into personal vehicles for vocal acrobatics, and his own "Fly" revives his uncanny ability to skitter and sail along with a Brazilian-based rhythm track. Freddie Hubbard puts in a soulful guest appearance on flugelhorn on Dave Frishberg's "I'm Home" and applies a more outgoing obligato to "Fly"; Lee Ritenour and Paulinho Da Costa also make appearances on the record. While Jarreau could still be technically classified as a jazz singer at this point, he is really inhabiting a zone of his own.” AllMusic Review by Richard S. Ginell
Half-speed mastering
In half-speed mastering, the whole mastering process is slowed down to half of the original speed. A typical 33 1/3 rpm record is cut at 16 2/3 rpm. The source material is also slowed down (reducing the pitch in the process) meaning the final record will still sound normal when played back. Slowing the whole process down allows more time, which means the end result sounds better and is more efficient — allowing engineering to minimize the effects of inherent limitations within the vinyl format. The result is a more accurate and more open high-frequency response in the half speed vinyl when compared with a normal speed recording.
Ratings :
AllMusic : 3 / 5 , Discogs : 4,03 / 5