Lenny White

Lenny White & Stanley Clarke 1976

Leonard "Lenny" White lll (født 19. december 1949 i New York, USA) er en amerikansk trommeslager.

White slog igennem med Chick Coreas gruppe Return To Forever først i 1970'erne. Denne gruppe var sammen med Weather Report og Mahavishnu Orchestra, en af de mest toneangivene Jazzrock-grupper i tiden. Han har ligeledes spillet og indspillet med Miles Davis, Freddie Hubbard, Jackie McLean, Joe Henderson, Woody Shaw, Jaco Pastorius, Gil Evans og Stan Getz.

White har også lavet indspilninger i eget navn.

Diskografi

Lenny White på scenen med Buster Williams under Oslo Jazzfestival 2016

Som forsanger

  • 1975: Venusian Summer (Nemperor)
  • 1977: Big City (Nemperor)
  • 1978: The Adventures of Astral Pirates (Elektra)
  • 1978: Streamline (Elektra)
  • 1979: Best of Friends (With the Twennynine) (Elektra)
  • 1980: Twennynine (With Lenny White) (Elektra)
  • 1981: Just Like Dreamin' (With the Twennynine) (Elektra)
  • 1983: Attitude (Wounded Bird)
  • 1983: In Clinic (DCI)
  • 1995: Present Tense (Hip Bop/Koch)
  • 1996: Renderers of Spirit (Hip Bop Essence)
  • 1999: Edge (Hip Bop Essence)
  • 2002: Collection (Hip Bop)
  • 2004: Tribute to Earth, Wind and Fire (Trauma)
  • 2010: Anomaly (Abstract Logix)

Medvirkende

Med Azteca

  • 1972: Azteca (Columbia)
  • 1973: Pyramid of the Moon (Columbia)
  • 2008: From The Ruins (Inakustic Gmbh)

Med Stanley Clarke

  • 1973: Children of Forever (Polydor)
  • 1975: Hello Jeff (Nemporer)

Med Al Di Meola:

  • 1976: Land of the Midnight Sun (Columbia)
  • 1976: Elegant Gypsy (Columbia)

Med Return to Forever

  • 1973: Hymn of the Seventh Galaxy (Polydor)
  • 1974: Where Have I Known You Before (Polydor)
  • 1975: No Mystery (Polydor)
  • 1976: Romantic Warrior (Columbia)
  • 2009: Returns

Med Larry Coryell & Victor Bailey

  • 2005: Electric
  • 2006: Traffic

Med Chaka Khan, Freddie Hubbard, Joe Henderson, Chick Corea & Stanley Clarke

  • 1982: Echoes of an Era (Elektra)
  • 1982: Echoes of an Era 2 – The Concert (Elektra)

Med andre

  • 1969 – Andrew Hill: Passing Ships (Blue Note) [not released until 2003]
  • 1970 – Joe Henderson: If You're Not Part of the Solution, You're Part of the Problem (Milestone)
  • 1970 – Freddie Hubbard: Red Clay (CTI)
  • 1970 – Woody Shaw: Blackstone Legacy (Contemporary)
  • 1970 – Miles Davis: Bitches Brew (Columbia)
  • 1971 – Curtis Fuller: Crankin' (Mainstream)
  • 1976 – Don Cherry: Hear & Now (Atlantic)
  • 1976 – Jaco Pastorius: Jaco Pastorius (Epic/Legacy (Sony Music))
  • 1990 – The Manhattan Project (Blue Note)
  • 1990 – Michel Petrucciani: Music (Blue Note)
  • 1994 – Marcus Miller, Michel Petrucciani, Bireli Lagrene & Kenny Garrett: "Dreyfus Night in Paris" (Dreyfus Jazz) [not released until 2003]
  • 1995 – Urbanator: Urbanator (Hip Bop)
  • 1997 – The Geri Allen Trio & The Jazzpar 1996 Nonet: Some Aspects of Water (Storyville)
  • 1998 – Geri Allen: The Gathering (Verve, 1998)
  • 1999 – Stanley Clarke, Karen Briggs, Rachel Z & Richie Kotzen Vertú (Sony)
  • 2009 – The Stanley Clarke Trio: Jazz in the Garden (Heads Up)
  • 2011 – Jamey Haddad, Lenny White, Mark Sherman:Explorations In Space and Time (Cesky) [1]

Eksterne kilder og henvisninger

Noter

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Lenny White Victoria Oslo Jazzfestival (212126).jpg
Forfatter/Opretter: Tore Sætre, Licens: CC BY-SA 4.0
Lenny White performs with Chestnut, Williams & White at the stage of Nasjonal Jazzscene Victoria. The concert was part of the Oslo Jazz Festival in Norway and took place on 14. August 2016. The super trio played at the first night of the festival. They have coorperated since 2015 and released one album, ”Natural Essence”.
Lineup: Cyrus Chestnut (piano), Buster Williams (double bass), Lenny White (drums)
Lenny White & Stanley Clarke.jpg
Forfatter/Opretter: Tom Marcello Webster, New York, USA, Licens: CC BY-SA 2.0
Lenny White & Stanley Clarke Rochester, N.Y. - 1976