Winelight - Grover Washington, Jr.

Winelight

Grover Washington, Jr.

  • Genre: Jazz
  • Release Date: 2002-03-26
  • Explicitness: notExplicit
  • Country: USA
  • Track Count: 6
  • ℗ 1980 Elektra Entertainment Company. Marketed by Rhino Entertainment Company, a Warner Music Group Company

Winelight ◷ preview

Title Artist Time
1
Winelight Grover Washington, Jr. 7:32 USD 1.29
2
Let It Flow (For "Dr. J") Grover Washington, Jr. 5:50 USD 1.29
3
In the Name of Love Grover Washington, Jr. 5:26 USD 1.29
4
Take Me There Grover Washington, Jr. 6:14 USD 1.29
5
Just the Two of Us Grover Washington, Jr. & Bill Withers 7:23 USD 1.29
6
Make Me a Memory Grover Washington, Jr. 6:32 USD 1.29

Reviews

  • Grover

    5
    By yeyejetbox
    One of the best albums ever.
  • Grover was Grover Before Smooth Jazz Existed

    5
    By Duke and Jocko
    Grower Washington is one of the most overlooked jazz artists of all times. Before Kenny G, before 'Smooth Jazz' became cliche', there was Grover. I was listening to and buying WineLight long before the others existed.
  • Every song a greatest hit!

    5
    By The6thPrince
    I reminisce all the time about when this album was released and I still listen to these songs all these years... It’s one of those alum/CD you play it all day long. It sounds just as good today when it was first released.
  • Date night

    5
    By woodpkr
    This album, cooking dinner for your lady, great bottle of wine. It doesn't get any better!
  • Winelight

    5
    By D.J. Skippy-Skip
    I Love The All Selections Of This C.D. Album So Very Much From My Scale From 1-10 I Give A 10 Is A Classic Like The Commercial Jingle Said: Ba-Ba-Ba-Ba-Ba I'm Lovin' It!!!!!!
  • Good Taste!!!

    5
    By chinocolombia
    Amazing Album!!!
  • Classic

    5
    By Yoyo Mr White
    A lot of folks were conceived to "Just to two of us"
  • SCORE!!!!!

    5
    By foxycoco
    I hadn't heard this album since the summer of 1981, when I was a 19 year-old college student. Back then, I would listen to Winelight on my Sony Walkman, while sitting on the beach in Venice, California without a care in the world. Discovering this music again--more than 30 years later --takes me back to that magical, carefree time. Grover's sax sounds as smooth and silky as ever. So happy iTunes showcased Winelight this month. SCORE!!
  • Sweet history

    5
    By thinair33
    I remember first hearing this album while searching for a small stereo system at a Radio Shack store in my home town in 1981. The small but very impressive Minimus Seven system played this album conveying its tracks like sweet fragrance spilling out of a field of flowers. I had never heard any of Mr. Washingtons albums at the time. I was a young man of 14 years old about to embark on a journey to military school. I wanted a small system for my Dorm room and purchased it , along with this album. Many nights i would listen to this album over many others I had to ease my day and melt away my cares. I really do not know what it was that made it one of my favorite "Albums". It seemed to be honest heartwarming music played with truth and feeling. I was deeply saddened when this artist past away and I ALWAYS remember the nights at military school listening thru headphones and feeling to be a better person for it. A real keeper of an album.
  • Cleats required, due to insane smoothness.

    5
    By Mr_skandl
    Picked this selection up at a neighborhood used record store, about a month ago for fifty cents. The shabby, moth-eaten, cardboard sleeve initially stole my gaze, in large part, because of the ultra-cheesy facade. I remarked aloud, to no one in particular, "With a cover that corny, this has to be a smooth album." But, alas, the surface of the vinyl was a little too mucked up(even at that price), and I'd already compiled roughly thirty dollars-worth of other various albums, that were going to be hard-pressed fitting in the seat compartment of my Ruckus scooter. Several days later, I made a return to the same store, in order to grab a Miami Vice graphic LP for my friend, and noticed that "Winelight" was still sitting in the same lonely spot where my shrewd pocket-book had left it for dead. This must have been a sign. That, or every other passerby, that week, had been operating by a thought process similar to my own, when inspecting the tattered wax disc. Regardless, half a dollar didn't seem so steep for what was sure to be a low-risk wager. Realistically, I was looking at the price of gum, for what could lay path to a delightful evening chocked full of clever, unabashed grooves. Returning to my basement refuge(where my girlfriend lets me keep the man cave) later on that night, I quickly discovered the that the gamble would yield success, as the sweet-funked, yet ultra-placid jazz melodies of Grover Washington's arctic cool symphonic wonderland swaggered gingerly from the depths of my vintage Maxwell speakers. Masterfully arranged, the album pervays a relaxful feeling of unrelenting bliss, charged by hearty ions of sultry flavor and keen bravado. The girlfriend wasn't a fan, however. She compared the collection of tracks("Just the Two of Us" excluded) to really bad elevator music. But that's her normal classification for any type of jazz-like music not churned by Michael Buble( not even really jazz) and the toolish Jaime Cullum. So, I view that assessment as a compliment.