Overview
Taking Off is a studio album by David Sanborn, released in 1975 on Warner Bros. Records. The album reached number 19 on Billboards Jazz Albums chart.
Track listing
All tracks composed by David Matthews except where noted.
"Butterfat" (Steve Khan) – 3:02
"'Way 'Cross Georgia" (Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson) – 4:27
"Duck Ankles" (Steve Khan) – 3:20
"Funky Banana" – 3:16
"The Whisperer" (Don Grolnick) – 4:47
"It Took a Long Time" (Randy Brecker) – 3:29
"Black Light" – 6:30
"Blue Night" – 3:45
"Flight" – 4:07
Personnel Musicians David Sanborn – alto saxophone
Don Grolnick – acoustic piano, clavinet, Fender Rhodes, synthesizers, arrangements (5)
Steve Khan – electric guitar, acoustic guitar, 12-string electric guitar
Joe Beck – electric guitar (4)
Buzz Feiten – electric guitar (4)
Will Lee – bass guitar
Chris Parker – drums (1-6)
Rick Marotta – additional drums (1, 3)
Steve Gadd – drums (7, 8, 9)
Ralph MacDonald – bongos, percussion, congas (7, 8, 9)
José Madera – percussion (7, 8, 9)
Warren Smith – percussion (7, 8, 9)
Howard Johnson – baritone saxophone, tuba, arrangements (2)
Michael Brecker – tenor saxophone
Tom Malone – trombone
Randy Brecker – trumpet, arrangements (6)
John Clark – French horn (2)
Peter Gordon – French horn (2)
David Matthews – arrangements (1, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9)
Strings (7, 8, 9)
Charles McCracken – cello
George Ricci – cello
Lucien Schmit – cello
John Beal – double bass
Bob Daugherty – double bass
Al Brown – viola
Harold Coletta – viola
Manny Vardi – viola
Emile Charlap – violin, string contractor
Harry Clickman – violin
Lou Eley – violin
Paul Gershman – violin
Harry Glickman – violin
Leo Kahn – violin
Harold Kohon – violin
Charles Libove – violin
Guy Lumia – violin
David Nadien – violin, concertmaster
Gene Orloff – violin
Max Pollikoff – violin
Matthew Raimondi – violinProduction'
John Court – producer
Don Hahn – engineer, remixing (1-4, 6-9)
Lee Herschberg – remixing (5)
Sam Ginsberg – assistant engineer
Ed Thrasher – art direction
Robert Lockhart – design
Benno Friedman – photography
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