Terry Burrus
Encyclopedia
Terrance Corley Burrus is an American keyboardist
and composer
.
Born in Brooklyn
, New York
, he started touring as a teenager playing with jazz fusion violinist Michał Urbaniak, singer Jean Carne
, while still in High school in New York. Not sure of how Urbaniak got his phone number but Terry went to replace his current keyboardist at that time, Barry Eastman (who wrote "You Are My Lady years later for Freddie Jackson
) in Urbaniaks band that worked out great for Terry. Terry was brought to Jean Carne through percussionist- producer Norman Hedman who was one of Terry's musical mentors as a child also. Later on through these types of associations, Terry went on to play with trumpeter, Tom Browne, drummer Lenny White
and singer Melba Moore
. As a recommendation from his friend the late great pianist Kenny Kirkland who was the keyboardist for Sting during the mid eighties, Burrus moved on to play with the great Lena Horne
in her award winning show "Lady And Her Music" in 1984. Lena Horne's band was Terry on piano and keys, Ben Brown on Bass, Rodney Jones on guitar, Wilby Fletcher on drums along with music director Linda Twine and an array of orchestras on various concert dates including the London Symphony Orchestra. A year earlier in 1983 Terry released his first solo single called, Love Rockin' for Arista Records
a funk, electro, soul piece written and with all vocals and instruments done by Burrus,and high school buddy Omar Hakim did the drumming. This was known as Terry Burrus And Transe produced by Burrus and Marcus Miller
, another High school friend at that time. Terry and Marcus Miller along with drummer, Poogie Bell, Bobby Broom
, another high school guitar friend and Bernard Wright
also another high school companion went on to play for an off Broadway show called "Young Gifted And Broke' at the Billie Holiday
Theater In Brooklyn, New York. This show was written by Weldon Irving Jr. in 1977. They were all kids and young adults getting a great experience at that time through the leadership of Weldon Irving. Irving had co-wrote with Nina Simone
the famed song "Young Gifted And Black". Return To Forever's drummer,and jazz fusion
pioneer Lenny White
joined the "Young Gifted And Broke" crew of musicians as a second and replacement drummer for Poogie Bell at times. This was during the Chick Corea
Return to Forever post season. As time went on Terry became a highly respected and successful recording session man playing on recordings of Michael Jackson
, Toni Braxton
, Janet Jackson
, Swing Out Sister
, Mariah Carey
, The Cardigans
, Donna Summer
, Lisa Stansfield
, Gloria Estefan
, Aretha Franklin
, :Phyllis Hyman, Frankie Knuckles
, David Morales
, Satoshi Tomiie
, Todd Terry
and more. Burrus being no stranger to synthesizers and electronic sounds is said to own just about every electric keyboard that has came out since the Wurlitzer electric piano. But the Classical
side of Burrus studying the artistry of Mozart, Beethoven, Handel
and others during his school days growing up in New York has always been intrigued by the great masters of those times. Burrus has said you are always a student in music forever. In his contemporary piano compositions and playing you can hear much of his classical influences. He performs many classical piano recitals around the world as well as in the jazz and pop genres. Terry Burrus has also been the sideman/recorded/ music director on many Jazz Explosion tours as they were known in the 80's and 90's as well as soul and gospel concerts with Queen Esther Marrow
and the Harlem Gospel Singers, Lionel Hampton
, Gato Barbieri
, George Benson
, Angela Bofill
, Larry Carlton
, Bill Withers
, Ramsey Lewis
, Crowne Heights Affair, Chaka Khan
, Ronnie Laws
, The Main Ingredient, Johnny Kemp
, Stanley Clarke
, Noel Pointer
, Bobbi Humphrey
, Sherry Winston. He also had another revelation in his life. He wrote and produced with the President of Philadelphia International Records
, Kenny Gamble, who was a big influence on Terry in the music business. They wrote and produced, "Living In Confusion" and "Forever With You" for Phyllis Hyman. Terry wrote, "I Just Love You So Much" for Billy Paul
and he wrote and produced,"Love Goddess" for Lonnie Liston Smith
.Terry also wrote and produced,"I'll Wait for You" and "The One And Only Lady In My Life"for Virgin recording group, Burrell and the list goes on for other compositions and productions to his credit. With his contributions to the many remixes of artists during the eighties and nineties to present day, reinforcing the sound of House and Electronic Music, His early associations working with Def Mix Productions, Frankie Knuckles, David Morales, Satoshi Tomei and Todd Terry, Junior Vasquez
, Paul Simpson, Winston Jones, Dave shaw, Jellybean Benitez, Tony Humphries
, François K and many other International and American DJ producers have rooted him quite well on the dancefloors and in the remix world. Stretching into the world of Techno
, Trance, Ambient, World and more, he has created sounds and style in electronica that grew rapidly around the world, especially his piano style which was so prevalent and domineering in the 1990s on so many recordings by well known and new artists from around the world. From his teenage days as a jazz fusionist to funkster to house and electronica pioneer, make no mistake about this, Terry Burrus is also an ambassador of electronic music.
, Lenny White, Lena Horne, Phyllis Hyman, Crowne Heights Affair and The Main Ingredient with Cuba Gooding. Terry Burrus always calls the name of Sticks Evans who was his junior high school music teacher for the encouragement and inspiration as a younster. Stick Evans was his teacher at the John Coleman I.S.271 Junior High School in Brooklyn, New York who played drums for Aretha Franklin
and Sammy Davis, Jr.
Although Stick Evans was his teacher and mentor, he regarded Terry like a little brother or even a son. So it was in this relationship that Terry acquired strength to go on in the music world in life. In the late 1980s Terry even took a brand new built apartment in mid-Manhattan which was also the area where Evans had lived for many years until his death in the early 90's.
Keyboardist
A keyboardist is a musician who plays keyboard instruments. Until the early 1960s musicians who played keyboards were generally classified as either pianists or organists. Since the mid-1960s, a plethora of new musical instruments with keyboards have come into common usage, requiring a more...
and composer
Composer
A composer is a person who creates music, either by musical notation or oral tradition, for interpretation and performance, or through direct manipulation of sonic material through electronic media...
.
Born in Brooklyn
Brooklyn
Brooklyn is the most populous of New York City's five boroughs, with nearly 2.6 million residents, and the second-largest in area. Since 1896, Brooklyn has had the same boundaries as Kings County, which is now the most populous county in New York State and the second-most densely populated...
, New York
New York
New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...
, he started touring as a teenager playing with jazz fusion violinist Michał Urbaniak, singer Jean Carne
Jean Carne
Jean Carn is an American jazz and pop singer known for her unique vocalising and her impressive interpretative and improvisational skills...
, while still in High school in New York. Not sure of how Urbaniak got his phone number but Terry went to replace his current keyboardist at that time, Barry Eastman (who wrote "You Are My Lady years later for Freddie Jackson
Freddie Jackson
Frederick Anthony "Freddie" Jackson is an American soul singer. He was an important figure in R&B during the 1980s and early 1990s...
) in Urbaniaks band that worked out great for Terry. Terry was brought to Jean Carne through percussionist- producer Norman Hedman who was one of Terry's musical mentors as a child also. Later on through these types of associations, Terry went on to play with trumpeter, Tom Browne, drummer Lenny White
Lenny White
Leonard White III, better known as Lenny White is an American jazz fusion drummer, who is best known for playing in Chick Corea's Return to Forever.-Biography:...
and singer Melba Moore
Melba Moore
Beatrice Melba Smith , known by her stage name, Melba Moore is an American disco, R&B singer and actress. She is the daughter of saxophonist Teddy Hill and R&B singer Bonnie Davis.-Early life:...
. As a recommendation from his friend the late great pianist Kenny Kirkland who was the keyboardist for Sting during the mid eighties, Burrus moved on to play with the great Lena Horne
Lena Horne
Lena Mary Calhoun Horne was an American singer, actress, civil rights activist and dancer.Horne joined the chorus of the Cotton Club at the age of sixteen and became a nightclub performer before moving to Hollywood, where she had small parts in numerous movies, and more substantial parts in the...
in her award winning show "Lady And Her Music" in 1984. Lena Horne's band was Terry on piano and keys, Ben Brown on Bass, Rodney Jones on guitar, Wilby Fletcher on drums along with music director Linda Twine and an array of orchestras on various concert dates including the London Symphony Orchestra. A year earlier in 1983 Terry released his first solo single called, Love Rockin' for Arista Records
Arista Records
Arista was an American record label. It was a wholly owned subsidiary of Sony Music Entertainment and operated under the RCA Music Group. The label was founded in 1974 by Clive Davis, who formerly worked for CBS Records...
a funk, electro, soul piece written and with all vocals and instruments done by Burrus,and high school buddy Omar Hakim did the drumming. This was known as Terry Burrus And Transe produced by Burrus and Marcus Miller
Marcus Miller
Marcus Miller is an American jazz composer, producer, and multi-instrumentalist. Miller is best known as a bassist, working with trumpeter Miles Davis, singer Luther Vandross, and saxophonist David Sanborn, as well as maintaining a prolific solo career...
, another High school friend at that time. Terry and Marcus Miller along with drummer, Poogie Bell, Bobby Broom
Bobby Broom
Bobby Broom , birthname Robert Broom, Jr., is an American jazz guitarist, composer and educator born and raised in New York City. Broom performs and records with jazz saxophone legend Sonny Rollins as well as his Bobby Broom Trio and the Deep Blue Organ Trio...
, another high school guitar friend and Bernard Wright
Bernard Wright
Bernard Wright is an American funk and jazz keyboardist who began his career as a session musician and later released several solo albums in the 1980s....
also another high school companion went on to play for an off Broadway show called "Young Gifted And Broke' at the Billie Holiday
Billie Holiday
Billie Holiday was an American jazz singer and songwriter. Nicknamed "Lady Day" by her friend and musical partner Lester Young, Holiday had a seminal influence on jazz and pop singing...
Theater In Brooklyn, New York. This show was written by Weldon Irving Jr. in 1977. They were all kids and young adults getting a great experience at that time through the leadership of Weldon Irving. Irving had co-wrote with Nina Simone
Nina Simone
Eunice Kathleen Waymon , better known by her stage name Nina Simone , was an American singer, songwriter, pianist, arranger, and civil rights activist widely associated with jazz music...
the famed song "Young Gifted And Black". Return To Forever's drummer,and jazz fusion
Jazz fusion
Jazz fusion is a musical fusion genre that developed from mixing funk and R&B rhythms and the amplification and electronic effects of rock, complex time signatures derived from non-Western music and extended, typically instrumental compositions with a jazz approach to lengthy group improvisations,...
pioneer Lenny White
Lenny White
Leonard White III, better known as Lenny White is an American jazz fusion drummer, who is best known for playing in Chick Corea's Return to Forever.-Biography:...
joined the "Young Gifted And Broke" crew of musicians as a second and replacement drummer for Poogie Bell at times. This was during the Chick Corea
Chick Corea
Armando Anthony "Chick" Corea is an American jazz pianist, keyboardist, and composer.Many of his compositions are considered jazz standards. As a member of Miles Davis' band in the 1960s, he participated in the birth of the electric jazz fusion movement. In the 1970s he formed Return to Forever...
Return to Forever post season. As time went on Terry became a highly respected and successful recording session man playing on recordings of Michael Jackson
Michael Jackson
Michael Joseph Jackson was an American recording artist, entertainer, and businessman. Referred to as the King of Pop, or by his initials MJ, Jackson is recognized as the most successful entertainer of all time by Guinness World Records...
, Toni Braxton
Toni Braxton
Toni Michelle Braxton is an American R&B singer-songwriter, record producer, and actress. Braxton has won six Grammy Awards, seven American Music Awards, and five Billboard Music Awards and has sold over 60 million records worldwide...
, Janet Jackson
Janet Jackson
Janet Damita Jo Jackson is an American recording artist and actress. Known for a series of sonically innovative, socially conscious and sexually provocative records, as well as elaborate stage shows, television and film roles, she has been a prominent figure in popular culture for over 25 years...
, Swing Out Sister
Swing Out Sister
Swing Out Sister are a British "sophisti-pop" group best known worldwide for their 1986 song "Breakout". Other hits include "Surrender", "Twilight World", "Waiting Game" and a remake of "Am I the Same Girl?" Though album sales in the U.S. and Europe have levelled off since the early 1990s, the...
, Mariah Carey
Mariah Carey
Mariah Carey is an American singer-songwriter, record producer, and actress. She made her recording debut with the release of her eponymous studio album in 1990, under the guidance of Columbia Records executive Tommy Mottola, whom she later married in 1993...
, The Cardigans
The Cardigans
The Cardigans are a Swedish rock band formed in the town of Jönköping in October 1992.Their debut album Emmerdale gave them a solid base in their home country and enjoyed some success abroad, especially in Japan. It was not until their second album Life that an international reputation was secured...
, Donna Summer
Donna Summer
LaDonna Adrian Gaines , known by her stage name, Donna Summer, is an American singer/songwriter who gained prominence during the disco era of the 1970s. She has a mezzo-soprano vocal range. Summer is a five-time Grammy winner and was the first artist to have three consecutive double albums reach...
, Lisa Stansfield
Lisa Stansfield
Lisa Stansfield is an English singer and songwriter.-Early years:Stansfield was born to Marion and Keith Stansfield in Heywood, Lancashire, in England, where she attended Redbrook School, Rochdale. Her first television appearance was on a talent programme in the Granada TV area in 1982...
, Gloria Estefan
Gloria Estefan
Gloria María Milagrosa Fajardo García de Estefan; known professionally as Gloria Estefan is a Cuban-born American singer, songwriter, and actress. Known as the "Queen Of Latin Pop", she is in the top 100 best selling music artists with over 100 million albums sold worldwide, 31.5 million of those...
, Aretha Franklin
Aretha Franklin
Aretha Louise Franklin is an American singer, songwriter, and pianist. Although known for her soul recordings and referred to as The Queen of Soul, Franklin is also adept at jazz, blues, R&B, gospel music, and rock. Rolling Stone magazine ranked her atop its list of The Greatest Singers of All...
, :Phyllis Hyman, Frankie Knuckles
Frankie Knuckles
Frankie Knuckles is an American DJ, record producer and remix artist. He played an important role in developing house music as a Chicago DJ in the 1980s and he helped to popularize house music in the 1990s, with his work as a producer and remixer...
, David Morales
David Morales
David Morales is an internationally acclaimed Grammy-winning house music DJ and producer. In addition to his production and DJ work, Morales is one of the most prolific remixers of all time, transforming many pop music songs into club-friendly dance tracks...
, Satoshi Tomiie
Satoshi Tomiie
Satoshi Tomiie is a Japanese house-music producer and DJ. He has written music for numerous soundtracks, including for the Animatrix soundtrack and remixed many artists including the Future Sound of London.-History:...
, Todd Terry
Todd Terry
Todd N. Terry is an American DJ, producer, and remixer.-Career:Terry's productions extensively used samples blending the sounds of classic disco, the Chicago sound, and elements of hip-hop....
and more. Burrus being no stranger to synthesizers and electronic sounds is said to own just about every electric keyboard that has came out since the Wurlitzer electric piano. But the Classical
Classical music
Classical music is the art music produced in, or rooted in, the traditions of Western liturgical and secular music, encompassing a broad period from roughly the 11th century to present times...
side of Burrus studying the artistry of Mozart, Beethoven, Handel
HANDEL
HANDEL was the code-name for the UK's National Attack Warning System in the Cold War. It consisted of a small console consisting of two microphones, lights and gauges. The reason behind this was to provide a back-up if anything failed....
and others during his school days growing up in New York has always been intrigued by the great masters of those times. Burrus has said you are always a student in music forever. In his contemporary piano compositions and playing you can hear much of his classical influences. He performs many classical piano recitals around the world as well as in the jazz and pop genres. Terry Burrus has also been the sideman/recorded/ music director on many Jazz Explosion tours as they were known in the 80's and 90's as well as soul and gospel concerts with Queen Esther Marrow
Queen Esther Marrow
-Biography:Queen Esther Marrow was born in Newport News, Virginia. She began her career at the age of 22 when her talent and vocal gifts were discovered by Duke Ellington and made her debut as a featured artist in his "Sacred Concert" world tour. Marrow and Ellington formed a long life friendship...
and the Harlem Gospel Singers, Lionel Hampton
Lionel Hampton
Lionel Leo Hampton was an American jazz vibraphonist, pianist, percussionist, bandleader and actor. Like Red Norvo, he was one of the first jazz vibraphone players. Hampton ranks among the great names in jazz history, having worked with a who's who of jazz musicians, from Benny Goodman and Buddy...
, Gato Barbieri
Gato Barbieri
Leandro Barbieri , better known as Gato Barbieri , is an Argentinean jazz tenor saxophonist and composer who rose to fame during the free jazz movement in the 1960s and from his latin jazz recordings in the 1970s.-Biography:Born to a family of musicians, Barbieri began playing music...
, George Benson
George Benson
George Benson is a ten Grammy Award winning American musician, whose production career began at the age of twenty-one as a jazz guitarist....
, Angela Bofill
Angela Bofill
Angela Bofill is an American R&B vocalist and songwriter.Bofill was born to a Cuban father and a Puerto Rican mother; one of the first Latina singers to find success in the R&B market.She performed with Ricardo Marrero & the Group and Dance Theater of Harlem chorus prior to her 1978 debut album,...
, Larry Carlton
Larry Carlton
Larry Carlton is an American jazz, smooth jazz, jazz fusion, pop, and rock guitarist and singer. He has divided his recording time between solo recordings and session appearances with various well-known bands...
, Bill Withers
Bill Withers
William Harrison "Bill" Withers, Jr. is an American singer-songwriter and musician who performed and recorded from 1970 until 1985. Some of his best-known songs are "Lean on Me", "Ain't No Sunshine", "Use Me", "Just the Two of Us", "Lovely Day", and "Grandma's Hands"...
, Ramsey Lewis
Ramsey Lewis
Ramsey Emmanuel Lewis, Jr. is an American jazz composer, pianist and radio personality. Ramsey Lewis has recorded over 80 albums and has received seven gold records and three Grammy Awards so far in his career.-Biography:...
, Crowne Heights Affair, Chaka Khan
Chaka Khan
Chaka Khan , frequently known as the Queen of Funk, is a 10-time Grammy Award winning American singer-songwriter who gained fame in the 1970s as the frontwoman and focal point of the funk band Rufus. While still a member of the group in 1978, Khan embarked on a successful solo career...
, Ronnie Laws
Ronnie Laws
Ronald Wayne "Ronnie" Laws is an American jazz, blues and funk saxophonist. He is the younger brother of jazz flautist Hubert Laws.-Biography:...
, The Main Ingredient, Johnny Kemp
Johnny Kemp
Johnny Kemp is a Bahamian R&B singer and dancer. He began singing in nightclubs in the Bahamas at 13. He moved to New York in 1979 with the band "Kinky Fox." His self-titled debut album came out in 1986 and he scored a minor hit with "Just Another Lover." True success came the following year,...
, Stanley Clarke
Stanley Clarke
Stanley Clarke is an American jazz musician and composer known for his innovative and influential work on double bass and electric bass guitar as well as for his numerous film and television scores...
, Noel Pointer
Noel Pointer
Noel Pointer was an American jazz violinist and record producer.He was nominated for a Grammy award in 1981. Pointer's reputation as an outstanding jazz musician and literary advocate garnered him honorary citizenship in cities across the United States...
, Bobbi Humphrey
Bobbi Humphrey
Barbara Ann Humphrey is an American jazz flautist and singer who plays fusion, jazz-funk and soul-jazz styles. Bobbi Humphrey has performed for audiences around the world....
, Sherry Winston. He also had another revelation in his life. He wrote and produced with the President of Philadelphia International Records
Philadelphia International Records
Philadelphia International Records is a record label founded by writer-producers, Kenneth Gamble and Leon Huff in 1971. It was famous for showcasing the sub-genre of Philadelphia soul music and released a string of worldwide hits during the decade.-History:...
, Kenny Gamble, who was a big influence on Terry in the music business. They wrote and produced, "Living In Confusion" and "Forever With You" for Phyllis Hyman. Terry wrote, "I Just Love You So Much" for Billy Paul
Billy Paul
Billy Paul is a Grammy Award winning American soul singer, most known for his 1972 number-one single, "Me and Mrs. Jones" as well as the 1973 album and single "War of the Gods" which blends his more conventional pop, soul and funk styles with electronic and psychedelic influences...
and he wrote and produced,"Love Goddess" for Lonnie Liston Smith
Lonnie Liston Smith
Lonnie Liston Smith, Jr. is an American jazz, soul, and funk musician who played with important free jazz artists such as Pharoah Sanders and Miles Davis before forming Lonnie Liston Smith And The Cosmic Echoes, recording a number of albums widely regarded as classics in the fusion / Quiet Storm /...
.Terry also wrote and produced,"I'll Wait for You" and "The One And Only Lady In My Life"for Virgin recording group, Burrell and the list goes on for other compositions and productions to his credit. With his contributions to the many remixes of artists during the eighties and nineties to present day, reinforcing the sound of House and Electronic Music, His early associations working with Def Mix Productions, Frankie Knuckles, David Morales, Satoshi Tomei and Todd Terry, Junior Vasquez
Junior Vasquez
Junior Vasquez, , is an American club DJ and remixer/producer.-Career:...
, Paul Simpson, Winston Jones, Dave shaw, Jellybean Benitez, Tony Humphries
Tony Humphries
Tony Humphries is a former Administrator of the British Indian Ocean Territory , a British overseas territory in the Indian Ocean. Humphries was Administrator from February 2005 to December 2007.-References:...
, François K and many other International and American DJ producers have rooted him quite well on the dancefloors and in the remix world. Stretching into the world of Techno
Techno
Techno is a form of electronic dance music that emerged in Detroit, Michigan in the United States during the mid to late 1980s. The first recorded use of the word techno, in reference to a genre of music, was in 1988...
, Trance, Ambient, World and more, he has created sounds and style in electronica that grew rapidly around the world, especially his piano style which was so prevalent and domineering in the 1990s on so many recordings by well known and new artists from around the world. From his teenage days as a jazz fusionist to funkster to house and electronica pioneer, make no mistake about this, Terry Burrus is also an ambassador of electronic music.
Early life
Starting at the age of five Terry Burrus started his interest in the organ and piano in Brooklyn at the Washington Temple Church Of God In Christ, a Pentecostal Church under the founder Pastor Bishop F.D. Washington. Terry's mother Carter Lee and father James were singing in the choir at the time since the mid 1950's. By the time Terry was five his parents enrolled him at the Alfred Miller Music school. Excelling so well he was playing Gospel hymns about a year or so later. He went on to study music at the La Guardia School of Arts In New York City ( Formerly known as Music and Art) and later attended Long island University in New York. All of this while recording in his personal and public recording studios moving into a creative frame of mind as well as playing concerts worldwide as a sideman with Jean Carne, Michael Urbaniak, Tom Browne, Stanley TurrentineStanley Turrentine
Stanley William Turrentine, also known as "Mr. T" or "The Sugar Man", was an American jazz tenor saxophonist.-Biography:Turrentine was born in Pittsburgh's Hill District into a musical family...
, Lenny White, Lena Horne, Phyllis Hyman, Crowne Heights Affair and The Main Ingredient with Cuba Gooding. Terry Burrus always calls the name of Sticks Evans who was his junior high school music teacher for the encouragement and inspiration as a younster. Stick Evans was his teacher at the John Coleman I.S.271 Junior High School in Brooklyn, New York who played drums for Aretha Franklin
Aretha Franklin
Aretha Louise Franklin is an American singer, songwriter, and pianist. Although known for her soul recordings and referred to as The Queen of Soul, Franklin is also adept at jazz, blues, R&B, gospel music, and rock. Rolling Stone magazine ranked her atop its list of The Greatest Singers of All...
and Sammy Davis, Jr.
Sammy Davis, Jr.
Samuel George "Sammy" Davis Jr. was an American entertainer and was also known for his impersonations of actors and other celebrities....
Although Stick Evans was his teacher and mentor, he regarded Terry like a little brother or even a son. So it was in this relationship that Terry acquired strength to go on in the music world in life. In the late 1980s Terry even took a brand new built apartment in mid-Manhattan which was also the area where Evans had lived for many years until his death in the early 90's.
As a leader
- "Bust It Out" (1989) – Easystreet records
- "Dance To The Mix" (EP) (1990) – Easystreet records
- "Urban smooth Jazz" (album) (2006)- Ichiban records
- "Mighty Mouth Vavoom" (1985) – Zakia/Bee Pee records
- "Invisible Weapon" (album) (1994)– Startrak records
- "Love Rockin" (1983)-Arista records
- "Nation 2 Nation" (album) (1992) – Ichiban records
- "Free Spirit" (album)|Free Spirit (1991) – Ichiban-EMI records
- "Soul Of Jazz" (album) (1996) – Ichiban records
- "I Am For You" (1996) – Lovelight records
- "Acid Jazz Hipabop Project" (album) (1994) – Lovelight records
- "At The Konzerthaus In Dortmund" (album)| (2007) – Blue Corner records
- "Global Dancefloor Booked" (album) (2008) – Lovelight records
As a sideman
- George Benson -"Big Boss Band" with the Count Basie Orchestra-(album)-(1990)- Warner Bros.records
- Lonnie Liston Smith-"Love Goddess" (album)-(1990)- Startrak/Ichiban records
- Tom Browne-"Yours Truly"- (album) (1981)-GRP/Arista records
- Very Best Of Tom Browne-(compilation)(Arista)-BMG
- Michael Jackson-"They Don't Care About Us"-(compilation)-(1996)-Epic records
- Michael Jackson-"You Are Not Alone"-(1995)-Epic records
- Cardigans-"Love Fool"- (1997)-Motor/Mercury records
- Mary J. Blige-"Everything"-1997-MCA/Universal
- Phyllis Hyman-"Prime Of My Life"-(album) -(1992)- Zoo Entertainment
- Phyllis Hyman-"Living All Alone"-(album)-(1986)-Philadelphia International records
- "Various -"Very Best Of Euphoric House Breakdown" (compilation)-2003-Telstar TV
- Robert Miles-"One On One Remixes" (compilation)-(1996)-Arista records