Wonderin’ is a tribute album featuring jazz-funk cover versions of Stevie Wonder

Stevie Wonder

Stevland Hardaway Morris , better known by his stage name Stevie Wonder, is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer and activist...

 songs. It was recorded by the ad hoc band Rollercoaster made up of leading UK session

Session musician

Session musicians are instrumental and vocal performers, musicians, who are available to work with others at live performances or recording sessions. Usually such musicians are not permanent members of a musical ensemble and often do not achieve fame in their own right as soloists or bandleaders...

 and jazz musicians based around British jazz-rock bands of the 60s and 70s such as Soft Machine

Soft Machine

Soft Machine were an English rock band from Canterbury, named after the book The Soft Machine by William S. Burroughs. They were one of the central bands in the Canterbury scene, and helped pioneer the progressive rock genre...

, Blue Mink

Blue Mink

Blue Mink was a British five-piece pop group, that existed from 1969 to 1974. Over that period they had six Top 20 hit singles in the UK Singles Chart, and released five studio based albums...

 and Nucleus

Nucleus (band)

Nucleus were a pioneering jazz-rock band from Britain who continued in different forms from 1969 to 1989. In their first year they won first prize at the Montreux Jazz Festival, released the album Elastic Rock, and performed both at the Newport Jazz Festival and the Village Gate jazz club.They were...

.

It was released on Ronnie Scott's record label. Many of the Rollercoaster musicians would go on to record the last Soft Machine album, Land of Cockayne

Land of Cockayne

Land of Cockayne is the final album by the band Soft Machine, released in 1981. By this point, the band contained none of its original members. The title refers to the medieval land of plenty....

, and make up Soft Machine's final live line-up which played a six-night residency at Ronnie Scott's in 1984.

Track listing

1. "I Wish
   I Wish (Stevie Wonder song)
   "I Wish" is a hit song by Stevie Wonder. It was released in 1976 as a single and included on the album Songs in the Key of Life. Written and produced by Wonder, the song focuses on his childhood...
   
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2. "Boogie On Reggae Woman
   Boogie On Reggae Woman
   "Boogie On Reggae Woman" is a 1974 funk single by American Motown artist Stevie Wonder, from the album Fulfillingness' First Finale. The song, which was not in the reggae style, continued Wonder's successful Top Ten streak on the pop charts, reaching number three and also spent two weeks at number...
   
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3. "Higher Ground"
4. "Superstition
   Superstition (song)
   "Superstition" is a popular song written, produced, arranged, and performed by Stevie Wonder for Motown Records in 1972, when Wonder was 22 years old. It was the lead single for Wonder's Talking Book album, and released in many countries. It reached number one in the USA, and number one on the soul...
   
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5. "Mr. W." (K. Jenkins)
6. "Living for the City
   Living for the City
   "Living for the City" is a 1973 hit single by Stevie Wonder for the Tamla label, from his Innervisions album. Reaching #8 on the Billboard Pop Singles chart and #1 on the R&B chart, the record is driven by a slow bass synth groove that manages to exude a certain amount of tension, an appropriate...
   
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Personnel

• Bass - Ron Mathewson
  Ron Mathewson
  Ron Mathewson is a Scottish jazz double bassist and bass guitarist born in Lerwick, Shetland Isles, Scotland. Mathewson is best known for his years spent working with Ronnie Scott, but has also done recordings with Stan Getz, Joe Henderson, Ben Webster, Philly Joe Jones, Roy Eldridge, Oscar...
  
  
• Drums - Barry Morgan
• Guitar - Alan Parker
  Alan Parker (musician)
  Alan Parker is a British guitarist and composer. Parker was trained by Julian Bream at London’s Royal Academy of Music....
  
  
• Keyboards - Karl Jenkins
  Karl Jenkins
  -Other works:*Adiemus: Live — live versions of Adiemus music*Palladio *Eloise *Imagined Oceans *The Armed Man: A Mass for Peace...
  
  , Mike Ratledge
  Mike Ratledge
  Michael Roland "Mike" Ratledge is a British musician. Ratledge was part of the Canterbury scene and a long-time member of Soft Machine.-Biography and career:...
  
  
• Piano - Mike Pyne
• Saxophones - Dick Morrissey
  Dick Morrissey
  Richard Edwin "Dick" Morrissey was a British jazz musician and composer. He played the tenor sax, soprano sax and flute.- Background :...
  
  , Ray Warleigh
  Ray Warleigh
  Raymond 'Ray' Kenneth Warleigh , is a leading UK-based alto saxophonist and flautist...
  
  
• Trombone - Chris Pyne
  Chris Pyne
  Norman Christopher "Chris" Pyne was an English jazz trombonist.Pyne was the brother of Mick Pyne, and played piano as a child before switching to trombone...
  
  
• Trumpet - Derek Watkins
  Derek Watkins (trumpeter)
  Derek Watkins is a British trumpeter and session musician renowned for playing the trumpet and flugelhorn...