With a mostly different team of musicians in place, save for Buddy Williams' drums and a cameo Donald Smith vocal, Silhouettes nevertheless continues the Lonnie Liston Smith string of sweetly ingratiating pop/jazz background albums. If anything, Smith's keyboard work is even more stripped down and lightly melodic than before, and his new cohorts create more mild-mannered, semi-funky backdrops that won't disturb anyone's sleep. Smith's "Summer Afternoon" is the most memorable tune; at the close, you hope that soprano player Premik will heat it up and scorch the air like Smith's former employer Pharoah Sanders, but no, the track fades before he can catch fire. Will a 21st-century lounge movement be interested in this type of thing someday? Who knows, if it can happen to Esquivel ... ~ Richard S. Ginell, All Music Guide
Silhouettes
06/18/1984
All Music Guide Review
Silhouettes Track Listing
Credits of Silhouettes
- Sid Maurer
- Design
- Premik
- Flute (Alto), Sax (Soprano)
- Donald Smith
- Vocals
- Dr. Lonnie Smith
- Organ
- Bob Thiele
- Executive Producer
- Robert Thiele, Jr.
- Synthesizer, Vocals (Background), Producer, Vocals
- Steve Thornton
- Percussion
- Miles Watson
- Vocals, Vocals (Background)
- Buddy Williams
- Drums
- Abdul Wuali
- Guitar
- Kurt Yahjian
- Vocals, Vocals (Background)
- Keven P. Green
- Vocals (Background)
- Fernando Kral
- Engineer
- Harry Roolaart
- Photo Illustration
- Jimmy Maelen
- Percussion
- Joy Askew
- Synthesizer
- Tom Barney
- Bass
- Kimati Dinizulu
- Percussion
- Barry Eastmond
- Synthesizer
- Babi Floyd
- Vocals, Vocals (Background)
- Kevin P. Geen
- Vocals
- Harvey Goldberg
- Producer, Engineer, Mixing
- Anthony Jackson
- Bass
- Lonnie Liston Smith
- Piano, Piano (Electric), Producer, Main Performer













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