Dreams (Band)

Dreams was an American jazz-rock band. She was one of the bands in the early days of jazz-rock at the end of the 1960s and in the early 1970s; they recorded two albums for Columbia Records.

Band History

The formation Dreams was founded by Jeff Kent and Doug Lubahn, who composed all the songs and arranged. Although initially founded as a trio, the band drew increasingly by its distinctive horn section.

Dreams selected as producers, composers and Toningineur for their first album Fred Weinberg, who had already produced albums for the salsa musician Eddie Palmieri, Tito Puente, La Lupe, Mongo Santamaria and Celia Cruz. Phil Ramone supported vineyard in the recording and mixing of Dreams - LP in the CBS studios in New York. The album was a full page advertised and discussed favorably in Billboard.

Dreams' second and last album Imagine My Surprise was produced in Memphis by Steve Cropper. In order to " help to better understand the group " the audience, Cropper was presented by the band in its production " funkier, more commercial rhythms " while simultaneously trying to "keep the Jazz in the foreground ."

One of the main differences between Dreams and most other blaster pointed bands was the emphasis on spontaneity. The horn section " developed for jamming spontaneous arrangements that can always wide open to interpretation from evening to evening. " While Dreams did not have the commercial success of other fusion bands like Chicago or Blood Sweat & Tears, the group as a springboard for a number of later, but prominent fusion musicians.

Dreams was involved with the musical theme for the The Dealers sketch on the soundtrack of the movie The Groove Tube (1974, with Richard Belzer and Chevy Chase ).

Musician

• Randy Brecker - trumpet, flugelhorn
• Michael Brecker - Saxophone, Flute
• Billy Cobham - drums
• Jeff Kent - keyboards, guitar and vocals
• Doug Lubahn - bass guitar, vocals ( headed Clearlight and played bass for The Doors )
• Barry Rogers - trombone, Wagner tuba ( later played for James Taylor, Aretha Franklin, and Spyro Gyra )
• Edward Vernon - Vocals
• John Abercrombie - Guitar
• Angel Allende - percussion ( later played for Harry Belafonte, Lonnie Liston Smith and Bette Midler )
• Bob Mann - guitar, flugelhorn, vocals (later of Mountain, a session musician for Gloria Gaynor, Bonnie Raitt and James Taylor)
• Will Lee - bass guitar (later in the CBS Orchestra, conducted by Paul Shaffer, the house band of the David Letterman show, but, he recorded with Barbra Streisand, Gloria Estefan, George Benson, Bob Mintzer, Steely Dan, Donald Fagen, BB King, Cat Stevens, Michael Bolton, Ringo Starr, Gloria Estefan & the Miami sound Machine, Cyndi Lauper, James Brown, Cher, Al Green, Billy Joel, Liza Minnelli, Frank Sinatra )
• Don Grolnick - Keyboards
• Alan Schwartzberg - drums (later of Mountain and Roxy Music)
• Steve Gadd - drums ( later during Paul Simon )

Discography

• Dreams (1970 )
• Imagine My Surprise ( 1971)