Prelude (Deodato album)

Prelude
Studio album by Deodato
Released 1972
Genre Jazz, Jazz-Funk
Label CTI Records
Producer Creed Taylor
Deodato chronology
Percepção
(1972)		 Prelude
(1972)		 Deodato 2
(1973)
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Allmusic [1]

Prelude is a 1972 album of Brazilian keyboardist Eumir Deodato. It features guitarist John Tropea on three tracks, bassists Ron Carter and Stanley Clarke, and Billy Cobham on drums. With the signature track "Also Sprach Zarathustra" (an arrangement of the theme from 2001: A Space Odyssey), Prelude would be the biggest hit Deodato and CTI ever had.

His funk-influenced version of the "Introduction" from Richard Strauss's Also sprach Zarathustra, entitled "Also Sprach Zarathustra (2001)" for its single release, won the 1974 Grammy Award for Best Pop Instrumental Performance and went to No. 2 in the pop charts in the US, No. 3 in Canada, and No. 7 in the UK.

This album was reissued in 1977 as 2001.

Contents

Track listing

All songs written by Eumir Deodato, except where noted.

Side one

  1. "Also Sprach Zarathustra" * (Richard Strauss, arranged and adapted by Eumir Deodato) - 9:01
  2. "Spirit of Summer" - 4:14
  3. "Carly & Carole" - 3:41

Side two

  1. "Baubles, Bangles and Beads" (Robert Wright, George Forrest) - 5:20
  2. "Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun" * (Claude Debussy, arranged and adapted by Eumir Deodato) - 5:13
  3. "September 13" (Billy Cobham, Eumir Deodato) - 5:56

* Listed as "Also Sprach Zarathustra (2001)" and "Prelude to Afternoon of a Faun" (no "the") on the original LP.[2]

Personnel

Plus Strings & Horns

Production

Sources

References

  1. ^ Ginell, Richard S. (2011 [last update]). "Prelude - Deodato | AllMusic". allmusic.com. http://www.allmusic.com/album/r5478. Retrieved 2 August 2011. 
  2. ^ cover image at discogs.com