| The extremely talented Jazz artist Lenny White has | | | | "Stuck On REpeat"] is track 1 - Chicken-Fried Steak. |
| released him most recent CD on the Wounded Bird | | | | This is a great track! |
| Records recording label, entitled Venusian Summer. | | | | Venusian Summer Release Notes: |
| It's a rare day indeed that I get a CD from an artist | | | | Lenny White originally released Venusian Summer on |
| that I can truthfully say does not have a bad track in | | | | December 14, 1999 on the Wounded Bird Records |
| the bunch. I'm more than happy to announce that's | | | | label. |
| exactly what I must say about this one. There simply is | | | | CD Track List Follows: |
| NOT a bad one in the bunch. No fillers here at all, with | | | | 1. Chicken-Fried Steak |
| each song standing tall on it's own. | | | | 2. Away Go Troubles Down The Drain |
| Venusian Summer has a nicely varied, mix of 6 tracks | | | | 3. The Venusian Summer Suite: Part 1: Sirenes / Part 2: |
| that are very well written songs by this clearly superb | | | | Venusian Summer |
| artist. With many of the songs displaying a lot of the | | | | 4. Prelude To Rainbow Delta |
| kind emotion that makes for a really great listen. | | | | 5. Mating Drive |
| Clearly drawing from what I can only imagine are him | | | | 6. Prince Of The Sea |
| own personal experiences. At different points touching | | | | Personnel includes: Lenny White (piano, ARP & |
| on the most real emotions like love, and the pain of | | | | Mini-Moog synthesizers, drums, tympani, roto-toms, |
| failed relationships can certainly be heard. | | | | percussion); Tom Harrel (flugelhorn, Mini-Moog |
| I give Venusian Summer my highest recommendation. | | | | synthesizer); Hubert Laws (flute); Onaje Allen Gumbs |
| It just plain belongs in any serious music collectors | | | | (piano, electric piano, Clavinet, organ, Mellotron); Larry |
| collection regardless of genre preference. | | | | Young, Jimmy Smith (organ); Larry Coryell, Al DiMeola, |
| While the entire album is really very good some of my | | | | Doug Rodrigues, Raymond Gomez (guitar). Engineers: |
| favorites are track 2 - Away Go Troubles Down The | | | | Dennis MacKay, John Viera, Dane Butcher. |
| Drain, track 4 - Prelude To Rainbow Delta, and track 6 | | | | Recorded at Electric Lady Studios, New York, New |
| - Prince Of The Sea | | | | York and Different Fur, San Francisco, California in |
| My Bonus Pick, and the one that got Sore [...as in | | | | June & August 1975. |