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Velvet Portraits

Terrace Martin

2016 · Jazz, Funk / Soul

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Velvet Portraits by Terrace Martin

Velvet Portraits is a Jazz album by Terrace Martin, originally released in 2016. On Gatefold: 8 pressings tracked.

About

Good luck pigeonholing Terrace Martin; on <i>Velvet Portraits</i>, the L.A. producer/saxophonist (who entered the limelight working with Kendrick Lamar) creates a wildly creative collision of jazz, soul, funk, and hip-hop that’s loaded with guests and restless creativity. Case in point? Take “Valdez off Crenshaw”—a wah-wah-infused, organ-driven instrumental based on a Donny Hathaway tune. Martin dresses it up with whistling synth leads and Zappa-esque guitars. Want to go further out? Take “Turkey Taco,” a showpiece of Outkast-inspired freakiness with a rubbery synth-bass, purring backup singers, and an off-kilter acoustic piano. When it’s time to come back, try “Patiently Waiting,” a soulful, sweat-soaked blues throwback featuring a gloriously gutsy vocal from Uncle Chucc or the simmering R&B of “Think of You." Weird, wonderful, and impossible to pin down, this is future-soul music from a musician who elegantly connects the music of Stax to the streets of Compton and beyond.

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Tracklist

  1. 1Velvet Portraits1:33
  2. 2Valdez Off Crenshaw4:31
  3. 3Push (feat. Tone Trezure)4:36
  4. 4With You4:08
  5. 5Curly Martin (feat. Robert Glasper, Thundercat & Ronald Bruner, Jr.)7:21
  6. 6Never Enough (feat. Tiffany Gouché)5:32
  7. 7Turkey Taco (feat. Wyann Vaughn & Wayne Vaughn)4:02
  8. 8Patiently Waiting (feat. Uncle Chucc & the Emotions)7:01
  9. 9Tribe Called West (feat. Keyon Harrold)2:34
  10. 10Oakland (feat. Lalah Hathaway)4:23
  11. 11Bromali (feat. Marlon Williams)3:37
  12. 12Think of you (feat. Kamasi Washington & Rose Gold)5:48
  13. 13Reverse (feat. Robert Glasper & Candy West)3:07
  14. 14Mortal Man11:46

Sound DNA

  • Jazz

Album notes

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Notes from the original pressing. Later editions may differ.

Discs come in poly-lined inner sleeves. Recorded in Omaha Nebraska and Los Angeles.

Credits

The people behind it.

Performers

  • Adam TurchinBARITONE SAXOPHONE TENOR SAXOPHONE
  • Allakoi PeetePERCUSSION
  • Brandon "Eugene" OwensBASS BASS, ELECTRIC BASS
  • Candy WestFEATURING
  • Chris CadenheadELECTRIC PIANO
  • Craig BrockmanELECTRIC PIANO, ORGAN ORGAN PIANO
  • Curly MartinDRUMS PERCUSSION
  • Josef LeimbergTRUMPET
  • Kamasi WashingtonARRANGED BY FEATURING FEATURING, TENOR SAXOPHONE
  • Kenneth CrouchGRAND PIANO KEYBOARDS ORGAN
  • Keyon HarroldFEATURING FEATURING, TRUMPET
  • Lalah HathawayFEATURING
  • Marlon WilliamsFEATURING FEATURING, GUITAR GUITAR
  • Mitch TowneORGAN
  • PerriBACKING VOCALS
  • Preston HarrisVOCALS
  • Robert "Sput" SearightELECTRIC PIANO ELECTRIC PIANO, PERCUSSION , CLAVINET KEYBOARDS
  • Robert GlasperFEATURING FEATURING, ELECTRIC PIANO FEATURING, PIANO

8 pressings tracked on Gatefold

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