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Dragonfly Summer is a smooth vocal jazz studio album by American singer-songwriter and musician Michael Franks. It was released in 1993 with Reprise.
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Apr 13, 1993 · Album Credits. Featuring Dan Hicks & Yellowjackets. Producers Ben Sidran, Gil Goldstein, Jeff Lorber & 1 more. Writers Booker T. Jones, Eliot Daniel, Harold Adamson & 5 more. More Michael...
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1) Coming To Life* This is a great tune to open the CD: catchy and energetic with the "Jeff Lorber rhythm section" (personal favorite John Robinson on drums, Alec Milstein on bass, Paul Jackson, Jr. on guitars, and of course Jeff Lorber on keyboards). Uncharacteristic for a Michael Frank's release, there's an excellent uncredited flute solo; I wish...
Even though Michael Franks STILL hadn't gone all-digital by this time, the audio quality had improved from even his 1980's releases. Even with the outstanding production talents (outlined earlier) that contributed to the CD, I still can't rate it above a 4; it just seems to lack a bit of punch compared to other CD's of the era. At least it never im...
Michael Franks has enjoyed a long, successful career for a vocal artist without ever really having what you call a "hit". I'm still amazed at how many people talk about his early (1970's) releases without even knowing what he's done since then. While his musical output has slowed down quite a bit the last few years, he had three really good CD's in...
Apr 13, 1993 · Label : Reprise / Wea. ASIN : B000002MIW. Number of discs : 1. Best Sellers Rank: #28,791 in CDs & Vinyl ( See Top 100 in CDs & Vinyl) #193 in Smooth Jazz (CDs & Vinyl) #290 in Vocal Jazz (CDs & Vinyl) #413 in Traditional Vocal Pop (CDs & Vinyl) Customer Reviews: 4.8 107 ratings.
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Dragonfly Summer is a smooth vocal jazz album by American singer-songwriter and musician Michael Franks. It was released in 1993 with Reprise, and was Franks’ twelfth studio album, with no fewer than five producers. Tracks. 1 Coming To Life (Michael Franks) 04:35. 2 Soul Mate (Michael Franks) 04:27. 3 Dragonfly Summer (Michael Franks) 05:03.
Michael Franks had several producers working on his album "Dragonfly Summer" and I was the one assigned to do two duets, one featuring Michael and Peggy Lee, the other Michael and Dan Hicks. It was a choice assignment, and although not without its hardships -- for example, Miss Lee was struggling…
