Product Description:
Personnel includes: Larry Carlton (guitar); Shai (vocals, arranger, keyboards, programming); Wendy Moten (vocals); Carl Burnett (guitar, keyboards, bass, programming); Larry Williams (saxophone, flute, keyboards); Chris Potter, Dan Higgins, Kirk Whalum (saxophone); Jerry Hey (trumpet, flugelhorn); Andy Martin, Bill Reichenbach (trombone); Ricky Peterson (piano, Fender Rhodes piano, organ); Rick Jackson (Wurlitzer piano, Fender Rhodes piano, keyboards); Deron Johnson (organ); Larry Kimpel, Chris Kent (bass); Billy Kilson, Harvey Mason (drums); Paulinho Da Costa, Lenny Castro (percussion); Sue Ann Carwell, Carl Carwell (background vocals).
Engineers include: Paul Brown, Koji Egawa, Steve Genewick.
DEEP INTO IT was nominated for the 2003 Grammy Awards for Best Contemporary Jazz Album.
Entertainment Reviews:
JazzTimes - 3/02, p.61
"...Spacious, mostly retro-soulful arrangements...boasting some of Carlton's most pointed, insteresting work in quite some time..."