Two (Bob James album)

Reception

Track listing

1. "Take Me to the Mardi Gras" – 5:50
2. "I Feel a Song " – 5:26
3. "The Golden Apple" – 7:20
4. "Farandole" – 8:24
5. "You're as Right as Rain" – 5:28
6. "Dream Journey" – 5:55

   Personnel

• Bob James – electric piano, clavinet, ARP Odyssey, Yamaha YC-30 combo organ, arrangements and conductor
• Eric Gale – guitar, bass
• Richard Resnicoff – guitar
• Gary King – bass
• Andrew Smith – drums
• Steve Gadd – drums
• Arthur Jenkins – percussion
• Ralph MacDonald – percussion
• Patti Austin – vocals, lead vocal
• Frank Floyd – vocals
• Lani Groves – vocals
• Zachary Sanders – vocals

• Hubert Laws – flute, electric flute
• Eddie Daniels – clarinet
• James Buffington – French horn
• Peter Gordon – French horn
• Al Richmond – French horn
• Wayne Andre – trombone
• Eddie Bert – trombone
• Tom Mitchell – trombone
• Tony Studd – trombone
• Randy Brecker – trumpet, flugelhorn
• John Frosk – trumpet, flugelhorn
• Victor Paz – trumpet, flugelhorn
• Lew Soloff – trumpet, flugelhorn
• Marvin Stamm – trumpet, flugelhorn

• Seymour Barab, Alla Goldberg, Warren Lash, Jesse Levy, George Ricci, Alan Shulman and Anthony Sophos – cello
• Harry Cykman, Max Ellen, Paul Gershman, Harry Glickman, Emanuel Green, Harold Kohon, Charles Libove, Harry Lookofsky, Joe Malin, David Nadien, Gene Orloff and Matthew Raimondi – violin

  Production

• Creed Taylor – producer
• Rudy Van Gelder – engineer
• Bob Ciano – album design
• Greg Laurents – cover photography

  Samples

• Many artists sampled the drums and bell part of the intro to the track "Take Me to the Mardi Gras", an instrumental cover of the Paul Simon song. It has since become a widely recognized drum break, similar to another break from another instrumental, "Ashley's Roachclip".
• The melody of "You're as Right as Rain" was sampled by Norwegian electronic music duo Röyksopp for their 2001 single "Eple".

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