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Streamline is the fourth studio album by drummer Lenny White, released in 1978 by Elektra Records.[1] The album reached No. 27 on the Billboard Top Jazz Albums chart.[2]

Streamline
Studio album by Lenny White
Released	1978 (1978)
Recorded	July–August 1978
Studio	Wally Heider Studios, Hollywood; Indigo Ranch Recording Studio, Malibu
Genre	Jazz fusion, jazz-funk
Length	37:01
Label	Elektra
Producer	Lenny White Larry Dunn Don Mizell
Lenny White chronology
Big City (1977) Streamline (1978) Best of Friends (1978)

Critical reception

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[3]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide	[4]

Alex Henderson at AllMusic gave Streamline three stars out of five, saying that it "isn't a five-star gem, but it isn't bad either" and calling it a "generally decent, if mildly uneven, collection of instrumental jazz fusion and R&B vocal numbers." He noted White's cover of the Beatles' "Lady Madonna" as an "interesting" highlight; other songs such as "Night Games", "Struttin'" and "Pooh Bear" he described as "enjoyable even though they fall short of the brilliance of the material on The Adventures of Astral Pirates [1978] and Venusian Summer [1975]."[3]

Track listing

Personnel

• Lenny White – drums, percussion, production
• Chaka Khan – lead vocals (track 2)
• Dianne Reeves – vocals (track 4), background vocals
• Don Blackman – vocals (track 6), keyboard, Minimoog (track 4), synthesizer (track 7), Rhodes piano (track 10), piano (track 11), organ (track 3)
• Nick Moroch – guitar (except tracks 1, 3, 10)
• Jamie Glaser – guitar (tracks 1, 3, 10)
• Denzil Miller Jr. – keyboard (track 8), Minimoog (track 9), rhythm arrangement (track 2)
• Larry Dunn – Minimoog (track 1), synthesizer programming, production
• Marcus Miller – bass
• Chris Brunt – engineering
• Richard Kaplan – engineering
• Steve Hirsch – engineering
• Don Mizell – executive production

Chart performance

Year	Chart	Position
1978	Billboard Jazz Albums	27[5]

References

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