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Urban Daydreams is an album by American pianist David Benoit released in 1989, recorded for the GRP label. The album reached #3 on Billboard's Contemporary Jazz chart.

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Urban Daydreams
Studio album by David Benoit
Released	April 17, 1989[1]
Recorded	1989
Studio	Sunset Sound (Hollywood) Capitol (Hollywood) Image Recording (Hollywood) Aire L. A. (Glendale, California)
Genre	Jazz
Length	45:56
Label	GRP
Producer	Don Grusin
David Benoit chronology
Every Step of the Way (1988) Urban Daydreams (1989) Waiting for Spring (1989)

Track listing

All tracks composed by David Benoit; except where indicated

1. "Sailing Through the City" (Don Grusin) - 5:12
2. "Cloud Break" - 4:24
3. "Urban Daydreams" - 5:48
4. "When the Winter's Gone" (David Benoit, David Pack, Jennifer Warnes) - 4:11
5. "Snow Dancing" - 5:51
6. "Safari" (David Benoit, Don Grusin) - 5:11
7. "Wild Kids" (David Benoit, Don Grusin) - 4:22
8. "Looking Back" - 2:09
9. "Seattle Morning" - 4:06
10. "As If I Could Reach Rainbows" - 3:51

"Wild Kids" was written as the theme for the This is America, Charlie Brown episode "The Great Inventors".

Personnel

• David Benoit – acoustic piano (1-10), keyboards (1, 2, 3), arrangements (1, 3, 6, 7, 8), orchestra conductor (3, 8), synthesizer programming (5, 6, 8)
• Don Grusin – synthesizer programming (1, 2, 3, 5-8), arrangements (1, 6, 7), drum programming (3, 6, 8), keyboards (4, 7)
• Oscar Castro-Neves – acoustic guitar (6)
• Jimmy Johnson – bass (1, 2, 3, 5, 7, 8, 9)
• Abraham Laboriel – bass (4)
• Carlos Vega – drums (1, 2, 3, 5, 7, 8, 9)
• Alex Acuña – drums (4)
• Eric Marienthal – alto saxophone (1, 5), soprano saxophone (6, 7)
• Gary Herbig – alto saxophone (8), clarinet (8)
• Judd Miller – electronic valve instrument (1, 2, 3, 6, 8)
• Bruce Dukov – concertmaster (3, 8)
• Gina Kronstadt – orchestra contractor (3, 8)
• The Warfield Avenue Symphony Orchestra (3, 8)
• Jennifer Warnes – vocals (4)

Production

• David Benoit – producer
• Don Grusin – producer, executive producer
• Larry Rosen – executive producer
• Don Murray – engineer, mixing
• Leslie Ann Jones – additional engineer
• Wally Traugott – mastering
• Suzanne Sherman – production coordinator
• Andy Baltimore – creative director, graphic design, front and back cover photography
• David Gibb – graphic design
• Dave Kunze – graphic design
• Dan Serrano – graphic design
• Mitchell Hartman – front and back illustration
• Chris Cuffaro – black and white photography
• Mixed and Mastered at Capitol Studios (Hollywood, California).

Charts

Chart (1989)	Peak position
Billboard Jazz Albums[2]	3

References

External links

• David Benoit-Urban Daydreams at Discogs
• David Benoit-Urban Daydreams at AllMusic

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