This Time (Al Jarreau album)

This Time
Studio album by Al Jarreau
Released	1980
Genre	Jazz R&B
Length	42:19
Label	Warner Bros.
Producer	Jay Graydon
Al Jarreau chronology
All Fly Home (1978) This Time (1980) Breakin' Away (1981)

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This Time is the fourth studio album by Jazz vocalist Al Jarreau, released in 1980 on Warner Bros. Records. The release marked a change in Jarreau's sound to a more R&B-oriented flavor. As a result, the album achieved more success on the mainstream charts than his previous works, while also topping the Jazz Charts. It also reached #6 on the R&B charts and #27 on the Billboard 200.^[2]"

This Time marked Jarreau's first foray into the top 40 on the Hot 200 or top ten on the R&B charts, as well as his first #1 on the Jazz charts.^[3] His next album would prove even more successful, topping both the Jazz and R&B charts.

Track listing

1. "Never Givin' Up" (Tom Canning, Jarreau) – 3:56
2. "Gimme What You Got" (Tom Canning, Jarreau) – 3:43
3. "Love Is Real" (Tom Canning, Jarreau, Tom Kellock) – 4:23
4. "Alonzo" (Jarreau) – 5:25
5. "(If I Could Only) Change Your Mind" (Tom Canning, Allee Willis) – 4:16
6. "Spain (I Can Recall)" (Chick Corea, Jarreau, Artie Maren) – 6:31
7. "Distracted" (Jarreau) – 5:51
8. "Your Sweet Love" (Tom Canning, Jarreau, Tom Kellock) – 4:13
9. "(A Rhyme) This Time" (Jarreau, Earl Klugh) – 3:42

Charts & Awards

"Never Givin' Up" peaked at #26 R&B, while "Distracted" and Gimme What You Got" peaked at #61 and #63 on the R&B charts.^[4]

"Never Givin' Up" received a Grammy Award nomination for Best R&B Vocal Performance, Male in 1981, Jarreau's first nomination in the R&B field. It lost to Jarreau's Warner Bros. labelmate George Benson for the Give Me the Night album,^[5] who had recently undergone a similar change in sound.^[6]

Personnel

• Al Jarreau - lead vocals (All tracks), background vocals (tracks 1-3, 5, 7), vocal percussion (1, 4), rhythm arrangements (1-4, 7-9)
• George Duke - Fender Rhodes (tracks 1-8)
• David Foster - additional piano (track 2), Fender Rhodes piano (3, 9)
• Greg Mathieson - acoustic piano (track 1), synth strings (1, 3-5)
• Oscar Castro-Neves - acoustic guitar (track 1)
• Dean Parks - electric guitar (tracks 3, 5)
• Earl Klugh - acoustic guitar, rhythm arrangements (track 9)
• Tom Canning - Fender Rhodes piano (tracks 2, 4-5, 8), additional piano (3), rhythm arrangements (1-2, 5, 8), All pianos (5, 8), bells (8)
• Abraham Laboriel - bass (All tracks)
• Steve Gadd - drums (tracks 6-8)
• Ralph Humphrey - drums (tracks 1, 4-5, 9), percussion (4)
• Carlos Vega - drums (tracks 2-3)
• Earl Lon Price - saxophone (track 7)
• Jerry Hey - trumpet (tracks 3, 7), flugelhorn (1-2, 7-8), horn arrangements (1, 3, 7)
• Chuck Findley - trumpet (tracks 3, 7)
• Steve George - synthesizer (track 7)
• Jay Graydon - synthesizer programming (tracks 1-3, 5, 8), electric guitar (1-3, 5, 7-8)

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