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Forbidden Fruit (Marion Meadows album)

Forbidden Fruit is an album by Marion Meadows released in April 1994 on Novus Records. The album rose to No. 7 on the Billboard Contemporary Jazz Albums chart and No. 8 on the Billboard Jazz Albums chart.

Track listing

  1. "Red Light" (Christian Warren) - 5:12
  2. "You're Always on My Mind" (Brian Alexander Morgan) - 4:52
  3. "Asha" (M. Anderson, Marion Meadows, Joey Melotti) - 5:56
  4. "Forbidden Fruit" (Meadows, Warren) - 5:47
  5. "Whenever Your Heart Wants to Sing" (Tracy Mann, José Marino, Yutaka Yokokura) - 4:41
  6. "You Will Never Know What You're Missing" (Derek Bramble) - 5:09
  7. "Back 2 Back" (Michael Bearden) - 5:15
  8. "Save the Best for Last" (Phil Galdston, Jon Lind, Wendy Waldman) - 3:34
  9. "Somewhere Island" (Bearden) - 4:50
  10. "Comin' Home to You" (Bearden) - 4:58
  11. "Nocturnal Serenade" (Meadows, Werner "Vana" Gierig) - 3:53

Personnel

  • Marion Meadows – soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone (1, 4)
  • Christian Warren – programming (1, 4), all other instruments (1, 4)
  • Morris Pleasure – keyboard solo (1), trumpet (11)
  • Brian Alexander Morgan – keyboards (2), drum programming (2), backing vocals (2)
  • Joey Melotti – keyboards (3), drum programming (3)
  • Don Grusin – acoustic piano (5)
  • Derek Bramble – all instruments (6)
  • Michael Bearden – keyboards (7, 9, 10), programming (7, 9, 10), acoustic piano (9)
  • Bobby Lyle – acoustic piano (8)
  • Jerry Peters – keyboards (8), arrangements (8)
  • Joe Wolfe – programming (8)
  • Werner "Vana" Gierig – acoustic piano (11), keyboards (11), keyboard programming (11)
  • "Pocket" – guitars (1)
  • John "Jubu" Smith – guitars (2)
  • Dori Caymmi – guitars (5)
  • Jef Lee Johnson – guitars (7)
  • Ricardo Silveira – acoustic guitar (8)
  • Jimmy Johnson – bass (5)
  • Larry Kimpel – bass (8)
  • Victor Bailey – bass (9)
  • Mike Shapiro – drums (5)
  • Stanley Smith – drums (6), percussion (6)
  • Ricky Lawson – drums (8)
  • Lionel Cordew – drums (9)
  • Munyungo Jackson – African percussion (4)
  • Luis Conte – percussion (5, 8)
  • Bashiri Johnson – percussion (9)
  • Johnny Britt – trumpet (4)
  • Yutaka Yokokura – koto (4)
  • Charles Veal – string conductor (8), concertmaster (8)
  • The Charles Veal String Orchestra – strings (8)
  • SWV – backing vocals (2)
  • Eric Benét – lead vocals (6), backing vocals (6)
  • "Jilien" – backing vocals (6)

References