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href="/wiki/Smooth_jazz" title="Smooth jazz">Smooth jazz</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Latin_jazz" title="Latin jazz">Latin jazz</a></li></ul> </td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Length</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="duration"><span class="min">48</span>:<span class="s">36</span></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Record_label" title="Record label">Label</a></th><td class="infobox-data hlist"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/GRP_Records" title="GRP Records">GRP</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Verve_Records" title="Verve Records">Verve</a></li></ul> </td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Record_producer" title="Record producer">Producer</a></th><td class="infobox-data hlist"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Tommy_LiPuma" title="Tommy LiPuma">Tommy LiPuma</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/%22Little%22_Louie_Vega" class="mw-redirect" title=""Little" Louie Vega">"Little" Louie Vega</a></li> <li>Kenny "Dope" Gonzalez</li></ul> </td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header description" style="color: #202122;background-color: lightsteelblue"><a href="/wiki/George_Benson" title="George Benson">George Benson</a> chronology</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"> <table style="color:inherit; background: transparent; width: 100%; min-width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse; display: inline-table;"> <tbody><tr style="line-height: 1.4em;"> <td style="width: 33%; text-align: center; vertical-align: top; padding: .2em .1em .2em 0"><i><a href="/wiki/Standing_Together_(George_Benson_album)" title="Standing Together (George Benson album)">Standing Together</a></i><br />(1998) </td> <td style="width: 33%; text-align: center; vertical-align: top; padding: .2em .1em"><i><b>Absolute Benson</b></i><br />(2000) </td> <td style="width: 33%; text-align: center; vertical-align: top; padding: .2em 0 .2em .1em"><i><a href="/wiki/Irreplaceable_(George_Benson_album)" class="mw-redirect" title="Irreplaceable 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It was released by <a href="/wiki/GRP_Records" title="GRP Records">GRP</a> and <a href="/wiki/Verve_Records" title="Verve Records">Verve Records</a> on May 23, 2000 in the United States. Taking a tip from 1999's pop-man-of-the-year <a href="/wiki/Carlos_Santana" title="Carlos Santana">Carlos Santana</a>, Benson goes Latin on this release. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Critical_reception">Critical reception</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Absolute_Benson&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Critical reception"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable floatright" style="width:24.2em;font-size:88%;text-align:center;margin:0.5em 0 0.5em 1em;padding:0;border-spacing:0"><caption style="font-size:115%">Professional ratings</caption><tbody><tr><th scope="col" colspan="2" style="text-align:center;color:#202122;background:#d1dbdf;font-size:100%">Review scores</th></tr><tr><th scope="col">Source</th><th scope="col">Rating</th></tr><tr><td style="text-align:center;vertical-align:middle"><a href="/wiki/AllMusic" title="AllMusic">AllMusic</a></td><td style="text-align:center;vertical-align:middle"><span role="img" style="white-space:nowrap" title="4/5 stars"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="4/5 stars"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Star_full.svg/11px-Star_full.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Star_full.svg/17px-Star_full.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Star_full.svg/22px-Star_full.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="108" data-file-height="110" /></span></span><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Star_full.svg/11px-Star_full.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Star_full.svg/17px-Star_full.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Star_full.svg/22px-Star_full.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="108" data-file-height="110" /></span></span><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Star_full.svg/11px-Star_full.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Star_full.svg/17px-Star_full.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Star_full.svg/22px-Star_full.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="108" data-file-height="110" /></span></span><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Star_full.svg/11px-Star_full.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Star_full.svg/17px-Star_full.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Star_full.svg/22px-Star_full.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="108" data-file-height="110" /></span></span><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Star_empty.svg/11px-Star_empty.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Star_empty.svg/17px-Star_empty.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Star_empty.svg/22px-Star_empty.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="108" data-file-height="110" /></span></span></span><sup id="cite_ref-AllMusic_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-AllMusic-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><a href="/wiki/AllMusic" title="AllMusic">AllMusic</a> editor William Ruhlmann that <i>Absolute Benson</i> "is another in a series of consistently excellent CDs that characterize it [...] If it is difficult to crossover from jazz to pop, crossing back can be just as treacherous. Benson's oldest fans, who later became his detractors, still may not be satisfied with his current approach, but it has deservedly won him a secure place in contemporary jazz."<sup id="cite_ref-AllMusic_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-AllMusic-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Track_listing">Track listing</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Absolute_Benson&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Track listing"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236635009">.mw-parser-output .tracklist{border-spacing:0}.mw-parser-output .tracklist tr{background-color:var(--background-color-base,#fff)}.mw-parser-output .tracklist tr:nth-child(2n-1){background-color:var(--background-color-neutral-subtle,#f8f9fa)}.mw-parser-output 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10px;background-color:var(--background-color-neutral,#eaecf0)}.mw-parser-output .tracklist-total-length td{background-color:var(--background-color-neutral,#eaecf0);font-weight:bold;padding:0 10px 0 0}</style><div class="track-listing"><table class="tracklist"><tbody><tr><th class="tracklist-number-header" scope="col"><abbr title="Number">No.</abbr></th><th scope="col" style="width:60%">Title</th><th scope="col" style="width:40%">Writer(s)</th><th class="tracklist-length-header" scope="col">Length</th></tr><tr><th id="track1" scope="row">1.</th><td>"<a href="/wiki/The_Ghetto_(Donny_Hathaway_song)" title="The Ghetto (Donny Hathaway song)">The Ghetto</a>"</td><td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><div class="hlist"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/Al_Eaton" title="Al Eaton">Al Eaton</a>, <a href="/wiki/Donny_Hathaway" title="Donny Hathaway">Donny Hathaway</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Leroy_Hutson" title="Leroy Hutson">Leroy Hutson</a></li><li>Todd Shaw</li></ul></div></td><td class="tracklist-length">4:56</td></tr><tr><th id="track2" scope="row">2.</th><td>"El Barrio"</td><td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><div class="hlist"><ul><li>George Benson</li><li>Kenny Gonzalez</li><li><a href="/wiki/Little_Louie_Vega" title="Little Louie Vega">Louie Vega</a></li></ul></div></td><td class="tracklist-length">3:34</td></tr><tr><th id="track3" scope="row">3.</th><td>"Jazzenco"</td><td>Marc Antoine</td><td class="tracklist-length">5:48</td></tr><tr><th id="track4" scope="row">4.</th><td>"Deeper Than You Think"</td><td><a href="/wiki/Joe_Sample" title="Joe Sample">Joe Sample</a></td><td class="tracklist-length">5:55</td></tr><tr><th id="track5" scope="row">5.</th><td>"One on One"</td><td>Joe Sample</td><td class="tracklist-length">7:05</td></tr><tr><th id="track6" scope="row">6.</th><td>"Hipping the Hop"</td><td>Joe Sample</td><td class="tracklist-length">3:57</td></tr><tr><th id="track7" scope="row">7.</th><td>"Lately"</td><td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><div class="hlist"><ul><li>Marvin Sease</li><li><a href="/wiki/Stevie_Wonder" title="Stevie Wonder">Stevie Wonder</a></li></ul></div></td><td class="tracklist-length">4:22</td></tr><tr><th id="track8" scope="row">8.</th><td>"Come Back Baby"</td><td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><div class="hlist"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ray_Charles" title="Ray Charles">Ray Charles</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Aretha_Franklin" title="Aretha Franklin">Aretha Franklin</a></li></ul></div></td><td class="tracklist-length">5:59</td></tr><tr><th id="track9" scope="row">9.</th><td>"Medicine Man"</td><td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><div class="hlist"><ul><li>George Benson</li><li>Joe Sample</li></ul></div></td><td class="tracklist-length">7:00</td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Personnel_and_credits">Personnel and credits</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Absolute_Benson&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Personnel and credits"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><b>Musicians</b> </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1184024115">.mw-parser-output .div-col{margin-top:0.3em;column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .div-col-small{font-size:90%}.mw-parser-output .div-col-rules{column-rule:1px solid #aaa}.mw-parser-output .div-col dl,.mw-parser-output .div-col ol,.mw-parser-output .div-col ul{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .div-col li,.mw-parser-output .div-col dd{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}</style><div class="div-col"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/George_Benson" title="George Benson">George Benson</a> – guitar (1–9), vocals (1, 2, 8)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joe_Sample" title="Joe Sample">Joe Sample</a> – <a href="/wiki/Hammond_B3_organ" class="mw-redirect" title="Hammond B3 organ">Hammond B3 organ</a> (1, 2), <a href="/wiki/Wurlitzer_electric_piano" class="mw-redirect" title="Wurlitzer electric piano">Wurlitzer electric piano</a> (1, 2), synthesizers (1, 2), acoustic piano (3–9), synthesizer arrangements</li> <li>Ricky Peterson – Hammond B3 organ (8), synthesizers (8), synthesizer arrangements</li> <li>Carlos Henríquez – bass (1, 2)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Christian_McBride" title="Christian McBride">Christian McBride</a> – bass (3–9)</li> <li>Vidal Davis – drums (1, 2)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Steve_Gadd" title="Steve Gadd">Steve Gadd</a> – drums (3, 4, 5, 7, 8)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cindy_Blackman" class="mw-redirect" title="Cindy Blackman">Cindy Blackman</a> – drums (6, 9)</li> <li>Luisito Quintero – percussion (1, 2)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Luis_Conte" title="Luis Conte">Luis Conte</a> – congas, percussion and <a href="/wiki/Timbales" title="Timbales">timbales</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arif_Mardin" title="Arif Mardin">Arif Mardin</a> – string arrangements (7)</li> <li>Claudia Acuña – backing vocals (1, 2)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Roy_Ayers" title="Roy Ayers">Roy Ayers</a> – backing vocals (1)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lisa_Fischer" title="Lisa Fischer">Lisa Fischer</a> – backing vocals (1, 2)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/La_India" title="La India">La India</a> – backing vocals (1, 2)</li> <li>Richard Shade – backing vocals (1)</li></ul> </div> <p><b>Production</b> </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1184024115"><div class="div-col"> <ul><li>Producers – Tommy LiPuma (Tracks 1, 3–9); "Little" Louie Vega and Kenny "Dope" Gonzalez (Track 2).</li> <li>Recording Engineers – Steven Barkan and <a href="/wiki/Jon_Fausty" title="Jon Fausty">Jon Fausty</a> (Tracks 1 & 2); <a href="/wiki/Al_Schmitt" title="Al Schmitt">Al Schmitt</a> (Tracks 3–9).</li> <li>Assistant Engineers – Koji Egawa; Kayo Teramoto (Tracks 1 & 2); Mark Fraunfelder, Alan Moon and Aya Takemura (Tracks 3–9).</li> <li>Overdubs on Tracks 3–9 recorded by <a href="/wiki/Bill_Schnee" title="Bill Schnee">Bill Schnee</a> and Tommy Tucker, assisted by <a href="/wiki/Elliot_Scheiner" title="Elliot Scheiner">Elliot Scheiner</a> and Al Schmitt.</li> <li>Strings on Track 7 recorded by James Farber</li> <li>Mixing – Steven Barkan (Tracks 1 & 2); Bill Schnee (Tracks 3–9).</li> <li>Mastered by <a href="/wiki/Doug_Sax" title="Doug Sax">Doug Sax</a> at The Mastering Lab (Hollywood, CA).</li> <li>Art Direction – Hollis King</li> <li>Photography – Jeffrey Scales and Kwaku Alston</li> <li>Graphic Design – Isabelle Wong</li></ul> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Charts">Charts</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Absolute_Benson&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Charts"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders sortable" style="text-align:center;"> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col">Chart (2000) </th> <th scope="col">Peak<br />position </th></tr> <tr> <th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/UK_Albums_Chart" title="UK Albums Chart">UK Albums</a> (<a href="/wiki/Official_Charts_Company" title="Official Charts Company">OCC</a>)<sup id="cite_ref-UK_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-UK-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </th> <td align="center">77 </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row">US <a href="/wiki/Top_Jazz_Albums" class="mw-redirect" title="Top Jazz Albums">Top Jazz Albums</a> (<a href="/wiki/Billboard_(magazine)" title="Billboard (magazine)"><i>Billboard</i></a>)<sup id="cite_ref-ac_BillboardJazz_George_Benson_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ac_BillboardJazz_George_Benson-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </th> <td align="center">1 </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row">US <a href="/wiki/Top_R%26B/Hip-Hop_Albums" title="Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums">Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums</a> (<a href="/wiki/Billboard_(magazine)" title="Billboard (magazine)"><i>Billboard</i></a>)<sup id="cite_ref-ac_BillboardRandBHipHop_George_Benson_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ac_BillboardRandBHipHop_George_Benson-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </th> <td align="center">24 </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row">US <a href="/wiki/Billboard_200" title="Billboard 200"><i>Billboard</i> 200</a><sup id="cite_ref-Billboard200_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Billboard200-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </th> <td align="center">125 </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span 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Retrieved May 23, 2022.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-ac_BillboardJazz_George_Benson-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-ac_BillboardJazz_George_Benson_3-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.billboard.com/artist/George-Benson/chart-history/JLS">"George Benson Chart History (Top Jazz Albums)"</a>. <a href="/wiki/Billboard_(magazine)" title="Billboard (magazine)"><i>Billboard</i></a>. Retrieved May 23, 2022.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-ac_BillboardRandBHipHop_George_Benson-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-ac_BillboardRandBHipHop_George_Benson_4-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.billboard.com/artist/George-Benson/chart-history/BLP">"George Benson Chart History (Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums)"</a>. <a href="/wiki/Billboard_(magazine)" title="Billboard (magazine)"><i>Billboard</i></a>. Retrieved May 23, 2022.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Billboard200-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Billboard200_5-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.billboard.com/artist/George-Benson/chart-history/TLP">"George Benson Chart History (<i>Billboard</i> 200)"</a>. <a href="/wiki/Billboard_(magazine)" title="Billboard (magazine)"><i>Billboard</i></a>. 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