Альбомы исполнителя
Dark of Light
1973 · альбом
Love from the Sun
1973 · альбом
Eternity
2000 · альбом
Easy Living
1996 · альбом
Remember Who You Are
1993 · альбом
Dance of Magic
1972 · альбом
Passion
1988 · альбом
Mr. C.
1981 · альбом
Aquarian Dream
1976 · альбом
You Are My Starship
1976 · альбом
Dance of Magic / Dark of Light
2020 · альбом
Love from the Sun / Slewfoot
2020 · альбом
Invitation (Expanded)
2014 · альбом
Romantic Journey (Expanded Edition)
2014 · альбом
Saturday Night Special (Expanded Edition)
2014 · альбом
Take It To The Limit (Expanded Edition)
2014 · альбом
Slew Foot
1974 · альбом
Star Power
2009 · альбом
The Best Of Norman Connors
2001 · сборник
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Биография
Like Roy Ayers, George Benson, and Patrice Rushen, Norman Connors is best known for his major R&B hits but started out as a jazz improviser. The drummer/composer was born and raised in Philadelphia, where he lived in the same neighborhood as Bill Cosby and became interested in jazz when he was only a child. As a kid in elementary school, Connors was exposed to jazz extensively thanks to such schoolmates as drummer Lex Humphries and the younger brother of bassist and Jazz Messenger-to-be Spanky De Brest. Connors was in junior high when he began sneaking into jazz clubs and sat in for Elvin Jones at a John Coltrane gig. At 13, he first got to meet his idol, Miles Davis, and started expressing his admiration for the famous trumpeter by dressing like him. Connors went on to study music at Philly's Temple University and the Juilliard School of Music in New York. Gigs with Jackie McLean, Jack McDuff, and Sam Rivers followed, and he was first recorded as a sideman when Archie Shepp employed him on his 1967 Impulse! session Magic of Ju-Ju. After touring with Pharoah Sanders and playing on several of his albums, Connors signed with Buddah's Cobblestone label in 1972 and recorded his first album as a leader, Dance of Magic and its follow-up, Dark of Light. A few more jazz-oriented Cobblestone and Buddah dates followed, and it was in 1975 that Connors made R&B his main priority with Saturday Night Special (which included the number ten soul hit "Valentine Love"). The rest of the 1970s found Connors featuring R&B singers prominently (including Michael Henderson, Jean Carn, and the late Phyllis Hyman) and scoring such R&B hits as "We Both Need Each Other," "Once I've Been There," and the lovely "You Are My Starship." Connors, who signed with Arista in 1977, wasn't as popular or as visible in the 1980s, although he would make a comeback in the 1990s by signing with Motown's MoJazz label and focusing on both urban contemporary and crossover. The 21st century found him moving along similar lines, releasing Eternity on Starship Records in 2000 and Star Power in 2009 on Shanachie Records. ~ Alex Henderson, Rovi