Sweet Thing (album)

Sweet Thing
Studio album by Boney James
Released	May 27, 1997 (May 27, 1997)
Studio	Alpha Studios and The Enterprise (Burbank, California); Funky Joint Studios (Sherman Oaks, California); Sunset Sound (Hollywood, California); Entourage Studios (North Hollywood, California).
Genre	Smooth jazz
Length	41:59
Label	Warner Bros.
Producer	Boney James, Paul Brown
Boney James chronology
Boney's Funky Christmas (1996) Sweet Thing (1997) Body Language (1999)
Singles from Sweet Thing
"I Still Dream" Released: 1997 "Sweet Thing" Released: 1997 "Innocence" Released: 1997 "It's All Good" Released: 1997

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Sweet Thing is the fifth album by jazz saxophonist Boney James, released in 1997. "I Still Dream" features Al Jarreau.

Track listing

CD

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"East Bay"	Paul Brown; James Oppenheim; Dan Shea	5:19
2.	"Nothin' But Love"	Brown; Oppenheim; Carl Burnett	5:01
3.	"Words (Unspoken)"	Alex Al; Oppenheim	4:38
4.	"Sweet Thing"	Chaka Khan; Tony Maiden	3:56
5.	"It's All Good"	Brown; Oppenheim; Darrell Smith	5:14
6.	"After the Rain"	Oppenheim	4:40
7.	"Innocence"	Brown; Oppenheim; Smith	4:30
8.	"I Still Dream" (duet with Al Jarreau)	Brown; Oppenheim; John Stoddart; Scott Cross	4:14
9.	"Ivory Coast"	Oppenheim; Roberto Vally	4:27
Total length:			41:59

Personnel

• Boney James – soprano saxophone (1, 4, 5, 9), alto saxophone (2, 8), keyboards (2, 6, 8, 9), Yamaha WX7 (2), tenor saxophone (3, 6, 7), Wurlitzer electric piano (4, 5)
• Dan Shea – keyboards (1)
• David Torkanowsky – keyboards (2, 4), additional keyboards (5), vibraphone solo (5), strings (7), acoustic piano solo (9)
• Alex Al – keyboards (3), Nord synth lead (3), bass (3, 4), drum programming (3)
• Jeff Carruthers – keyboards (4), drum programming (4)
• Darrell Smith – keyboards (5, 7), drum programming (5), electric piano (6)
• John Stoddart – keyboards (8)
• Daddy Shakespeare – Moog synthesizer (8)
• Peter White – accordion (9), guitars (9)
• Paul Jackson Jr. – guitars (1, 2, 7, 8)
• Tony Maiden – guitars (4, 5), vocals (4)
• Larry Kimpel – bass (1, 6, 7, 9)
• Lil' John Roberts – drums (1, 6, 7)
• Paul Brown – drum programming (2, 6–9), additional programming (5)
• Lenny Castro – percussion (1, 2, 5, 6, 8)
• Paulinho da Costa – percussion (7, 9)
• Dan Higgins – tenor saxophone (1)
• Bill Reichenbach Jr. – trombone (1)
• Jerry Hey – flugelhorn (1)
• Maxyan Lewis – vocals (4)
• Dee Harvey – vocals (5)
• Al Jarreau – vocals (8)
• Bridgette Bryant-Fiddmont – backing vocals (8)

Arrangements

• Paul Brown (1, 2, 4–9)
• Carl Burnett (2)
• Boney James (2, 4–9)
• Alex Al (3)
• Jeff Carruthers (4)
• Tony Maiden (5)
• Darrell Smith (5, 7)

Production

• Boney James – producer
• Paul Brown – producer, recording, mixing
• Dave Rideau – additional engineer, co-mixing (4)
• Dan Shea – additional engineer
• Erik Zobler – additional engineer
• Tony Alvarez Jr. – recording assistant
• Cappy Japngie – recording assistant
• Charles Nasser – recording assistant, mix assistant
• Matt Pakucko – mix assistant
• Stephen Marcussen – mastering at Precision Mastering (Hollywood, California)
• Lexy Brewer – production coordinator
• Larry Vigon – art direction, design
• Brian Jackson – design
• James Minchin III – photography
• Howard Lowell – management