Dean BROWN


Groove Warrior

(2004)



1. Intro 0'23
Music by Dean Brown
Arranged by Dean Brown
2. To Be With You 7'12
Words and Music by Dean Brown
Arranged by Dean Brown
3. Piggly Wiggly 4'28
Music by "Blackbird" McNight, JuJu House, Dean Brown, Bernard Wright
Arranged by JuJu House
4. Forever 5'44
Words and Music by Dean Brown
Arranged by Dean Brown
Vocal Arrangement by Dean Brown, Bernard Wright, Lalah Hathaway
String Arrangement by Dean Brown
5. Divining Tree 2'29
Words and Music by Dean Brown
Arranged by Dean Brown
6. Feed My Jones 5'31
Words and Music by Dean Brown
Arranged by Dean Brown
String Arrangement by Dean Brown
7. In The Basement 6'17
Music by JuJu House & Dean Brown
Arranged by JuJu House
8. Intermission: Emergency Funk Radio 1'27
Produced by Dean Brown
Co-Produced by Julu House, Steven Milo, Peter Habbe
Music by JuJu House, Bernard Wright, Peter Habbe, Dean Brown, Booker King
Arranged by JuJu House
9. Pandora's Box 0'35
Music by Dean Brown, Schuyler Deale, Poogie Bell
Trombone Arrangement by Fate
10. Break Song 6'49
Music by Dean Brown
Arranged by Dean Brown
Horn Arrangement by Dean Brown
11. Hunter 8'09
Music by Dean Brown - Based on Malinke hunting groove
Arranged by Dean Brown
12. Shadows 6'29
Music by Dean Brown & Schuyler Deale
Arranged by Dean Brown
13. Blues On The Blvd. 3'47
Music by Dean Brown
Arranged by Dean Brown, JuJu House
14. Forever
(Remix) 3'48
Words and Music by Dean Brown
Arranged by Dean Brown
Vocal Arrangement by Dean Brown, Bernard Wright, Lalah Hathaway
String Arrangement by Dean Brown

Total Time: 63:08


  • Dean Brown - Guitar (1, 8), Electric Guitars (3, 6, 7, 9-12, 14), Acoustic Guitar (6), Electric and Acoustic Steel String Guitar (1), Parker Fly Guitar (5), Slide Guitar Solos (2), Electric Leslie Guitar Solo (4, 14), Guitar Solo (7, 11, 13), Steel String Acoustic Funk Bass (3), 4 String Banjo... (yes Banjo) (3), Djembe (6), Lead Vocal (1, 4, 14), Additional Vocals (4, 14), All Vocals (6), Spoken Word (5)
  • Bernard Wright - Keyboards (1-3, 6, 8, 10, 11), Keyboard Bass (3), Hammond B3 (4, 12, 14), Wurlitzer Electric Piano (12, 13), Synth Solo (2, 6, 10), Wurlitzer Solo (13), All Synth (13), Synth Bass (6, 7), PPG Wave Colors (7), Kalimba (11), Percussion Programming (2), Vocals (2, 4, 14), Vocal Adlibs (4, 14)
  • Roger Byam - Tenor Saxophone Solo (6), Tenor Saxophones (10)
  • Michael Davis - Trombone (8, 10), Bass Trombone (10)
  • Michael "Patches" Stewart - Trumpets (10), Muted Trumpet Solo (10)
  • Booker King - Bass (1), Zeta Electric Upright Bass (2, 8, 11), Electric Bass (3, 6 "crazy" section, 7), Bass Fills (3)
  • Marcus Miller - Fender Bass (4, 10, 14), Bass Solo (10)
  • Schuyler Deale - Additional Fretless Electric Bass (2, 5), Electric Bass (6, 9, 12, 13), Tamborine (4, 14), Talking Drum (6), Mini Bongos (13)
  • Steve Adelson - Emmett Chapman Stick
  • JuJu House - Drums (1-3, 6-8, 13), Percussion (2, 3), Electric Basses (8), Loops (8), WJUH D.J. (8), Congas (13), Clave (13), Djembe (13)
  • Poogie Bell - Drums (4, 5, 9, 10, 14)
  • Peter Habbe - Loop Creation (8). Sequencing (8)
  • Lalah Hathaway - Vocals (2, 4), Synth Solo Vocal Double (2), Vocal Adlibs (11), , Lead Vocal (14), Additional Vocals (14)
    Phone Call to Dean - Schuyeler, JuJu, Nard (2)
    String Section (4. 6, 14)
  • First Violin - Filip Jaslar
  • Second Violin - Michael Sikorski
  • Viola - Pawel Kowaluk
  • Cello - Borek Blaszczy

    All Music Produced and Arranged by Dean Brown
    Executive Producer: Dean Brown
    Associate Producer: Steve Milo
    Production Assistant: Ruth Brown

    Except: "Intermission: Emergency Funk Radio - Co-Produced by JuJu House, Steven Milo, Peter Habbe
    "To Be With You", "Forever", "Forever (Remix)" - Vocal Arrangements by Dean Brown, Bernard Wright, Lalah Hathaway
    "Piggly Wiggly", "In The Basement" - Arranged by JuJu House
    "Shadows" - Co-Arranged by JuJu House
    "Intermission: Emergency Funk Radio" - Trombone Arrangement by Bernard Wright
    "Pandora's Box" - Arranged by Fate

    Bernard Wright dedicates all his performances on this record to the memory of Jam Master J