Leonard White III, detto Lenny (New York, 19 dicembre 1949), è un batterista statunitense, vincitore di tre Grammy Award e un Latin Grammy. White suona jazz e fusion ed è famoso per aver suonato con: Miles Davis nell'album Bitches Brew, Chick Corea nella band Return to Forever, Jaco Pastorius nell'album omonimo, Stanley Clarke, Al Di Meola, Mike Stern e molti altri.

Discografia

Come leader

  • 1975: Venusian Summer (Nemperor)
  • 1977: Big City (Nemperor)
  • 1978: The Adventures of Astral Pirates (Elektra)
  • 1978: Streamline (Elektra)
  • 1979: Best of Friends (con i Twennynine) (Elektra)
  • 1980: Twennynine (con Lenny White) (Elektra)
  • 1981: Just Like Dreamin' (con iTwennynine) (Elektra)
  • 1983: Attitude (Wounded Bird)
  • 1983: In Clinic (DCI)
  • 1995: Present Tense (Hip Bop/Koch)
  • 1996: Renderers of Spirit (Hip Bop Essence)
  • 1999: Edge (Hip Bop Essence)
  • 2002: Collection (Hip Bop)
  • 2004: Tribute to Earth, Wind and Fire (Trauma)
  • 2010: Anomaly (Abstract Logix)
  • 2013: Lenny White Live (BFM Jazz)

Come sideman

con gli Azteca

  • 1972: Azteca (Columbia)
  • 1973: Pyramid of the Moon (Columbia)
  • 2008: From The Ruins (Inakustic Gmbh)

con Gato Barbieri

  • 1971: Fenix (Flying Dutchman)

con Stanley Clarke

  • 1973: Children of Forever (Polydor)
  • 1975: Journey to Love (Nemperor)

con Al Di Meola:

  • 1976: Land of the Midnight Sun (Columbia)
  • 1977: Elegant Gypsy (Columbia)

con i Return to Forever

  • 1973: Hymn of the Seventh Galaxy (Polydor)
  • 1974: Where Have I Known You Before (Polydor)
  • 1975: No Mystery (Polydor)
  • 1976: Romantic Warrior (Columbia)
  • 2009: Returns (Eagle)
  • 2009: Forever [nella formazione Corea, Clarke & White] (Concord)

con Larry Coryell & Victor Bailey

  • 2005: Electric
  • 2006: Traffic

con Chaka Khan, Freddie Hubbard, Joe Henderson, Chick Corea & Stanley Clarke

  • 1982: Echoes of an Era (Elektra)
  • 1982: Echoes of an Era 2 – The Concert (Elektra)

con Wallace Roney

  • 1997 Village (Warner Bros.)
  • 2000 No Room for Argument (Stretch)
  • 2016 A Place in Time (HighNote)

con Buster Williams

  • 2001 Houdini (Sirocco)
  • 2004 Griot Libertè (HighNote)
  • 2008 65 Roses (BluePort Jazz) – registrato nel 2006

Altri

  • 1969 – Andrew Hill: Passing Ships (Blue Note) [non pubblicato fino al 2003]
  • 1970 – Joe Henderson: If You're Not Part of the Solution, You're Part of the Problem (Milestone)
  • 1970 – Freddie Hubbard: Red Clay (CTI)
  • 1970 – Woody Shaw: Blackstone Legacy (Contemporary)
  • 1970 – Miles Davis: Bitches Brew (Columbia)
  • 1971 – Curtis Fuller: Crankin' (Mainstream)
  • 1972 - Buddy Terry: Pure Dynamite (Mainstream)
  • 1973 - Eddie Henderson: Realization (Capricorn)
  • 1976 – Don Cherry: Hear & Now (Atlantic)
  • 1976 – Jaco Pastorius: Jaco Pastorius (Epic/Legacy/Sony)
  • 1986 – Eliane Elias: Illusions (Denon)
  • 1990 – The Manhattan Project (Blue Note)
  • 1990 – Michel Petrucciani: Music (Blue Note)
  • 1994 – Marcus Miller, Michel Petrucciani, Bireli Lagrene & Kenny Garrett: Dreyfus Night in Paris (Dreyfus) [non pubblicato fino al 2003]
  • 1995 – Urbanator: Urbanator (Hip Bop)
  • 1997 – The Geri Allen Trio & The Jazzpar 1996 Nonet: Some Aspects of Water (Storyville)
  • 1998 – Geri Allen: The Gathering (Verve, 1998)
  • 1999 – Stanley Clarke, Karen Briggs, Rachel Z and Richie Kotzen Vertú (Sony)
  • 2009 – The Stanley Clarke Trio: Jazz in the Garden (Heads Up)
  • 2011 – Jamey Haddad, Lenny White, Mark Sherman: Explorations in Space and Time (Chesky)
  • 2012 - Beka Gochiashvili - Beka
  • 2012 - Letizia Gambi - Introducing Letizia Gambi (Jando Music / Via Veneto Jazz)
  • 2016 - Letizia Gambi - Blue Monday (RP / IYOUWE)
  • 2019 – Buster Williams and Geri Allen - Houdini
  • 2020 – Geri Allen and Palle Danielsson - Some Aspect of Water

Come Produttore

  • 1981 - Sylvia St. James – Magic (Elektra)
  • 1982 - Chaka Khan – Echoes of an era (Elektra)
  • 1985 - Tina Harris – I must not be kinky (Shanachie)
  • 2009 - Corea, Clarke, White - Forever (Concord )
  • 2012 - Beka Gochiashvili - Beka
  • 2012 - Letizia Gambi - Introducing Letizia Gambi (Jando Music / Via Veneto Jazz)
  • 2016 - Letizia Gambi - Blue Monday (RP / IYOUWE)

Note

Altri progetti

  • Wikimedia Commons contiene immagini o altri file su Lenny White

Collegamenti esterni

  • (EN) Sito ufficiale, su lennywhite.com (archiviato dall'url originale il 10 gennaio 2017).
  • (EN) Lenny White, su AllMusic, All Media Network.
  • (EN) Lenny White, su Discogs, Zink Media.
  • (EN) Lenny White, su MusicBrainz, MetaBrainz Foundation.
  • (EN) Lenny White, su IMDb, IMDb.com.
  • Lenny White video interview a All About Jazz
  • Return to Forever: Twelve Historic Tracks Archiviato il 21 ottobre 2015 in Internet Archive. at Jazz.com
  • Lenny White biography at MusicTaste

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