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Prelude is the eighth studio album by Brazilian keyboardist Eumir Deodato de Almeida recorded on September 12-14, 1972 at the Van Gelder Studios in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey. It wasn’t released until January 1973 on the CTI record label. The September sessions were engineered by rudy Van Gelder, produced by Creed Taylor, arranged and conducted by Eumir Deodato.

Side A
  1. Also Sprach Zarathurstra (2001)
  2. Spirit of Summer
  3. Carly & Carole
Side B
  1. Baubles, Bangles and Beads
  2. Prelude To The Afternoon Of A Faun
  3. September 13

The personnel was extensive to bring this project to fruition and included: Eumir Deodato on piano and electric piano; Ron Carter-bass and electric bass; Stanley Clarke-electric bass; drummer Billy Cobham; John Tropea electric guitar; Jay Berliner-guitar; percussionist Airto Moreira; Ray Barretto on congas; flautist Hubert Laws, Phil Bodner, George Marge, Romeo Penque; trumpeters John Frosk,Marky Markowitz, Joe Shepley and Marvin Stamm; trombonists Wayne Andre, Garnett Brown, Paul Faulise and Bill Watrous; on French horn Jim Buffington and Peter Gordon; violinists Max Ellen, Paul Gershman, Emanuel Green, Harry Lookofsky, David Nadien, Gene Orloff, Eliot Rosoff; Emanuel Vardi and Al Brown on viola and cellists Harvey Shapiro, Seymore Barab and Charles McKracken.

The funk-influenced version of the “Introduction” from Richard Strauss’s Also sprach Zarathustra, titled Also Sprach Zarathustra (2001), won the 1974 Grammy Award for Best Pop Instrumental Performance and went to number two in the pop charts in the United States, number three in Canada, and number seven in the UK.

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