One of a Kind (Dave Grusin album)

One of a Kind
Studio album by Dave Grusin
Released	1977
Recorded	1977
Studio	Electric Lady Studios, New York City
Genre	Jazz
Length	36:03
Label	Polydor (1977) GRP (1984)
Producer	Dave Grusin & Larry Rosen
Dave Grusin chronology
Discovered Again! (1976) One of a Kind (1977) The Champ (1979)
1984 Reissue

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One of a Kind is an album by American pianist Dave Grusin released in 1977, recorded for the Polydor label. It was reissued in 1984 by GRP Records.

1. "Modaji" (Dave Grusin) - 7:42
2. "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" (Grusin, Peggy Lee) - 6:13
3. "Catavento" (Milton Nascimento) - 4:04
4. "Montage" (Grusin) - 9:20
5. "Playera" (Enrique Granados) - 8:44

• Dave Grusin – Fender Rhodes, acoustic piano (2, 4, 5), Oberheim Polyphonic Synthesizer (2, 4), Minimoog (2, 4), additional percussion (4), percussion (5), arrangements and conductor
• Ed Walsh – Oberheim Polyphonic synthesizer programming
• Francisco Centeno – electric bass (1, 3), additional electric bass (4)
• Anthony Jackson – electric bass (4)
• Ron Carter – double bass (2, 5)
• Steve Gadd – drums (1, 3-5)
• Ralph MacDonald – percussion (1, 3, 4)
• Larry Rosen – triangle (4)
• Grover Washington Jr. – soprano saxophone (1, 5)
• Don Elliot – mellophone (1), backing vocals (1)
• Dave Valentin – flute (3, 4)
• Paul Gershman – string concertmaster
• Gene Bianco – string contractor
• Seymour Barab, David Davis, Peter Dimitriades, Lewis Eley, Max Hollander, Regis Iandiorio, Theodore Israel, Raymond Kunicki, Richard Maximoff, Marvin Morgenstern, Ralph Oxman, Noel Pointer and Paul Winter – string players

• Dave Grusin – producer
• Larry Rosen – producer, recording, mixing
• Michael Frondelli – assistant engineer
• Bob Ludwig – mastering at Masterdisk (New York, NY)
• Donna Putney – production coordinator
• Gregory Heisler – cover and liner photograph

1984 CD Reissue

• Ted Jensen – mastering at Sterling Sound (New York, NY)
• Josiah Gluck – production supervisor
• Peter Lopez – production coordinator
• Mitchell Funk – photography
• Andy Baltimore – art direction, art design, black and white photography
• Dan Serrano – art design
• Larry Rosen – liner notes

• Dave Grusin-One Of A Kind at Discogs