Dan Huff

I Feel for You is the fifth solo studio album by American R&B/funk singer Chaka Khan, released on the Warner Bros. Records label in 1984. The title track, "I Feel for You" was a cover of a 1979 Prince track, featuring Grandmaster Melle Mel on the classic "Ch-ch-ch-chaka-chaka-chaka Khan" rap intro and Stevie Wonder on chromatic harmonica (and also a sample from one of his first hits, "Fingertips") and saw Khan embracing high-tech funk, rap and hip hop and stands as one of her best known songs and her biggest commercial hit, reaching number 3 on the US Pop chart (and becoming the Billboard number 5 best-selling song of the year in 1985), and topped the US R&B, Dance, and UK singles charts.

Shine is Martina McBride's first recording in two years, following up her successful album Waking Up Laughing. While the previous album was entirely self-produced – a rare reward in Nashville, but one McBride earned with a string of platinum selling recordings – on this set she is listed as a co-producer with the veteran Dan Huff. As is customary, husband John recorded and engineered the set.

Besides touring and recording with Little River Band, Peter found time to master many other fine accomplishments during the 90's. He released his first, and only, solo cd on Curb Records, self titled Beckett. This cd stood out as a classic of its time, offering a collection of pure AOR songs, released at a time when really good AOR albums were hard to find. The cd featured many outstanding musicians, such as Wayne Nelson, Dan Huff, Danny Johnson, Dennis Lambert, and Dave Amato, to name a few. Beckett, showed more of a harder rock edge with 'I Told You So', 'My Religion', and 'Brother Louie', but also brought the mood down with 'The Bottom Line', 'Hanging By A Thread', and 'Still Of the Night'. 'My Religion'was a favorite of Peter's and he was surprised to find out it was a minor hit in Germany and Japan, while he was touring with Little River Band at the time. He had no intention of touring to promote the BECKETT CD, but it did quite well and still is a favorite among AOR fans today. 'Brother Louie' was released in the US as a single.

Altoist Sadao Watanabe is considered one of Japan's top jazzmen. Some of his recordings are quite commercial but this particular one finds him paying tribute to Charlie Parker with what was called "the great jazz trio:" pianist Hank Jones, bassist Ron Carter and drummer Tony Williams. The seven selections (four Bird compositions and three standards often played by Parker) are all given strong treatment by the quartet. Watanabe's true love is bebop and his solos here are very much in that tradition yet displaying a personality of his own.

In 1980 Roby Duke signed with Songbird records, a joint effort between Sparrow Records and MCA for artists with a decidedly mainstream sound or potential. Roby Duke’s music was so out-of-place in CCM, with its clear soulful and jazz influence and a cool factor that was through the roof. The album sported a host of who’s who musicians and vocalists including Hadley Hockensmith, Marty Walsh, Harlan Rogers, Keith Edwards, Dan Huff, Alex MacDougall and Rob Watson. How can anyone go wrong with two members of Daniel Amos and nearly the totality of Koinonia? CCM sweetheart Kelly Willard also appears on a great duet…

Best known for his stint fronting art pop hitmakers Supertramp, Roger Hodgson was born in Portsmouth, England, on March 21, 1950. While growing up in Oxford, Hodgson started playing guitar before he was a teenager, and was soon writing songs while at boarding school…