Streamline is the fourth studio album by drummer Lenny White, released in 1978 by Elektra Records. The album reached No. 27 on the Billboard Top Jazz Albums chart.
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Critical reception
Alex Henderson at AllMusic wrote that the album "isn't a five-star gem, but it isn't bad either" and calling it a "generally decent, if mildly uneven, collection of instrumental jazz fusion and R&B vocal numbers." He noted White's cover of the Beatles' "Lady Madonna" as an "interesting" highlight; other songs such as "Night Games", "Struttin'" and "Pooh Bear" he described as "enjoyable even though they fall short of the brilliance of the material on The Adventures of Astral Pirates [1978] and Venusian Summer [1975]."
Personnel
Credits adapted from LP liner notes.
Musicians
Lenny White – drums, percussion; drum solo (5, 10)
Nick Moroch – guitars; guitar solo (2–6, 8–9)
Donald "Captain Keyboards" Blackman – keyboards, vocals; organ solo (3), Minimoog solo (4), Oberheim synthesizer solo (6), acoustic piano solo (8), Rhodes piano solo (9), piano solo (10)
Jamie Glaser – guitars; guitar solo (1, 3, 9)
Marcus Miller – bass guitar; bass guitar solo (8, 10)
Denzil "Broadway" Miller – keyboards; keyboard solo (7), Minimoog solo (8)
Additional musicians
Chaka Khan – lead and background vocals (2)
Dianne Reeves – background vocals
Larry Dunn – synthesizer programming; Minimoog solo (1)
Technical
Lenny White – producer
Larry Dunn – producer
Denzil Miller – rhythm track arranger (2)
Chris Brunt – engineer
Richard Kaplan – engineer
Steve Hirsch – engineer
Moshe Brakha – photography