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Influenced by George Benson and Wes Montgomery,
Zachary Breaux was a flexible guitarist who
could handle soul-jazz, post-bop and hard bop as well as more
commercial pop-jazz and NAC music. Though the jazzman only
recorded a handful of albums – including 1992's
Groovin' and 1994's Laidback, both on NYC, and Uptown Groove
on Zebra – he kept busy as a sideman in the 1980s and
1990s and backed such major artists as Stanley Turrentine,
Jack McDuff, Donald Byrd, Lonnie Liston Smith and Dee Dee
Bridgewater. It was in 1984 that he met vibist/singer Roy
Ayers, who he played with extensively. Signed to Zebra in
1996, Breaux seemed to have a bright future ahead of him,
but tragically, the guitarist was only in his 30s when he
died in Miami on February 27, 1997. (Source:
Alex Henderson | AllMusic.com)
Zebra Records, the brainchild of label owner
Ricky Schultz, brought a new label re-launch
campaign to the attention of Eric Scott was at the time working
full-time as art director. The creative brief included updating
the label's brand and designing a unifying look for all the
releases with an emphasis upon fine art imagery, for this
and its subsidiary label, Zebra Acoustic; a matter he was
at the time under-taking in parallel with Eric's own label,
Day For Night.
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