Skip to content

Sign in Get an invite

Know your own taste. Log films, television, books, music, and games; read your profile back; find the people who share it.

Explore

Activity Discover Release calendar Buds Group night The twelve archetypes

Your stuff

Import and sources From your sources Settings

About

What this is Glossary Data credits Privacy Terms Support the site

© 2026 Justin Chuan. Titles and artwork belong to their rights holders; data credits.

Home
Explore
- Discover
- Release calendar
- Buds
- Group night
- The twelve archetypes
About
- Support the site
- What this is
- Glossary
- Data credits
- Privacy
- Terms
Search
Sign in

Winelight (1980) · Tastebuds

Music

Winelight 1980

By Grover Washington, Jr.

r b, jazz, smooth jazz 39 min 6 tracks Elektra

Discogs 4.4★ · 380

No ratings yet

Winelight is a 1980 studio album by jazz musician Grover Washington Jr. The record received the Grammy Award for Best Jazz Fusion Performance in 1982. The album was released by Elektra Records. It includes the Grammy Award-winning hit "Just the Two of Us" sung by Bill Withers. The track "In the Name of Love" from the album was also released in rearranged form, without Washington's saxophone track, under the name of Ralph MacDonald and Bill Withers.

r b jazz smooth jazz

Log it

Sign in to log this.

Character

Character-led, grave, spare and classical in form.

character-ledplot-driven
gravecomic
sparerichly built

classical in formformally daring

warmbleak

Who loves it, who doesn't

No profiled raters yet.

Ask the title

A yes-or-no question, answered from what people wrote here, on TMDB and on Wikipedia. Never made up.

YesNoUnclear

Reviews

No reviews yet.

What critics gave it

Each outlet on its own scale.

AllMusic4.5/5 ★
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings3/4 ★
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide2.5/5 ★

As listed in the ratings box of Wikipedia’s article (CC BY-SA). Not part of Tastebuds's numbers.

Tracks

1Winelight7:34
2Let It Flow (For "Dr. J")5:53
3In the Name of Love5:27
4Take Me There6:16
5Just the Two of Us7:24
6Make Me a Memory (Sad Samba)6:33

6 tracks, 39 minutes.

About the album

Artist: Grover Washington, Jr.
Label: Elektra
Type: Album
Format: CD
Country: XE

Listen or buy

Discogs

From MusicBrainz, the earliest official release of this album.

Where to listen

Spotify Apple Music YouTube Music Bandcamp Tidal Deezer

Each opens a search for this album on that service.

Similar in taste

Closest on the same fourteen dimensions, from everything scored on Tastebuds Other media included when they land close.

Naked & Warm 197688% alike
Both character-led, spare, grave.
Diana & Marvin 197387% alike
Both character-led, spare, grave.
Feels Like Home 200487% alike
Both character-led, grave, spare.
Come Away With Me 200286% alike
Both character-led, spare, grave.
Wallflower 201586% alike
Both character-led, spare, grave.
’Bout Love 197985% alike
Both character-led, spare, classical in form.
Not Too Late 200684% alike
Both character-led, spare, grave.
Easy 196984% alike
Both character-led, spare, grave.
As a man thinketh 190276% alike
Book · Both character-led, grave, spare.
SnowNight 201875% alike
Game · Both grave, spare, classical in form.