ANDRE LEWIS AND WHITE CHOCOLATE

André Lewis and his wife, Maxayn Lewis, performed and recorded with White Chocolate.

The album is featured in a recent article on The Zepphil blog.
https://thezepphil.blogspot.com/2022/09/white-chocolate.html

-- info: Jan van Kemenade

MAXAYN

American funk/soul group Maxayn was named after Maxayn Lewis (Paulette Parker) and featured former Zappa band member André Lewis on keyboards.
In 1977, the group morphed into the Mandré project to explore a more electronic/disco sound.

In 2017, the three Maxayan albums got released as a box set, entitled "Maxayn Reloaded".

-- info: Harald Häring

FRANK ZAPPA - VANCOUVER WORKOUT

• frank zappa: vancouver workout
      (2016, 2cd, uk, zip city)

So a couple of weeks ago, I finally received "Vancouver Workout", a semi-official / radio-broadcast 2CD set that included Frank Zappa's October 1, 1975 concert at the 'Gym' in Vancouver.

Frank Zappa, Napoleon Murphy Brock, Roy Estrada, Andre Lewis and Terry Bozzio.

Superb.

The ZFT is missing a fine opportunity with these radio show recordings...

MANDRE - MANDRE

• mandre: mandre
      (2015, cd, ??, fever dream fd-cd-7507)

If I'm not mistaken, I mentioned this excellent re-release about two weeks ago.Spacy midnight funk, soul and disco. Includes the Zappa-written 'Dirty Love' and the Andre 'Mandre' Lewis / Johnny Guitar Watson collaboration 'Masked Marauder'.

Mandre was a group that Andre Lewis started in 1977 as a continuation of the gospel/soul group "Maxayn" which was named after the lead singer Maxayn Lewis, Andre's wife. While the Maxayn group had been playing gospel and soul with Maxayn Lewis on lead vocals, the Mandre group was Andre's project to add electronic elements and also shift the sound toward more spacey funk and disco. Andre also played keyboards for Frank Zappa, Buddy Miles, LaBelle, Earth Wind and Fire, Huey Lewis, Edwin Starr, Charles Wilson and the Gap Band, Sly Stone, Bobby Womack, Johnny Guitar Watson and a handful of others. He was also a tester of Roland products and was one of the first musicians to record with the infamous Roland TR-808 drum machine.

MANDRE

Andre Lewis performed and recorded with Frank Zappa and Johnny Guitar Watson to name two.
He also recorded four solo albums as Mandre.
His first album, the eponymous one, got released in 1977 and included Andre's take on FZ's 'Dirty Love'.

The album just got re-released on CD by the Fever Dream record label.

Here's a picture of the 1977 vinyl album: