On July 18, 1973, “CTI” label released “Deodato 2”, the second Eumir Deodato studio album. It was recorded April – May 1973, at “Van Gelder Studio” in Englewood Cliffs, NJ, and was produced by Creed Taylor.

Personnel:

• Eumir Deodato – keyboards, acoustic and electric piano
• John Tropea – guitars
• John Giulino – bass
• Stanley Clarke – bass
• Alvin Brehm, Russell Savakus – arco bass
• Billy Cobham, Rick Marotta – drums
• Gilmore Degap, Rubens Bassini – congas, percussion
• Joe Temperley – baritone sax
• George Marge, Hubert Laws, Jerry Dodgion, Romeo Penque – flute
• Tony Studd – bass trombone
• Garnett Brown, Wayne Andre – trombone
• Brooks Tillotson, Jim Buffington – French horn
• Alan Rubin, Marvin Stamm, Jon Faddis – flugelhorn, trumpet
• Burt Collins, Joe Shepley, Victor Paz – trumpet
• David Nadien, Elliot Rosoff, Emanuel Green, Gene Orloff, Harold Kohon, Harry Cykman, Harry Glickman, Harry Lookofsky, Irving Spice, Joe Malin, Max Ellen, Paul Gershman: violin
• Alfred Brown, Emanuel Vardi – viola
• Alan Shulman, Charles McCracken, George Ricci – cello

 Track listing:

1. Nights in White Satin – Justin Hayward
2. Pavane for a Dead Princess – Maurice Ravel
3. Skyscrapers – Eumir Deodato
4. Super Strut – Eumir Deodato
5. Rhapsody in Blue – George Gershwin, arrangement and adaptation by Eumir Deodato