Music

July, 1986

Jellybean "J.B." Benitez, who produced superhits for Madonna, Whitney Houston and others, premieres his second solo LP, "Just Visiting This Planet" (Chrysalis), in August. We asked him what's ahead in music."I was very synthesizer oriented when I started; now I'm blending acoustic and synthesizer sounds more and more. Dream Academy's first record did that a lot. Barriers are coming down, too, between black and white music. Producers such as Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis, who...