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| 1. | Mr. Slim
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| 2. | Fred's Joint
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| 3. | What Does It Take? (To Win Your Love for Me)
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| 4. | Nikki's Dream
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| 5. | Soulala
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| 6. | 2025
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| 7. | So Cool
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| 8. | Island Lady
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| 9. | I'm the One
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| 10. | No Problem
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| 11. | Cookie - From the motion picture soundtrack "Cookie's Fortune"
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Jazz / Instrumental Pop, Contemporary Jazz, Crossover Jazz, Smooth Jazz
Candy Dulfer - Arranger, Chant, Clapping, Horn, Producer, Sax (Alto), Sax (Tenor), Vocals (Background)
Arturo Sandoval - Trumpet
Carin Verbruggen - Chant, Clapping, Photography
Dave Stewart - Bass, Dobro, Guitar, Producer
Fred Wesley - Trombone
Jan Van Duikeren - Arranger, Horn, Trumpet
Jerry Preston - Bass, Chant, Vocals
Pee Wee Ellis - Flute, Sax (Tenor)
Peter Lieberom - Horn
Reece Gilmore - Drums, Programming
Thomas Bank - Arranger, Clapping, Engineer, Producer, Programming
Ulco Bed - Clapping, Guitar
* Allard Honingh - Hair Stylist, Make-Up
* Ash Howes - Mixing
* Booker T. Jones - Mixing
* Carl Griffin - Executive Producer
* Dann Michael Thompson - Mixing Assistant
* Frans Hendrix - Engineer
* John Tilly - Engineer
* Max Feldman - Mixing Assistant
* Ned Douglas - Programming
* Ray Bardani - Mixing
* Ted Jensen - Mastering
No doubt some very talented fashion and makeup artists got paid a bundle to entice your eyes with seductive, softly lit visions of the gorgeous blond Dutch sax star. The good news is, even without the hard to resist packaging, Dulfer once again hits the mark with one of those funky smooth jazz discs that could keep the dullest party humming. This is the second disc in a row -- following 1997's similarly enticing For the Love of You -- marketed around an update of an old soul classic (this time, Junior Walker's 1969 hit), and it makes great commercial sense to pair Dulfer's snazzy riffs with labelmate Jonathan Butler's kindly vocals. Such an obvious airplay hit, however, detracts from the real joys of the collection, which include bold, brassy covers of two from Sonny Rollins' catalog. Dulfer plays "No Problem" pretty straightforwardly, but she and producer, partner, and all around groovemeister Ulco Bed twist "Island Lady" into a Bob Marley-inspired fantasy camp. The version also features a tenor solo by Dulfer's dad, Hans, and a trumpet romp by Arturo Sandoval. Another unmistakable Dulfer trademark employed here is horn doubling and tripling. On "Fred's Joint," she plays multiple tracks of her alto over Fred Wesley's bouncy trombone; on the Prince-like "2025," she offsets the corny quasi-millennium rap and frothy disco groove with bursts of textured horn energy. Sanborn fans might complain that Dulfer has never gotten too far away from imitating her greatest influence. She's never quite achieved her own innovative sound, but the contexts and production choices make her the primo smooth jazz party girl.
--- Jonathan Widran, All Music Guide
Candy Dulfer
Active Decades: '90s and '00s
Born: Sep 19, 1969 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Genre: Jazz
Styles: Instrumental Pop, Jazz-Pop, Contemporary Jazz, Crossover Jazz, Smooth Jazz
Alto saxophonist Candy Dulfer was brought into the limelight by Prince, who introduced her to the world via his video for "Partyman." Raised in a family heavily involved in the Dutch jazz scene, Dulfer is the daughter of Hans Dulfer, a respected jazz tenor saxophonist. Thanks to him, she listened to and studied the recordings of Sonny Rollins, Coleman Hawkins, and Dexter Gordon. He also introduced her to the stage early in life. When she was 12, she began playing in a band with Rosa King, an American expatriate who lived in Holland. Her career began by playing with brass bands but soon she was fronting her own band, Funky Stuff, who were invited to backup Madonna for part of her European tour. She began leading the band at age 15. Her appearances with Prince led to session work with Eurythmics guitarist/producer Dave Stewart, who gave Dulfer a credit on "Lily Was Here," which reached number six in the U.K. and number one on the Dutch radio charts in 1990. Recording sessions for her debut album were followed by more guest star dates with Van Morrison, Aretha Franklin, and Pink Floyd.
Her debut, Saxuality, released later in 1990 for RCA Records, was very successful in Europe and the U.S. While it was by no means a straight-ahead jazz album, her funky alto sax stylings caught on with fans of contemporary jazz at several recently launched "smooth jazz" radio stations around the U.S. Saxuality was nominated for a Grammy and certified gold for sales in excess of a half-million units worldwide. Her 1991 album Sax-a-Go-Go includes "Sunday Afternoon," a song by Prince, and also teams her up with some of her musical mentors, the JB's and the Tower of Power horns. Her other influences include Sonny Rollins and David Sanborn, and while Dulfer hasn't carved the niche for herself that Sanborn has in the jazz world, she does have a great career ahead of her as she continues to synthesize classic R&B, blues, pop, and jazz in her own unique, creative ways. In 1999, she released What Does It Take with Girls' Night Out and Right In My Soul following in 2001 and 2003 respectively.
---Richard Skelly, All Music Guide |
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