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| 1. | What's the Story?
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| 2. | Mood
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| 3. | Dance the Night Away
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| 4. | Lights Out
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| 5. | Can't Stop
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| 6. | As Close as We Can Get
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| 7. | The Thought of You
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| 8. | Belly Up
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| 9. | If Only
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| 10. | Stay the Night
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Jazz
Thom Rotella - Drum Programming, Engineer, Guitar, Keyboards, Percussion Programming, Producer, Synthesizer, Synthesizer Bass
Arno Lucas - Percussion
Chris Rhyne - Keyboards, Synthesizer
Chris Tedesco - Flugelhorn, Trumpet, Trumpet (Muted)
Gerald Albright - Sax (Soprano), Sax (Tenor)
Joe Turano - Sax (Soprano)
Larry Cohn - Keyboards, Piano (Electric)
Mitchel Forman - Piano (Electric), Synthesizer
Rick Braun - Flugelhorn, Trumpet (Muted)
Vail Johnson - Bass
Guitarist Thom Rotella returns to the airwaves with the lively, ear-catching Can't Stop, a powerful melodic and rhythmic showcase for his electric guitar passion. Rotella has recorded an album of originals&151energetic funk tunes, moody ballads and lighthearted, spirited smooth jazz.
For Rotella, who traces his influences on the guitar to Wes Montgomery, George Benson and Andres Segovia, Can't Stop is a marked change from his early successes on the DMP label and his Telarc debut, last year's Spirit of the Carols (CD-83403), a mellow compilation of well-known Christmas tunes.
Can't Stop features more rhythmic and dynamic variety. Along with the potent funk of the title track, the set list includes the snappy, breezy romp "What's the Story?," the smoky ballad "Mood," the vibrant, retro-soul-meets-bebop flavors of "Dance the Night Away" and the thoughtful melody of "Lights Out."
The music is enhanced by a lineup of ace musicians, including two superstars of smooth jazz, saxophonist Gerald Albright and trumpeter Rick Braun.
Can't Stop is one of Thom Rotella's most diverse and satisfying recordings to date. A pioneer in the smooth jazz radio genre, he is at the top of his game on the record, showcasing equal parts grace, style and passion.
* Geoff Sykes - Mastering
* Jim Studer - Drum Programming, Keyboards, Percussion Programming, Synthesizer
* Land Richards - Drum Programming, Drums, Percussion Programming, Synthesizer Bass
* Matt Hyde - Engineer, Mixing
* Robert Woods - Executive Producer
Even as the smooth jazz format has grown over the past ten years, its annals are unfortunately littered with many artists whose promise fell victim to poor promotion, folding labels, and unending label limbo. While many (i.e. Chris Boardman, Gary Herbig, Bill Bergman) seemed to give up the fight to focus on more lucrative side endeavors, Thom Rotella -- who faced six years of this musical purgatory after three hit albums on DMP from 1987 to 1990, chose to struggle through the bleak period of turn-downs from seemingly every label in the genre. The title of his comeback album, Can't Stop reflects this brazen spirit in the face of all those rejection letters. But Rotella realized that the type of lightweight acoustic guitar music that launched his career was no longer en vogue and might not stand out among the competition in 1997; to get back in the game, he needed more substance, more grit. While Rotella fans from way back might think the crackling, electric Wes Montgomery-flavored licks on Can't Stop are a departure, the guitarist is simply reverting back to the style he intended to begin his solo career with all along. It's notable not only for Rotella's thicker production values and bolder sense of improvisation, but also for the pointed conversations he has with the horns of Rick Braun (trumpet and flugelhorn) and Gerald Albright (sax); none of his old albums had sax embellishment at all. On "Belly Up," he textures Land Richards' live drums with shuffling loops, blending his own fluid electric lines with a wah-wah guitar track, and weaving Albright's tenor through a veil of appearing, then disappearing bluesy keyboard lines by Jim Studer. On the feisty title track, Rotella starts with a groove foundation of Richards, percussionist Vail Johnson and percussionist Arno Lucas. Above this, Rotella's fluid lines gallop along, each verse culminating in a dual flourish of muted trumpet and guitar; Braun takes a solo, and then backs off so Rotella can wail away.
---Jonathan Widran, All Music Guide |
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