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| 1. | The Steps of Positano
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| 2. | Midnight Without You
with The Blue Nile |
| 3. | Regroovable
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| 4. | Never Gone
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| 5. | The Way Home
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| 6. | When Rain Falls
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| 7. | Until Now
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| 8. | Mr. Wah
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| 9. | Forgiven
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| 10. | Alone in the City
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Award Winner
Jazz / Smooth Jazz; Instrumental Pop; Crossover Jazz; Contemporary Jazz
Recorded at Beartracks Studios, Suffern, New York; Shelter Island Studios and Truck Sound Studios, New York, New York.
The trumpeter makes apologies for making albums whose very straightforward melodies owe more to his pop session work with Chaka Khan, Aretha Franklin, and Scritti Politti than the Chet Baker jazz vocabulary he grew up learning. If Botti was aiming for such a seemingly paradoxical blend of open spaces and smoky intimacy on Midnight Without You, he's definitely on the mark. A few of the tracks here -- most notably the snappy blues-based pop tunes "Regroovable" and "The Way Home" -- have seductive rhythm schemes and hypnotic gut-sticking hooks, but the rest just sort of hang back and play aloof, daring listeners to find them anything more than steamy, romantic background music for slow dancing and whatever comes next. The Blue Nile's Paul Buchanan infuses a folky vocal personality into the title track, and "Mr. Wah" uses those synth textures as a springboard for some more intensive improvisational funk exercises, but on tunes like "The Steps of Positano," "Never Gone," and "When Rain Falls" Botti's warm tones are in service of what amounts to a melancholy soundtrack to a rainy day. Which seems to be Botti's very intention.
---Jonathan Widran, allmusic
Chris Botti - trumpet, piano, keyboards
Paul Buchanan - vocals
Jonathan Brooke - vocals
Andy Snitzer - piano, Wurlitzer electric piano, programming
John Leventhal - organ
Harvey Jones - keyboards
Marc Shulman - guitar
Shane Fontayne - guitar
Gerry Leonard - guitar
Vincent Nguini - guitar
Larry Saltzman - guitar
Tony Levin - bass
Jeff Allen - bass
Bakithi Kumalo - bass
Shawn Pelton - drums, programming
Jerry Marotta - Native American drums, brushed cymbal, tom toms
Joe Bonadio - Native American drums, sordu, tambourine
The Blue Nile includes:
Paul Buchanan - vocals
Paul Joseph Moore - piano, keyboards, programming |
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