Midnight Sun (Herb Alpert album)
Midnight Sun | ||||
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Released | 1992 | |||
Recorded | 1991-1992 | |||
Genre | Easy listening, jazz | |||
Length | 51:16 | |||
Label | A&M | |||
Producer | Herb Alpert | |||
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Midnight Sun is an album of late-night jazz standards recorded by Herb Alpert. This was Alpert's final release of newly recorded music for A&M Records in 1992. It would also mark the 30th anniversary of A&M Records.
Featured tracks include "Friends" (an original composition featuring a duet with the late Sax legend Stan Getz recorded in 1990), as well as an orchestral arrangement of the hit "A Taste of Honey". Alpert offers two vocal efforts, "Someone to Watch Over Me", and a new version of "I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face". The album closes with "Smile", co-written by Charlie Chaplin, whose legendary lot became the home of the A&M Studios back in 1966.
Track listing[]
- "Midnight Sun" (Lionel Hampton, Sonny Burke, Johnny Mercer) 6:05
- "All the Things You Are" (Oscar Hammerstein II, Jerome Kern) 3:53
- "Someone to Watch Over Me" (George & Ira Gershwin) 5:16
- "In the Wee Small Hours" (Bob Hilliard, David Mann) 5:53
- "Friends" (Eddie del Barrio, Herb Alpert) 4:21
- "A Taste of Honey" (Bobby Scott, Ric Marlow) 6:52
- "Mona Lisa" (Jay Livingston, Ray Evans) 5:46
- "I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face" (Alan Jay Lerner, Frederick Loewe) 5:07
- "Silent Tears and Roses" (Eddie del Barrio) 3:50
- "Smile" (Charlie Chaplin, John Turner, Geoffrey Parsons) 4:13
Personnel[]
- Herb Alpert - Trumpet, Vocals
- Stan Getz - Tenor Saxophone
- Larry Carlton, John Pisano, Barry Zwieg - Guitars
- Frank Collett, Eduardo "Eddie" del Barrio - Piano
- Monty Budwig - Bass
- Jeff Hamilton, Harvey Mason, Sr. - Drums, Percussion
- Arranged and Conducted by Eddie del Barrio
- Strings Contracted By Bill Hughes
Production[]
- Produced By Herb Alpert
- Engineered By Steve Smith
- Assistant Engineers: John Aguto, Greg Goldman, Ed Goodreau, Eric Rudd, Thom Russo
- Mastered By Bernie Grundman
References[]
- ^ CD liner notes
Categories:
- Herb Alpert albums
- 1992 albums
- A&M Records albums
- Albums produced by Herb Alpert