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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 /TiVo
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Chris Botti, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1997 UMG Recordings, Inc.
The Blue Nile, FeaturedArtist - Paul Buchanan, Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Chris Botti, Producer, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - Shawn Pelton, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Paul Joseph Moore, Producer, Piano, AssociatedPerformer - Harvey Jones, Keyboards, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1997 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Chris Botti, Producer, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - Shawn Pelton, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Jeff Allen, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Paul Joseph Moore, Producer, Keyboards, AssociatedPerformer - Shane Fontayne, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - John Levanthal, Organ, AssociatedPerformer - Marc Shulman, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1997 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Chris Botti, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1997 Polydor Inc.
Chris Botti, Producer, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - Tony Levin, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Shawn Pelton, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Paul Joseph Moore, Producer, Keyboards, AssociatedPerformer - Harvey Jones, Keyboards, AssociatedPerformer - Marc Shulman, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1997 Polydor Inc.
Chris Botti, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1997 Polydor Inc.
Chris Botti, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1997 Polydor Inc.
Chris Botti, Producer, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - Paul Joseph Moore, Producer
℗ 1997 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Chris Botti, Producer, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - Shawn Pelton, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Larry Saltzman, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Jonatha Brooke, Vocalist, FeaturedArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Paul Joseph Moore, Producer, ComposerLyricist - Marc Shulman, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Bakhit Kumalo, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1996 Polydor Inc.
Chris Botti, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1997 Polydor Inc.
Albumbeschreibung
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 /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 10 track(s)
- Total length: 00:46:46
- Main artists: Chris Botti
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Verve Int'l
- Genre: Jazz
© 1997 The Verve Music Group, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc. ℗ 1997 The Verve Music Group, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
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