Midnight Sun

by Herb Alpert

Overview

Having recently sold A&M to PolyGram for a cool $500 million, and with his short but hugely affecting association with the late Stan Getz on his mind, Herb Alpert finally took the plunge and recorded what he called a jazz album, his last for the label he co-founded. But this would not be a conventional blowing session; rather it is an intimate, inward, wee-small-hours kind of album where, muted and not, Alpert's horn sighs, laments and sings over a conventional rhythm section and underneath a blanket of lush strings. Without a doubt, Miles Davis in his introspective '50s mode is Herb's primary inspiration -- always has been -- and he uses space between the notes in similar ways, but always with his own tone and distinct phrasing. Two old favorites from the TJB days, "A Taste of Honey" and "I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face," are revisited; "Taste" is completely transformed into a dark elegy that breaks into the light before turning back to the shadows. One track, "Friends," was left over from 1990, where Herb was joined by a luminous-sounding Getz; they really play like intimate friends together. This is not a terribly spontaneous album -- Alpert is too much the master of structure to leave very much to chance -- but it creates a mood of melancholy serenity that is difficult to resist. ~ Richard S. Ginell

Product Details

Release Date:	09/09/2016
Label:	HERB ALPERT PRESENTS
UPC:	0814647020990

Tracks

1. Midnight Sun
2. All the Things You Are
3. Someone to Watch over Me
4. In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning
5. Friends
6. A Taste of Honey
7. Mona Lisa
8. I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face
9. Silent Tears and Roses
10. Smile

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Herb Alpert   Primary Artist,Vocals,Trumpet
Larry Carlton   Guest Artist,Guitar
Stan Getz   Guest Artist,Sax (Tenor)
Barry Zweig   Guitar
Eduardo del Barrio   Piano
Jeff Hamilton   Drums
John Pisano   Guitar
Monty Budwig   Bass
Harvey Mason, Sr.   Drums
Frank Collett   Piano

Technical Credits

Steve Smith   Engineer
Bernie Grundman   Mastering
Bob Hilliard   Composer
Roland Young   Art Direction
Ric Marlow   Composer
Bill Hughes   String Arrangements
Jurgen Reisch   Photography
Geoffrey Parsons   Composer
Alan Jay Lerner   Composer
Elliot   Composer
Eddie Del Barrio   Composer
Ed Goodreau   Assistant Engineer
Eric Rudd   Assistant Engineer
John Turner   Composer
Greg Goldman   Assistant Engineer
George Gershwin   Composer
Ira Gershwin   Composer
Charlie Chaplin   Composer
John Aguto   Assistant Engineer
Johnny Mercer   Composer
Ray Evans   Composer
Thom Russo   Assistant Engineer
Herb Alpert   Composer,Producer
Sonny Burke   Composer
Bobby Scott   Composer
Oscar Hammerstein II   Composer
Jay Livingston   Composer
Lionel Hampton   Composer
Jerome Kern   Composer
James   Composer
Frederick Loewe   Composer
David Mann   Composer