Alone In The City - From The Album: Midnight Without You. 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, hes 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 Niles 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 Bottis warm tones are in service of what amounts to a melancholy soundtrack to a rainy day. Which seems to be Bottis very intention. ENJOY THIS TUNE !!! https://youtube/watch?v=tbtwDOy4tnw
Posted on: Fri, 10 Oct 2014 13:28:38 +0000
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