Film/TV composer arranger Patrick Williams (you may remember him from the soundtrack to How To Beat The High Cost Of Living) started a record label named Soundwings and was lucky enough to land Scott for one of the label's first releases. The idea was to record direct to digital, no edits, essentially a live album in a recording studio with backing band and pops orchestra. It's not a typical Scott recording and it's just okay. But the problem isn't the performances - Scott never sounded better - it's the mostly lackluster material.
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| note: it was NOT Tom Scott's penultimate record. |
Album chart peaks:
- US Billboard 200: Did not chart
- Billboard Jazz: #15
- CashBox Jazz: #16
- Radio & Records Jazz Radio National Airplay: #7
Tracks: I count three good tracks here: a smooth jazz take on the jazz standard Star Eyes (originally from from the 1943 film I Dood It), which features a tasty vibraphone solo from Victor Feldman, and the two cuts written by Scott himself, Nite Bloom and La La Land. Not sure why jazz musicians like to record their interpretations of Rodrigo's Concierto De Aranjuez, but that nonsense should have stopped after Miles Davis and Gil Evans did it. We've got an attempt here, anyway. Then the album closes with an 11½ minute original work by Williams titled Romances For A Jazz Soloist And Orchestra. Not surprisingly, it sounds like soundtrack music.
Personal Memory Associated with this CD: None with the music, but I always like to mention when I come across a smooth-sided CD jewel case and that's the case with this one.
Previously revisited for the blog:
Smokin' Section (1999)
Night Creatures (1995)
Reed My Lips (1994)
Target (1983)
Apple Juice (1981)
Blow It Out (1977)/Intimate Strangers (1978)/Street Beat (1979)
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