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Accentuate the Positive (album)

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Released
  
2004

Label
  
GRP Records

Release date
  
3 August 2004

Producer
  
Tommy LiPuma

Length
  
48:37

Artist
  
Al Jarreau

Genre
  
Funk

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Nominations
  
NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Jazz Artist

Al Jarreau albums
  
L Is for Lover, This Time, All Fly Home, Look to the Rainbow, Breakin' Away

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Accentuate the Positive is an album of songs from the 1940s, recorded in 2004 by singer Al Jarreau. In 2005 the album received a Grammy Award nomination for Best Jazz Vocal Album.

Contents

Track listing

  1. "Cold Duck" (Eddie Harris, Jarreau)
  2. "The Nearness of You" (Hoagy Carmichael, Ned Washington)
  3. "I'm Beginning to See the Light" (Duke Ellington, Don George, Johnny Hodges, Harry James)
  4. "My Foolish Heart" (Ned Washington, Victor Young)
  5. "Midnight Sun" (Lionel Hampton, Sonny Burke, Johnny Mercer)
  6. "Accentuate the Positive" (Harold Arlen, Johnny Mercer)
  7. "Betty Bebop's Song" (Jarreau, Freddie Ravel)
  8. "Waltz for Debby" (Bill Evans, Gene Lees)
  9. "Groovin' High" (Dizzy Gillespie, Jarreau)
  10. "Lotus" (Don Grolnick, Jarreau)
  11. "Scootcha Booty" (Russell Ferrante, Jarreau)

Personnel

  • Al Jarreau – vocals
  • Keith Anderson – tenor saxophone (1, 6)
  • Larry Williams – keyboards and arrangements (2, 4, 5-10)
  • Russell Ferrante – piano (11)
  • Larry Goldings – Hammond B-3 organ (3)
  • Tollak Ollestad – harmonica (5)
  • Anthony Wilson – guitar (1-11)
  • Christian McBride – bass (1, 2, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10)
  • Dave Carpenter – bass (4, 7, 11)
  • Mark Simmons – drums (1, 5, 6)
  • Peter Erskine – drums (2, 3, 4, 7-11)
  • Luis Conte – percussion (1, 4, 6, 10)

    • Production

  • Producer – Tommy LiPuma
  • Executive Producer, Management – Bill Darlington
  • Production Coordinator – Shari Sutcliffe
  • Recorded and Mixed by Al Schmitt at Capitol Studios (Hollywood, CA).
  • Assistant Engineer – Steve Genewick
  • Mastered by Doug Sax and Robert Hadley at The Mastering Lab (Hollywood, CA).
  • Art Direction – Hollis King
  • Design – Rika Ichiki
  • Photography – Rocky Schenck
  • Liner Notes – Al Jarreau

    • Songs

    1Cold Duck3:45
    2The Nearness of You3:46
    3I'm Beginning to See the Light4:07

    References

    Accentuate the Positive (album) Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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