Released 1993 Artist Joe Sample Producer Tommy LiPuma | Length 49:49 Release date 1993 Label Warner Bros. Records | |
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Invitation
(1993) Did You Feel That?
(1994) Genres Jazz, Jazz fusion, Smooth jazz, Jazz standard, Third stream Similar Collection, Spellbound, Old Places - Old Faces, Swing Street Cafe, The Song Lives On | ||
Joe sample invitation
Invitation is a 1993 album by jazz pianist Joe Sample released through Warner Bros. Records. This album contains reinterpretations (remakes) of jazz standard compositions written by artists such as Duke Ellington, Johnny Mercer, among others (as listed in parentheses in the track list). This is more of a jazz/classical crossover album with orchestral arrangements by Dale Oheler.
Contents
According to the Billboard charts, in 1993, Invitation reached #1 in the "top Jazz albums" category and got to #43 in the "top R&B/Hip-Hop albums". Overall, it peaked #194 in the "Top 200 Albums".[1]
Joe sample black is the color
Track listing
- "Black Is the Color" (Traditional folk song) - 3:53
- "A House Is Not a Home" (Burt Bacharach, Hal David) - 4:57
- "Come Rain or Come Shine" (Harold Arlen, Johnny Mercer) - 5:07
- "Invitation" (Bronisław Kaper) - 4:21
- "Summertime" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin, DuBose Heyward, Dorothy Heyward) - 6:49
- "Nica's Dream" (Horace Silver) - 5:20
- "Stormy Weather" (Harold Arlen, Ted Koehler) - 5:01
- "Django" (John Lewis) - 3:45
- "My One and Only Love" (Guy Wood, Robert Mellin) - 6:12
- "Mood Indigo" (Duke Ellington, Barney Bigard, Irving Mills) - 4:26
Personnel
Songs
1Black Is the Color3:54
2A House Is Not a Home4:58
3Come Rain or Come Shine5:07
References
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