[TR24][OF] Herb Alpert - Midnight Sun - 1992/2015 (Smooth Jazz, Jazz-Pop)

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.

foobar2000 1.3.9 / Dynamic Range Meter 1.1.1
log date: 2017-12-19 13:34:48
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Analyzed: Herb Alpert / Midnight Sun
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DR         Peak         RMS     Duration Track
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DR14      -0.55 dB   -18.56 dB      6:05 01-Midnight Sun
DR13      -0.50 dB   -18.29 dB      3:53 02-All The Things You Are
DR14      -0.55 dB   -18.93 dB      5:17 03-Someone To Watch Over Me
DR15      -0.59 dB   -20.13 dB      5:53 04-In The Wee Small Hours
DR12      -0.57 dB   -16.35 dB      4:20 05-Friends
DR13      -0.32 dB   -16.97 dB      6:52 06-A Taste Of Honey
DR14      -0.58 dB   -18.81 dB      5:46 07-Mona Lisa
DR15      -0.40 dB   -19.64 dB      5:08 08-I've Grown Accustomed To Her Face
DR14      -0.79 dB   -19.21 dB      3:50 09-Silent Tears And Roses
DR14      -0.42 dB   -19.47 dB      4:14 10-Smile
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Number of tracks:  10
Official DR value: DR14
Samplerate:        88200 Hz
Channels:          2
Bits per sample:   24
Bitrate:           2543 kbps
Codec:             FLAC
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