David Benoit ~ LETTER TO EVAN ~CD 1992 GRP
Detailed item info
Track listing
1. Letter to Evan
2. Waiting for Love
3. On Golden Pond
4. Island, The
5. Looking over Eastlake
6. Knit for Mary F.
7. Kathy's Waltz
8. Things Are Getting Better
9. Spring Can Really Hang You up the Most
10. Take 6
11. Blues at Sunset
Details
Playing time: 2878000 ms
Producer: David Benoit, Jeffrey Weber
Distributor: Universal Distribution
Recording type: Studio
Recording mode: Stereo
SPAR Code: n/a
Album notes
Personnel includes: David Benoit (piano), Dori Caymmi, Larry Carlton, Peter Sprague, Steve Bailey, John Patitucci (acoustic bass), Michael Fisher, Luis Conte, Terri Lyne Carrington (percussion).
Personnel: David Benoit (piano); Michael Fisher (whistling, marimba, pandeiro, shaker); Dori Caymmi , Larry Carlton, Peter Sprague (guitar); Larry Corbett, Stephen Erdody (cello); Jim Walker (flute); Jim Thatcher (French horn); Steve Bailey (bass guitar); Terri Lyne Carrington (drums, surdo, tambourine); Al Foster, Peter Erskine (drums); Luis Conte (bongos, bata, cymbals, finger cymbals, djembe, triangle).
Recording information: Clinton Recording Studios, Inc., New York, NY; Ocean Way Recording Studios, Hollywood, CA.
Photographers: Dennis Keeley; Bill Loving.
Unknown Contributor Roles: Luis Conte; Michael Fisher.
Arranger: David Benoit.
David Benoit had a slight departure with this 1992 release, performing two previously unheard Bill Evans compositions ("Letter to Evan" and "Knit for Mary F."), Dave Brubeck's "Kathy's Waltz" and a mixture of standards and originals. Most of the tunes are played with small groups (duets to quartets) and such fine players as bassist John Patitucci, drummer Peter Erskine and guitarists Larry Carlton and Peter Sprague make strong contributions. The melodic and mostly straight-ahead music is pleasing, pretty and sometimes swinging, if not all particularly innovative.
CD is in good condition.
