ザ・ビートルズのタイトル曲I Want To Hold Your Handが注目されるアルバム。この曲は、アメリカでは1963年12月にシングル盤でリリースされ、翌64年2月にヒットチャートで1位になっている。それから約1年後の65年3月に、本作が録音された。プロデューサーは、アルフレッド・ライオン。ビートルズの勢いを拝借した形だ。果たして、そのご利益はあったのだろうか。
本作がリリースされ、アルバムを手にした参加メンバーは驚いたに違いない。タイトルがI Want To Hold Your Handで、ジャケットは女性の顔のアップ。「抱きしめたい」とつぶやいたメンバーはいなかっただろう。
1. I Want To Hold Your Hand 2. Speak Low 3. Stella By Starlight 4. Corcovado (Quiet Nights) 5. This Could Be The Start of Something 6. At Long Last Love
Grant Green - guitar Hank Mobley - tenor saxophone (tracks 1-4 & 6) Larry Young - organ Elvin Jones - drums
Recorded on March 31, 1965 at Rudy Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey.
1. Ruby 2. Nostalgia 3. Latin Reaction 4. Ngiculela - Es Una Historia - I Am Singing 5. Sunride 6. Adios 7. Blue Angel 8. Midnight Tango
Gato Barbieri - tenor saxophone Lenny White - drums Gary King -bass Joe Caro, David Spinozza - guitar Eddy Martinez - keyboards Cachete Maldonado - percussion
Herb Alpert - trumpet (tracks 2) Bernard Purdie - drums (track 1) Paulinho da Costa - percussion (tracks 1,2,4-7) Lee Ritenour - guitar (tracks 1,2,5) Joe Clayton - congas (track 3) Don Grolnick - piano (track 1), organ (track 3) Steve Gadd - drums (track 5) Steve Jordan - drums (track 6) Eddie Guagua - bass (track 6) Chuck Domanico - bass (track 7) Ian Underwood - synthesizer (tracks 2-4) Portinho - percussion (track 6)
Alen Rubin, Jon Faddis, Lou Soloff, Marvin Stamm - trumpet, flugelhorn Wayne Andre, David Taylor, Paul Faulise - trombone Peter Gordon, Tom Malone, John Gale - French horn David Nadien - string contractor
Recorded in 1977 at A&R Recording Studios, New York, Media Sound, New York and A&M Recording Studios, Hollywood, California.
The images of dreams and the images of memory have a sound. With movies, we became aware that images have music. Something happens with music that is much older and more intimate. When it really touches you, you can create your own images and dream things you never knew you could dream. Music is like a forest, it has boundaries, but we do not know them.
Let's make the magical possible by looking at it with hot (Caliente) eyes. Thank you Carlos Santana and Marvin Gaye, who, following different paths, arrived to that sea where I feel happy, because music is the memory of dreams. Thanks to all our friends, the true ones, the forever ones.
1. Fireflies 2. Fiesta 3. Europa (Earth's Cry Heaven's Smile) 4. Don't Cry Rochelle 5. Adios - Part I 6. I Want You 7. Behind The Rain 8. Los Desperados 9. Adios - Part II
Gato Barbieri - tenor saxophone Lenny White - drums Gary King - bass Eric Gale, David Spinozza, Joe Beck - guitar Eddy Martinez - keyboards Don Grolnick - keyboards, synthesizer Ralph MacDonald, Cachete Maldonado, Mtume - percussion Marvin Stamm, Bernie Glow, Randy Brecker, Irvin Markowitz - trumpet Wayne Andre, David Taylor, Paul Faulise - trombone Alfred Brown, David Nadien, Charles McCracken, Theodore Israel - strings Matthew Raimondi, Harry Cykman, Harry Glickman, Alan Shulman - strings Max Ellen, Harold Kohon, Max Polikoff, Harry Lookofsky, Paul Gershman – strings