曲目リスト

1. Remembering Chet
2. Playing by Heart
3. Game of Hide and Seek
4. Tenderly
5. I Didn't Love You Less
6. Place Inside Alive and Well
7. Remembering Chet
8. Scene Unseen
9. You Go to My Head
10. I Want to Stay the Night
11. Goodnight Moon
12. Mark's Graveyard Site
13. These Foolish Things
14. Playing by Heart-Vows Renewed

商品の詳細

• Amazon.co.jp ランキング: #307667 / ミュージック
• 発売日: 2000-01-25
• ディスク枚数: 1
• 形式: Import, from US
• オリジナル言語: 英語, ドイツ語
• 寸法: .25 ポンド
• 実行時間: 57 分

From Amazon.com
In a 1996 review of the indie film Caught, movie critic Rex Reed paid the ultimate compliment to trumpeter Chris Botti, (who wrote the score and whose horn graced the soundtrack), comparing the young upstart's smoky style to that of a young Chet Baker. Botti has since gone on to great success in smooth jazz by combining a laid-back demeanor with attitude-filled grooves and picture-perfect melodies. Enter legendary composer John Barry--whose resume runs from Born Free to Dances with Wolves and, more jazzily, Body Heat. He loved director Willard Carroll's idea of lacing the soundtrack to Playing by Heart with a handful of 1956 Baker-quartet originals. Botti was an obvious choice when Barry chose to extend that vibe into the orchestral score, and the haunting album cover--featuring a pensive Barry between Botti and a young Baker, both holding their horns, over a black background--perfectly epitomizes the passing of the generational torch. The opening tune, "Remembering Chet," captures the essence of the whole album; Botti's balmy trumpet wafts over Lee Musiker's elegant piano meditation as the orchestra breezes in and out of the background. There's not a whole lot of rhythmic variation as the tracks progress, but Barry wisely mixes in a few other colorful elements throughout, most notably Daniel Higgins' romantic alto (trading riffs with Botti on the title theme) and Tommy Morgan's lonesome harmonica on "A Place Inside Alive and Well." The classic smooth, delicately bittersweet tones of Baker (on "Tenderly," "You Go to My Head" and "These Foolish Things" are interspersed between the Botti tunes, creating a contrast between the two horns. Arranged this way, it's almost like listening to a one-of-a-kind lesson between a legendary mentor and a student primed to carry on his legacy. -- Jonathan Widran