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THE ULTRABLUE ALBUM
Available for the first time ever on streaming and download - the acclaimed self-titled album from John Smatla's ULTRABLUE. Originally released on CD in 2006, the album features jazz legends Randy Brecker and Nestor Torres along with Pete Belasco, Gabriela Anders, and the female R&B group Allure!
Notable jazz critic Brian Soergel writes:
"This 10-song collection has a sophisticated, late-night feel to match the nighttime Manhattan scene on the CD cover. A cross between hip, mellow music and dreamy smooth jazz, you can easily imagine a trendy New York City club piping in this stuff.It’s all sublime, especially Philip Hamilton’s floating wordless vocals in “One Night With You” and the light-Latin vibe combined with Hamilton and Giovanna Moretti’s Portuguese singing in “Guilty Pleasures.” Other highlights: Pete Belasco’s smoldering sax in Michel Legrand’s “The Summer Knows” from Summer of ’42; Randy Brecker’s trumpet and the vocals of R&B group Allure on the samba-ish “Soul Candy”; Nestor Torres’ flute in the funk-filled “Jungle Fever”; and Gabriela Anders’ sweetly hushed vocals in “Destiny.”Smatla closes the CD with the beautiful “The Sound of Goodbye.” A string section enhances the soundtrack-like soaring."
