Invitation (Joe Sample album)

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Invitation
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Studio album by
Released1993
Studio
Genre Smooth jazz / Standards / Third stream
Length49:49
Label Warner Bros.
Producer Tommy LiPuma
Joe Sample chronology
Collection
(1991)
Invitation
(1993)
Did You Feel That?
(1994)
Professional ratings
Review scores
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Invitation is a 1993 album by jazz pianist Joe Sample released through Warner Bros. Records. It contains reinterpretations (remakes) of jazz standard compositions written by artists such as Duke Ellington, Johnny Mercer, among others (as listed in parentheses in the track list). Invitation is more of a jazz/classical crossover album with orchestral arrangements by Dale Oehler.

Contents

In 1993, Invitation reached No. 1 in the Top Jazz Albums chart and No. 43 in the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart in Billboard magazine. On the top albums chart, it peaked at No. 194.

Track listing

  1. "Black Is the Color" (Traditional folk song) - 3:53
  2. "A House Is Not a Home" (Burt Bacharach, Hal David) - 4:57
  3. "Come Rain or Come Shine" (Harold Arlen, Johnny Mercer) - 5:07
  4. "Invitation" (Bronisław Kaper) - 4:21
  5. "Summertime" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin, DuBose Heyward, Dorothy Heyward) - 6:49
  6. "Nica's Dream" (Horace Silver) - 5:20
  7. "Stormy Weather" (Harold Arlen, Ted Koehler) - 5:01
  8. "Django" (John Lewis) - 3:45
  9. "My One and Only Love" (Guy Wood, Robert Mellin) - 6:12
  10. "Mood Indigo" (Duke Ellington, Barney Bigard, Irving Mills) - 4:26

Personnel

Production

Chart performance

ChartPeak
position
Billboard Top Jazz Albums (1993) [2] 2

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References

  1. AllMusic review
  2. "Billboard Jazz Albums, 8 May 1993". Billboard Magazine. 8 May 1993. Retrieved 27 February 2017.