Tokyo Blue

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Tokyo Blue
Najee - Tokyo Blue Cover.jpg
Studio album by
Najee
ReleasedMarch 20, 1990
Genre Jazz
Length47:39
Label Capitol
Producer Fareed Abdul Haqq
Najee chronology
Day by Day
(1988)		Tokyo Blue
(1990)		Just an Illusion
(1992)
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Tokyo Blue is Najee's third album, released by Capitol Records in 1990.

Contents

Critical reception

Jonathan Widran of AllMusic writes, "Immensely pleasurable, a fun listen from beginning to end." [1]

Smooth Jazz Therapy writes of Tokyo Blue, "The way it blended jazz with R & B, placed him right at the top of his urban jazz game and his judicious use of featured vocalists was starting a trend in smooth jazz which has endured to this day." [2]

Yumi L. Wilson of AP News reports that, "Najee won best jazz album for his Tokyo Blue at the 1991 Soul Train Music Awards . [3]

Charts

Top Contemporary Jazz Albums No. 1 [4]

Billboard 200 No. 63 [5]

Track listing

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Talkin'"
5:52
2."Stay"
  • Jerome Najee Rasheed
  • Morris Pleasure
5:11
3."Cruise Control"
  • Jerome Najee Rasheed
  • Artie Reynolds
  • Alex Bugnon
  • Charles Bell
5:53
4."I'll Be Good to You"
  • Robin Smith
  • Stephanie Spruill
4:31
5."Nation's Call"Jerome Najee Rasheed1:04
6."Tokyo Blue"
4:37
7."My Old Friend"
4:55
8."Buenos Aires"
  • Jerome Najee Rasheed
  • Morris Pleasure
5:51
9."Superwoman (Where Were You When I Needed You)" Stevie Wonder 5:04
10."Only at Night"
  • Jerome Najee Rasheed
  • Morris Pleasure
4:41
Total length:47:39

All track information and credits taken from the CD liner notes. [6]

References

  1. 1 2 Widran, Jonathan. Tokyo Blue at AllMusic
  2. ↑ "Najee - Tokyo Blue". smoothjazztherapy.typepad.com. Smooth Jazz Therapy. January 20, 2014. Retrieved January 9, 2020.
  3. ↑ Wilson, Yumi L. (March 12, 1991). "M.C. Hammer, En Vogue Lead Soul Train Awards Nominees With BC-Soul Train Awards-List". apnews.com. AP News. Retrieved January 9, 2020.
  4. ↑ "Contemporary Jazz Albums". billboard.com. Billboard. July 21, 1990. Retrieved January 9, 2020.
  5. ↑ "Billboard 200". billboard.com. Billboard. May 26, 1990. Retrieved January 9, 2020.
  6. ↑ Najee. Tokyo Blue. Capitol. 1990.
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