Weekend in Monaco

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Weekend in Monaco
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Studio album by
The Rippingtons
ReleasedAugust 18, 1992
Recorded1992
StudioCheyenne Mountain Ranch Studios [1]
Genre Smooth jazz
Jazz
Length48:41
Label GRP
Producer Russ Freeman
The Rippingtons chronology
Curves Ahead
(1991)		Weekend in Monaco
(1992)		 Live in L.A.
(1992)

Weekend in Monaco is the sixth album by the American jazz group the Rippingtons, released in 1992. [2] [3] The album reached No. 2 on Billboard's Contemporary Jazz chart. It has sold more than 300,000 copies. [4]

Contents

Critical reception

The Washington Post wrote: "Guitarist Russ Freeman, who now gets top billing in the band, deserves some credit for trying to reflect the band's world travels in its music, but the results are often so tame and homogenized that one has to ask the question, why bother?" [5] The Globe and Mail stated that "Freeman's formula for assertively tuneful fusion—modestly dramatic, light on raunch—works well enough again on Weekend in Monaco to sustain Rippingtons' high ranking among the idiom's second-generation, West-Coast bands." [6]

Track listing

All tracks composed by Russ Freeman

  1. "Weekend in Monaco" - 5:19
  2. "St. Tropez" - 5:55
  3. "Vienna" - 4:49
  4. "Indian Summer" - 5:44
  5. "A Place for Lovers" - 5:12
  6. "Carnival" - 5:45
  7. "Moka Java" - 5:46
  8. "Highroller" - 5:56
  9. "Where the Road Will Lead Us" - 4:15

Personnel

Production

Studios

Charts

Chart (1992)Peak
position
Billboard Jazz Albums [7] 2

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References

  1. ↑ Diaz, Sam (September 25, 1992). "The Rippingtons Jazz Up the Night". The Fresno Bee. p. G9.
  2. ↑ Sutro, Dirk (18 Aug 1992). "The Relaxed Rippingtons Hit the Road". Los Angeles Times. p. F1.
  3. ↑ Chapman, Geoff (31 Oct 1992). "The popular Rippingtons...". Toronto Star. p. G10.
  4. ↑ Acord, Deb (16 Jan 1993). "A New Height for Jazz". Colorado Springs Gazette-Telegraph. p. E1.
  5. ↑ Joyce, Mike (23 Oct 1992). "Fusion-Led Tour with Rippingtons". The Washington Post. p. N17.
  6. ↑ Miller, Mark (12 Oct 1992). "Recordings". The Globe and Mail. p. C1.
  7. ↑ "The Rippingtons US albums chart history". allmusic.com. Retrieved 2013-03-09.
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