Chris Minh Doky - Minh

Styles: Jazz, Contemporary Jazz
Year: 1998
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 52:25
Size: 120,5 MB
Art: Front

(3:29)  1. I Told You So
(4:09)  2. Every Breath You Take
(0:12)  3. Welcome
(2:49)  4. Waiting On You (jungle vibe)
(5:06)  5. Sleepless Dream
(0:04)  6. Chhaya
(5:39)  7. Lean On Me
(4:56)  8. I Just Wanna Stop
(4:52)  9. A New Day
(0:09) 10. Ken & Mai
(5:39) 11. It Once Was
(3:44) 12. Mardi Chez Lionel
(0:28) 13. Messages
(5:42) 14. Home Sweet Home
(0:19) 15. New York City
(5:02) 16. Dont Get Funny With My Money

One can call Chris Min Doky an international musician. Born in Denmark as the son of a Danish pop singer and a Vietnamese guitarist he got his talent on a natural way. In 1989 at age 18 he moved to New York, where he soon had the opportunity to start his career as bassist and to record his debut album Appreciation followed by The Sequel (1990) and Letters (1991) on Storyville Records. His specialty was mixing jazz and rock. Signed by Blue Note Records he released Doky Brothers (1995), Doky Brothers 2 (1996), with his elder brother, the jazz pianist Niels Lan Doky, and Minh (1998). Chris comments about Minh: "I wanted to do something totally different than what I had been doing with Doky Brothers. I was ready to do something more funky, more edgy, less polite. 

I wanted to record an album that told the story of who, and where, I was at the time. What better way to do that, than invite all your friends an have a party?" Guest musicians on Minh are the Brecker Brothers, David Sanborn, Mike Stern, Lenny White and many more celebrities.  Minh offers a great variety of styles from jazz to Pop and R&B. Fusion jazz on I Told You So and Waiting On You is searching the musical borders of all musicians. You find delighting songs like Every Breath You Take and Lean On Me interpreted by Lalah Hathaway. In spite of the fact that merging of fusion jazz and R&B on the same album is a risky endeavor Chris finds the right balance between the genres. This album was released in 1998, a time when smooth jazz in USA had its first ascendancy. http://www.smooth-jazz.de/starportrait/Doky/Retrospective.htm

Personnel:  Chris Minh Doky (Bass);  Michael Brecker (Tenor Saxophone);   David Sanborn (Alto Saxophone);  Randy Brecker (Trumpet);  Ricky Peterson, Joey Calderazzo, Chris Parks, Larry Goldings, Lasse Janson, Jim Beard (keyboards, Piano);  Paul Peterson, Louis Winsberg, Chris Parks,Joe Caro, Mike Stern, David Gilmore, Hiram Bullock (Guitars);  Michael Bland, Paul Peterson, Lenny White, Adam Nussbaum, Alex Riel (Drums);  Dianne Reeves, Vivian Sessoms, Lalah Hathaway,Randy Brecker (Lead Vocals);  Kayoko Suzuki Lange (Voice)

Minh

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