Cool Paradise
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| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| name | Cool Paradise |
| type | Album |
| artist | Ben Sidran |
| cover | Ben Sidran Cool Paradise album.jpg |
| released | 1990 |
| genre | Jazz |
| Smooth jazz | |
| Jazz fusion | |
| length | 47:52 |
| language | English |
| label | Go Jazz |
| producer | Ben Sidran |
| :: |
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Cool Paradise is a smooth jazz album by keyboardist and jazz vocalist Ben Sidran, released in 1990. It is Sidran's eighteenth album, and his first release with the Go Jazz label he started in 1989.
Track listing
| title1 = Cool Paradise | length1 = 5:42 | writer1 = Sidran | title2 = Lip Service | length2 = 3:22 | writer2 = Sidran | title3 = If Someone Has to Wreck Your Life | length3 = 4:14 | writer3 = Pat MacDonald | title4 = She Steps into a Dream | length4 = 4:17 | writer4 = Sidran | title5 = Try | length5 = 4:17 | writer5 = Sidran | title6 = Language of the Blues | length6 = 4:13 | writer6 = Pat MacDonald | title7 = Desire of Love | length7 = 4:44 | writer7 = Bottini, Sidran, Telesforo | title8 = Bye Bye Blackbird | length8 = 4:03 | writer8 = Mort Dixon, Henderson | title9 = So Long | length9 = 3:34 | writer9 = Sidran | title10 = Walking With The Blues | length10 = 6:10 | writer10 = Sidran | title11 = Searching for a Girl Like You | length11 = 3:11 | writer11 = Sidran
Personnel
Musicians
- ArrangementBilly Peterson
- Lead vocalsBen Sidran
- Background vocalsRicky Peterson
- BassBilly Peterson
- KeyboardsRicky Peterson, Ben Sidran
- Tenor saxophoneBob Malach
Support
- Recording and mixingSteve Wiese at Creation Audio, Minneapolis, MN
- MasteringGeorge Marino at Sterling Sound, New York
- Additional recordingJohn "Chopper" Black
- Art directionToni Eckmayer, Zillman Advertising & Marketing
- DesignPlanet Design Company, Madison, Wisconsin
Reception
|rev1 = AllMusic |rev1score = Writing for AllMusic, Jim Newsom declared Cool Paradise to be Sidran's "most fully realized recording"; complimenting his working band, audio clarity, Sidran's "cool and relaxed" voice and his "compelling" compositions. He concludes "it's surprising that Sidran hasn't become better known in pop and contemporary jazz circles" for such material.
References
References
- "Ben Sidran's Discography". BenSidran.com.
- Ann Lee, Nancy. (June 2000). "Jazz Departments: Label Watch: Go Jazz". JazzTimes.
- "Ben Sidran's Cool Paradise". BenSidran.com.
- {{AllMusic. Jim. Newsom
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