''All My Friends Are Here'' is a studio album by Turkish-American record producer, arranger, and composer

Arif Mardin Arif Mardin (March 15, 1932 – June 25, 2006) was a Turkish-American music producer, who worked with hundreds of artists across many different styles of music, including jazz, rock, soul, disco and country. He worked at Atlantic Records for ov ...

, released on June 15, 2010. It is the album that Arif Mardin referred to as his life's work, featuring performances by artists whom he produced over the years of his career, including

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, Norah Jones, Carly Simon,

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among them. Whereas Arif Mardin's first two albums were instrumental, ''All My Friends Are Here'' is an album of his songs. Arif Mardin was a film buff and wrote collages for each song. In the trailer for '' The Greatest Ears in Town: The Arif Mardin Story'', Arif Mardin said the songs were visual, film music in his mind. Recording sessions of ''All My Friends Are Here'' were filmed for the companion documentary ''The Greatest Ears in Town: The Arif Mardin Story''.

Recording

Recording sessions took place in New York from 2005 to 2006, starting with " So Blue". In producing Chaka Khan's vocal, Khan said "He showed me what it was really like to sing jazz."

Soundtrack

References

External links

The Greatest Ears in Town: The Arif Mardin Story (EPK)
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So Blue
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