''Swingin is a jazz album by Arturo Sandoval released in 1996. The album focuses on swing rhythms instead of Latin music. The album has been cited as "one of Arturo Sandoval's finest recordings," and a "nice addition to the Sandoval library", but classic Sandoval rather than attempting anything too innovative. The line up features clarinetist Eddie Daniels, tenorists

Michael Brecker Michael Leonard Brecker (March 29, 1949 – January 13, 2007) was an American jazz saxophonist and composer. He was awarded 15 Grammy Awards as a performer and composer, received an honorary doctorate from Berklee College of Music in ...

and Ed Calle, trombonist Dana Teboe and guitarist Mike Stern.Jazz Journal International 1996 - Volume 49 p36 "ARTURO SANDOVAL SWINGIN' Moontrane; Swingin' Moment's Notice; Streets Of Desire; Real McBop; Weird- fun; Dizzy's Atmosphere; Reflection; Woody; It Never Gets Old; Mack The Knife (71.19) Collective personnel: Arturo ..."

Track listing

All songs written by Arturo Sandoval, except where noted. Tracks 2-4, 6 & 8-10 arranged by Richard Eddy and Arturo Sandoval; Transcription on Track 7 by Richard Eddy and Ed Calle. #"Moontrane" (

Woody Shaw Woody Herman Shaw Jr. (December 24, 1944 – May 10, 1989) was an American jazz trumpeter, flugelhornist, cornetist, composer, arranger, band leader, and educator. Shaw is widely known as one of the 20th century's most important and influentia ...

) - 5:40 #"Swingin'" - 8:15 #" Moment's Notice" (

John Coltrane John William Coltrane (September 23, 1926 – July 17, 1967) was an American jazz saxophonist, bandleader and composer. He is among the most influential and acclaimed figures in the Jazz#Post-war jazz, history of jazz and 20th-century musi ...

) - 7:18 #"Streets of Desire" - 7:43 #"Real McBop" - 6:08 #"Weirdfun" - 6:27 #"Dizzy's Atmosphere" (

Dizzy Gillespie John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie ( ; October 21, 1917 – January 6, 1993) was an American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, composer, educator and singer. He was a trumpet virtuoso and improvisation, improviser, building on the virtuosic style of Roy El ...

) - 3:50 #"Reflection" - 7:32 #"Woody" - 7:11 #"It Never Gets Old" - 5:25 #"

Mack the Knife "Mack the Knife" or "The Ballad of Mack the Knife" () is a song composed by Kurt Weill with lyrics by Bertolt Brecht for their 1928 music drama ''The Threepenny Opera'' (). The song tells of a knife-wielding criminal of the London underworld n ...

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Marc Blitzstein Marcus Samuel Blitzstein (March 2, 1905January 22, 1964), was an American composer, lyricist, and Libretto, librettist. He won national attention in 1937 when his pro-Trade union, union musical ''The Cradle Will Rock'', directed by Orson Welles, ...

Bertolt Brecht Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht (10 February 1898 – 14 August 1956), known as Bertolt Brecht and Bert Brecht, was a German theatre practitioner, playwright, and poet. Coming of age during the Weimar Republic, he had his first successes as a p ...

Kurt Weill Kurt Julian Weill (; ; March 2, 1900April 3, 1950) was a German-born American composer active from the 1920s in his native country, and in his later years in the United States. He was a leading composer for the stage who was best known for hi ...

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Personnel

* Arturo Sandoval – trumpet (1, 3, 5-10),

flugelhorn The flugelhorn (), also spelled fluegelhorn, flugel horn, or flügelhorn, is a brass instrument that resembles the trumpet and cornet, but has a wider, more conical bore. Like trumpets and cornets, most flugelhorns are pitched in B♭, though ...

(2, 11), acoustic piano (4) * Joey Calderazzo – acoustic piano (1-3, 5-10) * Mike Stern – guitars (4, 6, 10) *

John Patitucci John Patitucci (born December 22, 1959) is an American jazz bassist and composer. Biography John James Patitucci was born in Brooklyn, New York. He began playing the electric bass at age 10, performing and composing at age 12, and at age 15, s ...

– bass * Gregory Hutchinson – drums * Ed Calle – tenor saxophone (1, 3, 5, 6) *

– tenor saxophone (3, 5, 9) * Eddie Daniels –

clarinet The clarinet is a Single-reed instrument, single-reed musical instrument in the woodwind family, with a nearly cylindrical bore (wind instruments), bore and a flared bell. Clarinets comprise a Family (musical instruments), family of instrume ...

(2, 7) * Dana Teboe – trombone (1) * Clark Terry – trumpet (11), flugelhorn (11)

Production

* Carl Valldejuli – executive producer, production assistant, additional photography * Arturo Sandoval – producer * Carl Griffin – co-producer * Jim Anderson – recording * Ben Wisch – recording * John Reigart – recording assistant * Ted Stein – additional engineer * Ron Taylor – mixing * Chris Carroll – mix assistant * Scott Kieklak – mix assistant * Allan Tucker – mastering at Foothill Digital (New York, NY) * Hollis King – art direction * Freddie Paloma – graphic design *

David Lance Goines David Lance Goines (May 29, 1945 – February 19, 2023), was an American artist, calligrapher, printmaker, typographer, printing entrepreneur, and author. He was born in Grants Pass, Oregon, the oldest of eight children. His father was a civil eng ...

– photography * Bret Primack – liner notes

References

1996 albums Arturo Sandoval albums {{1990s-jazz-album-stub