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Hot House
Studio album by
ReleasedMay 19, 1998
Studio Criteria Studios and Sandoval Studios (Miami, Florida)
  • New River Studios (Fort Lauderdale, Florida)
Genre Jazz
Length54:19
LabelN2K Records
ProducerArturo Sandoval
  • Carl Griffin
  • Carl Valldejuli

Hot House is an album by Arturo Sandoval, released through N2K Records in 1998. In 1999, the album won Sandoval the Grammy Award for Best Latin Jazz Performance. [1]

Track listing

All songs composed by Arturo Sandoval, unless noted otherwise.

  1. "Funky Cha-Cha"– 5:52
  2. "Rhythm of Our World" – 5:12
  3. " Hot House" ( Tadd Dameron) – 5:03
  4. "Only You (No Se Tu)" ( Armando Manzanero) – 3:26 ( Patti Austin, vocals)
  5. "Sandunga" – 5:00
  6. "Tito" – 5:34
  7. "Closely Dancing" – 4:40
  8. "Mam-Bop" – 4:57
  9. "New Images" – 5:11
  10. "Cuban American Medley" ( Ballard MacDonald, James F. Hanley, Buddy Kaye, Sidney Lippman, Fred Wise, Jack Norworth, Albert Von Tilzer) – 5:32
  11. "Brassmen's Holiday" ( Mario Ruiz Armengol) – 3:31

"Cuban American Medley" contains portions of " Back Home Again in Indiana" (MacDonald, Hanley), " Take Me Out to the Ball Game" (Norworth, Von Tilzer), and the theme from the Little Lulu theatrical shorts (Kaye, Lippman, Wise). It also incorporates snippets of " The Girl I Left Behind" and " Yankee Doodle."

Personnel

  • Arturo Sandoval – first and second trumpets, trumpet solos, flugelhorn solo (1, 2, 4, 9), arrangements (1, 2, 4-10), synth solo (2), backing vocals (6)
  • John Stephens – acoustic piano, piano solo (5, 10)
  • Tim Devine – synthesizers
  • Rene Toledo – acoustic guitars, electric guitars, electric guitar solo (7, 10), guitar solo (9)
  • Oskar Cartaya – bass
  • Dennis Marks – bass
  • Willie Jones III – drums
  • Edwin Bonillabongos, cowbell, güiro, timbales
  • Manuel Castrillo – bongos, congas, güiro, timbales
  • Tito Puente – timbales (6, 11), arrangements (11)
  • Ed Calle – first and second alto saxophones, baritone saxophone, tenor sax solo (5, 7), arrangements (5, 7)
  • Michael Brecker – tenor sax solo (1, 3)
  • Charles McNeill – first and second tenor saxophones, arrangements (3, 8, 10), tenor sax solo (8, 9)
  • Joe Barati – fourth trombone
  • Dana Teboe – first, second and third trombones
  • Jason Carder – third and fourth trumpets
  • Richard Eddy – arrangements (1, 2, 4, 9)
  • German Pffiferrer – arrangements (6)
  • Patti Austin – vocals (4)
  • Rey Ruiz – lead and backing vocals (6)

Production

  • Phil Ramone – executive producer
  • Arturo Sandoval – producer, liner notes
  • Carl Griffin – co-producer
  • Carl Valldejuli – co-producer, management
  • Eric Schilling – recording, mixing, mastering
  • Ron Taylor – recording, mixing
  • Jay Giron – recording assistant, mix assistant
  • Alan Goldwater – recording assistant, mix assistant
  • Brad Kinney – recording assistant, mix assistant
  • Christopher Spahr – recording assistant, mix assistant
  • Gateway Mastering (Portland, Maine) – mastering location
  • Shanna Busman – creative director
  • Jennifer Collins – art direction
  • Jay Strauss – photography

References

  1. ^ "Complete List of Grammy Winners". San Francisco Chronicle. February 25, 1999. p. 1. Retrieved November 3, 2010.