''Weekend in Monaco'' is the sixth album by the American jazz group

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, released in 1992. The album reached No. 2 on ''Billboard'''s Contemporary Jazz chart. It has sold more than 300,000 copies.

Critical reception

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'' wrote: "Guitarist Russ Freeman, who now gets top billing in the band, deserves some credit for trying to reflect the band's world travels in its music, but the results are often so tame and homogenized that one has to ask the question, why bother?" '' The Globe and Mail'' stated that "Freeman's formula for assertively tuneful fusion—modestly dramatic, light on raunch—works well enough again on ''Weekend in Monaco'' to sustain Rippingtons' high ranking among the idiom's second-generation, West-Coast bands."

Track listing

All tracks composed by Russ Freeman #"Weekend in Monaco" - 5:19 #"St. Tropez" - 5:55 #"Vienna" - 4:49 #"Indian Summer" - 5:44 #"A Place for Lovers" - 5:12 #"Carnival" - 5:45 #"Moka Java" - 5:46 #"Highroller" - 5:56 #"Where the Road Will Lead Us" - 4:15

Personnel

* Russ Freeman – keyboards, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, classical guitar, bass guitar *

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– acoustic piano solos (1, 2, 3, 7) * Kim Stone – bass guitar (1, 2, 4, 7, 8), bass solo (8) * Steve Bailey – fretless bass (3, 5, 6, 9) * Tony Morales – drums * Steve Reid – percussion,

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s, toy, Brazilian percussion (6), soundscapes (6),

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(7) * Jeff Kashiwa – alto saxophone (1, 4, 8), tenor saxophone (2), EWI controller (4, 6), soprano saxophone (5, 9), alto sax solo (7), soundscapes (9)

Production

* Russ Freeman – producer, recording, mixing *

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– executive producer * Larry Rosen – executive producer * Carl Griffin – assistant executive producer * Suzy Freeman – additional engineer (1) * Brian Springer – additional engineer (1) * Steve Reid – soundscape recording (6) * Brant Biles – mixing (2-9) *

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– mixing (2-9) * Joseph Doughney – post-production editing * Michael Landy – post-production editing * Adam Zelinka – post-production editing *

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– mastering * Andi Howard – production coordinator, management * Michael Pollard – production coordinator * Doreen Kalcich – production assistant * Andy Baltimore – creative director * David Gibb – graphic design * Scott Johnson – graphic design * Sonny Mediana – graphic design * Andy Ruggirello – graphic design * Dan Serrano – graphic design * Emil Bogan – graphic design assistant * Bill Mayer – front cover artwork ;Studios * Recorded and Mixed at Cheyenne Mountain Ranch Studios (Colorado). * Soundscape recording at The Slamm Stack (North Hollywood, California). * Mastered at

Bernie Grundman Mastering Bernie Grundman is an American audio engineer. He is most known for his mastering work and his studio, Bernie Grundman Mastering, which he opened in 1984 in Hollywood. The studio, which includes engineers Chris Bellman, Patricia Sullivan, and ...

(Hollywood, California).

Charts

References

External links

The Rippingtons-Weekend In Monaco at DiscogsThe Rippingtons-Weekend in Monaco at AllMusicThe Rippingtons Official Website
{{Authority control The Rippingtons albums 1992 albums GRP Records albums