That Midnight Touch

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Album Info

Release Date: 1967

Labels: Project 3 Total Sound, Project 3

Notes on issue number:
PR4T-5006 on front cover.
PRC 5006 on back on box.
PR 5006 on tape label.

Liner notes (by Ralph J. Gleason):
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No one who has ever heard the golden horn of Bobby Hackett has ever forgotten it — for the legendary man with a horn is the poetic master of the instrument. Given a great melody around which to improvise and given an apposite musical background to highlight his own inventive music making, Bobby Hackett can define, painlessly, without words and memorably, the meaning of those elusive musical terms: melody and improvisation. Melody is what, and improvisation is how Bobby Hackett plays.
And that defines the meaning of this album: To record Bobby Hackett and his cornet for the first time in Total Sound and in a rich musical setting — subtle, free and sensitive — as he really is. The emphasis is upon the melody. Bobby Hackett plays the cornet, that smaller, more mellow, more nimble relative of the trumpet (of which he is also a master) which, since classical times, has been a melody instrument. Then: a musical program consisting of some of the finest melodies ever written by such giants as George Gershwin, Duke Ellington, Kurt Weill and Victor Young, among others. As a special bonus, Bobby Hackett in collaboration with arranger Lew Davies, has selected a few of the more unhackneyed tunes by these gifted composers, leading us into fresh melodic adventures. But even the more familiar tunes are given a lustrous, sparkling treatment, complementing — and complimenting — the stylings of Bobby Hackett.
Take all these prodigious ingredients and capture them faithfully in the already renowned Project 3 recording technique pioneered by Enoch Light, and the result is one of the most hauntingly beautiful albums ever created. And, emphatically, it presents the resplendent "singing" of Bobby Hackett in its true values for the first time. In fact, the album might be entitled "The Real Bobby Hackett—At Last!"
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