The Nearness Of You

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Album Info

Release Date: 1988-07-06

Label: Blue Note

In jewel case with obi. Four page booklet/insert includes personnel credits in English.
An additional fold out insert includes liner notes in Japanese backed by lyrics to all tracks in English.
Both obi and insert advertise the debut album.

Obi states "BONUS - includes Pepsi canned coffee TVCF theme " and "Released in Japan ahead of the world".
Back of obi promotes the debut album, and Freedom canned coffee.

Track 9 recorded on February 3 and February 5, 1988
Tracks 1, 2 and 7 recorded on April 27, 1988
Tracks 4 and 6 recorded on April 28, 1988
Tracks 3, 5 and 8 recorded on May 9, 1988

Tracks 1 to 8 recorded at the Van Gelder Studio in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey
Track 9 recorded at the Mad Hatter Studio in Los Angels [sic]

Bobby Hutcherson and Mulgrew Miller appear courtesy of Landmark Records
Kevin Eubanks apppears courtesy of GRP Records

Note (in English on traycard and in Japanese on insert): On "Spring Can Really Hang You Up Most", there are three instances where brief electronic clicks can be heard during the piano solo. This occurred during the recording and is unavoidably present in the master tape.