On The One

Artists

Album Info

Release Date: 2006-20

Label: N-Coded Music

Soprano saxophonist and keyboardist Sammy Peralta's debut album, On The One (which displays a photo of Sammy by the #1 train) is not in any correlation to Jennifer Lopez's On The 6 album. "On The One is a jazz term," he says.
It didn't take Sammy too long to complete the album; just a month and a half. His inspiration for the ten tracks are his surroundings such as "On Top." He explains that he was driving on the West Side highway and wanted something smooth to drive to. But his favorite track, "1001 Nights With You," inspired by the eastern mode and the Arabian fable book.
With "Jazziz,"his dedication to the jazz masters like Miles Davis and John Coltrane plus his personal favorites, Grover Washington Jr. and Kenny Kirkland. Playing the saxophone, in the beginning, wasn't always Sammy's instrument of choice. "It kind of happened that way," he explains. He went from flute (in the second grade) to trumpet (in the fifth grade) to piano (in the ninth).
His sax playing can be heard on the songs, the single, "Trust Me (I GottaGo)," and "West 72nd Street." On The One is the kind of album that's hot, yet, cool because it's jazz. As the songs advance, the better the feel and better the sound especially"Sabrosa (For C.S.)." A different track from all the others, still, one of the most outstanding. Some songs are jamming so much that they end to soon which is the album's only flaw.
The album, distributed by N-Coded Music and known for such albums by Burt Bacharach,Candy Dulfer and Jonathan Butler, was produced along with jazz great, Lenny White, but also lends some help from Chris Sholarand Julio Virella (guitars) and Pete Quintalino (timbales).