Sax in the City

Personnel: Sam Levine (soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone); Dave Cleveland (guitar); Jason Webb (piano, keyboards); Steve Brewster (drums, percussion, drum programming); Dan Needham (drums, percussion).
Audio Mixer: Brent King.
Arranger: Sam Levine .
SAX IN THE CITY is an unabashedly commercial smooth-jazz project from the Nashville-based saxophonist and sessionman Sam Levine. As such, it's something of a musical time machine as Levine reprises big-time radio hits from the '70s and '80s, including two (!) from Ambrosia, "The Biggest Part Of Me" and "How Much I Feel," as well as Hall & Oates's "Sara Smile," George Michaels's "Careless Whispers," Little River Band's "Reminiscing," Earth, Wind & Fire's "After The Love Has Gone"....You get the picture. Levine has no New Age "ambient" or jazz or hip-hop pretensions--he gives it to the listener straight in an equally straightfoward Nashville studio production. And one can imagine the music working its magic in any number of upscale, equally retro singles bars, the requisite soundtrack to good cognac and the hoped-for seduction that follows.