Classic Brit Award-winning saxophonist Amy Dickson released A Summer Place on August 12 via Sony Classical. Australian-born, London-based Dickson has re-gifted us summers in the 1950s, '60s and '70s, taking the listener to a far off, well, modern-day sax paradise.
A Summer Place features arrangements by five-time Grammy-nominated composer/arranger/conductor Chris Walden and two-time Grammy-nominated record producer and trumpeter James McMillan.
The album also features...
“The Windmills of Your Mind” by Michel Legrand, the brilliant theme from The Apartment, Paul Desmond’s “Take Five,” “The World We Knew (Over and Over)” by Frank Sinatra, “Moon River” by Henry Mancini, “We Have All the Time in the World” by John Barry and even Simon and Garfunkel’s "The Sound Of Silence.”
Dickson remarked on the making of A Summer Place to Entertainment Focus: “With this album I aimed to capture the feel of summer in the 1960s--that very sumptuous, still elegant feel, especially from the Mediterranean. There are quite a few pieces from '60s films, which have been given a very cool, modern twist.”
“There were just so many options to choose from, so the challenge on this album was to narrow it down to the ones we have finally chosen. As I wanted to put my own stamp on the more well-known pieces, we also took into consideration the treatment which was to be given to each of the tracks,” she continued on the compositional process.
Catch her this fall from October 2 to 5 at the Phoenix Symphony Hall in Phoenix, AZ.
Below, browse the full tracklist.
And do give a listen to her SoundCloud below.
1. A Summer Place
2. Windmills of Your Mind
3. The Apartment Theme
4. Take Five
5. The World We Knew
6. Moon River
7. We Have All the Time in the World
8. What’s It All About Alfie?
|9. The Summer of ’42
10. The Sound of Silence
