Midnight Sun (Herb Alpert album)

Midnight Sun is an album of late-night jazz standards recorded by Herb Alpert. This was Alpert's final release of newly recorded music for A&M Records in 1992. It would also mark the 30th anniversary of A&M Records.

Featured tracks include "Friends" (an original composition featuring a duet with the late Sax legend Stan Getz recorded in 1990), as well as an orchestral arrangement of the hit "A Taste Of Honey". Alpert offers two vocal efforts, "Someone To Watch Over Me", and a new version of "I've Grown Accustomed To Her Face". The album closes with "Smile", co-written by Charlie Chaplin, whose legendary lot became the home of the A&M Studios back in 1966.

Track listing

Midnight Sun (Lionel Hampton, Sonny Burke, Johnny Mercer) 6:05
All The Things You Are (Oscar Hammerstein II, Jerome Kern) 3:53
Someone To Watch Over Me (George & Ira Gershwin) 5:16
In The Wee Small Hours (Bob Hilliard, David Mann) 5:53
Friends (Eddie Del Barrio, Herb Alpert) 4:21
A Taste Of Honey (Bobby Scott, Rick Marlow) 6:52
Mona Lisa (Jay Livingston, Ray Evans) 5:46
I've Grown Accustomed To Her Face (Alan Jay Lerner, Frederick Loewe) 5:07
Silent Tears And Roses (Eddie Del Barrio) 3:50
Smile (Charlie Chaplin, John Terner, Geoffrey Parsons) 4:13

Personnel

Herb Alpert: Trumpet, Vocals
Stan Getz: Tenor Sax
Larry Carlton, John Pisano, Barry Zwieg: Guitars
Frank Collett, Eduardo "Eddie" Del Barrio: Piano
Monty Budwig: Bass
Jeff Hamilton, Harvey Mason, Sr.: Drums, Percussion
Strings Arranged By Bill Hughes

Production

Produced By Herb Alpert
Engineered By Steve Smith
Assistant Engineers: John Aguto, Greg Goldman, Ed Goodreau, Eric Rudd, Thom Russo
Mastered By Bernie Grundman

Herb Alpert

Members	Herb Alpert (Trumpet/Vocals) • John Pisano (electric guitar) • Lou Pagani (piano) • Nick Ceroli (drums) • Pat Senatore (bass guitar) • Tonni Kalash (trumpet) • Bob Edmondson (trombone)

Albums	The Lonely Bull (1962) • Volume 2 (1963) • South of the Border (1964) • Whipped Cream & Other Delights (1965) • Going Places (1965) • What Now My Love (1966) • S.R.O. (1966) • Sounds Like... (1967) • Herb Alpert's Ninth (1967) • The Beat of the Brass (1968) • Christmas Album (1968) • Warm (1969) • The Brass Are Comin' (1969) • Summertime (1971) • You Smile - The Song Begins (1974) • Coney Island (1975) • Just You and Me (1976) • Herb Alpert/Hugh Masekela (1978) • Main Event Live! (1978) • Rise (1979) • Beyond (1980) • Magic Man (1981) • Fandango (1982) • Blow Your Own Horn / Noche De Amor (1983) • Bullish / Bravio (1984) • Wild Romance (1985) • Keep Your Eye On Me (1987) • Under a Spanish Moon (1988) • My Abstract Heart (1989) • North on South St. (1991) • Midnight Sun (1992) • Second Wind (1996) • Passion Dance (1997) • Colors (1999) • Lost Treasures (2005) • Whipped Cream & Other Delights Rewhipped (2006) • Rise (reissue) (2007)

Compilations	Greatest Hits (1970) • Solid Brass (1972) • Foursider (1973) • A Treasury of the Award-Winning Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass plus selections from the Baja Marimba Band (1974) • Greatest Hits Vol. 2 (1977) • Classics Volume 1 (1986) • Classics Volume 20 (1987) The Very Best of Herb Alpert (1991) Definitive Hits (2001)