Rise (Herb Alpert album)

Rise
Studio album by Herb Alpert
Released September 1979 (LP); 1987 (A&M Records CD); 2007 (Shout! Factory CD)
Genre Instrumental Pop; Jazz-Funk, Dance
Length 41:12
Label A&M; Shout! Factory
Producer Herb Alpert; Randy Badazz Alpert
Herb Alpert chronology

Herb Alpert/Hugh Masekela
(1978)		 Rise
(1979)		 Beyond (Herb Alpert album)
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic [1]
Smash Hits 6/10[2]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide [3]

Rise is a 1979 album by Herb Alpert.

History

The Rise album was conceived in 1979 after the worldwide success of both the 7" & 12" versions of the single "Rise", a song written by Andy Armer and Randy Badazz Alpert which became a #1 million selling hit song on sales charts, radio, and in dance clubs throughout America, Europe, and Japan.

Rise was constructed with Side One consisting of original songs composed by Herb, Andy and Randy. Side Two consisted of cover versions of songs Herb had admired. All songs featured Alpert on trumpet with many great musicians helping him bring the songs to fruition in the studio.

Side One began with the song, "1980", an instrumental theme written by Herb Alpert which NBC Sports executive Don Ohlmeyer had commissioned for the network's planned coverage of the Summer Olympics in Moscow. Song number 2 was the title track, "Rise", written by Andy Armer and Randy Badazz Alpert. Song number 3 was, "Behind The Rain" written by Herb Alpert. The closing song on Side One is another Andy Armer and Randy Badazz Alpert song called, "Rotation". "Rotation" was a Top 30 follow-up single to the #1 single, "Rise". Side Two included a cover of "Street Life," originally recorded by The Jazz Crusaders, a version of the Bill Withers song "Love Is" featuring Alpert's vocals, as well as a dance rendition of Joaquín Rodrigo's "Aranjuez" classical composition.

Rise was the first album to be recorded digitally on the 3M 32-track digital recorder at Alpert's A&M Records studios.

The album eventually peaked at #1 on the Billboard Jazz Album chart, and at #6 on both the Billboard Pop 200 and R&B Album charts and sold over 3 million copies.

Track listing

Original version

Side one

  1. 1980 (2:25) (Herb Alpert)
  2. Rise (7:37) (Andy Armer, Randy Badazz Alpert)
  3. Behind the Rain (5:34) (Herb Alpert)
  4. Rotation (5:12) (Andy Armer, Randy Badazz Alpert)

Side two

  1. Street Life (5:01) (Joe Sample, Will Jennings)
  2. Love Is (4:28) (Bill Withers, Paul Smith)
  3. Angelina (4:13) (Pete Sinfield, Gary Brooker)
  4. Aranjuez (Mon Amour) (6:42) (Joaquín Rodrigo)

2007 reissue

  1. 1980 (2:25)
  2. Rise (7:37)
  3. Behind the Rain (5:34)
  4. Rotation (5:12)
  5. Aranjuez (Mon Amour) (6:42)
  6. Love Is (4:28)
  7. Angelina (4:13)
  8. Street Life (5:01)
  9. Rotation (Alternate Version) (4:28)
  10. Aranjuez (Mon Amour) (2007 Dance Remix) (5:08)

Production

References

  1. ↑ http://www.allmusic.com/album/r467
  2. ↑ Starr, Red. "Albums". Smash Hits (November 15–28, 1979): 31.
  3. ↑ Swenson, J. (Editor) (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 8. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.