The Best of The Rippingtons

The Best of The Rippingtons
Compilation album by The Rippingtons
Released 1997
Recorded 1986-1995
Genre Smooth jazz
Jazz fusion
Length 52:10
Label GRP
Producer Russ Freeman
The Rippingtons chronology

Black Diamond
(1997)		 The Best of The Rippingtons
(1997)		 Topaz
(1998)

The Best of The Rippingtons is a compilation album by the American jazz group The Rippingtons, released in 1997 by the GRP label. The album is a retrospective of their previous GRP albums, and also includes two previously unreleased tracks.

The album reached No. 10 on the Billboard Contemporary Jazz chart.[1]

Track listing

(All songs written by Russ Freeman)

  1. Garden of Babylon - 5:40 (previously unreleased)
  2. Tourist in Paradise - 5:41 (from Tourist in Paradise)
  3. Affair in San Miguel - 5:08 (from Welcome to the St. James' Club)
  4. Snowbound - 4:53 (from Curves Ahead)
  5. Aruba! - 4:17 (from Tourist in Paradise)
  6. Sapphire Island - 4:48 (previously unreleased)
  7. Principles of Desire - 4:42 (from Sahara)
  8. Vienna - 4:51 (from Weekend in Monaco)
  9. Kenya - 5:22 (from Welcome to the St. James' Club)
  10. She Likes to Watch - 5:31 (from Moonlighting)
  11. Urban Wanderer - 4:43 (from Brave New World)
  12. Kilimanjaro - 4:48 (from Kilimanjaro)

Personnel

Charts

Chart (1997) Peak
position
Billboard Jazz Albums[2] 10

References

  1. ↑ The Best of The Rippingtons charting info
  2. ↑ "The Rippingtons US albums chart history". allmusic.com. Retrieved 2013-03-09.

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