Sunny
The Gorgeous Guitar of Tony Mottola
Enoch Light Presents Mottola Espagnol!
Originated and Produced by Enoch Light
Associate Producer: Julie Klages
Cover Art: Hilary Knight
Total Sound Stereo Project 3
PR5020SD
1967
Cover Art: Hilary Knight
Total Sound Stereo Project 3
PR5020SD
1967
From the inside cover: Something new has happened to Latin music. It is still lush and it is still lovely, just as it always has been.
But it is now much more than that.
It has also become a very pertinent part of the sound of today's popu- lar music. In the beat of today's music, you hear implications that sug- gest "Latin" without coming right out and saying it. There is a feeling in today's melodies that draws on the long, beautiful, languorous lines that have always been typical of the most memorable Latin songs.
Even the construction of today's songs has a parallel in the Latin composers' fondness for contrasting moods-the use of a soft, ethereal melody that suddenly erupts into a strongly passionate statement. This is a pattern that turns up again and again in today's most provocative songs (you hear it in such pace-setting hits as Bob Crewe's Can't Take My Eyes Off of You).
So when Tony Mottola picks up his gut-string guitar and goes lush, Latin and lovely, you'll find that, more often than not, the tunes that he plays are the great current tunes of today. Sometimes they are actually Latin in origin-Antonio Carlos Jobim's How Insensitive, for example, or the Sandpipers' hit, Guantanamera. But then again they may be French -Michel LeGrand's I Will Wait for You, Francis Lai's A Man and a Woman, Or as American as Sunny, Somethin' Stupid and The Flower Road.
The point is that they are all part of the contemporary sound. They walk a common ground which is composed of many elements, including the beat and the construction and the feeling of Latin music.
And when Tony Mottola plays them, that Latin quality emerges, takes fire and gives them a whole new coloration. For there's no doubt that Tony Mottola's guitar brings a special loveliness to any tune, adds a touch of lushness to it and makes the whole world of music move with a Latin beat.
He showed that special touch in A Latin Love-In (Project 3-5010), and now he's spreading his lovely sound even farther. On most of these pieces, he leads a group focused on a guitar trio in which Al Casamenti and Bucky Pizzarelli add their guitars in support of Tony's. For con- trasting colors, there are Dick Hyman on organ (Courtesy, Command Records), Dom Cortese's accordion and Phil Bodner on flute and tenor saxophone, with a rhythm team made up of Bob Haggart on Fender bass or string bass, Bob Rosengarden, drums, and Phil Kraus, percussion.
The ensemble is broadened on four selections-Can't Take My Eyes Off of You, Somethin' Stupid, The Flower Road and Guantanamera-with the addition of Mel Davis and Bernie Glow on flugelhorn and trumpet while Stanley Webb joins Phil Bodner in the reed department.
From Billboard - January 27, 1968: Enoch Light's mastery of sound recording is showcased in this package. Subject material is a dozen favorite tunes of yesterday and today in the skillful hands of the day's top guitarists, some of the foremost musicians (Dick Hyman, Bob Haggart, Bob Rosengarden, Al Casamenti, Bucky Pizzarelli, etc).
Can't Take My Eyes Off Of You
Free Again
The Girl Next Door
A Man And A Woman
Sunny
The Flower Road
Somethin' Stupid
I Will Wait For You
Lush And Lovely
How Insensitive
I Cover The Waterfront
Guantanamera
But it is now much more than that.
It has also become a very pertinent part of the sound of today's popu- lar music. In the beat of today's music, you hear implications that sug- gest "Latin" without coming right out and saying it. There is a feeling in today's melodies that draws on the long, beautiful, languorous lines that have always been typical of the most memorable Latin songs.
Even the construction of today's songs has a parallel in the Latin composers' fondness for contrasting moods-the use of a soft, ethereal melody that suddenly erupts into a strongly passionate statement. This is a pattern that turns up again and again in today's most provocative songs (you hear it in such pace-setting hits as Bob Crewe's Can't Take My Eyes Off of You).
So when Tony Mottola picks up his gut-string guitar and goes lush, Latin and lovely, you'll find that, more often than not, the tunes that he plays are the great current tunes of today. Sometimes they are actually Latin in origin-Antonio Carlos Jobim's How Insensitive, for example, or the Sandpipers' hit, Guantanamera. But then again they may be French -Michel LeGrand's I Will Wait for You, Francis Lai's A Man and a Woman, Or as American as Sunny, Somethin' Stupid and The Flower Road.
The point is that they are all part of the contemporary sound. They walk a common ground which is composed of many elements, including the beat and the construction and the feeling of Latin music.
And when Tony Mottola plays them, that Latin quality emerges, takes fire and gives them a whole new coloration. For there's no doubt that Tony Mottola's guitar brings a special loveliness to any tune, adds a touch of lushness to it and makes the whole world of music move with a Latin beat.
He showed that special touch in A Latin Love-In (Project 3-5010), and now he's spreading his lovely sound even farther. On most of these pieces, he leads a group focused on a guitar trio in which Al Casamenti and Bucky Pizzarelli add their guitars in support of Tony's. For con- trasting colors, there are Dick Hyman on organ (Courtesy, Command Records), Dom Cortese's accordion and Phil Bodner on flute and tenor saxophone, with a rhythm team made up of Bob Haggart on Fender bass or string bass, Bob Rosengarden, drums, and Phil Kraus, percussion.
The ensemble is broadened on four selections-Can't Take My Eyes Off of You, Somethin' Stupid, The Flower Road and Guantanamera-with the addition of Mel Davis and Bernie Glow on flugelhorn and trumpet while Stanley Webb joins Phil Bodner in the reed department.
From Billboard - January 27, 1968: Enoch Light's mastery of sound recording is showcased in this package. Subject material is a dozen favorite tunes of yesterday and today in the skillful hands of the day's top guitarists, some of the foremost musicians (Dick Hyman, Bob Haggart, Bob Rosengarden, Al Casamenti, Bucky Pizzarelli, etc).
Can't Take My Eyes Off Of You
Free Again
The Girl Next Door
A Man And A Woman
Sunny
The Flower Road
Somethin' Stupid
I Will Wait For You
Lush And Lovely
How Insensitive
I Cover The Waterfront
Guantanamera
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