Art Porter Lay Your Hands On Me Jazz Music CD Review

Art Porter has released him most recent album entitledArt Porter originally released Lay Your Hands On Me
Lay Your Hands On Me.on August 20, 1996 on the Verve label.
Refreshingly, this was one of those CDs I was able toCD Track List Follows:
just pop in and comfortably listen to from beginning to1. Flight Time
end. Every track is enjoyable and was pretty easy for2. Lake Shore Drive
me to listen to from start to finish.3. One More Chance - (featuring Lalah Hathaway)
Lay Your Hands On Me is a pleasantly varied, mix of4. Just Wanna Be With You - (featuring Brian
10 tracks that are very well written songs by thisMcKnight)
clearly gifted artist. With many of the songs displaying5. DB Blue
a lot of the kind emotion that makes for a really great6. Candlelights
listen. Clearly drawing from what I can only imagine are7. Wishful Thinking
him own real life experiences. At different points8. Forever Love - (featuring Brian McKnight)
touching on the most real emotions like love,9. We Are One
heartbreak, pain, failed relationships and unattainable10. Lay Your Hands On Me
romance. They're all here.Personnel: Art Porter (alto & soprano
Overall Lay Your Hands On Me is outstanding fromsaxophones); Raymondo Silva, Lalah Hathaway
beginning to end. One of those CDs that after a few(vocals); Brian McKnight (keyboards, drum
listens the songs are just etched into your memory. Aprogramming, guitar, bass, vocals); Chris Cuben-Tatum,
must have for the Jazz fan. Really spectacular fromChuckii Booker (keyboards, drum programming, guitar,
beginning to end.bass, background vocals); Tami Booker (background
While the entire album is really very good the trulyvocals).
standout tunes are track 1 - Flight Time, track 9 - WeProducers: Chuckii Booker, Brian McKnight, Chris
Are One, and track 10 - Lay Your Hands On Me.Cuben-Tatum.
My Bonus Pick, and the one that got Sore [...as inRecorded at Siide F/X Recording, Riverside, California;
"Stuck On REpeat"] is track 4 - Just Wanna Be WithBackroom Studios, Glendale, California; Concept
You. Wow!Studios South, Murfreesboro, Tennessee.
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