Close Encounter (album)

Close Encounter
Studio album by Franco Ambrosetti Quintet with Bennie Wallace
Released 1979
Recorded March 21, 1978
Studio CI Studios, NYC
Genre Jazz
Length 42:44
Label Enja
ENJ 3017
Producer Horst Weber, Matthias Winckelmann
Franco Ambrosetti chronology
Franco Ambrosetti Quartet
(1976)
Close Encounter
(1979)
Sleeping Gypsy
(1980)

Close Encounter is an album by the Swiss trumpeter/flugelhornist and composer Franco Ambrosetti which was recorded in 1978 and released on the Enja label the following year.[1][2]

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[3]

The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow stated "The sometimes episodic repertoire is quite obscure and generally hard bop-oriented. Everyone plays well on this lesser-known but enjoyable effort".[3]

Track listing

All compositions by Franco Ambrosetti except where noted

  1. "Close Encounter" – 8:22
  2. "Napoleon Blown Apart" (Flavio Ambrosetti) – 5:39
  3. "Sad Story of a Photographer (Someday My Prints Will Come)" — 8:12
  4. "Morning Song of a Spring Flower" (George Gruntz) – 14:29
  5. "Rumba Organistica" (Joachim Kühn) – 6:02

Personnel

References

  1. Enja Records main series discography accessed June 22, 2018
  2. Franco Ambrosetti discography accessed June 22, 2018
  3. 1 2 Yanow, Scott. Franco Ambrosetti: Close Encounter – Review at AllMusic. Retrieved June 22, 2018.
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