Track Listing

1. Black Is the Color
2. House Is Not a Home
3. Come Rain or Come Shine
4. Invitation
5. Summertime
6. Nica's Dream
7. Stormy Weather
8. Django
9. My One and Only Love
10. Mood Indigo

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #38219 in Music
• Brand: Warner Brothers
• Released on: 1993-03-23
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .20 pounds

Customer Reviews

Joe does standards and the result is absolutely beautiful!
We are all Joe Sample fans because of a distinctive style of
piano playing that is catchy, charismatic, and sometimes
remarkably impressionistic with his gift to musically illustrate
the places and memories that have most affected his life.
In this album, we are delighted to hear him appreciate standards,
his acoustic piano woven with some of the most beautiful
orchestration I have ever heard. This is the album to make
you feel good, relaxed, the one for the Sunday afternoon, or
the cozy late night in front of the fire with favorite people.
All of the selections are wonderful, the album is first rate
from beginning to end. I have just rediscovered it again,
and am totally mesmerized by it!! Outstanding!!

"INVITATION TO RELAX"
I call this the third album in Joe Sample's "trilogy of beautiful CD's." "Invitation" finds Joe interpreting the older "classics" ("Summertime," "My One and Only Love," "Come Rain or Come Shine," "Stormy Weather"), recent "classics" ("A House is not a Home") and soon to be classics ("Black is the Color," "Invitation"). Very few pianists evoke a mood the way Joe does and this is a CD filled with beautiful mood music. Want to relax? Put this in first along with "Ashes to Ashes" and "Spellbound," (in that order) and let this CD start the journey to reflection and relaxation for you when you get home after a hard days work. BEAUTIFUL.

AN INTIMATE AND LINGERING TASTE OF STYLE AND CLASS.
THIS IS ONE OF THE BEST IN MY COLLECTION! SAMPLE PAINTS AN INTIMATE PORTRAIT OF MANY SUTLE MOODS AND HAUNTS. HE GENTLY MOVES YOUR SOUL DEEP DOWN AND LEAVES YOU ON A MENTAL PLANE ON WHICH YOU LINGER LIKE A BREATHTAKING SUNSET. I'VE HEARD MOST OF JOE SAMPLE'S RECORDED MUSIC AND EVEN SEEN THE CRUSADERS IN CONCERT. HIS PIANO IN THIS PARTICULAR ALBUM BELONGS IN YOUR FAVORITE ROOM WITH THE LIGHTS DOWN LOW......., WITH YOUR FAVORITE OTHER.......... AND SIPPING YOUR FAVORITE BOTTLE OF WINE (MINE'S CABERNET SAUVIGNON). DON'T LOOK FOR MUSIC HERE THAT HITS YOU HARD AND LEAVES YOU STUNNED. BE READY FOR A NEW HORIZON THAT CONNECTS EVERY SONG TOGETHER LIKE A BOOK. WHERE AT THE END OF THE DISC YOU'LL GLADLY SAY "PLAY IT AGAIN SAM"!