Midnight Ghost

midnight ghost

Track Listings

1. Rainmaker

2. Stay

3. Midnight Ghost

4. Evangeline

5. Mr. Green

6. Golden

7. Sarah

8. Try

9. It's Alright

10. For Ellen

11. You

Editorial Reviews
Kevin Welch, KINK FM, Portland, OR
"Music that will stay with you long after the cd is over!"

Product Description
Remember the days when you'd buy a record and it took you on a journey, from beginning to end?! That's what ROB HOTCHKISS has created with MIDNIGHT GHOST. This solo offering from TRAIN's founding member begins where the GRAMMY-AWARD-WINNING band's first record left off. Fans of the more rootsy, early TRAIN will find the guitar-driven, introspective approach to MIDNIGHT GHOST refreshing. ROB HOTCHKISS has teamed up with original and former members of COUNTING CROWS (Steve Bowman and Dave Bryson) to make the kind of record that you'll put back on when it's finished.

Midnight Ghost

Midnight Ghost,Rob Hotchkiss,RobRecords,Pop,Rock,Rock/Pop,musically lush, lyrically introspective, harkens back to the days of The Beatles and CSN, that when the record was over you'd want to play it again.

Midnight Ghost

Average customer rating:

This is DEFINITELY worth a listen!
DO NOT BUY THIS CD!!!
Totally enthralling!
Much Larger Than Whales!!
Much Larger Than Whales!!

Thar They Blow
The Nuclear Whales Saxophone Orchestra , Kenny Ball , Ashwin Batish , Maceo / Bernie, Ben Casey Kenneth / Pinkard , Aaron Copland , Noel George da Costa , Rach Cztar , Edward , Louis Moreau Gottschalk , and Leroy Anderson
Manufacturer: Whaleco Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000003JXN
Release Date: 1996-01-05

Tracks:

Fanfare For The Common Man
Midnight In Moscow
Duke Elington Medley
Dacing In The Dark
Casbah Shuffle
New York City Ghost
Sweet Georgia Brown
Mold, Mold
Humpback Boogie
Tiger Rag
Souvenir De Puerto Rico
Requiem
Buglers' Holiday
Take Me Out To The Ballgame
Also Sprach Zarathustra

Customer Reviews:

This is DEFINITELY worth a listen!.......2007-01-16

I am a sax player as well as a music teacher and have found this CD to be well worth the money! Not only do you get a wide variety of styles, but you also get to hear one of the rare saxophone orchestras who use uncommon instruments. You can tell that these players have a lot of fun together, which makes it all the more enjoyable to listen to as well as teach with. There are slight intonation problems on the occasion, but when you think about all of the things they are doing - I think I'll let that one slide! Don't miss out on this unique and enjoyable group! My personal favorite track is Casbah Shuffle. I hope you enjoy!

DO NOT BUY THIS CD!!!.......2005-09-18

What a major disappointment. Has this group ever heard of intonation, vibrato, or articulation? There are several spots on this CD where the "ensemble" is just not even close to being together. I don't know what these other reviewers are talking about. Don't buy this CD "just to hear the contrabass sax." I have heard better sounds from my lawn mower running over tree branches. The Nuclear Whales should pull this recording off the market to avoid any more embarrassment. I will not buy any more of their recordings, and urge you to do the same. Save your money for gas.

Totally enthralling!.......2000-09-30

If you only have one saxophone ensemble CD, it should be from the Whales. And if you don't like saxophone, buy this anyways--you will still like it. Good music is music that sounds good, right?

This CD starts, appropriately enough, with a fanfare (Fanfare for the Common Man), which makes great use of the soprano lead. The lower voices are gradually layered in, but they don't bring out all the horns until the second track, which rotates the leads among all the players, including Don Stevens on the Contrabass.

To put it mildly, the Contrabass sax is more than a bit unusual, and there are only a few in existence. Stevens' horn was fortuitously discovered in a New Jersey warehouse just before demolition. The difference between a more standard quartet and this orchestra is the addition of 50% more players and additional voices. The Whales always supplemented the standard 4 saxes (soprano, alto, tenor, and bari) with sopranino and bass. Adding the contrabsss makes this pure magic. Nobody can listen to a contrabass sax without cracking a smile.

I'm a sucker for Ellington, so when it is played by a talented group of musicians like this--especially a sax ensemble--its irresistable to me. The Ellington medley is exquisite, with a tearful interpretation of "Come Sunday" immediately followed by a novel rendition of "Caravan."

The contrabass totally rocks on "Casbah Shuffle". That thing just kind of thwops-it is almost percussive, which makes a great effect in conjunction with the tabla (the Indian drum that goes `dweep, dweep, dweep') and tam tam. With a soprano lead, it has a real Don Ellis "Electric Bath" kind of feel. This is fun stuff-I can't imagine anyone not liking this.

No group located in a tree-hugging locale like Santa Cruz, CA would name themselves Nuclear Whales if they didn't have a sense of humor, but a novelty number like "Shuffle" is immediately followed by a completely serious number, "New York City Ghost," which is so haunting it gives me goose bumps. Interestingly, they don't identify the soloists, and I'm not sure which of the 3 soprano-players does the lead in this one. For the most part, they arrange their own stuff, but this one is arranged by Lennie Niehaus.

Back to another upbeat number; "Sweet Georgia Brown" must have been written with the saxophone in mind. This is the thwoppiest chart for the contrabass. It's followed by an original vocal piece by baritonist Ann Merrell called "Mold, Mold" that would be perfect for some of the Louis Jordan-inspired swing bands that were popular a couple years back.

The rest of the album is more of the same, alternating grit, swing & jazz with Richard Strauss and Louis Gottschalk. This group can play anything, and it sounds great.

Much Larger Than Whales!!.......1999-04-07

Folks, this is simply ensemble sax at it's finest! It don't get much better!

Being a lover of Bass Sax, the Contrabass only added more musical jucies to my ears and pulled untold watts from my system!

UNBELIEVABLE arrangements! GENIUS! More genius are the artists! You have no idea what takes as a musician to get to this plateau, and beyond that, get THIS many together as a group and WHALE away!

The NW are the Canadian Brass, only with reeds! And MORE! A MUST if you are an audiophile! If you are a reed player, you already own it. If not, GET IT!

From Dixieland to Classical and everything inbetween, they have it all. The campiness of various tunes exude artististic virtuosity and push the creative envelope!

You MUST hear this on a high end system as I have. Bozak 310-B Concert Masters do very fine with this range of frequences. (28 cycles required--minimum, to hear it all!).

CRANK IT! You will feel things you never felt before! The arrangements are spectacular!!!

A VERY good HIGH quality recording. No limiters or balonery! Just a PURE sound without distortion.

I can't say enough. Simply the best stuff I have heard in YEARS!

I'm in Milwaukee. If you are near or get by here, look me up and HEAR this correctly!

That's how strongly I feel about the Nuclear Whales! Simply a joy and acts as auricle viagra!

Greg Kalkhoff

Call me: 1-414-447-7500 Let's talk Whales!

You will NOT be dissapointed!