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ARTIST
TITLE
The Blue Nile
FORMAT
LP

LABEL
CATALOG #
MALP 099LP MALP 099LP
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
6/20/2025

LP version. Scotland's best jazz musicians meet one of the best and most influential bands from Scotland! The Colin Steele Quartet play the music of The Blue Nile, undisputed masters of Sophisti-Pop. The beautiful and atmospheric, often synth-driven songs of The Blue Nile get the deluxe jazz treatment in exciting new arrangements. All-time classics like "Easter Parade," "Heatwave," and "Let's Go Out Tonight" shine in bright new shades and colors, and get transformed into something unique by Colin Steele's very own trumpet style. The album perfectly captures and even enhances the late-night moods and aural landscapes of The Blue Nile's music. Colin Steele's smooth and emotive trumpet caresses and lifts these beautiful songs to new heights. This album completes a trilogy of songbook albums by the Colin Steele Quartet which started with Diving For Pearls (MA 082CD, 2017), a dive into the music of The Pearlfishers, and continued with Joni (MA 089CD, 2020), their take on the songs of Joni Mitchell. Colin Steele from Edinburgh, one of UK's leading jazz trumpet players, is accompanied by the same top-notch musicians as before: Calum Gourlay on double bass, Alyn Cosker on drums, and pianist Dave Milligan who also arranged the album brilliantly. Like many great jazz albums, The Blue Nile was recorded in just one day -- on July 16, 2024. The session took place at the same studio where all classic Blue Nile albums were recorded: At Scotland's famous Castlesound Studios. Masterfully and intimately engineered by Stuart Hamilton. The album also features "Mid Air" -- the title track of Paul's fabulous solo outing (2012). CD version comes in a beautiful six-panel digisleeve and features two additional tracks -- "Happiness" and "Headlights On The Parade."