Sax in the City

Personnel: Sam Levine (soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone); Dave Cleveland (guitar); Jason Webb (piano, keyboards); Steve Brewster (drums, percussion, drum programming); Dan Needham (drums, percussion).Audio Mixer: Brent King.Arranger: Sam Levine .SAX IN THE CITY is an unabashedly commercial smooth-jazz project from the Nashville-based saxophonist and sessionman Sam Levine. As such, it's something of a musical time machine as Levine reprises big-time radio hits from the '70s and '80s, including two (!) from Ambrosia, "The Biggest Part Of Me" and "How Much I Feel," as well as Hall & Oates's "Sara Smile," George Michaels's "Careless Whispers," Little River Band's "Reminiscing," Earth, Wind & Fire's "After The Love Has Gone"....You get the picture. Levine has no New Age "ambient" or jazz or hip-hop pretensions--he gives it to the listener straight in an equally straightfoward Nashville studio production. And one can imagine the music working its magic in any number of upscale, equ