Frank Macchia: Songs for Tracy

Best known for his rich tenor work and clever orchestral arrangements, Frank Macchia delivers an album more in a pop MOR mode with ballads and light jazz. Featuring Tracy London on vocals and pushed along by Brock Avery’s drums, Macchia supplies just about everything else on this album that sounds a lot like a movie soundtrack at times, as on the samba’d “The Human Race” and giving a Don Sebesky touch to “The Visit”. London has a sandied and artsy voice, artsy on “Waiting”, feisty on the upbeat “The Universal Sight”  and relaxed and fragile during “Dreaminiscence”. Macchia brings in flutes for “Be Sublime” and brooding reeds for “Round and Round”, with the overall milieu that of the category which used to be called “Adult Contemporary”, of which this is both.

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