Warren Hill / Shelter

I thought that Toronto-born (on 15 April, 1966) Warren Hill was definitely one of the good new generation sax players appeared in 1990’s with pop and emotional sense of music when listening to this his fourth leader album (the first one for Discovery Records after three albums under RCA) featuring vocal tracks in 1997. My description about his voice was that Hill sang like Richard Marx one of the greatest vocalists in the same age bracket. Warren sang three songs "Shelter From The Storm", "If Your Man Doesn't Treat You Right" and "You're My Only Love" and played funky and emotional sax on every tunes including the cover version of "Roxanne" (originally performed by Police") and "Hey Jude" (originally performed by The Beatles). To be honest, I thought that Warren Hill should have been releasing more albums in 2010’s but he did not release any albums in 2010’s after releasing “ La Dolce Vita” in 2008.

Release: May, 1997 (Japan: 25 June, 1997)
Label: Discovery Records, USA (77058) / Wea Japan (WPCR-1222)

Tracks:
1. Shelter From The Storm
2. Roxanne
3. U R The 1
4. If Your Man Doesn't Treat You Right
5. Subway Slam
6. Wanna Believe
7. From The Soul
8. You're My Only Love
9. Hey Jude
10. Marathon Man
11. If Your Man Doesn't Treat You Right (Instrumental)
12. Shelter From The Storm (Instrumental)

Producers: Rick Chudacoff, Tamara Van Cleef-Hill, Dain Noel, Michael Eckart, Warren Hill
Executive Producers: Tamara Van Cleef-Hill, Warren Hill

- Musicians -
Keyboards: Robbie Buchanan, Werner "Vana" Cierg, Dain Noel, Michael Eckart, Morris Pleasure, Carlos Murguia
Guitar: Michael Thompson, Randy Jacobs
Bass: Vail Johnson, Ronnie Garrett
Drums: Curt Bisquera, Sonny Emory
Percussion: Luis Conte
Background Vocals: Tabitha Fair, Nicol Smith
Horns: Wayne Bergeron, Bill Reichenbach
Trumpet: Rick Braun

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