Tokyo Blue

Tokyo Blue
Tokyo Blue
Studio album by Najee
Released	March 20, 1990
Genre	Jazz
Length	47:39
Label	Capitol
Producer	Fareed Abdul Haqq
Najee chronology

Tokyo Blue is Najee's third album, released by Capitol Records in 1990.

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	^[1]

Critical reception

Jonathan Widran of AllMusic writes, "Immensely pleasurable, a fun listen from beginning to end."^[1]

Smooth Jazz Therapy writes of Tokyo Blue, "The way it blended jazz with R & B, placed him right at the top of his urban jazz game and his judicious use of featured vocalists was starting a trend in smooth jazz which has endured to this day."^[2]

Yumi L. Wilson of AP News reports that, "Najee won best jazz album for his Tokyo Blue at the 1991 Soul Train Music Awards.^[3]

See original reviews for full articles. Links can be found in the references section of this article.

Charts

Top Contemporary Jazz Albums No. 1^[4]

Billboard 200 No. 63^[5]

Track listing

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Talkin'"	Jerome Najee Rasheed Morris Pleasure	5:52
2.	"Stay"	Jerome Najee Rasheed Morris Pleasure	5:11
3.	"Cruise Control"	Jerome Najee Rasheed Artie Reynolds Alex Bugnon Charles Bell	5:53
4.	"I'll Be Good to You"	Robin Smith Stephanie Spruill	4:31
5.	"Nation's Call"	Jerome Najee Rasheed	1:04
6.	"Tokyo Blue"	Jerome Najee Rasheed Morris Pleasure Rachel Nicolazzo	4:37
7.	"My Old Friend"	Steve George John Lang Richard Page	4:55
8.	"Buenos Aires"	Jerome Najee Rasheed Morris Pleasure	5:51
9.	"Superwoman (Where Were You When I Needed You)"	Stevie Wonder	5:04
10.	"Only at Night"	Jerome Najee Rasheed Morris Pleasure	4:41
Total length:			47:39

All track information and credits taken from the CD liner notes.^[6]

References

1 2 Widran, Jonathan. Tokyo Blue at AllMusic
↑ "Najee - Tokyo Blue". smoothjazztherapy.typepad.com. Smooth Jazz Therapy. January 20, 2014. Retrieved January 9, 2020.
↑ Wilson, Yumi L. (March 12, 1991). "M.C. Hammer, En Vogue Lead Soul Train Awards Nominees With BC-Soul Train Awards-List". apnews.com. AP News. Retrieved January 9, 2020.
↑ "Contemporary Jazz Albums". billboard.com. Billboard. July 21, 1990. Retrieved January 9, 2020.
↑ "Billboard 200". billboard.com. Billboard. May 26, 1990. Retrieved January 9, 2020.
↑ Najee. Tokyo Blue. Capitol. 1990.

External links

[AM-1] 1 2 Widran, Jonathan. Tokyo Blue at AllMusic

[SJT-2] "Najee - Tokyo Blue". smoothjazztherapy.typepad.com. Smooth Jazz Therapy. January 20, 2014. Retrieved January 9, 2020.

[APN-3] Wilson, Yumi L. (March 12, 1991). "M.C. Hammer, En Vogue Lead Soul Train Awards Nominees With BC-Soul Train Awards-List". apnews.com. AP News. Retrieved January 9, 2020.

[BB1-4] "Contemporary Jazz Albums". billboard.com. Billboard. July 21, 1990. Retrieved January 9, 2020.

[5] "Billboard 200". billboard.com. Billboard. May 26, 1990. Retrieved January 9, 2020.

[JNR-6] Najee. Tokyo Blue. Capitol. 1990.

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