Close Encounter (album)
{{Infobox album|
| name = Close Encounter
| type = Album
| artist = Franco Ambrosetti Quintet with Bennie Wallace
| cover = Close Encounter (album).jpg
| alt =
| released = 1979
| recorded = March 21, 1978
| venue =
| studio = CI Studios, NYC
| genre = Jazz
| length = 42:44
| label = Enja
ENJ 3017
| producer = Horst Weber, Matthias Winckelmann
| chronology = Franco Ambrosetti
| prev_title = Franco Ambrosetti Quartet
| prev_year = 1976
| next_title = Sleeping Gypsy
| next_year = 1980
}}
Close Encounter is an album by the Swiss trumpeter/flugelhornist and composer Franco Ambrosetti which was recorded in 1978 and released on the Enja label the following year.{{Cite web |title=Enja discography: 3001 to 3099 |url=http://www.jazzlists.com/SJ_Label_Enja_3000.htm |access-date=June 22, 2018 |website=Jazzlists}}{{Cite web |title=Close Encounter |url=https://www.francoambrosetti.com/releases/close-encounter/ |access-date=June 22, 2018 |website=francoambrosetti.com |language=en-US}}
Reception
{{Album ratings
| rev1 = AllMusic
}}
The AllMusic review by Scott Yanow stated "The sometimes episodic repertoire is quite obscure and generally hard bop-oriented. Everyone plays well on this lesser-known but enjoyable effort".{{AllMusic|first=Scott |last=Yanow |class=album |id=mw0000906992 |title= Franco Ambrosetti: Close Encounter – Review |accessdate=June 22, 2018}}
Track listing
All compositions by Franco Ambrosetti, except where noted.
- "Close Encounter" – 8:22
- "Napoleon Blown Apart" (Flavio Ambrosetti) – 5:39
- "Sad Story of a Photographer (Someday My Prints Will Come)" — 8:12
- "Morning Song of a Spring Flower" (George Gruntz) – 14:29
- "Rumba Organistica" (Joachim Kühn) – 6:02
Personnel
- Franco Ambrosetti – flugelhorn, trumpet
- Bennie Wallace – tenor saxophone
- George Gruntz – piano
- Mike Richmond – bass
- Bob Moses – drums