Richard Elliot - Deep Touch

Richard Elliot chose to go with the production expertise of Steve Dubin on his Chill Factor (1999), yet the silky, simmering soul influence of Paul Brown -- who produced the veteran saxman’s previous hit, Jumpin’ Off -- has stuck. Where Elliot once routinely went for the jugular and blistering approach to his tenor, he lives up to this disc’s name by bringing out some of his best hooks in a gentler, restrained mode. In the past, you might never mistake an Elliot horn lick for one by the ma