The Best of The Rippingtons

The Best of The Rippingtons is a compilation album by the American jazz group The Rippingtons, released in 1997 by the GRP label. The album is a retrospective of their previous GRP albums, and also includes two previously unreleased tracks.

The album reached No. 10 on the Billboard Contemporary Jazz chart.

Track listing
All songs written by Russ Freeman
 * 1) "Garden of Babylon" - 5:40 (previously unreleased)
 * 2) "Tourist in Paradise" - 5:41 (from Tourist in Paradise)
 * 3) "Affair in San Miguel" - 5:08 (from Welcome to the St. James' Club)
 * 4) "Snowbound" - 4:53 (from Curves Ahead)
 * 5) "Aruba!" - 4:17 (from Tourist in Paradise)
 * 6) "Sapphire Island" - 4:48 (previously unreleased)
 * 7) "Principles of Desire" - 4:42 (from Sahara)
 * 8) "Vienna" - 4:51 (from Weekend in Monaco)
 * 9) "Kenya" - 5:22 (from Welcome to the St. James' Club)
 * 10) "She Likes to Watch" - 5:31 (from Moonlighting)
 * 11) "Urban Wanderer" - 4:43 (from Brave New World)
 * 12) "Kilimanjaro" - 4:48 (from Kilimanjaro)

Personnel

 * Russ Freeman - guitar, synthesizers, keyboards
 * Jeff Kashiwa - saxophone
 * Steve Reid - percussion
 * Brandon Fields - saxophone
 * Kenny G - saxophone
 * Gregg Karukas - keyboards
 * Kim Stone - bass
 * Steve Bailey - bass
 * Tony Morales - drums
 * Patti Austin - vocals
 * Carl Anderson - vocals
 * Bill Lanphier - bass
 * Eric Marienthal - saxophone
 * Kirk Whalum - saxophone
 * Mark Portmann - piano