Monthly Archives: May 2023

Don Cherry: Complete Communion

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In May 1966, “Blue Note” label released “Complete Communion”, album by Don Cherry. It was recorded in December 1965, at “Van Gelder Studio” in Englewood Cliffs, new Jersey, and was produced by Alfred Lion.

Personnel:

  • Don Cherry – cornet
  • Leandro “Gato” Barbieri – tenor saxophone
  • Henry Grimes – bass
  • Edward Blackwell – drums
  • Rudy Van Gelder – recording
  • Reid Miles – design
  • Francis Wolff – photography
  • Nat Hentoff – liner notes

Track listing:

All tracks by Don Cherry

  1. Complete Communion: Complete Communion/And Now/Golden Heart/Remembrance
  2. Elephantasy: Elephantasy/Our Feelings/Bishmallah/Wind, Sand and Stars

The Dave Clark Five: Weekend in London

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In May 1965, “Epic” label released “Weekend in London”, the fifth Dave Clark Five (The) studio album. It was recorded in 1965, and was produced by Dave Clark.

Personnel:

  • Lenny Davidson – guitars, backing and harmony vocals
  • Mike Smith – lead vocals, keyboards
  • Rick Huxley – bass guitar, backing vocals
  • Denis Payton – saxophone, harmonica, backing vocals
  • Dave Clark – drums, backing vocals
  • Jay Thompson – photography

Track listing:

All tracks by Dave Clark and Mike Smith, except where noted.

  1. Come Home
  2. We’ll Be Running – Dave Clark, Denis Payton
  3. Blue Suede Shoes – Carl Perkins
  4. Hurting Inside
  5. I’ll Never Know – Dave Clark, Denis Payton
  6. ‘Til the Right One Comes Along
  7. I’m Thinking – Dave Clark, Denis Payton
  8. Your Turn to Cry
  9. Little Bitty Pretty One – Robert James Byrd
  10. Remember it’s Me
  11. Mighty Good Loving – Dave Clark, Lenny Davidson

The Zombies: Breath Out, Breathe In

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On May 9, 2011, “Rhino” label released “Breathe Out, Breathe In”, the fifth  Zombies (The) studio album. It was recorded in 2010, and was produced by Rod Argent.

Personnel:

  • Colin Blunstone – lead vocals
  • Tom Toomey – guitar
  • Rod Argent – lead and backing vocals, keyboards
  • Jim Rodford – bass, backing vocals
  • Steve Rodford – drums

Track listing:

All tracks by Rod Argent, except where noted.

  1. Breathe Out, Breathe In
  2. Any Other Way – Colin Blunstone
  3. Play It for Real
  4. Shine On Sunshine – Rod Argent, Chris White
  5. Show Me the Way
  6. A Moment in Time – Rod Argent, Tom Toomey
  7. Christmas for the Free – Rod Argent, Chris White
  8. Another Day
  9. I Do Believe
  10. Let It Go

Etta James: Time After Time

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On May 9, 1996, “Private Music” label released “Time After Time”, the 20th Etta James album. It was recorded in 1995, at ”Conway Studios”, and was produced by John Snyder.

Personnel:

  • Etta James – vocal
  • Josh Sklair – guitar
  • Cedar Walton – piano, arrangements
  • John Clayton – bass
  • Paul Humphrey – drums
  • Donto Metto Jame – percussion
  • Eddie Harris – tenor saxophone
  • Herman Riley – tenor saxophone
  • Kraig Kilby – trombone
  • Ronnie Buttacavoli – flugelhorn
  • Patrick Karamian – engineer
  • Jay Newland – engineer, mastering
  • Joe Lopes – mastering
  • Lupe De Leon – executive producer

Track listing:

  1. Don’t Go to Strangers
  2. Teach Me Tonight
  3. Love Is Here to Stay
  4. The Nearness of You
  5. Time After Time
  6. My Funny Valentine
  7. Imagination
  8. Fool That I Am
  9. Willow Weep for Me
  10. Everybody’s Somebodys’ Fool
  11. Night and Day
  12. Someone to Watch Over Me

The Adventures: The Sea of Love

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On May 9, 1988, “Elektra” label released “The Sea of Love”, the second Adventures (The) studio album. It was recorded in 1987, and was produced by Pete Smith and Garry Bell.

Personnel:

  • Terry Sharpe – lead vocals
  • Pat Gribben – vocals, guitar, steel guitar, piano
  • Tony Ayre – bass
  • Paul Crowder – vocals, drums
  • Gerard “Spud” Murphy – vocals, percussion
  • Eileen Gribben – vocals
  • Andy Findon – tin whistle
  • Paul Fishman – keyboards, keyboard programming, orchestration
  • Nick Glennie-Smith – keyboards, piano, synthesizer
  • Andrew Pask – bass
  • John Whitehead – keyboards
  • Peter-John Vettese – keyboards
  • Roland Vaughan Kerridge – electronic percussion
  • Richard Niles – string arrangements
  • Bob White – uillean pipes
  • David Field – backing vocals
  • Brian Kennedy – backing vocals
  • Katie Kissoon – backing vocals
  • Stevie Lange – backing vocals
  • McCarthy Sisters – backing vocals
  • Peter Smith – backing vocals
  • Miriam Stockley – backing vocals
  • Billy Vanderpuye – backing vocals
  • Rafe McKenna – engineer
  • Dietmar Schillinger – engineer
  • Jim Scott – mixing
  • Keith Breeden – paintings
  • Tony Mascolo – photography

Track listing:

All tracks by Pat Gribben.

  1. Drowning in the Sea of Love
  2. Broken Land
  3. You Don’t Have to Cry Anymore
  4. The Trip to Bountiful (When the Rain Comes Down)
  5. Heaven Knows Which Way
  6. Hold Me Now
  7. The Sound of Summer
  8. When Your Heart was Young
  9. One Step from Heaven

Mark Lanegan: Straight Songs of Sorrow

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On May 8,2020, “Heavenly Recordings” label released “Straight Songs of Sorrow”, the twelfth and final Mark Lanegan studio album. It was recorded in 2019, and was produced by Alain Johannes and Mark Lanegan.

Personnel:

  • Mark Lanegan – vocals, Moog DFAM drum synth, Moog Sirin bass synth, Moog Sub Phatty, Organelle synth, ARP Omni 2 synth, Yamaha SK10 synth, Roland TR-909 drum machine, Roland Juno synth, Roland TR-909 drum machine, Oberheim DMX drum machine, Organelle synth, Organelle synth, BOSS DR Rhythm 550, bass, electric guitar; Roland Juno synth
  • Alain Johannes – vocals, Yamaha SK10 synth, Shakers, acoustic and electric guitar, mandolin, frame drum, drum programming, bass, Minimoog synth, drum programming, Casio synth, resonator guitar, hang drum, harmonium, flutes, bass, percussion, cigfiddle, Mellotron strings, Novation Bass Station, Casio beatbox, Drum Brute, Buchla Music Easel, Linn Drum drum machine
  • Adrian Utley – acoustic and electric guitar, Minimoog, Korg 3200 synth
  • Mark Morton – acoustic guitar
  • Dylan Carlson – electric guitar 
  • Shelley Brien – vocals, Yamaha SK10, Moog Sub Phatty, Roland 909 drum machine, Casiotone 701
  • Ed Harcourt – piano, Wurlitzer electric piano
  • John Paul Jones – mellotron
  • Jack Bates – bass
  • Jack Irons – drums, percussion
  • Michael Parnin – Gibson Maestro King drum machine, Eli 7030 drum machine, mixing
  • Wesley Eisold – vocals
  • Greg Dulli – vocals
  • Warren Ellis – fiddle
  • Sietse Van Gorkom – strings

Track listing:

All tracks by Mark Lanegan, except where noted.

  1. I Wouldn’t Want to Say
  2. Apples from a Tree – Mark Lanegan, Mark Morton
  3. This Game of Love
  4. Ketamine
  5. Bleed All Over
  6. Churchbells, Ghosts
  7. Internal Hourglass Discussion
  8. Stockholm City Blues
  9. Skeleton Key
  10. Daylight in the Nocturnal House
  11. Ballad of a Dying Rover
  12. Hanging On (For DRC) – Mark Lanegan, Mark Morton
  13. Burying Ground – Shelley Brien, Mark Lanegan
  14. At Zero Below
  15. Eden Lost and Found – Shelley Brien, Mark Lanegan

Charles Mingus: Mingus Dynasty

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In May 1960, “Columbia” label released “Mingus Dynasty”, the 18th Charles Mingus album. It was recorded in November 1959, at “CBS 30th Street Studio” in New York City, and was produced by Teo Macero. In 1999, the album was inducted in the “Grammy Hall of Fame”.

Personnel:

  • Charles Mingus – bass
  • John Handy – alto sax
  • Booker Ervin – tenor sax
  • Benny Golson – tenor sax
  • Jerome Richardson – baritone sax, flute
  • Richard Williams – trumpet
  • Don Ellis – trumpet
  • Jimmy Knepper – trombone
  • Roland Hanna – piano
  • Nico Bunink – piano
  • Dannie Richmond – drums
  • Teddy Charles – vibes
  • Maurice Brown – cello
  • Seymour Barab – cello
  • Honi Gordon – vocals

Track listing:

All tracks by Charles Mingus, except where noted.                         

  1. Slop
  2. Diane
  3. Song with Orange
  4. Gunslinging Bird (originally titled If Charlie Parker Were a Gunslinger, There’d Be a Whole Lot of Dead Copycats) 
  5. Things Ain’t What They Used to Be – Mercer Ellington
  6. Far Wells, Mill Valley
  7. New Now Know How
  8. Mood Indigo – Barney Bigard, Duke Ellington
  9. Put Me in That Dungeon

Van Morrison: Latest Record Project, Volume 1

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On May 7, 2021, “Exile Production” and “BMG” labels released “Latest Record Project, Volume 1”, the 42nd Van Morrison studio album. It was recorded, in 2020, and was produced by Van Morrison.

Personnel:

  • Van Morrison – vocals, acoustic and electric guitars, piano, harmonica, alto saxophone
  • Dave Keary – acoustic, electric and classical guitar, mandolin, banjo, backing vocals
  • Jim Mullen – electric guitar
  • Stuart McIlroy – piano
  • Paul Moran – piano, Hammond organ
  • Richard Dunn – piano, Hammond organ, clavinet
  • Pete Hurley – bass guitar
  • Paul Moore – bass guitar
  • Gavin Scott – bass guitar
  • Mez Clough – drums, backing vocals
  • Colin Griffin – drums, percussion
  • Jeff Lardner – drums
  • Teena Lyle – percussion, vibraphone, backing vocals
  • Ben McAuley – percussion
  • Chris J White – tenor saxophone
  • Alistair White – trombone
  • P.J. Proby – vocals
  • Chris Farlowe – vocals
  • Crawford Bell, Dana Masters, Kelly Smiley – backing vocals

Track listing:

All tracks by Van Morrison.

  1. Latest Record Project
  2. Where Have All the Rebels Gone?
  3. Psychoanalysts Ball
  4. No Good Deed Goes Unpunished
  5. Tried to Do the Right Thing
  6. The Long Con
  7. Thank God for the Blues
  8. Big Lie
  9. A Few Bars Early
  10. It Hurts Me Too
  11. Only a Song
  12. Diabolic Pressure
  13. Deadbeat Saturday Night
  14. Blue Funk
  15. Double Agent
  16. Double Bind
  17. Love Should Come with a Warning
  18. Breaking the Spell
  19. Up County Down
  20. Duper’s Delight
  21. My Tune After a While
  22. He’s Not the Kingpin
  23. Mistaken Identity
  24. Stop Bitching, Do Something
  25. Western Man
  26. They Own the Media
  27. Why Are You on Facebook
  28. Jealousy

The Cribs: In the Belly of the Brazen Bull

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On May 7, 2012, “Wichita Recordings” label released “In the Belly of the Brazen Bull”, the fifth Cribs (The) studio album. It was recorded in 2011, at “Tarbox Road” in New York City, “Abbey Road” in London, “Electrical Audio” in Chicago, and was produced by Dave Fridmann, Steve Albini, Ryan Jarman, Gary Jarman and Ross Jarman.

Personnel:

  • Ryan Jarman – vocals, guitar
  • Gary Jarman – vocals, bass guitar
  • Ross Jarman – percussion
  • Dave Fridmann – Mellotron, Omnichord
  • Rodrigo Etguello – violin
  • Tristan Beck – cello
  • Greg Calbi – mastering
  • Nick Scott – artwork, layout

Track listing:

All tracks by Ryan Jarman, Gary Jarman and Ross Jarman.

  1. Glitters Like Gold
  2. Come On, Be a No One
  3. Jaded Youth
  4. Anna
  5. Confident Man
  6. Uptight
  7. Chi-Town
  8. Pure O
  9. Back to the Bolthole
  10. I Should Have Helped
  11. Stalagmites
  12. Like a Gift Giver
  13. Butterflies
  14. Arena Rock Encore with Full Cast

Sharon Van Etten: We’ve Been Going About This All Wrong

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On May 6, 2022, “Jagjaguwar” label released “We’ve Been Going About This All Wrong”, the sixth Sharon Van Etten studio album. It was recorded in 2021, and was produced by Daniel Knowles and Sharon Van Etten.

Personnel:

  • Sharon Van Etten – vocals, keyboards, guitar, tambourine, piano, organ, synthesizer, drums, recording
  • Devin Hoff – guitar
  • Benji Lysaght – guitar
  • Zachary Dawes – guitar
  • Dave Palmer – piano
  • Charley Damski – synthesizer, guitar, glockenspiel
  • Daniel Knowles – bass, percussion
  • Jorge Balbi – drums, percussion
  • Jay Bellerose – drums
  • Owen Pallett – strings
  • Jorge Balbi – programming 
  • Daniel Knowles – programming, recording
  • Mike Piersante – recording
  • Beatriz Artola – mixing
  • Joe LaPorta – mastering

Track listing:

All tracks by Sharon Van Etten.

  1. Darkness Fades
  2. Home to Me
  3. I’ll Try
  4. Anything
  5. Born
  6. Headspace
  7. Come Back
  8. Darkish
  9. Mistakes
  10. Far Away