In February 1961, “Blue Note” label released “Moods”, the sixth Three Sounds (The) album. It was recorded in June 1960, at “Van Gelder Studio” in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, and was produced by Alfred Lion.
Personnel:
Gene Harris – piano
Andrew Simpkins – bass
Bill Dowdy – drums
Rudy Van Gelder – recording, lacquer cut
Hugh Bell – photography
Leonard Feather – liner notes
Ruth Mason – model
Track listing:
Love for Sale – Cole Porter
Things Ain’t What They Used to Be – Mercer Ellington
On Green Dolphin Street – Bronisław Kaper, Ned Washington
Loose Walk – Sonny Stitt
Li’l Darlin’ – Neal Hefti
I’m Beginning to See the Light – Duke Ellington, Don George, Johnny Hodges, Harry James
In February 1960, “Verve” label released “Oscar Peterson Plays the Duke Ellington Song”, the 70th Oscar Peterson album. It was recorded July – August 1959, at “Universal” in Chicago, and was produced by Norman Granz.
Personnel:
Oscar Peterson – piano
Ray Brown – double bass
Ed Thigpen – drums
John Altoon – artwork
Track listing:
Don’t Get Around Much Anymore – lyrics by Bob Russell, music by Duke Ellington
Sophisticated Lady – lyrics by Mitchell Parish, music by Duke Ellington, Irving Mills
Rockin’ in Rhythm – music by Duke Ellington, Harry Carney, Irving Mills
Prelude to a Kiss – lyrics by Mack Gordon, Music by Duke Ellington, Irving Mills
In a Mellow Tone – lyrics by Milt Gabler, music by Duke Ellington
Cotton Tail – lyrics and music by Duke Ellington
Just A-sittin’ and A-Rockin’ – lyrics by Lee Gaines, music by Duke Ellington, Billy Strayhorn
Things Ain’t What They Used To Be – lyrics by Ted Persons, music by Mercer Ellington
Take the “A” Train – Billy Strayhorn
I Got It Bad (and That Ain’t Good) – lyrics by Paul Francis Webster, music by Duke Ellington
Do Nothing till You Hear from Me – lyrics by Bob Russell, music by Duke Ellington
In February 1959, “Riverside” label released “Things Are Getting Better”, the 11th Cannonball Adderley album. It was recorded in October 1958, at “Reeves Sound” in New York City, and was produced by Orin Keepnews.
Personnel:
Cannonball Adderley – alto saxophone
Milt Jackson – vibes
Wynton Kelly – piano
Percy Heath – bass
Art Blakey – drums
Jack Higgins – engineer
Harris Levine – design
Paul Bacon – design
Ken Braren – design
Charles Stewart – cover photography
Lawrence N. Shustak – liner photography
Orin Keepnews – liner notes
Track listing:
All tracks by Julian “Cannonball” Adderley, except where noted.
Blues Oriental – Milt Jackson
Things Are Getting Better
Serves Me Right (Take 5) – Buddy Johnson
Groovin’ High – Dizzy Gillespie
The Sidewalks of New York (Take 5) – James W. Blake, Charles B. Lawlor
On February 7, 1995, “Polygram” label released “The Woman in Me”, the second Shania Twain studio album. It was recorded 1994 – 1995, at “Sound Stage Studio”, “Battery Studios”, “Javelina Recording Studios” and “Recording Arts” in Nashville, “A.R.P. Track Productions” in St. Anne Des Lacs, Quebec, Canada, and was produced by Robert John “Mutt” Lange. In December 2000, the album was certified 12× Platinum by the RIAA in USA. In 2006, “The Woman in Me” was ranked number 8 on CMT’s list of “40 Greatest Albums in Country Music”.
Personnel:
Shania Twain – lead and backing vocals, claps, footsteps
Dann Huff – tic tac bass, lead guitar, electric guitar, slide guitar, guitar textures, wa-wa guitar (Sic), jangle guitar, claps
Paul Franklin – pedal steel guitar, Pedabro
Larry Byrom – acoustic guitar, electric rhythm guitar
Brent Mason – lead guitar, electric guitar, six-string bass guitar
Billy Crain – slide guitar
John Hughey – pedal steel guitar
Brent Rowan – electric guitar textures
Sam Bush – mandolin
John Barlow Jarvis – piano, Wurlitzer electric piano
Hargus “Pig” Robbins – piano
David Hungate – bass guitar, fretless bass, double bass
Paul Leim – drums, percussion, tambourine, shaker, door slam
Terry McMillan – percussion, cowbell, harmonica, boot stomps
Joe Spivey – fiddle
Glen Duncan – fiddle
Rob Hajacos – fiddle
Nashville String Machine – string section
Ronn Huff – string arrangements
Nick Keca – claps
Robert John “Mutt” Lange – backing vocals, claps
Warren Peterson – engineer
Simon Pressey – engineer
Ron “Snake” Reynolds – engineer
Nick Keca – engineer
Lee Groitzsch – overdub engineer
Brian Tankersly – overdub engineer
Craig White – engineer assistant
Robert Charles – overdub engineer assistant
Wayne Morgan – overdub engineer assistant
Track listing:
All tracks by Shania Twain and Robert John Lange, except where noted
In February 1958, “Atlantic” label released “Jimmy Giuffre and his Music Men Play the Music Man” (The Music Man), the fifth Jimmy Giuffre album. It was recorded December 1957 – February 1958, at “Coastal Recording Studios” in New York City, and was produced by Nesuhi Ertegun.
Personnel:
Jimmy Giuffre – clarinet, tenor and baritone saxophone
Al Cohn, Eddie Wasserman – tenor saxophone
Sol Schlinger – baritone saxophone
Art Farmer, Bernie Glow, Phil Sunkel, Joe Wilder – trumpet
On February 6, 2002, “Profundus” label released “Izohronija”, the second String Forces studio album. It was recorded in 2001, at “Profundus Studio” in Skopje, Macedonia, and was produced by Dorian Jovanović.
In February 1957, “Pacific Jazz” label released “Chet Baker & Crew”, the 15th Chet Baker album. It was recorded in July 1956, at “Forum Theater” in Los Angeles, and was produced by Richard Bock.
Personnel:
Chet Baker – vocal, trumpet
Phil Urso – tenor saxophone
Bobby Timmons – piano
Jimmy Bond – bass
Peter Littmann – drums
Bill Loughborough – chromatic timpani
William Claxton – photography
Woody Woodward – liner notes
Track listing:
To Mickey’s Memory – Harvey Leonard
Slightly Above Moderate – Bob Zieff
Halema – Phil Urso
Revelation – Gerry Mulligan
Something For Liza – Al Cohn
Lucius Lu – Phil Urso
Worryin’ the Life Out of Me – Miff Mole, Bob Russell, Frank Signorelli
In February 1957, “Dawn” label released “Cohn on the Saxophone”, the tenth Al Cohn album. It was recorded in September 1956, at “Webster Hall” in New York City, and was produced by Chuck Darwin.
Personnel:
Al Cohn – tenor saxophone
Frank Rehak – trombone
Hank Jones – piano
Milt Hinton – bass
Osie Johnson – drums
Fran Scott Studio – design
Gary Kramer – liner notes
Track listing:
All tracks by Al Cohn except where noted.
We Three – Nelson Cogane, Sammy Mysels, Dick Robertson
Idaho – Jesse Stone
The Things I Love – Harold Barlow, Lew Harris
Singing The Blues – J. Russel Robinson, Con Conrad, Sam M. Lewis, Joe Young
Be Loose
When Day Is Done – Buddy DeSylva, Robert Katscher
Good Old Blues
Softly, as in a Morning Sunrise – Oscar Hammerstein II, Sigmund Romberg
On February 5, 2013, “Palomine Records” label released “Oh, Mayhem!”, the ninth Bettie Serveert studio album. It was recorded in 2012, at “La Chapelle Studios” in Waimes, Belgium, and “Ijland Studio” in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
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