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Kamasi Washington: The Epic

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On May 5, 2015, “Brainfeeder” label released “The Epic”, the third Kamasi Washington studio album. It was recorded in 2015, at “Kingsize Spundblabs” in Los Angeles, and was produced by Kamasi Washington.

Personnel:

  • Kamasi Washington – tenor saxophone, band leader, arrangements
  • Cameron Graves – piano, organ
  • Brandon Coleman – keyboards, organ, piano
  • Thundercat – electric bass 
  • Miles Mosley – upright and electric bass
  • Ronald Bruner, Jr. – drums
  • Tony Austin – drums, engineer
  • Robert Miller – drums 
  • Leon Mobley – percussion
  • Igmar Thomas – trumpet
  • Todd Simon – trumpet 
  • Shaunte Palmer – trombone 
  • Ryan Porter – trombone
  • Neel Hammond – violin
  • Tylana Renga Enomoto – violin
  • Paul Cartwright – violin
  • Jennifer Simone – violin
  • Lucia Micarelli – violin
  • Molly Rogers – viola
  • Andrea Whitt – viola
  • Artyom Manukyan – cello
  • Ginger Murphy – cello
  • Dawn Norfleet – choir
  • Thalma de Freitas – choir
  • Maiya Sykes – choir
  • Gina Manziello – choir
  • Patrice Quinn – choir
  • Natasha F. Agrama – choir
  • Dwight Trible – choir
  • Steven Wayne – choir
  • Taylor Graves – choir
  • Charles Jones – choir
  • Jason Marales – choir
  • Dexter Story – choir
  • Cameron Graves – choir
  • Tracy Carter – choir
  • Dwight Trible – lead vocals
  • Patrice Quinn – lead vocals 
  • Brian Rosemeyer – engineer
  • Benjamin Tierney – mixing
  • Daddy Kev – mastering

Track listing:

All tracks by Kamasi Washington, except where noted.

Volume 1: The Plan

  1. Change of the Guard
  2. Askim
  3. Isabelle
  4. Final Thought
  5. The Next Step
  6. The Rhythm Changes – Patrick Quinn, Kamasi Washington

Volume 2: The Glorious Tale

  1. Miss Understanding
  2. Leroy and Lanisha
  3. Re Run
  4. Seven Prayers
  5. Henrietta Our Hero – Patrick Quinn, Kamasi Washington
  6. The Magnificent 7

Volume 3: The Historic Repetition

  1. Re Run Home
  2. Cherokee – Ray Noble
  3. Clair de Lune – Claude Debussy
  4. Malcolm Theme – Terence Blanchard, Jamie Davis
  5. The Message

Buckwheat Zydeco: Lay Your Burden Down

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On May 5, 2009, “Aligator” label released “Lay Your Burden Down”, the third Buckwheat Zydeco album. It was recorded in 2009, and was produced by Steve Berlin. In 2010, the album won the “Grammy Award for Best Zydeco or Cajun Music Album.”  

Personnel:

Buckwheat Zydeco and The Ils Sont Partis Band, (shortened to Buckwheat Zydeco.)

  • Stanley “Buckwheat” Dural Jr. – lead and backing vocals, accordion, Hammond B3 organ, synth keyboard
  • Sir Reginald Master Dural – rubboard, backing vocals
  • Michael Melchione – guitar
  • Olivier Scoazec – guitar
  • Curtis Watson – trumpet
  • Lee Allen Zeno – bass guitar, backing vocals
  • Kevin Menard – drums.
  • Sonny Landreth – slide guitar
  • Warren Haynes – slide guitar
  • Steve Berlin – baritone saxophone
  • Troy “Trombone Shorty” Andrews – trombone
  • John “J.J.” Grey – Wurlitzer electric piano, backing vocals
  • David Farrell – engineer, mixing
  • Korey Richey – second engineer

Track listing:

  1. When the Levee Breaks – Kansas Joe McCoy, Memphis Minnie
  2. The Wrong Side – JJ Grey
  3. Let Your Yeah Be Yeah – James B. Chambers
  4. Don’t Leave Me – Buckwheat Zydeco, Ted Fox
  5. Back in Your Arms – Bruce Springsteen
  6. Throw Me Something Mister – Buckwheat Zydeco
  7. Ley Your Burden Down – Warren Heynes, Michael Berbiero
  8. Time Goes By – Buckwheat Zydeco, Ted Fox
  9. Ninth Place – Buckwheat Zydeco, Ted Fox
  10. Too Much Time – Don Van Vliet
  11. Finding My Way Back Home – Buckwheat Zydeco

Robert Cray: Sweet Potato Pie

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On May 5, 1997, “Mercury” label released “Sweet Potato Pie”, the tenth Robert Cray album. It was recorded in 1997, at “Ardent Studiios” in Memphis, Tennessee, and was produced by Robert Cray.

Personnel:

  • Robert Cray – vocals, guitar
  • Jimmy Pugh – keyboards
  • Karl Sevareid – bass
  • Kevin Hayes – drums
  • John Hampton – recording
  • Skidd Mills – recording, mixing

Track listing:

All tracks by Robert Cray, except where noted.

  1. Nothing Against You
  2. Do That for Me
  3. Back Home
  4. The One in the Middle – Jimmy Pugh
  5. Little Birds
  6. Trick or Treat – Otis Redding
  7. Simple Things
  8. Jealous Minds – Kevin Hayes, Jimmy Pugh
  9. Not Bad for Love
  10. I Can’t Quit

Oscar Peterson: Oscar Peterson Plays the Harold Arlen Songbook

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In May 1960, “Verve” label released “Oscar Peterson Plays the Harold Arlen Songbook”, album by Oscar Peterson. It was recorded July – August 1959, at “Universal Recorders” in Chicago, Illinois, and was produced by Norman Granz.

Personnel:

  • Oscar Peterson – piano
  • Herb Ellis – guitar 
  • Ray Brown – double bass
  • Ed Thigpen – drums
  • Merle Shore – design

Track listing:

  1. As Long as I Live – Harold Arlen, Ted Koehler
  2. Come Rain or Come Shine – Harold Arlen, Johnny Mercer
  3. Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive – Harold Arlen, Johnny Mercer
  4. Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea – Harold Arlen, Ted Koehler
  5. I’ve Got the World on a String – Harold Arlen, Ted Koehler
  6. That Old Black Magic – Harold Arlen, Johnny Mercer
  7. Let’s Fall in Love – Harold Arlen, Ted Koehler
  8. Stormy Weather – Harold Arlen, Ted Koehler
  9. Over the Rainbow – Harold Arlen, E. Y. Harburg
  10. Happiness is a Thing Called Joe – Harold Arlen, E. Y. Harburg
  11. The Man that Got Away – Harold Arlen, Ira Gershwin
  12. Ill Wind – Harold Arlen, Ted Koehler

Keane: Strangeland

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On May 4, 2012, “Island” label released “Strangeland”, the fourth Keane studio album. It was recorded 2011-2012, at “Sea Fog Studios” in East Sussex, England, “RAK Studios” and “Air Lyndhurst Hall” in London, and was produced by Dan Grech-Marquerat.

Personnel:

  • Tom Chaplin – vocal, guitar
  • Tim Rice-Oxley – vocals, keyboards, bass
  • Jesse Quinn – vocals, bass, keyboards
  • Richard Hughes – drums
  • Dave Fridmann – additional programming
  • Dan Grech-Marguerat – engineer, mixing
  • Liam Burn – engineer
  • Tom Hough – engineer
  • Will Fenlon – engineer
  • Alfie Grant – engineer assistant
  • Duncan Fuller – mixing assistant

Track listing:

All tracks by Tom Chaplin, Tim Rice-Oxley, Jesse Quinn and Richard Hughes.

  1. You Are Young
  2. Silenced by the Night
  3. Disconnected
  4. Watch How You Go
  5. Sovereign Light Café
  6. On the Road
  7. The Starting Line
  8. Black Rain
  9. Neon River
  10. Day Will Come
  11. In Your Own Time
  12. Sea Fog

Mike Patton: Mondo Cane

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On May 4, 2010, “Ipecac Recordings” label released “Mondo Cane”, the third Mike Patton album. It was recorded in 2010, at “Vulcan Studio” in Liverpool, and was produced by Mike Patton and Daniele Luppi.

Personnel:

  • Mike Patton – vocals, arrangements, recording, tracking, editing, design, layout
  • Alessandro “Asso” Stefana – acoustic and electric guitar, mandolin
  • Riccardo Onon – acoustic and electric guitar
  • Enri (Enrico Zavalloni) – Hammond organ, synthesizer, clavinet
  • Antonio Borghini – double bass, electric bass
  • Gege Munan – drums
  • Fabrizio Aiello – percussion
  • Filarmonica Arturo Toscanini – orchestra
  • Roy Paci – trumpet
  • Vincenzo Vasi – theremin, electronics
  • Beppe Gismondi, Elena Bacciolo, Roberta Bacciolo, Roberta Magnetti, Silvano Borgatta – vocal
  • Coralli Di Torino – choir
  • Aldo Sisillo – conductor
  • Anton Riehi – editing, mixing
  • Massimi Carli – live recordings
  • Andrea Carli, Roberto Monari – recording assistant
  • Daniele Luppi – editing
  • S. Husky Hoskulds – mixing
  • Gavin Lurssen – mastering
  • Kenneth Weaver – design, layout
  • Lady T (Cristina Zuccatosta Patton) – design, layout
  • Martin Kvamme – design, layout
  • Massimo Simonini – live project producer

Track listing:

  1. Il Cielo In Una Stanza – Gino Paoli, Mina Anna Mazzini
  2. Che Notte! – Fred Buscaglione, Leo Matteo Chiosso
  3. Ore D’Amore – Berthold Heinrich Kämpfert, Carl Sigman, Francesco Migliacci, Alfredo Antonio Carlo Buongusto
  4. Deep Down – Ennio Morricone
  5. Quello Che Conta – Luciano Salce, Ennio Morricone
  6. Urlo Negro – Leo Ceroni
  7. Scalinatella – Pasquale Vincenzo Bonagura, Giuseppe Cioffi, Roberto Murolo
  8. L’Uomo Che Non Sapeva Amare – Elmer Bernstein, Giulio Rapetti, Domenico Colarossi, Vito Pallavicini
  9. 20 km Al Giorno – Giulio Rapetti, Nicola Arigliano, Giuseppe Previde Massara
  10.  Ti Offro Da Bere – Giovanni Meccia, Gian Luigi Morandi
  11. Senza Fine – Vincenzo Gragnaniello, Ornella Vanoni

Yello: One Second

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On May 4, 1987, “Mercury” label released “One Second”, the fifth Yello studio album. It was recorded in 1987, and was produced by Boris Blank.

Personnel:

  • Boris Blank – lead and backing vocals, spoken word, keyboards, synthesizers, samplers, programming, arrangements, recording, engineer
  • Dieter Meier – lead and backing vocals, spoken word, recording, engineer
  • Chico Hablas – guitar
  • Philip Kienholz – electric piano, accordion
  • Beat Ash – drum machine
  • Steve Trop – trombone
  • Don Randolph – bass trombone
  • Petia Kaufman – glass harp 
  • Shirley Bassey – lead vocals
  • Rush Winters – co-lead vocals
  • Billy MacKenzie – lead and co-lead vocals, backing vocals
  • Farida – spoken word
  • Santiago Alfonso – African spoken word
  • Ian Tregoning – mixing

Track listing:

All tracks by Boris Blank and Dieter Meier.

  1. La Habanera
  2. Moon on Ice
  3. Call It Love
  4. Le Secret Farida
  5. Hawaiian Chance
  6. The Rhythm Divine
  7. Santiago
  8. Goldrush
  9. Oh Yeah
  10. Dr. Van Steiner
  11. Si Senor the Hairy Grill
  12. L’Hôtel

Bad Religion: Age of Unreason

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On May 3, 2019, “Epitaph” label released “Age of Unreason”, the seventeenth Bad Religion album. Ut was recorded 2018 – 2019, at “Sunset Sound” in Hollywood, and was produced by Carlos de la Garza, Brett Gurewitz and Greg Graffin.

Personnel:

  • Greg Graffin – lead and backing vocals
  • Brett Gurewitz – guitar, backing vocals
  • Brian Baker – guitar, backing vocals
  • Mike Dimkich – guitar
  • Jay Bentley – bass, backing vocals
  • Jamie Miller – drums
  • Gavin Caswell – slide guitar
  • Nico Gurewitz, Emi Gurewitz, Gina Gurewitz, Angelyn de la Garza, Lucia de la Garza, Mila De La Garza, Sue Lucarelli, Christine Morales, Kelly Kettering, Adriana Roda-Stuart, Felicia Risolo, Melody Margarit, Kathie Merritt, Matt McGreevey – additional backing vocals
  • Clint Welander – engineer
  • Zachary Zajdel – engineer assistant
  • Sergio Chavez – engineer assistant
  • Adam Chagnon – engineer assistant
  • Carlos de la Garza – mixing
  • Chris Lord-Alge – mixing
  • Joe Barresi – mixing
  • Brian Judd – mixing assistant
  • Dave Collins – mastering
  • Trevor Hernandez – art direction, design
  • David Black – cover photography
  • Alice Baxley – band photographs

Track listing:

All tracks by Brett Gurewitz and Greg Graffin, except where noted.

  1. Chaos from Within
  2. My Sanity
  3. Do the paranoid Style
  4. The Approach
  5. Lose Your Head
  6. End of History – Brett Gurewitz, Greg Graffin, Carlos de la Garza
  7. Age of Unreason
  8. Candidate
  9. Faces of Grief – Brett Gurewitz, Greg Graffin, Brian Baker
  10. Old Regime
  11. Big Black Dog
  12. Downfall
  13. Since Now
  14. What Tomorrow Brings
  15. The Profane Rights of Man

Superhiks: I sega što?

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On May 3, 2008, “Lithium Records” label released “I sega što?”, the third Superhiks album. It was recorded March – April 2007, at “Present Studio” in Zagreb, Croatia, and was produced by Denis Mujadzic – Denyken.

Personnel:

  • Petar Mladenovski – vocals, bass guitar, arrangements
  • Boris Minov – guitar, arrangements
  • Aleksandar Spasovski – trumpet, arrangements
  • Dimitar Todorovski – trumpet, arrangements
  • Branko Ilievski – trombone, arrangements
  • Darko Popov – drums, percussion, arrangements
  • Dani Dimitrovska – vocal
  • Mile Kekin – vocal
  • Panče Bujukliev – keyboards
  • Aguševi Orchestra – brass
  • Neletronic Guru (Nenad Nedelkov)
  • Funhouse
  • Brad Blackwood – mastering

Track listing:

All tracks by Petar Mladenovski, Boris Minov, Aleksandar Spasovski, Dimitar Todorovski, Branko Ilievski and Darko Popov, except where noted.

  1. Rules
  2. Toa ne sum jas
  3. Horror
  4. Za žal
  5. Mislev deka znam
  6. Graffiti Boy
  7. Ace of Spades – Eddie Clarke, Lemmy (Ian Kilmister), Phil Taylor
  8. Barska pesna
  9. Koga si sam
  10. Ne sum tvoj tip
  11. Gloomy Day
  12. Nobody at All
  13. Mr. Hyde

Roy Haynes: We Three

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In May 1959, “New Jazz” label released “We Three”, the fourth Roy Haynes album. It was recorded in November 1958, at “Van Gelder Studio” in Hackensack, New Jersey, and was produced by Esmond Edwards.

Personnel:

  • Roy Haynes – drums
  • Paul Chambers – bass
  • Phineas Newborn Jr. – piano
  • Rudy Van Gelder – recording, lacquer cut
  • Esmond Edwards – design
  • Ira Gitler – liner notes

Track listing:

  1. Reflection – Ray Bryant
  2. Sugar Ray – Phineas Newborn, Jr.
  3. Solitaire – King Guion, Carl Nutter, Renee Borek
  4. After Hours – Avery Parrish
  5. Sneakin’ Around – Ray Bryant
  6. Our Delight – Tadd Dameron