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Bill Laswell: Lo. Def Pressure

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On October 3, 2000, “Sub Rosa” label released “Lo. Def Pressure”, the twelfth Bill Laswell album. It was recorded in 2000, at “Orange Music” in West Orange, NJ, and was produced by Bill Laswell.

Personnel:

  • Bill Laswell– bass guitar, keyboards, drum programming
  • Hassan Akber Ali – instruments
  • Zakir Hussain– percussion
  • Badal Roy– percussion
  • Arif Singh – instruments
  • Kadri Sriram – instruments
  • Robert Musso– engineer
  • Michael Fossenkemper – mastering

Track listing:

All tracks by Bill Laswell.

  1. Shyvamthscience
  2. Black Ice

Jack Bruce: A Question of Time

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On October 3, 1989, “Epic” label released “A Question of Time”, the ninth Jack Bruce studio album. It was recorded in 1989, and was produced by Jack Bruce and Joe Blaney.

Personnel:

  • Jack Bruce – vocals, bass, keyboards, piano, cello, acoustic guitar, synthesizer, harmonica
  • Jimmy Ripp, Vernon Reid, Albert Collins, Vivian Campbell, Malcolm Bruce – guitar
  • Paul Barrere- slide guitar
  • Allan Holdsworth- guitar, SynthAxe
  • Bernie Worrell- piano, keyboards, Melodica, Hammond organ, synth, Clavinet, backing vocals
  • Nicky Hopkins, Jonas Bruce – piano
  • Dougie Bowne, Ginger Baker, Tony Williams – drums
  • Mark Nauseef- Ghanaian drums, percussion
  • Zakir Hussain– tablas
  • Steve Jordan– percussion
  • The Savage Horns – John Abernathy saxophone
  • Gary “Bone” Cooper – backing vocals
  • The Golden Gate Boys Choir, The SoMa Footlights Chorus – choir

Track listing:

All tracks by Jack Bruce.

  1. Life on Earth
  2. Make Love
  3. No Surrender
  4. Flying
  5. Hey Now Princess
  6. Blues You Can’t Lose
  7. Obsession
  8. Kwela
  9. Let Me Be
  10. Only Playing Games
  11. A Question of Time
  12. Grease the Wheels

Collective Soul: See What You Started by Continuing

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On October 2, 2015, “Vanguard” label released “See What You Started by Continuing”, the ninth Collective Soul studio album. It was recorded February – October 2014, in Sandy Springs, Georgia, and was produced by Ed Roland.

Personnel:

  • Ed Roland– vocals, acoustic guitar, piano
  • Dean Roland– rhythm guitar
  • Jesse Triplett– lead guitar
  • Eric Frampton – organ
  • Will Turpin– bass
  • Johnny Rabb– drums, percussion
  • Mama Jan Smith– backing vocals
  • Ebony Childs – backing vocals
  • Sweet Tea Project(Christopher Alan Yates, Brian Bisky, Mike Rizzi) – backing vocals
  • Stevie Blackie – strings, string arrangements, engineer
  • Anthony J. Resta – programming, additional production
  • Karyadi Sutedja – recording
  • Shawn Grove – engineer, mixing
  • Greg Archilla – additional engineering
  • Steve Rawls – mastering
  • NUU Group LLC – package design
  • Joseph Guay – photography
  • Jolie Rizzi – photo editing

Track listing:

All tracks written by Ed Roland, except where noted.

  1. This
  2. Hurricane
  3. Exposed
  4. Confession
  5. AYTA
  6. Contagious
  7. Life
  8. Am I Getting Through
  9. Memories of 2005
  10. Tradition
  11. Without Me

Plasmatics: New Hope for the Wretched

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On October 2, 1980, “Stiff Records” label released “New Hope for the Wretched”, the debut Plasmatics studio album. It was recorded in 1980, and was produced by Jimmy Miller, Ed Stasium and Rod Swenson.

Personnel:

  • Wendy O. Williams– vocals, saxophone, chainsaw, machine gun
  • Richie Sotts– lead guitar
  • Wes Beech– rhythm guitar
  • Jean Beauvoir– bass guitar
  • Stu Deutsch– drums, synth drums
  • Jimmy Miller– percussion
  • Ed Stasium– engineer, mixing
  • Trevor Hallsey – engineer
  • Rod Swenson – mixing

Track listing:

  1. Tight Black Pants – Rod Swenson, Richie Stotts
  2. Monkey Suit – Rod Swenson, Wes Beech
  3. Living Dead – Rod Swenson, Richie Stotts
  4. Test Tube Babies – Rod Swenson, Richie Stotts
  5. Won’t You – Rod Swenson, Richie Stotts
  6. Concrete Shoes – Rod Swenson, Chosei Funahara
  7. Squirm” (Live) – Rod Swenson, Wes Beech
  8. Want You Baby – Rod Swenson, Richie Stotts
  9. Dream Lover – Bobby Darin
  10. Sometimes I – Rod Swenson, Richie Stotts
  11. Corruption – Rod Swenson, Richie Stotts
  12. Butcher Baby – Rod Swenson, Richie Stotts

Bill Laswell: Points of Order

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On October 1, 2001,” Innerhythmic” label released “Points of Order”, the fourteenth Bill Laswell album. It was recorded in 2001, at “Orange Music” in West Orange, NJ, and was produced by Bill Laswell.

Personnel:

  • Bill Laswell– bass guitar, drum programming, effects
  • Buckethead– guitar
  • Antipop Consortium– rap
  • Karl Berger– piano
  • Karsh Kale– drums
  • Toshinori Kondo– trumpet
  • Graham Haynes– cornet
  • Robert Musso– engineer
  • Michael Fossenkemper – mastering
  • John Brown – cover art

Track listing:

All tracks by Bill Laswell, except where noted.

  1. X29
  2. Staple Nex – Beans, High Priest, Bill Laswell, M. Sayyid
  3. Broken Toenail Gland – Beans, High Priest, Bill Laswell, M. Sayyid
  4. Cyclops
  5. White Ark
  6. Iron Cross
  7. Conquer Worm
  8. Lightning Teleportation

Charles Mingus: Changes One

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On October 1, 1975, “Atlantic” label released “Changes One”, the 47th Charles Mingus album. It was recorded in December 1974, at “Atlantic Recording Studios” in New York City, and was produced by Ilhan Mimaroglu.

Personnel:

  • Charles Mingus– bass
  • George Adams– tenor saxophone
  • Jack Walrath– trumpet
  • Don Pullen– piano
  • Dannie Richmond– drums
  • Gene Paul– recording
  • Paula Scher– design
  • Nesuhi Ertegün– executive producer

Track listing:

All tracks by Charles Mingus except where noted.

  1. Remember Rockefeller at Attica
  2. Sue’s Changes
  3. Devil Blues – George Adams, Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown, Charlie Mingus
  4. Duke Ellington’s Sound of Love

Dee Dee Bridgewater: Dear Ella

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On September 30, 1997, “Verve” label released “Dear Ella”, the eleventh Dee Dee Bridgewater studio album. It was recorded January – February 1997.  At the 40th Grammy Awards, the album won Bridgewater the “Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal Album” and Slide Hampton the “Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist”, for the arrangement of “Cotton Tail”.

Personnel:

  • Dee Dee Bridgewater– vocals
  • Cecil Bridgewater– trumpet, arranger, conductor
  • Antonio Hart– alto saxophone, soloist
  • Jeff Clayton– alto saxophone
  • Teodross Avery– tenor saxophone
  • Bill Easley– tenor saxophone
  • Patience Higgins – baritone saxophone
  • Virgil Jones – trumpet, horn, soloist
  • Byron Stripling– trumpet
  • Ron Tooley – trumpet
  • Diego Urcola – trumpet
  • Slide Hampton– trombone, arranger, conductor
  • Clarence Banks – trombone, horn, soloist
  • Benny Powell– trombone
  • Robert Trowers– trombone
  • Douglas Purviance– bass trombone
  • Robert Lloyd – horn
  • Anderson – tuba
  • Taylor – flute
  • Jowitt – clarinet
  • Wallbank – bass clarinet
  • J. Morgan – oboe
  • Lou Levy– piano, arranger
  • Milt Jackson– vibraphone
  • Kenny Burrell– guitar, arranger
  • Ray Brown– double bass
  • Grady Tate– drums
  • André Ceccarelli– drums
  • Hakin – percussion
  • Boguslaw Kostecki, A. Noland, T. Williams, R. Wilson – violin
  • Graham and G. Jackson – viola
  • Peter Willison – cello
  • John Clayton – big band arranger, conductor
  • Rob Eaton, Keith Grant, Al Schmitt– engineer
  • Peter Doell, Koji Egawa, Brian Garten, Alex Marcou – engineer assistant
  • Jean Luc Barilla – design
  • Philippe Pierangeli – photography

Track listing:

  1. A-Tisket, A-Tasket – Van Alexander, Ella Fitzgerald
  2. Mack the Knife – Marc Blitzstein, Bertolt Brecht, Kurt Weill
  3. Undecided – Leo Robin, Charlie Shavers
  4. Midnight Sun – Sonny Burke, Lionel Hampton, Johnny Mercer
  5. Let’s Do It, Let’s Fall in Love – Cole Porter
  6. How High the Moon – Morgan Hamilton, Nancy Lewis
  7. (If You Can’t Sing It) You’ll Have to Swing It (Mr. Paganini) – Sam Coslow
  8. Cotton Tail – Duke Ellington
  9. My Heart Belongs to Daddy – Cole Porter
  10. (I’d Like to Get You on a) Slow Boat to China – Frank Loesser
  11. Oh, Lady be Good! – George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin
  12. Stairway to the Stars — Matty Malneck, Mitchell Parish, Frank Signorelli
  13. Dear Ella – Kenny Burrell

Porcupine Tree: Signify

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On September 30, 1996, “Delerium” label released “Signify”, the fourth Porcupine Tree studio album. It was recorded 1995 – 1996, at “No Man’s Land” in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, “The Doghouse”  in Henley-on-Thames,” Katrina & the Waves’ Studio” in Cambridge, and was produced by Steven Wilson.

Personnel:

  • Steven Wilson– vocals, guitars, piano, organ, mellotron, samples,  tapes, banshee guitar, drum programming, chimes, musical boxes, mixing
  • Richard Barbieri- synthesizers, Hammond organ, Prophet V/System 700 electronics, piano, tapes, texture, sequencers
  • Colin Edwin- electric bass, double bass
  • Chris Maitland- voices, drums, cymbals, percussion, vocal harmonies, drum loops, keyboards
  • Terumi – voices
  • Chris Thorpe – mastering
  • John Blackford – art, design

Track listing:

All tracks by Steven Wilson, except where noted.

  1. Bornlivedie – Steven Wilson, Richard Barbieri
  2. Signify
  3. Sleep of No Dreaming
  4. Pagan
  5. Waiting (Phase One)
  6. Waiting (Phase Two)
  7. Sever
  8. Idiot Prayer – Steven Wilson, Colin Edwin
  9. Every Home Is Wired
  10. Intermediate Jesus – Steven Wilson, Richard Barbieri, Colin Edwin, Chris Maitland
  11. Light Mass Prayers – Chris Maitland
  12. Dark Matter (song ends at 8:10; after 19 seconds a hidden track plays)

 

 

Benjamin Clementine: I Tell a Fly

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On September 29, 2017, “Behind” and “Virgin EMI” labels released “I Tell a Fly”, the second Benjamin Clementine studio album. It was recorded 2016 – 2017, at “RAK Studios”, “Abbey Road Studios”, “Studio 13” in London, and was produced by Benjamin Clementine.

Personnel:

  • Benjamin Clementine– vocals, artwork
  • Alexis Bossard – drums
  • Steve Sedgwick – recording, mixing
  • Max Anstruther – recording
  • Wes Maebe – recording
  • Robbie Nelson – recording
  • Duncan Fuller – recording assistant
  • John Davis – mastering
  • Craig Mcdean – photography
  • Akatre – design

Track listing:

All tracks by Benjamin Clementine.

  1. Farewell Sonata
  2. God Save the Jungle
  3. Better Story Than a Safe
  4. Phantom of Aleppoville
  5. Paris Cor Blimey
  6. Jupiter
  7. Ode from Joyce
  8. One Awkward Fish
  9. By the Ports of Europe
  10. Quintessence
  11. Ave Dreamer

Lynyrd Skynyrd: God & Guns

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On September 29, 2009, “Roadrunner” label released “God & Guns”, the thirteenth Lynyrd Skynyrd studio album. It was recorded 2008 – 2009, at “Blackbird Studios” in Nashville, Tennessee, “Studio Sea” in Fort Myers, Florida, “Sound Kitchen” in Franklin, Tennessee, and was produced by Bob Marlette.

Personnel:

  • Johnny Van Zant– lead vocals, harmonica
  • Gary Rossington– guitars
  • Rickey Medlocke– guitars, backing vocals, harmonica
  • Mark Matejka– guitars, backing vocals
  • Ean Evans– bass, backing vocals
  • Michael Cartellone– drums
  • John 5– guitars
  • Billy Powell– keyboards
  • Bob Marlette– piano
  • Michael Rhodes– bass
  • Greg Morrow– drums
  • Jerry Douglas– dobro
  • Rob Zombie– vocals
  • The Honkettes(Dale Krantz-Rossington & Carol Chase) – backing vocals
  • Perry Coleman – backing vocals
  • Lisa Parade – strings arrangements

Track listing:

  1. Still Unbroken – Rickey Medlocke, Gary Rossington, Hughie Thomasson, Johnny Van Zant
  2. Simple Life – Rickey Medlocke, Gary Rossington, Jeffrey Steele, Johnny Van Zant
  3. Little Thing Called You – John Lowery, Rickey Medlocke, Gary Rossington, Johnny Van Zant
  4. Southern Ways – John Lowery, Bob Marlette, Rickey Medlocke
  5. Skynyrd Nation – John Lowery, Bob Marlette, Rickey Medlocke, Johnny Van Zant
  6. Unwrite that Song – Rickey Medlocke, Tony Mullins, Gary Rossington, Steele, Johnny Van Zant
  7. Floyd – John Lowery, Rickey Medlocke, Gary Rossington, Johhny Van Zant
  8. That Ain’t My America – Rickey Medlocke, Gary Rossington, Johnny Van Zant, Brad Warren, Brett Warren
  9. Comin’ Back For More – Blair Daly, Rickey Medlocke, Gary Rossington, Johnny Van Zant
  10. God & Guns – Mark Stephen Jones, Travis Meadows, Bud Tower
  11. Storm – John Lowery, Bob Marlette, Rickey Medlocke, Gary Rossington, Johnny Van Zant
  12. Gifted Hands – John Lowery, Bob Marlette, Rickey Medlocke, Gary Rossington, Johnny Van Zant