George Benson: Bad Benson

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On October 13, 1974, “CTI” label released “Bad Benson”, the twelve George Benson album. It was recorded April – June 1974, at “Van Gelder Studio” in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, and was produced by Creed Taylor.

Personnel:

  • George Benson – guitar
  • Phil Upchurch – guitar, electric bass, percussion, musical concept
  • Kenny Barron – piano
  • Ron Carter – bass
  • Steve Gadd – drums
  • Garnett Brown, Warren Covington, Wayne Andre – trombone
  • Paul Faulise – bass trombone
  • Alan Rubin, Joe Shepley, John Frosk – trumpet
  • Phil Bodner – English horn, clarinet, alto flute
  • George Marge – English horn, flute, piccolo flute
  • Ray Beckenstein – flute
  • Al Regni – flute, clarinet
  • Brooks Tillotson, Jim Buffington – French horn
  • Margaret Ross – harp
  • Alan Shulman, Charles McCracken, Frank Levy, Jesse Levy, Paul Tobias, Seymour Barab – cello
  • Don Sebesky – arrangements, conductor
  • Rudy Van Gelder – engineer, mastering
  • Bob Ciano – album’s design
  • Ben Rose – cover photography
  • Pete Turner – liner photography

Track listing:

  1. Take Five – Paul Desmond
  2. Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams – Alan Bergman, Marilyn Bergman, Johnny Mandel
  3. My Latin Brother – George Benson
  4. No Sooner Said Than Done – Phil Upchurch
  5. Full Compass – Phil Upchurch
  6. The Changing World – George Benson, Art Gore

Ray Charles: The Genius Of

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In October 1959, “Atlantic” label released “The Genius of Ray Charles”, the seventh Ray Charles album. It was recorded May – June 1959, at “6 West Recording” in New York City, and was produced by Nesuhi Ertegün and Jerry Wexler.

Personnel:

  • Ray Charles – vocals, piano
  • Allen Hanlon – guitar
  • Wendell Marshall – bass guitar
  • Ted Sommer – drums
  • Clark Terry – trumpet
  • Ernie Royal – trumpet
  • Joe Newman – trumpet
  • Snooky Young – trumpet
  • Marcus Belgrave – trumpet
  • John Hunt – trumpet
  • Melba Liston – trombone
  • Quentin Jackson – trombone
  • Thomas Mitchell – trombone
  • Al Grey – trombone
  • Frank Wess – flute
  • Clark Terry – trumpet
  • Ernie Royal – trumpet
  • Joe Newman – trumpet
  • Snooky Young – trumpet
  • Marcus Belgrave – trumpet
  • John Hunt – trumpet
  • Melba Liston – trombone
  • Quentin Jackson – trombone
  • Thomas Mitchell – trombone
  • Al Grey – trombone
  • Bob Brookmeyer – valve trombone
  • Frank Wess – flute, alto and tenor saxophone
  • Marshal Royal – alto saxophone
  • Paul Gonsalves – tenor saxophone
  • Zoot Sims – tenor saxophone
  • Billy Mitchell – tenor saxophone
  • David “Fathead” Newman – tenor saxophone
  • Quincy Jones – arranger, conductor
  • Ernie Wilkins – arrangements
  • Ralph Burns – arrangements
  • Ralph Burns – arrangements
  • Johnny Acea – arrangements
  • Al Cohn – arrangements
  • Harry Lookofsky – concertmaster
  • Bill Schwartau, Tom Dowd – recording
  • Marvin Israel – cover design
  • Lee Friedlander – cover photography
  • Nat Hentoff – sleeve notes

Track listing:

  1. Let the Good Times Roll – Sam Theard, Fleecie Moore
  2. It Had to Be You – Gus Kahn, Isham Jones
  3. Alexander’s Ragtime Band – Irving Berlin
  4. Two Years of Torture – Percy Mayfield, Charles Joseph Morris
  5. When Your Lover Has Gone – Einar Aaron Swan
  6. Deed I Do – Walter Hirsch, Fred Rose
  7. Just for a Thrill – Lil Hardin Armstrong, Don Raye
  8. You Won’t Let Me Go – Bud Allen, Buddy Johnson
  9. Tell Me You’ll Wait for Me – Charles Brown, Oscar Moore
  10. Don’t Let the Sun Catch You Cryin’ – Joe Greene
  11. Am I Blue? – Grant Clarke, Harry Akst
  12. Come Rain or Come Shine – Johnny Mercer, Harold Arlen

John Coltrane and Paul Paul Quinichette: Cattin’ with Coltrane and Quinichette

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In October 1959, “Prestige” label “Cattin’ with Coltrane and Quinichette”, an album by John Coltrane and Paul Quinichette. It was recorded in May 1957, at “Van Gelder Studio” in Hackensack, NJ, and was produced by Bob Weinstock.

Personnel:

  • John Coltrane – tenor saxophone 
  • Paul Quinichette – tenor saxophone
  • Julian Euell – double bass
  • Ed Thigpen – drums
  • Mal Waldron – piano

Track listing:

All tracks by Mal Waldron, except where noted

  1. Cattin’
  2. Sunday – Chester Conn, Ned Miller, Jule Styne
  3. Exactly Like You – Jimmy McHugh, Dorothy Fields
  4. Anatomy
  5. Vodka

Glass Hammer: Chronomonaut

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On October 12, 2018, “Arion Records/Audio Resources” label released “Chronomonaut”, the seventeenth Glass Hammer studio album. It was recorded May, July and August 2018, and was produced by Fred Schendel and Steve Babb.

Personnel:

  • Fred Schendel – keyboards, guitars
  • Susie Bogdanowicz – lead vocals
  • Brian Brewer – guitar
  • Chris Herin – guitar
  • Reese Boyd – guitar
  • Phil Stiles – guitar
  • Steve Babb – bass, keyboards
  • Aaron Raulston – drums
  • Jamison Smeltz – saxophone
  • Matthew Parmenter – vocals
  • Bob Katz – mastering
  • Michal Xaay Loranc – cover art, booklet art

Track listing:

  1. The Land of Lost Conten – Fred Schendel
  2. Roll for Initiative – Steve Babb
  3. Twilight of the Godz – Steve Babb
  4. The Past is Past – Fred Schendel
  5. 1980 Something – Steve Babb
  6. A Hole in the Sky – Steve Babb
  7. Clockwork – Fred Schendel
  8. Melancholy Holiday – Steve Bab
  9. It Always Burns Sideways – Fred Schendel
  10. Blinding Light – Steve Babb
  11. Tangerine Meme – Steve Babb
  12. Fade Away – Fred Schendel

The Hidden Cameras: Mississauga Goddam

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On October 12, 2004, “Rough Trade” label released “Mississauga Goddam”, the third Hidden Cameras (The) studio album. It was recorded in 2004, and was produced by Joel Gibb.

Personnel:

  • Joel Gibb – vocals, guitar, drums, bass, glockenspiel, piano, tambourine, organ, kazoo, vibraphone, synthesizer, steel drum, aeuwwgha, artwork, photography
  • Mike e.b. – tambourine
  • Justin Shayshyn – B4 Hammond organ, pipe organ
  • Paul Mathew – double bass
  • Lex Vaughn – drusm, maraca drums, timpanis
  • Matais Rozenberg – drums, spoons, percussion, bass keys
  • Maggie MacDonald – glockenspiel, vibraphone
  • Phil Seguin – trumpet
  • Jennifer Scofield – French horn
  • Ohad Benchetrit – flute
  • Scott Good – trombone
  • Luis Jacob – aeuwwgha
  • Nana Jojura – violin
  • Owen Pallett – violin, piano, celeste
  • Karen Moffat – viola
  • Lief Mosbaugh – viola
  • Don Kerr – cello
  • Amy Laing – cello
  • Mike Olson – cello
  • Kristen Moss – harp
  • Caroline Azar, Amy Bowles, Kate McGee, Glen Sheppard, Megan Dunlop, Tom Lillington, Michael Follert, Reg Vermue – choir
  • Jeff McMurrich – recording
  • Jameson Elliot – engineer assistant

Track listing:

  1. Doot Doot Plot
  2. Builds the Bone
  3. The Fear Is On
  4. That’s When the Ceremony Starts
  5. I Believe in the Good of Life
  6. In the Union of Wine
  7. Music Is My Boyfriend
  8. Bboy
  9. We Oh We
  10. I Want Another Enema
  11. Mississauga Goddam

Freddie Hubbard: First Light

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On October 12, 1971, “CTI” label released “First Light”, the 23rd Freddie Hubbard album. It was recorded in September 1971, at “Van Gelder Studio” in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, and was produced by Creed Taylor.

Personnel:

  • Freddie Hubbard – trumpet, flugelhorn
  • Jack DeJohnette – drums
  • Ron Carter – bass
  • Richard Wyands – piano
  • George Benson – guitar
  • Airto Moreira – percussion
  • Herbie Hancock – Fender Rhodes piano
  • Phil Kraus – vibraphone
  • Hubert Laws – flute
  • Wally Kane – flute, bassoon
  • George Marge – flute, clarinet
  • Romeo Penque – flute, English horn, oboe, clarinet
  • Jane Taylor – bassoon
  • Ray Alonge – French horn
  • James Buffington – French horn
  • Margaret Ross – harp
  • David Nadien – violin
  • Paul Gershman – violin
  • Emanuel Green – violin
  • Harold Kohon – violin
  • Joe Malin – violin
  • Gene Orloff – violin
  • Matthew Raimondi – violin
  • Tosha Samaroff – violin
  • Irving Spice – violin
  • Alfred Brown – viola
  • Emanuel Vardi – viola
  • Charles McCracken – cello
  • George Ricci – cello
  • Don Sebesky – arranger, conductor

Track listing:

  1. First Light – Freddie Hubbard
  2. Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey –  Paul McCartney, Linda McCartney
  3. Moment to Moment – Henry Mancini, Johnny Mercer
  4. Yesterday’s Dreams – Norman Martin, Don Sebesky
  5. Lonely Town (from On the Town) – Leonard Bernstein, Betty Comden, Asolph Green
  6. Fantasy in D – Cedar Walton

Hank Mobley: Hank

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In October 1957, “Blue Note” label released “Hank”, the ninth Hank Mobley album. It was recorded in April 1957, at “Van Gelder Studio” in Hackensack, NJ, and was produced by Alfred Lion.

Personnel:

  • Hank Mobley – tenor saxophone
  • John Jenkins – alto saxophone
  • Donald Byrd – trumpet
  • Bobby Timmons – piano
  • Wilbur Ware – bass
  • Philly Joe Jones – drums

Track listing:

All tracks by Hank Mobley except where noted.

  1. Fit for a Hanker
  2. Hi Groove, Low Feedback
  3. You’d Be So Easy to Love – Cole Porter
  4. Time After Time – Sammy Cahn, Jule Styne
  5. Dance of the Infidels – Bud Powell

Paul Chambers: Bass on Top

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In October 1957, “Blue Note” label released “Bass on Top”, the fourth Paul Chambers album. It was recorded in July 1957, at “Van Gelder Studio” in Hackensack, NJ, and was produced by Alfred Lion.

Personnel:

  • Paul Chambers – bass
  • Hank Jones – piano
  • Kenny Burrell – guitar
  • Art Taylor – drums

Track listing:

  1. Yesterdays – Otto Harbach, Jerome Kern
  2. You’d Be So Nice to Come Home To – Cole Porter
  3. Chasin’ the Bird – Charlie Parker
  4. Dear Old Stockholm – traditional
  5. The Theme – Miles Davis
  6. Confessin’ – Doc Daugherty, Ellis Reynolds, Al J. Neiburg
  7. Chamber Mates – Kenny Burrell, Paul Chambers

Golden Palominos: Pure

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On October 11, 1994, “Restless Records” label released “Pure”, the seventh Golden Palominos studio album. It was recorded in 1994, at “Greenpoint Studios” in Brooklyn, New York, and was produced by Anton Fier.

Personnel:

  • Nicky Skopelitis – guitar, twelve-string guitar
  • Lori Carson – vocals, acoustic guitar
  • Bill Laswell – bass guitar
  • Anton Fier – drums, percussion, programming
  • Knox Chandler – guitar
  • Bootsy Collins – guitar
  • Lydia Kavanagh – vocals
  • Amanda Kramer – keyboards
  • Bruce Calder – recording
  • Garry Rindfuss – recording
  • Rich Costey – recording
  • Oz Fritz – recording, mixing
  • Matt Stein – recording, mixing
  • Howie Weinberg – mastering
  • Masanari Tamai – photography

Track listing:

All tracks by Lori Carson and Anton Fier, except where noted.

  1. Little Suicides
  2. Heaven – Lori Carson, Anton Fier, Nicky Skopelitis
  3. Anything – Anton Fier, Lydia Kavanagh, Nicky Skopelitis
  4. Wings – Lori Carson, Anton Fier, Nicky Skopelitis
  5. Pure
  6. No Skin
  7. Gun – Lori Carson, Anton Fier, Nicky Skopelitis
  8. Break in the Road
  9. Touch You – Anton Fier

John Surman Quartet: Stranger Than Fiction

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On October 11, 1994, “ECM” label released “Stranger than Fiction”, album by John Surman Quartet (the 20th John Surman album overal). It was recorded in December 1993, at “Rainbow Studio” in Oslo, and was produced by Manfred Eicher.

Personnel:

  • John Surman – alto, soprano and baritone saxophone, alto and bass clarinet
  • John Taylor – piano
  • Chris Laurence – bass
  • John Marshall – drums

Track listing:

All tracks by John Surman except where noted.

  1. Canticle with Response
  2. A Distant Spring
  3. Tess
  4. Promising Horizons – John Marshall, John Surman, John Taylor
  5. Across the Bridge
  6. Moonshine Dancer
  7. Running Sands
  8. Triptych: Hidden Orchid/Synapsis/Paratactic Paths

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