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Jack White: Entering Heaven Alive

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On July 22, 2022, “Third Man Records” label released “Entering Heaven Alive”, the fifth Jack White studio album. It was recorded in 2012, at “Third Man Studio” in Nashville, and was produced by Jack White.

Personnel:

  • Jack White – vocals, acoustic and electric guitar, piano, Wurlitzer piano, Hammond organ, bass guitar, ukele bass, drums, percussion, vibraphone, Wurlitzer piano, Chamberlin drum machine, Mellotron M4000D, Hammond Solovox, analog Mellotron, Septavox synthesizer, engineer, mixing
  • Pokey LaFarge – acoustic guitar
  • Dan Mancini – acoustic guitar
  • Mark Watrous – piano, additional keys, Wurlitzer piano
  • Dean Fertita – Wurlitzer piano solo
  • Cory Younts – live piano, piano
  • Quincy McCrary – piano
  • Jack Lawrence – bass guitar
  • Dominic Davis – bass guitar, upright bass
  • Olivia Jean – Tic-Tac bass guitar, electric guitar, live percussion, shakers
  • Ben Swank – drums
  • Patrick Keeler – drums
  • Daru Jones – drums
  • Fats Kaplin – violin, viola, strings
  • Joshua V. Smith – engineer, mixing
  • Bill Skibbe – engineer, mixing, mastering
  • The Third Man – packaging design
  • Rob Jones (at Animal Rummy) – packaging design
  • Sara Deck – photo restoration and touch-up
  • Nikolai Matorin – front cover photograph (Rhythm of Labor, 1960)
  • Ed Westcott – back cover and inner sleeve photographs (Civil Defense air raid drill, Highland View School, 1953)

Track listing:

All tracks are written by Jack White.

  1. A Tip from You to Me
  2. All Along the Way
  3. Help Me Along
  4. Life Is Selfish
  5. I’ve Got You Surrounded (With My Love)
  6. Queen of the Bees
  7. A Tree on Fire from Within
  8. If I Die Tomorrow
  9. Please God, Don’t Tell Anyone
  10. A Madman from Manhattan
  11. Taking Me back (Gently)

Hank Mobley: Newark 1953

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On April 17, 2012, “Uptown Records” label released “Newark 1953”, album by Hank Mobley. It was recorded in September 1953, at “The Picadilly Club” in New Jersey, and was produced by Robert E. Sunenblick.

Personnel:

  • Hank Mobley – tenor sax
  • Bennie Green – trombone
  • Walter Davis Jr. – piano
  • Jimmy Schenck – bass
  • Charli Persip – drums
  • Ozzie Cadena – recording

Track listing:

  1. Ow – John Birks Gillespie
  2. There’s a Small Hotel – Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers
  3. Ballad Medley: Damn That Dream / Where or When / In Love in Vain / Stardust – Hoagy Carmichael, Eddie DeLange, Lorenz Hart, James Van Heusen, Jerome Kern, Mitchell Parish, Leo Robin, Richard Rodgers
  4. All the Things You Are – Oscar Hammerstein II, Jerome Kern
  5. Jumpin’ with Symphony Sid – Lester Young
  6. Announcement
  7. Lullaby of Birdland – George Shearing
  8. Embraceable You – George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin
  9. Keen and Peachy – Ralph Burns, Shorty Rogers
  10. Pennies from Heaven – Johnny Burke, Arthur Johnston
  11. Blues Is Green – Bennie Green
  12. ‘S Wonderful – George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin

Little Milton

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On August 4, 2005, James Milton Campbell Jr. aka Little Milton died aged 70. He was a singer and musician (guitar), co-founder of Bobbin Records. He started his recording career in 1853 at “Sun Records”, and also recorded for “Checker Records”, “Meteor, “Stax”, “Glades”, “Golden Ear”, “MCA”, and Malaco. Milton recorded 33 albums, and in 1988 was inducted into the “Blues Hall of Fame”.

Maurice Kinn

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On August 3, 2000, Maurice Kinn, died aged 66. He was publisher, in 1953 bought “The New Musical Express”, and turned it into the world’s foremost music paper, between 1963 and 1966 he organized the annual “NME” poll-winners concerts, and staged the first all-star jazz concerts at the “Royal Albert Hall”, becoming one of the most influential figures of the world music scene in the 1950’ and 1960’.