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Cliff Richard: I’m No Hero

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On September 1, 1980, “EMI” label released “I’m No Hero”, the 23rd Cliff Richard studio album. It was recorded May – June 1980, at “Riverside Recordings” in London, and was produced by Alan Tarney.

Personnel:

  • Cliff Richard – vocals
  • Alan Tarney – guitars, bass guitars, arrangements
  • Michael Boddicker – keyboards
  • Nick Glennie-Smith – keyboards
  • Trevor Spencer – drums

Track listing:

  1. Take Another Look – Alan Tarney
  2. Anything I Can Do – Alan Tarney
  3. A Little in Love – Alan Tarney
  4. Here (So Doggone Blue) – Alan Tarney
  5. Give a Little Bit More – Andy Hill, Jonathan Hodge
  6. In the Night – Rod Bowkett
  7. I’m No Hero – Trevor Spencer, Alan Tarney
  8. Dreamin’ – Leo Sayer, Alan Tarney
  9. A Heart Will Break – Trevor Spencer, Alan Tarney
  10. Everyman – Alan Tarney

They Might Be Giants: Book

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On November 12, 2021, “Idlewild” label released “Book”, the 23rd They Might Be Giants studio album. It was recorded in 2021, and was produced by Pat Dillett.

Personnel:

  • John Flansburgh – vocals, guitars, programming
  • John Linnell – vocals, keyboards, woodwinds
  • Dan Miller – guitars
  • Danny Weinkauf – bass guitar
  • Marty Beller – drums, percussion
  • Stan Harrison – baritone saxophone, flute
  • Curt Ramm – trumpet
  • Dan Levine – trombone, bass trombone
  • Pat Dillett – mixing

Track listing:

All track by John Flansburgh and John Linnell, except where noted.

  1. Synopsis for Latecomers
  2. Moonbeam Rays
  3. I Broke Ny Own Rule
  4. Brontosaurus
  5. Lord Snowdown
  6. If Day for Winnipeg
  7. I Can’t Remember the Dream
  8. Drown the Clown
  9. Darling, the Dose
  10. I Lost Thursday
  11. Part of You Wants to Believe Me
  12. Super Cool
  13. Wait Actually Yeah No
  14. Quit the Circus
  15. Less Than One

Bill Laswell: Hashisheen: The End of the Law

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On May 25, 1999, “Sub Rosa” label released “Hashisheen: The End of Law”, the 23rd Bill Laswell album. It was recorded in 1999, and was produced by Peter Backer and Janet Rienstra.

Personnel:

  • Bill Laswell – bass guitar, effects, musical arrangements
  • Jah Wobble – bass guitar, keyboards, spoken word
  • Helios Creed – guitar, effects
  • Nicky Skopelitis – guitar 
  • Oliver Ray – guitar 
  • Paul Schütze – instruments 
  • Techno Animal – instruments 
  • Anton Fier – drums
  • Jaki Liebezeit – drums
  • Neville Murray – bendir, congas
  • Hakim Bey – spoken word
  • Nicole Blackman – spoken word
  • William S. Burroughs – spoken word
  • Anne Clark – spoken word
  • Ira Cohen – spoken word
  • Lizzy Mercier Descloux – spoken word
  • Sussan Deyhim – spoken word
  • Umar Bin Hassan – spoken word
  • Percy Howard – spoken word
  • Genesis P-Orridge – spoken word
  • Iggy Pop – spoken word
  • Patti Smith – spoken word
  • Janet Rienstra – musical arrangements
  • Hugo Scholten – engineer
  • Peter Becker – engineer
  • Mark Ferda – engineer, mixing

Track listing:

  1. First Reading
  2. The Old Man of the Mountain
  3. The Western Lands
  4. The Spilled Cup
  5. Marco Pol’s Tale
  6. Pilgrimage to Cairo
  7. Freya Stark at Alamut
  8. Castles
  9. Hashish Poem
  10. Sinan’s Post
  11.  Assassinations
  12. The Mongols Destroy Alamut
  13. The Divine Self
  14. Morning High
  15. A Quick Trip to Alamut
  16. Slogans
  17. Book of the Highest Initiation
  18.  The Lord of Resurrection
  19. The Assassins
  20. Tale of the Caliph Hakem
  21. The Assassins
  22. Last Reading

Bonnie Prince Billy: Made a Place

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On November 15, 2019, “Drag City” label released “Made a Place”, the 23rd Bonnie “Prince” Billy (Will Oldham) album. It was recorded in 2019, at “Downtown Recording” in Louisville, Kentucky, US, and was produced by Mark Nevers.

Personnel:

  • Bonnie “Prince” Billy – vocals, guitar
  • Jacob Duncan – woodwind, keyboards
  • Chris Rodahaffer – banjo, pedal steel guitar
  • Nathan Salsburg – guitar
  • Joan Shelley – vocals
  • Danny Kiely – bass guitar
  • Mike Hyman – drums
  • Cheyenne Mize – fiddle
  • Chris Greenwell – recording
  • Carl Saff – mastering
  • Dan Osborn – layout

Track listing:

All tracks by Bonnie “Prince” Billy.

  1. New Memory Box
  2. Dream Awhile
  3. The Devil’s Throat
  4. Look Backward on Your Future, Look Forward to Your Past
  5. I Have Made a Place
  6. Squid Eye
  7. You Know the One
  8. This Is Far from Over
  9. Nothing Is Busted
  10. Mama Mama
  11. The Glow, Pt. 3
  12. Thick Air
  13. Building a Fire

Fall: The Real New Fall LP

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On October 27, 2003, “Action Records” label released “The Real New Fall LP (Formerly Country on the Click)”, the 23rd Fall studio album. It was recorded December 2002 – January 2003, at “Gracieland Studios” in Rochdale, and was produced by Mark E. Smith, Ben Pritchard, Jim Watts, Dave Milner, Elena Poulou, and Simon Archer.

Personnel:

  • Mark E. Smith – lead vocals
  • Ben Pritchard – lead guitar, backing vocals
  • Jim Watts – bass guitar, guitar, keyboards, computer, backing vocals
  • Dave Milner – lead and backing vocals, drums
  • Elena Poulou – keyboards, backing vocals
  • S. Beswick – keyboards
  • Simon “Ding” Archer – bass guitar, backing vocals
  • Ed Blaney – backing vocals

Track listing:

  1. Green Eyed Loco-Man  – Mark E. Smith, Jim Watts
  2. Mountain Energei – Dave Milner, Mark E. Smith
  3. Theme From Sparta F.C. – Ben Pritchard, Mark E. Smith, Jim Watts
  4. Contraflow – Mark E. Smith, Jim Watts
  5. Last Commands of Xyralothep Via M.E.S. – Dave Milner, Mark E. Smith
  6. Open the Boxoctosis #2 – Mark E. Smith, Jim Watts
  7. Janet, Johnny + James – Ben Pritchard, Mark E. Smith
  8. The Past #2 – Mark E. Smith, Jim Watts
  9. Loop41 ‘Houston – Lee Hazlewood
  10. Mike’s Love Xexagon – Mark E. Smith, Jim Watts
  11. Proteinprotection – Dave Milner, Ben Pritchard, Mark E. Smith, Jim Watts
  12. Recovery Kit – Ben Pritchard, Mark E. Smith

Keith Jarrett: The Melody at Night with You

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On October 14, 1999, “ECM” label released “The Melody at Night, with You”, the 23rd Keith Jarrett solo piano album. It was recorded in 1998, at “Cavelight Studio” in New Jersey, and was produced by Manfred Eicher and Keith Jarrettt.

Personnel:

  • Keith Jarrett – piano, engineer
  • Sascha Kleis – design
  • Daniela Nowitzki – cover photography
  • Rose Anne Jarrett – liner photography

Track listing:

  1. I Loves You, Porgy – George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin, Dubose Heyward
  2. I Got It Bad (and That Ain’t Good) – Duke Ellington, Paul Francis Webster
  3. Don’t Ever Leave Me – Oscar Hammerstein II, Jerome Kern
  4. Someone to Watch over Me – George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin
  5. My Wild Irish Rose – traditional
  6. Blame It on My Youth/Meditation – Edward Heyman, Oscar Levant, Keith Jarrett
  7. Something to Remember You By – Howard Dietz, Arthur Schwartz
  8. Be My Love – Nicholas Brodszky, Sammy Cahn
  9. Shenandoah – traditional
  10. I’m Through With Love – Gus Kahn, Fud Livingston, Matty Malneck

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

Sonny Rollins: The Standard Sonny Rollins

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In August 1964, “RCA Victor” label released “The Standard Sonny Rollins”, the 23rd Sonny Rollins album. It was recorded June – July 1064, in New York City, and was produced by George Avakian.

Personnel:

  • Sonny Rollins– tenor saxophone
  • Herbie Hancock- piano
  • Jim Hall- guitar
  • David Izenzon- bass
  • Teddy Smith– bass
  • Bob Cranshaw– bass
  • Stu Martin- drums
  • Mickey Roker– drums

Track listing:

  1. Autumn Nocturne – Kim Gannon, Josef Myrow
  2. Night and Day- Cole Porter
  3. Love Letters – Edward Heyman, Victor Young
  4. My One and Only Love – Robert Mellin, Guy Wood
  5. Three Little Words – Bert Kalmar, Harry Ruby
  6. Trav’lin’ Light – Johnny Mercer, Jimmy Mundy, Trummy Young
  7. I’ll Be Seeing You – Sammy Fain, Irving Kahal
  8. My Ship – Ira Gershwin, Kurt Weill
  9. It Could Happen to You – Johnny Burke, Jimmy Van Heusen
  10. Long Ago (and Far Away) – George Gershwin, Jerome Kern

Chick Corea: Three Quartets

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In July 1981, “Stretch Records” label released “Three Quartets” the 23rd Chick Corea album. It was recorded January – February 1981, at “Mad Hatter Studios” in Los Angeles, and was produced by Chick Corea.

Personnel:

  • Chick Corea– piano, drums
  • Michael Brecker– tenor saxophone
  • Eddie Gómez– double bass
  • Steve Gadd– drums
  • Bernie Kirsh – recording, mixing
  • Duncan Aldrich – engineer assistant
  • Stephen Marcussen – remastering
  • Sonny Mediana – design
  • Andy Baltimore – creative director
  • Dan Serrano – design
  • Andy Ruggirello – design
  • Darryl Pitt – photography
  • Susan Garson – project coordinator
  • Richard Veloso – art producer
  • Joel Strote – associate executive producer
  • Adam Zelinka – post producer

Track listing:

All tracks by Chick Corea except where noted.

  1. Quartet No. 1
  2. Quartet No. 3
  3. Quartet No. 2 – Part I (Dedicated to Duke Ellington)
  4. Quartet No. 2 – Part II (Dedicated to John Coltrane)

Stephan Micus: Nomad Song

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On June 19, 2015, “ECM” label released “Nomad Songs”, the 23rd Stephan MIcus studio album. It was recorded 2012 – 2014, at “MCM Studios”, and was produced by Stephan Micus.

Personnel:

  • Stephan Micus– voice, ndingo, genbri, steel-string guitar, suling, ney, rewab, rebab, twelve-string guitar, fourteen-string guitar, tin whistle, shakuhachi

Track listing:

All tracks by Stephan Micus.

  1. Everywhere, Nowhere
  2. Leila
  3. The Promise
  4. The Stars
  5. The Spring
  6. The Blessing
  7. The Feast
  8. Laughing at the Thunder
  9. Sea of Grass
  10. The Dance
  11. Under the Chinar Trees