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Joe Newman Octet: I’m Still Swinging

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In January 1956, “RCA Victor” label released “I’m Still Swinging”, album by Joe Newman’s Octet (the fifth Joe Newman album overall). It was recorded in October 1955, at “Webster Hall” in New York City, and was produced by Jack Lewis.

Personnel:

  • Joe Newman- trumpet
  • Gene Quill – alto saxophone
  • Al Cohn – tenor saxophone
  • Urbie Green – trombone
  • Dick Katz – piano
  • Freddie Green – guitar
  • Eddie Jones – bass
  • Shadow Wilson – drums
  • Andy Warhol – artwork

Track listing:

  1. Top Hat, White Tie and Tails – Irving Berlin
  2. You Can Depend on Me – Charles Carpenter, Louis Dunlap, Earl Hines
  3. We’ll Be Together Again – Carl Fischer, Frankie Laine
  4. It’s Bad for Me – Cole Porter
  5. Exactly Like You – Jimmy McHugh, Dorothy Fields
  6. Shameful Roger – Manny Albam
  7. The Daughter of Miss Thing – Ernie Wilkins
  8. Sometimes I’m Happy – Vincent Youmans, Irving Caesar
  9. Sweethearts on Parade – Carmen Lombardo, Charles Newman
  10. Slats – Joe Newman, Ernie Wilkins
  11. Lament for a Lost Love – Duke Ellington, Barney Bigard, Irving Mills
  12. Perfidia – Alberto Domínguez, Milton Leeds

Billy Squier: Emotions In Motion

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On July 23, 1982, “Capitol” label released “Emotions in Motion”, the third Billy Squier studio album. It was recorded in 1982, and was produced by Reinhold Mack and Billy Squier.

Personnel:

  • Billy Squier – lead vocals, guitars, mixing
  • Kevin Osborn – guitars
  • Jeff Golub – guitars
  • Alan St. Jon – keyboards, synthesizers, backing vocals
  • Doug Lubahn – bass, backing vocals
  • Bobby Chouinard – drums
  • Dino Solera – saxophones
  • Freddie Mercury, Roger Taylor – backing vocals, “emotional” support
  • Gary Rindfuss – engineer
  • David Thoener – mixing
  • Jim Ball – mixing assistant
  • George Marino – mastering
  • Andy Warhol – artwork

Track listing:

All tracks by Billy Squier.

  1. Everybody Wants You
  2. Emotions in Motion
  3. Learn How to Live
  4. In Your Eyes
  5. Keep Me Satisfied
  6. It Keeps You Rockin’
  7. One Good Woman
  8. She’s a Runner
  9. Catch 22
  10. Listen to the Heartbeat

Johnny Griffin: The Congregation

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In March 1958, “Blue Note” label released “The Congregation”, the fourth Johnny Griffin album. It was recorded in October 1957, and was produced by Alfred Lion.

Personnel:

  • Johnny Griffin – tenor saxophone
  • Sonny Clark – piano
  • Paul Chambers – bass
  • Kenny Dennis – drums
  • Andy Warhol, Reid Miles – cover art

Track listing:

 All tracks by Johnny Griffin, except where noted.

  1. The Congregation
  2. Latin Quarter – John Jenkins
  3. I’m Glad There Is You – Jimmy Dorsey, Paul Mertz
  4. Main Spring
  5. It’s You or No One – Sammy Cahn, Jule Styne
  6. I Remember You – Johnny Mercer, Victor Schertzinger

Kenny Burrell: Same (second album)

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In April 1957, “Blue Note” label released the self-titled, second Kenny Burrell studio album. It was recorded March – May 1956, at “Audio-Video Studios” in New York City and “Van Gelder Studio” in Hackensack, NJ, and was produced by Alfred Lion.

Personnel:

  • Kenny Burrell – guitar
  • Tommy Flanagan – piano 
  • Frank Foster – tenor saxophone
  • Paul Chambers – bass
  • Oscar Pettiford – bass
  • Kenny Clarke – drums
  • Shadow Wilson – drums
  • Candido – conga 
  • Andy Warhol – cover art

Track listing:

All tracks by Kenny Burrell except where noted.

  1. Get Happy – Harold Arlen, Ted Koehler
  2. But Not for Me – George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin
  3. Moten Swing – Bennie Moten
  4. Cheetah
  5. Now See How You Are – Woody Harris, Oscar Pettiford
  6. Phinupi
  7. How About You? – Burton Lane, Ralph Freed

Nico: Chelsea Girl

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In October 1967, “Verve” label released “Chelsea Girl”, the debut Nico solo album. It was recorded April – May 1967, at “Mayfair Recording Studios” in Manhattan, and was produced by Tom Wilson. The album name is a reference to Andy Warhol’s 1966 movie “Chelsea Girls”, in which Nico starred.

Personnel:

  • Christa “Nico” Päffgen– vocals
  • Jackson Browne– electric guitar
  • Lou Reed– electric guitar
  • Sterling Morrison– electric guitar
  • John Cale– viola, organ, guitar
  • Val Valentin- director of engineering
  • Gary Kellgren- recording, remix
  • Larry Fallon– string and flute arrangements
  • Paul Morrissey- photography

Track listing:

  1. The Fairest of the Seasons – Jackson Browne, Gregory Copeland
  2. These Days – Jackson Browne
  3. Little Sister – John Cale, Lou Reed
  4. Winter Song – John Cale
  5. It Was a Pleasure Then – Lou Reed, John Cale, Christa Päffgen
  6. Chelsea Girls – Lou Reed, Sterling Morrison
  7. I’ll Keep It With Mine – Bob Dylan
  8. Somewhere There’s a Feather – Jackson Browne
  9. Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams – Lou Reed
  10. Eulogy to Lenny Bruce – Tim Hardin

John Cale: The Academy of Peril

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In July 1972, “Reprise” label released “The Academy in Peril”, the second John cale album. It was recorded in 1972, at “Shipton Manor” in Oxfordshire, “St. Giles Church” in Cripplegate, UK, and was produced by John Cale. The cover concept and art was by Andy Warhol.

Personnel:

  • John Cale – viola, bass, guitar, keyboards
  • Adam Miller – vocals
  • Ron Wood– slide guitar
  • Del Newman – drums
  • Legs Larry Smith– narration
  • The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
  • Jean Bois – mixing
  • Ed Thrasher– photography

Track listing:

All tracks by John Cale.

  1. The Philosopher
  2. Brahms
  3. Legs Larry at Television Centre
  4. The Academy in Peril
  5. Intro / Days of Steam
  6. 3 Orchestral Pieces: Faust/The Balance/Captain Morgan’s Lament
  7. King Harry
  8. John Milton

John Cale: Honi Soit

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In March 1981, “A&M” label released “Honi Soit” the seventh John Cale studio album. It was recorded 1980-1981, at “CBS Studios” and “St. & Media Sound” in New York City, and was produced by Mike Thorne and John Cale. The album cover art was by Andy Warhol.

Personnel:

  • John Cale – lead vocals, guitar, keyboards, viola
  • Sturgis Nikides – guitar, backing vocals
  • Jim Goodwin – keyboards, synthesizer, backing vocals
  • Peter Muny – bass guitar, backing vocals
  • Robert Medici – drums, backing vocals
  • John Gatchell– trumpet
  • Bomberettes – Mo-dettes – backing vocals
  • Harvey Goldberg – recording, mixing
  • Carl Beatty – engineer
  • Harold Tarowsky – engineer assistant
  • John Vogel – design
  • Fred Lorey – photography
  • Warren Frank – flight engineer
  • Louis Tropia – logistics

Track listing:

All tracks by John Cale; except where noted.

  1. Dead or Alive
  2. Strange Times in Casablanca
  3. Fighter Pilot
  4. Wilson Joliet
  5. Streets of Laredo – traditional, arr. by John Cale
  6. Honi Soit (La Première Leçon de Français)
  7. Riverbank
  8. Russian Roulette
  9. Magic & Lies

Lou Reed And John Cale: Songs For Drella

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Songs_for_Drella

On April 11, 1990, “Sire” label released “Songs for Drella”, album by Lou Reed and John Cale, dedicated to the memory of Andy Warhol. Drella was a nickname for Warhol coined by Warhol superstar Ondine. The album was recorded December 1989 and January 1990, at “Sigma Sound” in New York City, and was produced by Lou Reed and John Cale.

Personnel:

  • John Cale– vocals, keyboards, viola
  • Lou Reed– vocals, guitar

Track listing:

All tracks by Lou Reed and John Cale.

  1. Smalltown
  2. Open House
  3. Style It Takes
  4. Work
  5. Trouble with Classicists
  6. Starlight
  7. Faces and Names
  8. Images
  9. Slip Away (A Warning)
  10. It Wasn’t Me
  11. I Believe
  12. Nobody But You
  13. A Dream
  14. Forever Changed
  15. Hello It’s Me

 

David Bowie: Hunky Dory

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Hunky Dory

On December 17, 1971, “RCA” label released “Hunky Dory”, the fourth David Bowie album. It was recorded June – August 1971, at the “Trident Studios” in London, and was produced by David Bowie and Ken Scott. In 2010, “Time” magazine placed the album on its list of “100 best albums of all time”.

Personnel:

  • David Bowie – vocals, guitar, alto and tenor saxophone, piano
  • Mick Ronson – vocals, guitar, Mellotron, arrangements
  • Rick Wakeman – piano
  • Trevor Bolder – bass guitar, trumpet
  • Mick Woodmansey – drums
  • George Underwood – cover art

Track listing:

All tracks by David Bowie, except where noted.

  1. Changes
  2. Oh! You Pretty Things
  3. Eight Line Poem
  4. Life on Mars
  5. Kooks
  6. Quicksand
  7. Fill Your Heart – Biff Rose, Paul Williams
  8. Andy Warhol
  9. Song for Bob Dylan
  10. Queen Bitch
  11. The Bewlay Brothers

John Lennon: Menlove Ave

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John Lennon-Menlove Avenue

On November 3, 1986, “Parlaphone” label released “Menlove Ave”, the  second John Lennon posthumous album. The album featured outtakes from “Rock’n’Roll” and “Walls and Bridges” sessions, produced by Phil Spector and John Lennon.

Personnel:

  • John Lennon – vocals, guitar, keyboards, piano, arrangements
  • Jesse Ed Davis – guitar
  • Klaus Voorman – bass
  • Jim Keltner – drums
  • Arthur Jenkins – percussion
  • Little Big Horns – horns
  • Dave Thoener – engineer
  • Ed Sprigg – engineer
  • Lee Keifer – engineer
  • Roy Cicala – engineer
  • Shelly Yakus – engineer
  • Jim Lovine – engineer assistant
  • Rob Stevens – mixing
  • George Marino – mastering
  • Roy Kohara – art direction
  • Mark Shoolery – art direction
  • Andy Warhol – illustration
  • Yoko Ono – liner notes

Track listing:

All tracks by John Lennon, except where noted.

  1. Here We Go Again – John Lennon, Phil Spector
  2. Rock and Roll People
  3. Angel Baby – Rosie Hamlin
  4. Since My Baby Left Me – Arthur Crudup
  5. To Know Her Is to Love Her – Phil Spector
  6. Steel and Glass
  7. Scared
  8. Old Dirt Road – John Lennon, Harry Nilsson
  9. Nobody Loves You
  10. Bless You