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Dave Brubeck: Brubeck Plays Brubeck

On July 16, 1956, “Columbia” label released “Brubeck Plays Brubeck”, the 18th Dave Brubeck album. It was recorded in April 1956, at Dave Brubeck’s House in Oakland, and was produced by George Avakian.

Personnel:

  • Dave Brubeck – piano
  • S. Neil Fujita – design

Track listing:

All tracks by Dave Brubeck.

  1. Swing Bells
  2. Walkin’ Line
  3. In Your Own Sweet Way
  4. Two-Part Contention
  5. Weep No More
  6. The Duke
  7. When I Was Young
  8. One Moment Worth Years
  9. The Waltz

Ramsey Lewis: Maiden Voyage

In July 1968, “Cadet” label released “Maiden Voyage”, the 29th Ramsey Lewis album. It was recorded in April 1968, at “Universal Recording Studio” in Chicago, and was produced by Richard Evans.

Personnel:

  • Ramsey Lewis – piano
  • Cleveland Eaton – bass, arrangements
  • Maurice White – drums
  • Charles Stepney – arrangements
  • Doug Brand – engineer
  • Jerry Griffith – design
  • Ryell Ho – photography
  • Richard Evans – supervision

Track listing:

  1. Maiden Voyage – Herbie Hancock
  2. Mighty Quinn – Bob Dylan
  3. Sweet Rain – Mike Gibbs
  4. Lady Madonna – John Lennon, Paul McCartney
  5. Do You Know the Way to San Jose – Burt Bacharach, Hal David
  6. Ode – Charles Stepney
  7. Les Fleur – Charles Stepney
  8. Since You’ve Been Gone – Aretha Franklin, Ted White
  9. In The Heat of the Night – Quincy Jones
  10. Afro-Boogaloo Twist – Cleveland Eaton
  11. Only When I’m Dreaming – Charles Stepney, Alex Dino
  12. Eternal Journey – Charles Stepney, Ramsey Lewis

Saves The Day: Stay What You Are

\On July 10, 2001, “Vagrant” label released “Stay What You Are”, the third Saves the Day studio album. It was recorded March – April 2001, at “Sunset Sound” and “Sound Factory” in Hollywood, “Sonora Sound” in Los Feliz, California, and was produced by Rob Schnapf.

Personnel:

  • Chris Conley – vocals
  • David Soloway – lead guitar
  • Ted Alexander – rhythm guitar
  • Richard Barron – organ 
  • Eben D’Amico – bass
  • Bryan Newman – drums
  • Josh Turner – Pro Tools engineer
  • Doug Boehm – recording, mixing
  • Rob Schnapf – mixing
  • Steven Rhodes – assistant
  • Seth Mclain – assistant
  • Don C. Tyler – mastering
  • Joby J. Ford – design
  • Bryan Newman – design, photography
  • Jeremy Weiss – additional booklet photography
  • Kevin Kusatsu – additional booklet photography

Track listing:

All tracks by Bryan Newman, Chris Conley, David Soloway, Eben D’Amico and Ted Alexander.

  1. At Your Funeral
  2. See You
  3. Cars & Calories
  4. Certain Tragedy
  5. Jukebox Breakdown
  6. Freakish
  7. As Your Ghost Takes Flight
  8. Nightingale
  9. All I’m Losing Is Me
  10. This Is Not an Exit
  11. Firefly

The Mastersounds: Kismet

In July 1958, “World Pacific” label released “Kismet”, album by Mastersounds (The). It was recorded in April 1958, at “Forum Theatre” in Los Angeles, and was produced by Richard Bock.

Personnel:

  • Buddy Montgomery – vibraphone
  • Wes Montgomery – guitar
  • Richie Crabtree – piano
  • Monk Montgomery – Fender electric bass
  • Benny Barth – drums

Track listing:

All tracks by Alexander Borodin, Robert Wright and George Forrest.

  1. Overture: Not Since Nineveh/Olive Tree/Stranger in Paradise/And This Is My Beloved/Night of Nights/Sands of Time
  2. Gesticulate and Rhymes Have I
  3. Olive Tree
  4. Not Since Nineveh
  5. Baubles, Bangles, & Beads
  6. Fate
  7. And This Is My Beloved
  8. Stranger in Paradise

Jack DeJohnette: Have You Heard?

On July 4, 1970, “Milestone” label released “Have You Heard?”, the second Jack DeJohnette album. It was recorded in April 1970, at “Toshi Center Hall” in Akasaka, Tokyo.

Personnel:

  • Jack DeJohnette – voice, drums, electric piano
  • Bennie Maupin – tenor saxophone, bass clarinet, flute
  • Hideo Ichikawa – piano
  • Gary Peacock – bass

Track listing:

All tracks by Jack DeJohnette, except where noted.

  1. Neophilia (Love of the New) – Bennie Maupin
  2. Papa-Daddy
  3. Have You Heard?
  4. For Jane

Randy Weston: Blue Moses

In June 1972, “CTI” label released “Blue Moses”, the 21st Randy Weston album. It was recorded March – April 1972, at “Van Gelder Studio” in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, and was produced by Creed Taylor.

Personnel:

  • Randy Weston – electric piano
  • Grover Washington, Jr. – tenor saxophone
  • Freddie Hubbard – trumpet
  • John Frosk, Alan Rubin, Marvin Stamm – trumpet, flugelhorn
  • Garnett Brown, Warren Covington – trombone
  • Wayne Andre – trombone, baritone horn
  • Paul Faulise – bass trombone
  • James Buffington, Brooks Tillotson – French horn
  • Hubert Laws – flute, alto flute, bass flute, piccolo
  • Romeo Penque – clarinet, flute, alto flute, bass flute, piccolo, oboe, English horn
  • George Marge – clarinet, flute, alto flute, bass flute, English horn
  • David Horowitz – synthesizer
  • Ron Carter, Vishnu Bill Wood – bass
  • Billy Cobham – drums
  • Phil Kraus, Airto Moreira, Azzedin Weston – percussion
  • Madame Meddah – vocals
  • Don Sebesky – arrangements, conductor
  • Rudy Van Gelder – engineer
  • Bob Ciano – design

Track listing:

All tracks by Randy Weston.

  1. Ifrane
  2. Ganawa (Blue Moses)
  3. Night in Medina
  4. Marrakesh Blues

The Beach Boys: Friends

On June 24, 1968, “Capitol” label released “Friends”, the 14th Beach Boys (The) studio album. It was recorded February – April 1968, at “ID Sound” in Los Angels, and was produced by Al Jardine, Bruce Johnston, Mike Love, Brian Wilson, Carl Wilson and Dennis Wilson.  

Personnel:

  • Mike Love – vocals
  • Carl Wilson – vocals, guitar, bass
  • Brian Wilson – vocals, organ, piano
  • Dennis Wilson – vocals, harmonium, congas
  • Bruce Johnston – vocals, keyboard, piano
  • Al Jardine – vocals, electric bass
  • Marilyn Wilson – vocals
  • Murry Wilson – vocals
  • David Cohen – guitar
  • Al Vescovo – banjo, guitar, lap steel guitar
  • Jim Ackley – keyboard, guitar
  • Tommy Morgan – harmonica, bass harmonica
  • Jimmy Bond – upright bass
  • Lyle Ritz – electric bass, upright bass, ukulele
  • Jim Gordon – drums, woodblocks, bell, congas, timbales
  • Norm Jeffries – drums
  • Gene Pello – drums
  • Alan Estes – vibraphone, woodblocks, chimes
  • Bill Green – saxophone
  • Jim Horn – saxophone, clarinet
  • Don Englert – saxophone, clarinet
  • Roy Caton – trumpet
  • Robert T. Jung – saxophone
  • Bill Perkins – saxophone
  • Meyer Hirsch J. Kenneth Jensen – saxophone
  • Jay Migliori – saxophone, clarinet, bass clarinet
  • Tom Scott – saxophone, bass flute
  • David Sherr – saxophone, oboe
  • Tony Terran – trumpet
  • Ollie Mitchell – trumpet
  • Dick Forrest – trumpet
  • Dick Hyde – tuba, flugelhorn
  • John DeVoogt – violin
  • Bonnie Douglas – violin
  • Arnold Belnick – violin
  • William Kurasch – violin
  • Jay Rosen – violin
  • Ralph Schaeffer – violin
  • Leonard Malarsky – violin
  • Paul Shure – violin
  • Norman Botnick – viola
  • David Burk – viola
  • Raymond Kelley – cello
  • Jacqueline Lustgarden – cello
  • Jim Lockert – engineer

Track listing:

  1. Meant for You – Brian Wilson, Mike Love
  2. Friends – Brian Wilson, Carl Wilson, Dennis Wilson, Al Jardine
  3. Wake the World – Brian Wilson, Al Jardine
  4. Be Here in the Mornin’ – Brian Wilson, Carl Wilson, Dennis Wilson, Mike Love, Al Jardine
  5. When a Man Needs a Woman – Brian Wilson, Dennis Wilson, Carl Wilson, Al Jardine, Steve Korthof, Jon Parks
  6. Passing By – Brian Wilson
  7. Amma Lee, the Healer – Brian Wilson, Mike Love
  8. Little Bird – Dennis Wilson, Steve Kalinich
  9. Be Still – Dennis Wilson, Steve Kalinich
  10. Busy Doin’ Nothin’ – Brian Wilson
  11. Diamond Head – Al Vescovo, Lyle Ritz, Jim Ackley, Brian Wilson
  12. Transcendental Meditation – Brian Wilson, Mike Love, Al Jardine

Christian Scott: Diaspora

On June 23, 2017, “Ropeadope” label released “Diaspora”, the eleventh Christian Scott album. It was recorded in April 2016, at “The Parlor” in New Orleans, and was produced by Christian Scott (Chief Xian aTunde Adjuah) and Chris Dunn.

Personnel:

  • Christian Scott – trumpet, siren, sirenette, reverse flugelhorn, SPD-SX, sampling, sonic architecture
  • Lawrence Fields – piano
  • Cliff Hines – guitar
  • Kris Funn – bass
  • Corey Fonville – drums, SPD-SX
  • Joe Dyson Jr. – pan-African Drums, SPD-SX
  • Weedie Braimah – djembe, bata, congas
  • Chief Shaka Shaka – dununba, sangban, kenikeni
  • Beaxton Cook – alto saxophone
  • Elena Pinderhughes – flute
  • Sarah Elizabeth Charles – vocals

Track listing:

  1. Diaspora – Christian Scott, Lawrence Fields
  2. IDK – Christian Scott, Lawrence Fields
  3. Our Ladu Of New Orleans – Christian Scott
  4. Bae (Interlude) – Lawrence Fields
  5. Desire and Burning Girl – Christian Scott
  6. Uncrown Her – John Key Jr.
  7. Lawless – Christian Scott, Lawrence Fields
  8. Completely – Christian Scott
  9. New Jack Bounce (Interlude) – Christian Scott
  10. No Love – Erik Bodin, Fredrik Wallin, Håkan Wirenstrandm Yukimi Nagano
  11. The Walk – Christian Scott, Lawrence Fields, Sarah Elizabeth Charles

Cannonbal Adderley: Domination

In June 1965, “Capitol” label released “Domination”, the 33rd Cannonball Adderley album. It was recorded April – May 1970, at “Capitol Studios” in New York City, and in Los Angeles, and was produced by David Axelrod.

Personnel:

  • Cannonball Adderley – alto saxophone
  • Marshal Royal, Phil Woods – alto saxophone
  • Budd Johnson – tenor saxophone, clarinet, flute 
  • Bob Ashton – tenor saxophone, bass clarinet, flute
  • Danny Bank – baritone saxophone, bass clarinet, flute
  • Nat Adderley – cornet, trumpet
  • Jimmy Maxwell, Jimmy Nottingham, Clark Terry, Snooky Young – trumpet
  • Jimmy Cleveland, Willie Dennis, Jay Jay Johnson – trombone
  • Don Butterfield – tuba
  • Joe Zawinul – piano, electric piano
  • Richard Davis, Sam Jones, Walter Booker – bass
  • Grady Tate, Louis Hayes, Roy McCurdy – drums
  • Unidentified percussion
  • Unidentified 42-piece orchestra
  • Oliver Nelson, William Fischer – conductor, arrangements

Track listing:

All tracks by Julian “Cannonball” Adderley, except where noted.

  1. Domination
  2. Cyclops – Nat Adderley
  3. Introduction to a Samba
  4. Shake a Lady – Ray Bryant
  5. Interlude – Jay Jay Johnson
  6. Mystified (aka Angel Face) – Joe Zawinul
  7. I Worship You – Cole Porter
  8. Gon Gong – Victor Feldman
  9. Experience in E – William Fischer, Joe Zawinul

James Taylor: JT

On June 22, 1977, “Columbia” label released “JT”, the eighth James Taylor studio album. It was recorded March – April 1977, at “The Sound Factory” in Los Angeles, and was produced by Peter Asher.

Personnel:

  • James Taylor – lead and backing vocals, acoustic guitar
  • Danny Kortchmar – guitars
  • Dan Dugmore – steel guitar
  • Dr. Clarence McDonald – keyboards
  • Leland Sklar – bass guitar
  • Russ Kunkel – drums, castanets, wood block, tambourine, handclaps 
  • Peter Asher – tambourine, cowbell, castanets, cabasa, wood block, handclaps 
  • David Sanborn – saxophone
  • Red Callender – tuba
  • David Campbell – viola, string arrangements, conductor
  • Linda Ronstadt – harmony vocals
  • Carly Simon – harmony vocals
  • Leah Kunkel – backing vocals
  • Val Garay – recording, mixing
  • Doug Sax – mastering
  • John Kosh – art direction, design
  • David Alexander – front cover, sleeve photos
  • Jim Shea – back cover, inside photos

Track listing:

All tracks by James Taylor, except where noted.

  1. Your Smiling Faces
  2. There We Are
  3. Honey Don’t Leave L.A. – Danny Kortchmar
  4. Another Grey Morning
  5. Bartender’s Blues
  6. Secret O’ Life
  7. Handy Man – Otis Blackwell, Jimmy Jones
  8. I Was Only Telling a Lie
  9. Looking for Love on Broadway
  10. Terra Nova – Carly Simon, James Taylor
  11. Traffic Jam
  12. If I Keep My heart Out of My Sigh