In June 1978, “Warner Bros” label released “Jazz”, the seventh Ry Cooder album. It was recorded in 1978 at “Amigo” in Hollywood, and was produced by Ry Cooder and Joseph Byrd.
Personnel:
Ry Cooder – vocals, guitar, dobro, mandolin, tiple, harp
David Lindley – mandobanjo, mandolin
John Rodby – piano
Earl Hines – piano
Barbara Starkey – pump organ
Chuck Berghofer – bass
Tom Pedrini – bass
Chuck Domanico – bass
Mark Stevens – drums
Harvey Pittel – alto saxophone, clarinet
Pat Rizzo – alto saxophone
Bill Hood – bass saxophone
George Bohanon – baritone horn
Mario Guarneri – cornet
Oscar Brashear – cornet
Randy Aldcroft – trombone
Willie Schwartz – clarinet
David Sherr – bass clarinet
Red Callender – tuba
Tom Collier – marimba, vibraphone
Stuart Brotman – cimbalom
Jimmy Adams – backing vocals
Cliff Givens – backing vocals
Bill Johnson – backing vocals
Simon Pico Payne – backing vocals
Track listing:
Big Bad Bill (Is Sweet William Now) – Milton Ager, Jack Yellen
Face to Face That I Shall Meet Him – traditional; adapted by Joseph Spence
The Pearls / Tia Juana – Jelly Roll Morton; adapted by Ry Cooder
The Dream – Jack the Bear, Jess Pickett
Happy Meeting in Glory – traditional; adapted by Joseph Spence
In a Mist – Bix Beiderbecke
Flashes – Bix Beiderbecke
Davenport Blues – Bix Beiderbecke
Shine – Cecil Mack, Ford Dabney
Nobody – Bert Williams
We Shall Be Happy – traditional; adapted by Joseph Spence
On August 22, 1977, “Caribou” label released “Pacific Ocean Blue”, the only Dennis Wilson album. It was recorded 1974 – 1977, at “Brother Studios” in Santa Monica, California, and was produced by Gregg Jacobson, Carli Muñoz and Dennis Wilson.
Personnel:
Dennis Wilson – lead and backing vocals, piano, Hammond organ, ARP synthesizer, Moog bass, Minimoog, Clavinet, Fender Rhodes, drums, percussion, bass harmonica, tuba, lap steel guitar, violin, viola, cello, arrangements
Carl Wilson – co-lead and backing vocals, lead and rhythm guitar
Eddie Tuleja – lead and rhythm guitar, slide guitar, banjo, mandolin, backing vocals
Earle Mankey – guitar, engineer
Billy Hinsche – rhythm guitar, backing vocals
John Hanlon – lead guitar, engineer
Ed Carter – lead and rhythm guitar, bass guitar
Sterling Smith – ARP synthesizer, Moog Taurus
Chuck Domanico, James Jamerson, Dave Hessler, Wayne Tweed – bass guitar
Dave Hessler – bass
Mort Klanfer – bass guitar
Hal Blaine – drums
Ricky Fataar – drums, tambourine
Tommy Smith – drums
Bobby Figueroa – drums, congas
Manolo Badrena – percussion
Michael Andreas – alto, tenor baritone saxophone, flute, clarinet
Charles McCarthy – tenor and baritone saxophone, trumpet, cornet, trombone
Lance Buller – trombone, trumpet
Janice Hubbard – oboe
Bill Lamb – trumpet cornet, trombone
Carli Muñoz – harpsichord, percussion
Gayle Levant – harp
Bruce Johnston – backing vocals, vocal arrangement
Joe Chemay – backing vocals
Gregg Jakobson – backing vocals
Dean Torrence – backing vocals
Trisha Roach – backing vocals
Baron Stewart – backing vocals
Karen Lamm-Wilson – backing vocals
Robert Lamm – backing vocals
Jim Dutch – backing vocals
Per Craig Slownski
Sid Sharp – Live strings ensemble
Alexander Hamilton’s Double Rock Baptist Choir
Stephen Moffitt – chief engineer
Track listing:
All tracks by Dennis Wilson and Gregg Jakobson, except where noted.
River Song – Dennis Wilson, Carl Wilson
What’s Wrong – Dennis Wilson, Gregg Jakobson, Michael Horn
Moonshine
Friday Night
Dreamer
Thoughts of You – Dennis Wilson, Jim Dutch
Time – Dennis Wilson, Karen Lamm-Wilson
You and I – Dennis Wilson, Karen Lamm-Wilson. Gregg Jakobson
Pacific Ocean Blues – Dennis Wilson, Mike Love
Farewell My Friend – Dennis Wilson
Rainbows – Dennis Wilson, Carl Wilson, Stephen Kalinich
On June 15, 1993, “Private Music” label released “Dancing the Blues”, the 18th Taj Mahal album. It was recorded in 1993, and was produced by John Porter.
Personnel:
Taj Mahal – lead vocals, organ, guitar, steel guitar, harmonica, piano, liner notes
Etta James – vocals
John Porter – guitar
Johnny Lee Schell – guitar, backing vocals
Ian McLagan – organ, piano
Bill Payne – piano
Mick Weaver – organ
Chuck Domanico – upright bass
Bob Glaub – bass
Tony Braunagel – drums, percussion
Richie Hayward – drums
Joe McGrath – percussion, engineer
Michito Sanchez – percussion, conga
Marty Grebb – alto, tenor and baritone saxophone, backing vocals
Joe Sublett – soprano and tenor Saxophone
Darrell Leonard – trombone, trumpet, trombonium
Texacali Horns – horn
Sir Harry Bowens – backing vocals
Rich Veltrop – second engineer
Helix Hadar – second engineer
Jerry Finn – second engineer
Stephen Marcussen – mastering
Melanie Penny – art direction
William H. Johnson – illustrations
Kurt DeMunbrun – design
Robin Visotsky – photography
Ron Goldstein – executive producer
Track listing:
Blues Ain’t Nothin’ – Taj Mahal
Hard Way – Grover McDaniel, T-Bone Walker
Strut – Taj Mahal
Going to the River – Dave Bartholomew, Fats Domino
Mockingbird – Charlie Foxx, Inez Foxx
Blue Light Boogie – Jessie Mae Robinson
The Hoochi Coochi Coo – Hank Ballard, Billy Myles
That’s How Strong My Love Is – Roosevelt Jamison
Down Home Girl – Arthur Butler, Jerry Leiber
Stranger in My Own Home Town – Percy Mayfield
Sitting on Top of the World – Lonnie Chatmon, Walter Vinson
On March 23, 1993, “Reprise” label released “This Time”, the fifth Dwight Yoakam studio album. It was recorded in 1992, at “Capitol Studios” in Hollywood, and was produced by Pete Anderson.
Personnel:
Dwight Yoakam – lead and backing vocals, acoustic guitar
Pete Anderson – electric guitar
Dean Parks – acoustic guitar
Al Perkins – dobro, lap steel guitar, pedal steel guitar
Skip Edwards – keyboards
Chuck Domanico – upright bass
Taras Prodaniuk – bass guitar
Jeff Donavan – drums
Scott Joss – fiddle
Don Reed – fiddle
Beth Andersen – backing vocals
Tommy Funderburk – backing vocals
Carl Jackson – backing vocals
Jim Lauderdale – backing vocals
Jim Haas – backing vocals
Scott Humphrey – programming
Paul Buckmaster – strings arrangements, conductor
Suzy Katayama – contractor
Track listing:
All tracks by Dwight Yoakam, except where noted.
Pocket of a Clown
A Thousand Miles from Nowhere
Home for Sale
This Time – Dwight Yoakam, Kostas Lazarides
Two Doors Down – Dwight Yoakam, Kostas Lazarides
Ain’t That Lonely Yet – Kostas Lazarides, James House
King of Fools – Dwight Yoakam, Kostas Lazarides
Fast as You
Try Not to Look So Pretty – Dwight Yoakam, Kostas Lazarides
On March 13, 1978, “Impulse!” label released “African Violet”, the 27th Blue Mitchell album. It was recorded in 1977, at “The Burbank Studios” in Burbank, California, and was produced by Esmond Edwards.
On September 24, 1996, “Elektra” label released “Stardust”, the 15th Natalie Cole album. It was recorded June – September 1996, at “Ocean Way Recording”, “Capitol Studios”, “Conway Studios” and “LeGonks West” in Hollywood, “Record Plant” in Los Angeles, “Chartmaker Studios” in Malibu, California, “The Hit Factory” and “Sony Music Studios” in New York, “The Shire” in Bedford, New York, “Wisseloord Studios” in Hilversum, Netherlands, and was produced by George Duke, David Foster, Phil Ramone and Natalie Cole. At the 39th “Grammy Awards”, Natalie Cole won the “Grammy Award for Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals” for the song “When I Fall in Love”, a duet with Nat King Cole. The song also won the “Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Arrangement with Accompanying Vocal(s)” for arrangers Alan Broadbent and David Foster.
Personnel:
Natalie Cole – lead and backing vocals, vocal and music arrangements, album concept, executive producer
Nat King Cole – lead vocals, Hammond B3 organ
John Chiodini – guitar, acoustic guitar
John Pizzarelli – guitar
Paul Jackson Jr. – electric guitar
Lee Ritenour – guitar
Terry Trotter – acoustic piano, Fender Rhodes, keyboards
Michael Lang – acoustic piano
Rob Mounsey – acoustic piano, keyboards, music arrangements
George Duke – acoustic piano, keyboards, vibraphone, music arrangements, horn arrangements, vocals arrangements
Bob James – keyboards, acoustic piano, music arrangements
Toots Thielemans – harmonica
Jim Hughart – bass, music arrangements
Chuck Domanico – bass
David Finck – bass
Reggie Hamilton – bass
Chuck Berghofer – bass
Nathan East – bass
Harold Jones – drums
Ralph Penland – drums
Chris Parker – drums
John Guerin – drums
John Robinson – drums
Harvey Mason – drums
Bashiri Johnson – percussion
Paulinho da Costa – percussion
Rafael Padilla – percussion
Dan Higgins – saxophone
Everette Harp – alto saxophone
Michael Brecker – saxophone
Wynton Marsalis – trumpet
George Bohanon – trombone
Jon Clarke – oboe
Alan Broadbent – music arrangements
John Clayton – music arrangements
David Foster – music and vocals arrangements
Johnny Mandel – music arrangements
Charles Floyd – music arrangements
Gordon Jenkins – original music arrangements
Clare Fischer – strings arrangements
Jerry Hey – horns arrangements
Janis Siegel – backing and harmony vocals
Al Schmitt – recording, mixing
Elliot Scheiner, Erik Zobler, Dave Reitzas – recording
Felipe Elgueta, Wayne Holmes, Henk Korff, John Patterson, Patrick Ulenberg – additional engineering
Jeffrey Demorris, Peter Doell, Koji Ejawa, Rob Frank, Barry Goldberg, John Hendrickson, Glenn Marchese, Eddie Miller, Charlie Paakkari, Rail Rogut, Robbes Stieglitz – engineer assistant
Gabrielle Raumberger – art direction
Emily Rich – design
Rocky Schenck – photography
Simon Ramone, Corrine Duke – production assistant
Shari Sutcliffe – project coordinator
Dick La Palm – liner notes
Track listing:
There’s a Lull in My Life – Mack Gordon, Harrye Revel
Stardust – Hoagy Carmichael, Mitchell Parish
Let’s Face the Music and Dance – Irving Berlin
Teach Me Tonight – Sammy Cahn, Gene de Paul
When I Fall in Love – Edward Heyman, Victor Young
What a Difference a Day Made – Stanley Adams, María Méndez Grever
Love Letters – Edward Heyman, Victor Young
He Was Too Good to Me – Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers
Dindi – Ray Gilbert, Antônio Carlos Jobim
Two for the Blues – Neal Hefti, Jon Hendricks
If Love Ain’t There – Johnny Burke
To Whom It May Concern – Nat King Cole, Charlotte Hawkins
Where Can I Go Without You? – Victor Young, Peggy Lee
Ahmad’s Blues – Ahmad Jamal. Bobby Williams
Pick Yourself Up – Dorothy Fields, Jerome Kern
If You Could See Me Now – Tadd Dameron, Carl Sigman
Like a Lover – Alan and Marilyn Bergman, Nelson Motta
This Morning It Was Summer – Bob Haynes
When I Fall in Love (Spanish version) – Victor Young, Edward Heyman
On July 24, 2001, “Columbia” label released “Three Chord Opera”, the twenty-fifth Neil Diamond studio album. It was recorded 2000 – 2001, at “Arch Angel Studios” in Los Angeles, “Sony Pictures Studios” in Culver City, California, and was produced by Peter Asher and Alan Lindgren.
Personnel:
Neil Diamond – lead vocals
Hadley Hockensmith – acoustic and electric guitar, 12-string guitar
In November 1968, “Verve” label released “The Sound of Feeling” (Leonard Feather Presents the Sound of Feeling and The Sound of Oliver Nelson), the 19th Oliver Nelson album.It was recorded in November 1967, at “Van Gelder Studio” in Englewood Cliffs and in Los Angeles, and was produced by Creed Taylor and Jesse Kaye.
Personnel:
The Sound of Feeling(tracks 1-5)
Oliver Nelson – soprano saxophone, arrangements, conductor
Alyce Andrece, Rhae Andrece – vocals
Gary David – vocals, piano, marxophone, arranger
Chuck Domanico, Ray Neapolitan – bass
Dick Wilson – drums
The Oliver Nelson Orchestra (tracks 6-9)
Oliver Nelson – arranger, conductor
Al Dailey, Hank Jones – piano
Eric Gale – guitar
Ron Carter – bass
Grady Tate – drums
Phil Kraus, Bobby Rosengarden – mallets, additional percussion
Jerome Richardson – soprano saxophone
Jerry Dodgion, Phil Woods – clarinets, alto saxophones
Jerome Richardson, Zoot Sims – tenor saxophones
Danny Bank – baritone saxophone
Burt Collins, Joe Newman, Ernie Royal, Clark Terry, Joe Wilder, Snooky Young, Nat Adderley – trumpet, flugelhorn
Nat Adderley – cornet
Jimmy Cleveland, J. J. Johnson – additional trombones
Bob Brookmeyer – valve trombone
Tony Studd – bass trombone
Jerry Dodgion, Jerome Richardson – flutes
Rudy Van Gelder – recording
Val Valentin – director of engineering
Dave Wiechman – engineer
Dick Smith – art direction
Fred Seligo – photography
Leonard Feather – liner notes
Track listing:
My Favorite Things – Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II
Waltz Without Words – Gary David
Who Knows What Love Is? – Gary David
Phrases – Alyce Andrece, Rhae Andrece
Circe Revisited – Gary David, Bob Fylling
Ricardo’s Dilemma – Roy Ayers
Patterns for Orchestra – Oliver Nelson
The Sidewalks of New York – Charles B. Lawlor, James W. Blake
In November 1976, “Asylum” label released “Hejira”, the eighth Joni Mitchell studio album. It was recorded in 1976, at “A&M Studios” in Hollywood, and was produced by Joni Mitchell. In 1991, “Rolling Stone” magazine ranked the album cover at number 11 on its list of the “Greatest Album Covers of all Time”. In 2000, “Spex” magazine critics voted it the 55th greatest album of the 20th century.
Personnel:
Joni Mitchell – vocals, acoustic and electric guitars
In November 1975, “A&M” label released “It’s Only Love”, the fifth Rita Coolidge studio album. It was recorded in 1975, at “Sunset Sound Studios” in Los Angeles, and was produced by David Anderle.
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