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Bud Powell: The Amazing Bud Powell

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In April 1952, “Blue Note” label released “The Amazing Bud Powell”, the second Bud Powell album (released as a ten-inch LP). It was recorded August 1949 – May 1951, at “WOR” in New York City, and was produced by Alfred Lion.

Personnel:

August 1949

  • Bud Powell – piano
  • Sonny Rollins – tenor saxophone
  • Fats Navarro – trumpet
  • Tommy Potter – bass
  • Roy Haynes – drums

May 1951

  • Bud Powell – piano
  • Curley Russell – bass
  • Max Roach – drums
  • Doug Hawkins – recording
  • John Hermansader – design
  • Francis Wolff – photography
  • Leonard Feather – liner notes

Track listing:

All tracks by Bud Powell, except where noted.

  1. Un Poco Loco
  2. Over the Rainbow – Harold Arlen, E.Y. “Yip” Harburg
  3. Ornithology – Benny Harris, Charlie Parker
  4. Wail
  5. A Night in Tunisia – Dizzy Gillespie, Frank Paparelli
  6. It Could Happen to You – Johnny Burke, Jimmy Van Heusen
  7. You Go to My Head – J. Fred Coots, Haven Gillespie
  8. Baouncing with Bud – Gil Fuller, Bud Powell

Patti LaBelle: Patti

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On July 3, 1985, “Philadelphia International” label released “Patti”, the seventh Patti LaBelle studio album. It was recorded in 1985, at “Sigma Sound Studios” in Philadelphia, and was produced by Kenny Gamble, Reggie Griffin, Leon Huff, Joseph Jefferson, Bunny Sigler, James Sigler, Dexter Wansel and Cecil Womack.

Personnel:

  • Patti LaBelle – lead, harmony and backing vocals
  • Herb Smith – guitar, backing vocals
  • Cecil Womack – guitar, arrangements
  • Dennis Harris – guitar
  • Joel Bryant – acoustic piano
  • James Budd Ellison – acoustic piano, keyboards, arrangements, musical director, orchestra conductor
  • Philip Woo – acoustic piano, keyboards, synthesizers
  • Dexter Wansel – keyboards, arrangements
  • Joseph Jefferson – keyboards, arrangements
  • Cecil Du Valle – keyboards, synthesizers
  • Leon Huff – keyboards
  • Reggie Griffin – guitar, bass, keyboards, Minimoog, synthesizers, drum programming, arrangements 
  • James Sigler – keyboards, synthesizers, arrangements
  • William Jolly – keyboards, synthesizers, backing vocals, arrangements
  • Lenny Pakula – organ
  • Bunny Sigler – keyboards
  • Jimmy Williams – bass
  • Steve Green – bass
  • Darryl Jones – bass
  • Quinton Joseph – drums
  • John Ingram – drums, backing vocals
  • Charles Collins – drums
  • Clifford “Pete” Rudd – drums
  • Miguel Fuentes – percussion
  • Don Renaldo – horns and strings
  • Sam Peake – saxophone
  • Andrea Jackson – backing vocals
  • Donna Natson – backing vocals
  • Veronica Underwood – backing vocals
  • Cynthia Biggs – backing vocals
  • Terri Wells – backing vocals
  • Edward Batts – backing vocals
  • Peter Humphreys, King Shameek, Arthur Stoppe, Joseph Tarsia – engineer
  • Randy Abrams, Tom Caine, Marin Conaty, Scott MacMillan, Glenn McKee, Adam Silverman, Vince Warsavage – engineer assistant
  • Stephen Byram – art direction
  • Diane Best – illustration
  • Kenny Gamble, Leon Huff – executive producers

Track listing:

  1. Love Symphony – Linda Womack, Cecil Womack
  2. Living Double – Bunny Sigler, James Sigler
  3. Where I Wanna Be – Cecil Womack, Kenny Gamble
  4. Shy – Bunny Sigler, Kenny Gamble
  5. Look to the Rainbow – Burton Lane, E.Y. “Yip” Harburg
  6. I Can’t Forget You – James Herbert Smith, Terri Wells
  7. What Can I Do for You – Charles Simmons, Richard Roebuck, Joseph Jefferson
  8. If You Don’t Know Me By Now (live) – Kenny Gamble, Leon Huff