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Oliver Nelson: Nocturne

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In April 1961, “Moodsville” label released “Nocturne”, the fourth Oliver Nelson album. It was recorded in August 1960, at Van Gelder Studio” in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, and was produced by Esmond Edwards.

Personnel:

  • Oliver Nelson – alto and tenor saxophone
  • Lem Winchester – vibes
  • Richard Wyands – piano
  • George Duvivier – bass
  • Roy Haynes – drums

Track listing:

All tracks by Oliver Nelson, except where noted.

  1. Nocturne
  2. Bob’s Blues
  3. Man With a Horn – Eddie DeLange, Jack Jenney, Bonnie Lake
  4. Early Morning
  5. In a Sentimental Mood – Duke Ellington, Manny Kurtz, Irving Mills
  6. Azur’te – Wild Bill Davis, Don Wolf
  7. Time After Time – Sammy Cahn, Jule Styne

Dave Brubeck Quartet: Brubeck à la mode

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In January 1961, “Fantasy” label released “Brubeck à la mode”, album by Dave Brubeck Quartet (the 34th Dave Brubeck album overall). It was recorded May – June 1960.

Personnel:

  1. Dave Brubeck – piano
  2. Bill Smith – clarinet, liner notes
  3. Eugene Wright – double bass
  4. Joe Morello – drums
  5. Bob Willoughby – cover photography

Track listing:

All tracks by Bill Smith, except where noted.

  1. Dorian Dance
  2. Peace, Brother – Eddie DeLange, Jimmy Van Heusen, Bill Smith
  3. Invention
  4. Lydian Line
  5. Catch-Me-If-You-Can
  6. Frisco Fog
  7. The Piper
  8. Soliloquy
  9. One for the Kids
  10. Ballade

Sarah Vaughn: No Count Sarah

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In December 1958, “EmArcy” label released “No Count Sarah”, the tenth Sarah Vaughan album. It was recorded in August 1957, and was produced by Jack Tracy. The album title refers to the fact that Vaughan was accompanied by the Count Basie Orchestra, but without Count Basie.

Track listing:                                                                     

  • Sarah Vaughan – vocals

The Count Basie Orchestra

  • Marshal Royal, Frank Wess – alto saxophone
  • Frank Foster, Billy Mitchell – tenor saxophone
  • Charlie Fowlkes – baritone saxophone
  • Wendell Culley, Thad Jones, Snooky Young, Joe Newman – trumpet
  • Henry Coker, Al Grey, Benny Powell – trombone
  • Ronnell Bright – piano
  • Freddie Green – guitar
  • Richard Davis – double bass
  • Sonny Payne – drums
  • Johnny Mandel, Luther Henderson, Thad Jones, Frank Foster – arrangements
  • Hal Mooney – recording
  • Emmett McBain – design

Track listing:

  1. Smoke Gets in Your Eyes – Otto Harbach, Jerome Kern
  2. Doodlin’ – Horace Silver
  3. Darn That Dream – Eddie DeLange, Jimmy Van Heusen
  4. Just One of Those Things – Cole Porter
  5. Moonlight in Vermont – John Blackburn, Karl Suessdorf
  6. No ‘Count Blues – Thad Jones, Sarah Vaughan
  7. Cheek to Cheek – Irving Berlin
  8. Stardust – Hoagy Carmichael, Mitchell Parish
  9. Missing You – Ronnell Bright

Dexter Gordon: One Flight Up

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In September 1965, “Blue Note” label released “One Flight Up”, the 21st Dexter Gordon album. It was recorded in June 1964, at “CBS Studios” in Paris, and was produced by Francis Wolff.

Personnel:

  • Dexter Gordon – tenor saxophone
  • Donald Byrd – trumpet 
  • Kenny Drew – piano
  • Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen – bass
  • Art Taylor – drums
  • Reid Miles – design
  • Francis Wolff – photography
  • Leonard Feather – liner notes

Track lsiting:

All tracks by Dexter Gordon, except where noted.

  1. Tanya – Donald Byrd
  2. Coppin’ the Haven – Kenny Drew
  3. Darn That Dream – Eddie DeLange, Jimmy Van Heusen

Etta James: Blue Gardenia

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On August 21, 2001, “Private Music” label released “Blue Gardenia”, the twenty-fifth Etta James studio album. It was recorded November 2000 – February 2001, and was produced by John Snyder.

Personnel:

  • Etta James – vocals
  • Dorothy Hawkins – vocals
  • Josh Sklair – guitar, arrangements
  • Cedar Walton – piano, arrangements
  • Tony Dumas – bass
  • Ralph Penland – drums
  • Ron Powell – percussion
  • Red Holloway – saxophone
  • George Bohanon – trombone
  • Rick Baptist – flugelhorn
  • Ronnie Buttacavoli – flugelhorn, trumpet
  • John Nelson – engineer
  • Jay Newland – engineer
  • Charlie Watts – engineer
  • Sonny Mediana – art direction, photography
  • Lupe DeLeon – executive producer

Track listing:

  1. This Bitter Earth – Clyde Otis
  2. He’s Funny That Way – Neil Moret, Richard A. Whiting
  3. In My Solitude – Eddie DeLange, Duke Ellington, Irving Mills
  4. There Is No Greater Love – Isham Jones, Marty Symes
  5. Don’t Let the Sun Catch You Crying – Joe Greene
  6. Love Letters – Edward Heyman, Victor Young
  7. These Foolish Things – Harry Link, Holt Marvell, Jack Strachey
  8. Come Rain or Come Shine – Harold Arlen, Johnny Mercer
  9. Don’t Worry ’bout Me – Rube Bloom, Ted Koehler
  10. Cry Me a River – Arthur Hamilton
  11. Don’t Blame Me – Dorothy Fields, Jimmy McHugh
  12. My Man – Channing Pollack, Yvain-Albert, Maurice Yvain
  13. Blue Gardenia – Lester Lee, Bob Russell

Carly Simon: Moonlight Serenade

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On July 19, 2005, “Columbia” label released “Moonlight Serenade”, the fourth Carly Simon album of standards (19th album overall). It was recorded 2004 – 2005, at “Fox Force Five” in Hollywood, “Reagan’s Garage” and “Westlake Recorders” in Los Angeles, “The Cutting Room” in New York City, and was produced by Richard Perry.

Personnel:

  • Carly Simon – vocals
  • Vin D’Onofrio – guitars, guitar solo
  • Michael Thompson – acoustic piano, synth strings, arrangements, additional synthesizers, synth vibraphone, Fender Rhodes
  • Jim Cox – acoustic piano
  • Andy Chukerman – synth strings, additional synthesizers, arrangements
  • Alex Navarro – synth strings, additional synthesizers
  • Chris Golden – bass
  • John Ferraro – drums
  • Sammy Merendino – drum programming, percussion
  • Doug Webb – saxophone, clarinet, sax solo, clarinet solo, “stritch” sax solo, flute, arrangements
  • Tom Evans – sax
  • Lee Thornburg – trombone, trumpet, flugelhorn
  • Larry Lunetta – trumpet
  • William Galison – harmonica
  • Sam Fischer, Samuel Formicola, Alyssa Park, Mark Robertson and Shalini Vijayan – violin
  • Danny Seidenberg – viola
  • Victor Lawrence – cello
  • Richard Perry – arrangements
  • Lauren Wild – arrangements
  • Michael Thompson – arrangements
  • Alex Navarro – arrangements
  • Bobby Ginsburg – recording, mixing
  • Carter William Humphrey – recording
  • Dylan Margerum – recording
  • Marcos González – additional engineering, Pro Tools technician
  • Jimmy Paar – additional engineering, Pro Tools technician
  • Jeff Phurrough – additional engineering, Pro Tools technician
  • Nick Sample – additional engineering, Pro Tools technician
  • Phil Carbo – engineer assistant
  • Anthony Gallo – engineer assistant
  • Cesar Ramirez – engineer assistant
  • Robert Hadley – mastering
  • Lauren Dooreck Camara – art direction, design
  • Ben McCarthy – production coordinator
  • Shauna Krikorian – production assistant
  • Bob Gothard – photography
  • Lauren Wild – associate producer

Track listing:

  1. Moonlight Serenade – Glenn Miller, Mitchell Parish
  2. I’ve Got You Under My Skin – Cole Porter
  3. I Only Have Eyes for You – Al Dubin, Harry Warren
  4. Moonglow – Eddie DeLange, Will Hudson, Irving Mills
  5. Alone Together – Howard Dietz, Arthur Schwartz
  6. In the Still of the Night – Cole Porter
  7. The More I See You – Mack Gordon, Harry Warren
  8.  Where or When – Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers
  9. My One and Only Love – Robert Mellin, Guy Wood
  10. All the Things You Are – Frank Loesser, Hoagy Carmichael
  11. How Long Has This Been Going On? – George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin

Duke Ellington: Money Jungle

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In February 1963, “United Artists” label released “Money Jungle”, Duke Ellington studio album. It was recorded in September 1962, at “Sound Makers Studios” in New York City, and was produced by Alan Douglas.

Personnel:

  • Duke Ellington – piano
  • Charles Mingus – double bass
  • Max Roach – drums

 Track listing:

All tracks by Duke Ellington, except where noted.

  1. Money Jungle
  2. Fleurette Africane (African Flower)
  3. Very Special
  4. Warm Valley
  5. Wig Wise
  6. Caravan – music by Juan Tizol and Duke Ellington, lyrics by Irving Mills
  7. Solitude – music by Duke Ellington, lyrics by Eddie DeLange and Irving Mills

Hank Mobley: Newark 1953

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On April 17, 2012, “Uptown Records” label released “Newark 1953”, album by Hank Mobley. It was recorded in September 1953, at “The Picadilly Club” in New Jersey, and was produced by Robert E. Sunenblick.

Personnel:

  • Hank Mobley – tenor sax
  • Bennie Green – trombone
  • Walter Davis Jr. – piano
  • Jimmy Schenck – bass
  • Charli Persip – drums
  • Ozzie Cadena – recording

Track listing:

  1. Ow – John Birks Gillespie
  2. There’s a Small Hotel – Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers
  3. Ballad Medley: Damn That Dream / Where or When / In Love in Vain / Stardust – Hoagy Carmichael, Eddie DeLange, Lorenz Hart, James Van Heusen, Jerome Kern, Mitchell Parish, Leo Robin, Richard Rodgers
  4. All the Things You Are – Oscar Hammerstein II, Jerome Kern
  5. Jumpin’ with Symphony Sid – Lester Young
  6. Announcement
  7. Lullaby of Birdland – George Shearing
  8. Embraceable You – George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin
  9. Keen and Peachy – Ralph Burns, Shorty Rogers
  10. Pennies from Heaven – Johnny Burke, Arthur Johnston
  11. Blues Is Green – Bennie Green
  12. ‘S Wonderful – George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin

Electric Bebop Band: Paul Motian and the Electric Bebop Band:

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On February 25, 1993, “JMT” label released “Paul Motian and the Electric Bebop Band”, the debut Electric Bebop Band album. It was recorded in April 1992, at “Power Station” in New York City, and was produced by Stefan F. Winter.

Personnel:

  • Paul Motian – drums
  • Joshua Redman – tenor saxophone
  • Brad Schoeppach – electric guitar
  • Kurt Rosenwinkel – electric guitar
  • Stomu Takeishi – electric bass
  • Thomas Schmid – mastering

Track listing:

  1. Shaw-Nuff – Ray Brown, Gil Fuller, Dizzy Gillespie
  2. I Waited for You – Gil Fuller, Dizzy Gillespie
  3. Dance of the Infidels – Bud Powell
  4. Darn That Dream – Jimmy Van Heusen, Eddie DeLange
  5. Hot House – Tadd Dameron
  6. Dizzy Atmosphere – Dizzy Gillespie
  7. Scrapple from the Apple – Charlie Parker
  8. Scrapple from the Apple – Charlie Parker
  9. Monk’s Dream – Thelonious Monk
  10. 52nd Street Theme – Thelonious Monk

Marc Ribot: Don’t Blame Me

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On November 21, 1995, “DIW” label released “Don’t Blame Me”, the seventh Marc Ribot album. It was recorded 1994 – 1995, in New York City, and was produced by Marc Ribot.

Personnel:

  • Marc Ribot – guitars
  • Allan Tucker – mastering
  • Piet Schreuders – design
  • Cornell Van Vuren – photography

Track listing:

  1. I’m in the Mood for Love – Dorothy Fields, Jimmy McHugh
  2. Noise 1 – Marc Ribot
  3. Don’t Blame Me – Dorothy Fields, Jimmy McHugh
  4. Ghosts – Albert Ayler
  5. Spigot – Marc Ribot
  6. Body and Soul – Johnny Green, Edward Heyman, Robert Sour, Frank Eyton
  7. Bouncin’ Around – Gus Deloof
  8. Solitude – Eddie DeLange, Duke Ellington, Irving Mills
  9. Dinah – Harry Akst, Sam M. Lewis, Joe Young
  10. Song for Ché – Charlie Haden
  11. These Foolish Things – Harry Link, Holt Marvell, Jack Strachey
  12. Noise 2 – Marc Ribot
  13. Ol’ Man River – Oscar Hammerstein II, Jerome Kern