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Aretha Franklin: Amazing Grace

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On June 1, 1972, “Atlantic” label released “Amazing Grace”, the fourth Aretha Franklin live album. It was recorded in January 1972, at the “New Temple Missionary Baptist Church”, and was produced by Jerry Wexler, Aretha Franklin and Arif Mardin. In 1973, Aretha Franklin won “Grammy Award” for “Best Soul Gospel Performance”. The album was certified 2 x Platinum in US by “RIAA”.

Personnel:

  • Aretha Franklin – lead vocals, piano, celesta, arrangements
  • Rev. C.L. Franklin – vocals
  • Rev. James Cleveland – lead vocals, piano, choir director
  • Rev. Alexander Hamilton – choir director assistant
  • Kenneth “Ken” Lupper – organ, additional keyboards
  • Cornell Dupree – guitar
  • Chuck Rainey – bass
  • Bernard Purdie – drums
  • Pancho Morales – congas, additional percussion
  • Southern California Community Choir – backing vocals
  • Arif Mardin – music editing, remix
  • Wally Heider – recording
  • Jimmy Douglass – recording assistant
  • Gene Paul – recording assistant
  • George Piros – recording assistant
  • Ray Thompson – recording

Track listing:

  1. Mary, Don’t You Weep – spiritual
  2. Medley: Precious Lord, Take My Hand / You’ve Hot a Friend – Thomas A. Dorsey, Frank Frazier / Carole King
  3. Old Landmark – W. Herbert Brewster, Adeline M. Brunner
  4. Give Yourself to Jesus – Robert Fryson
  5. How I Got Over – Clara Ward
  6. What a Friend We Have in Jesus – Joseph M. Seriven, Charles Crozat Converse
  7. Amazing Grace – John Newton
  8. Precious Memories – J.B.F. Wright
  9. Climbing Higher Mountains – traditional
  10. Remarks by Reverend C.L. Franklin
  11. God Will Take Care of You – traditional
  12. Wholy Holy – Marvin Gaye, Renaldo Benson, Al Cleveland
  13. You’ll Never Walk Alone – Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II
  14. Never Grow Old – traditional

Joe Zawinul: Zawinul

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On May 1971, “Atlantic” label released “Zawinul”, the third Joe Zawinul studio album. It was recorded August – October 1970, at “Atlantic Studios” in New York City, and was produced by Joel Dorn.

Personnel:

  • Joe Zawinul – acoustic and electric piano
  • Herbie Hancock – electric piano
  • Earl Turbinton – soprano saxophone 
  • Wayne Shorter – soprano saxophone
  • Woody Shaw – trumpet 
  • Jimmy Owens – trumpet
  • George Davis – flute
  • Hubert Laws – flute
  • Miroslav Vitouš
  • Walter Booker – bass
  • Billy Hart – percussion
  • David Lee – percussion
  • Joe Chambers – percussion
  • Jack DeJohnette – melodica, percussion
  • Gene Paul – engineer
  • Lew Hahn – recording, remixing
  • Ed Freeman – design, photography

Track listing:

All tracks by Joe Zawinul.

  1. Doctor Honoris Causa
  2. In a Silent Way
  3. His Last Journey
  4. Double Image
  5. Arrival in New York

Sam Jones: Something In Common

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On September 13, 1977, “Muse” label released “Something in Common” the eighth Sam Jones album. It was recorded April 1974 – September 1977, at “C.I. Recording Studios” in New York City, and was produced by Cedar Walton and Bob Porter.

Personnel:

  • Sam Jones – bass
  • Bob Berg – tenor saxophone
  • Blue Mitchell – trumpet
  • Slide Hampton – trombone
  • Cedar Walton – keyboards, piano
  • Louis Hayes – drums
  • Billy Higgins – drums
  • Thomas Hampson – engineer
  • Chuck Irwin – engineer
  • Gene Paul – mastering
  • Page Simon – design
  • Tom Copi – photography
  • Todd Barkan – liner notes
  • Dan Mueller – production coordination

Track listing:

All tracks by Cedar Walton, except where noted.

  1. Seven Minds – Sam Jones
  2. Bolivia
  3. Something in Common
  4. Every Man Is a King – Slide Hampton
  5. For All We Know – J. Fred Coots, Sam M. Lewis
  6. Blue Silver – Blue Mitchell
  7. Shoulders
  8. One for Amos – Sam Jones
  9. You Are the Sunshine of My Life – Stevie Wonder

Natalie Prass: Same

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On January 27, 2015, “Spacebomb Records”, “Startime International” labels released the self-titled, debut Natalie Prass album. It was recorded in 2012, and was produced by Matthew E. White and Trey Pollard.

Personnel:

  • Natalie Prass – vocals
  • Matthew E. White – guitar, arranger
  • Trey Pollard – pedal steel guitar, arranger, conductor, engineer, mixing
  • Daniel Clarke – piano
  • Cameron Ralston – bass, double bass
  • Pinson Chanselle – drums, percussion
  • Giustino Riccio – congas
  • Bob Miller – trumpet
  • Marcus Tenney – trumpet
  • Jason Scott – tenor saxophone
  • John Lilley – tenor saxophone
  • Bryan Hooten – trombone
  • Reginald Pace – trombone
  • Reginald Chapman – bass trombone
  • Jason Scott – clarinet, tenor saxophone, flute
  • John Lilley – clarinet, tenor saxophone
  • Venessa Lopez – flute
  • Lauren Serpa – flute
  • Marcus Redden – French horn
  • Anna Bishop – violin
  • Faith Hofma – violin
  • Jessica Blanks – violin
  • Katie Wooldridge – violin
  • Melissa Sunderland Jones – violin
  • Garrett Pederson – viola 
  • Matt Jewell – viola
  • Amber Blankenship – cello 
  • Naomi Steckman – cello  
  • Stephanie Barrett – cello
  • Keety Dolfe – harp 
  • Matt Coyle – vibraphone
  • Gene Paul – mastering

Track listing:

All tracks by Natalie Prass.

  1. My Baby Don’t Understand Me
  2. Bird of Prey
  3. Your Fool
  4. Christy
  5. Why Don’t You Believe in Me
  6. Violently
  7. Never Over You
  8. Reprise
  9. It Is You

Jane Monheit: Never Never Land

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On May 9, 2000, “N-Coded” label released “Never Never Land”, the debut Jane Monheit album. It was recorded in January 2000, and was produced by Joel Dorn and Carl Griffin.

Personnel:

  • Jane Monheit– vocals, vocal arrangements
  • Kenny Barron– piano
  • Bucky Pizzarelli– guitar
  • Ron Carter– bass
  • Lewis Nash– drums
  • Hank Crawford– alto saxophone
  • David “Fathead” Newman– flute, tenor saxophone
  • David Berkman– arrangements
  • Peter Eldridge – arrangements
  • Tom Shick – engineer, mixing
  • Todd Parker – engineer assistant
  • Gene Paul – mixing, mastering
  • Carl Griffin – executive producer

Track listing:

  1. Please Be Kind – Saul Chapin, Sammy Cahn
  2. Detour Ahead – Herb Ellis, Johnny Frigo, Lou Carter
  3. More Than You Know – Vincent Youmans, Billy Rose, Edward Eliscu
  4. Dindi – Antonio Carlos Jobim, Aloisio de Oliveira, Ray Gilbert
  5. Save Your Love for Me – Buddy Johnson
  6. Never Let Me Go – Ray Evans, Jay Livingston
  7. My Foolish Heart – Victor Young, Ned Washington
  8. I Got It Bad (and That Ain’t Good) – Duke Ellington, Paul Francis Webster
  9. Twisted – Wardell Gray, Annie Ross
  10. Never Never Land – Betty Comden, Adolph Green, Jule Styne

Aretha Franklin: With Everything I Feel in Me

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On November 25, 1974, “Atlantic” label released “With Everything I Feel in Me”, the twenty-first Aretha Franklin studio album. It was recorded January–April, 1974, at “Atlantic Studios” in New York City and “Criteria Studios” in Miami, FL, and was produced by Aretha Franklin, Arif Mardin, Jerry Wexler and Tom Dowd.

Personnel:

  • Aretha Franklin – vocals, piano
  • Ken Bichel– synthesizer, piano, Fender Rhodes
  • Margaret Branch – background vocals
  • Brenda Bryant – background vocals
  • Cornell Dupree– guitar
  • Gordon Edwards – bass guitar
  • Steve Gadd– drums
  • Albhy Galuten– synthesizer
  • Ralph MacDonald– percussion
  • Arif Mardin– string arrangements, horn arrangements, synthesizer arrangements
  • Hugh McCracken– guitar
  • Robbie McIntosh– percussion
  • The Memphis Horns– horns
    • Andrew Love– tenor saxophone, tenor sax solo
    • Ed Logan– tenor saxophone
    • Wayne Jackson– trumpet
    • James Mitchell– baritone saxophone
    • Jack Hale– trombone
  • Gene Orloff– concertmaster
  • Leon Pendarvis– Hammond organ
  • Bernard Purdie– drums
  • Chuck Rainey– bass
  • Pat Rebillot– mellotron
  • Pat Smith – background vocals
  • Hamish Stuart– percussion
  • Grady Tate– drums
  • Richard Tee– piano, Fender Rhodes, Hammond organ
  • Gene Paul, Karl Richardson – recording
  • Lew Hahn – additional engineering
  • Arif Mardin, Gene Paul – mixing
  • Bob Defrin – art direction
  • Joel Brodsky – photography

Track listing:

  1. Without Love – Carolyn Franklin, Ivy Jo Hunter
  2. Don’t Go Breaking My Heart – Burt Bacharach, Hal David
  3. When You Get Right Down to It – Barry Mann
  4. You’ll Never Get to Heaven – Burt Bacharach, Hal David
  5. With Everything I Feel in Me – Aretha Franklin
  6. I Love Every Little Thing About You – Stevie Wonder
  7. Sing It Again – Say It Again – Carolyn Franklin
  8. All of These Things – James Cleveland
  9. You Move Me – Glen Murdock, Mike Keck

Charles Mingus: Changes One

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On October 1, 1975, “Atlantic” label released “Changes One”, the 47th Charles Mingus album. It was recorded in December 1974, at “Atlantic Recording Studios” in New York City, and was produced by Ilhan Mimaroglu.

Personnel:

  • Charles Mingus– bass
  • George Adams– tenor saxophone
  • Jack Walrath– trumpet
  • Don Pullen– piano
  • Dannie Richmond– drums
  • Gene Paul– recording
  • Paula Scher– design
  • Nesuhi Ertegün– executive producer

Track listing:

All tracks by Charles Mingus except where noted.

  1. Remember Rockefeller at Attica
  2. Sue’s Changes
  3. Devil Blues – George Adams, Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown, Charlie Mingus
  4. Duke Ellington’s Sound of Love

Aretha Franklin: Hey Now Hey

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On June 25, 1973, “Atlantic” label released “Hey Now Hey (The Other Side of the Sky)”, the nineteenth Aretha Franklin studio album. It was recorded April – August 1972, at “Record Plant” in Los Angeles, and was produced by Quincy Jones and Aretha Franklin.

Personnel:

  • Aretha Franklin – lead vocals, acoustic piano solo
  • Spooner Oldham– keyboards
  • Billy Preston– acoustic piano solo
  • Jimmy Johnson– guitar
  • Tommy Cogbill– bass guitar
  • Jerry Jemmott– bass guitar
  • Roger Hawkins– drums
  • Richie Pratt– drums
  • Phil Woods– alto saxophone
  • Joe Farrell– tenor sax solo, flute solo
  • Willie Bridges – saxophone
  • Charles Chalmers– saxophone
  • Andrew Love– saxophone
  • Floyd Newman– saxophone
  • Wayne Jackson– trumpet
  • Phil Schier – recording
  • Gene Paul, Quincy Jones, Phil Schier – remixing
  • Ken Cunningham – design
  • Jim Dunn – design, cover illustration

Track listing:

  1. Hey Now Hey (The Other Side of the Sky) – Aretha Franklin
  2. Somewhere – Leonard Bernstein, Stephen Sondheim
  3. So Swell When You’re Well – James Booker, Aretha Franklin
  4. Angel – Carolyn Franklin, Sonny Sanders
  5. Sister from Texas – Aretha Franklin
  6. Mister Spain – Carolyn Plummer
  7. That’s The Way I Feel About Cha – Bobby Womack, Jim Grisby, Joe Hicks
  8. Moody’s Mood – James Moody, Jimmy McHugh, Dorothy Fields
  9. Just Right Tonight – Aretha Franklin, Avery Parrish, Buddy Feyne, Quincy Jones, Robert Bruce

Avarage White Band: AWB

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In August 1974, “Atlantic” label released “AWB”, the second Average White Band studio album. It was recorded in 1974, at “Atlantic Recording Studios” in New York City and “Cand Criteria Sound Studios” in Miami, and was produced by Arif Mardin.

Personnel:

  • Alan Gorrie– lead and co-lead vocals, backing vocals, bass, guitar
  • Hamish Stuart– lead and backing vocals, guitar, bass
  • Onnie McIntyre – guitar, backing vocals
  • Roger Ball– keyboards, alto and baritone saxophones, horns arrangements
  • Molly Duncan– tenor saxophone
  • Robbie McIntosh– drums, percussion
  • Ralph MacDonald– congas, percussion
  • Michael Brecker– tenor saxophone
  • Randy Brecker, Marvin Stamm, Mel Davis – trumpet
  • Glenn Ferris– trombone
  • Ken Bichel– mellotron
  • Gene Paul- mixing, engineer
  • Lewis Hahn, Karl Richardson, Steve Klein, Ron Albert, Howard Albert, Jimmy Douglass, Bobby Warner – engineer
  • Arif Mardin– mixing
  • Dennis King – mastering
  • Alan Pariser – direction
  • Alan Gorrie – logo concept
  • Tim Bruckner – front cover drawing
  • Barry Feinstein- design, photography

Track listing:

  1. You Got It – Roger Ball, Hamish Stuart, Alan Gorrie
  2. Got the Love – Hamish Stuart, Roger Ball, Robbie McIntosh
  3. Pick Up the Pieces – Alan Gorrie, Hamish Stuart, Roger Ball, Molly Duncan, Onnie McIntyre, Robbie McIntosh, Ralph MacDonald
  4. Person to Person – Alan Gorrie, Hamish Stuart, Roger Ball, Molly Duncan, Onnie McIntyre, Robbie McIntosh, Ralph MacDonald
  5. Work to Do – O’Kelly Isley, Ronald Isley, Rudolph Isley
  6. Nothing You Can Do – Alan Gorrie, Hamish Stuart, Roger Ball
  7. Just Wanna Love You Tonight – Roger Ball, Alan Gorrie
  8. Keepin’ It to Myself – Alan Gorrie
  9. I Just Can’t Give You Up – Hamish Stuart
  10. There’s Always Someone Waiting – Alan Gorrie