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Man: Undrugged

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In April 2002, “Point Records” label released “Undrugged”, the 14th Man album. It was recorded in 1996, in Lampeter, Wales, and at “Hundrefolians Studios” in Swansea, Wales.

Personnel:

  • Micky Jones – vocals, guitar
  • Deke Leonard – vocals, guitar, keyboards, liner notes
  • Gareth Thorrington – piano, organ, synthesizer
  • Martin Ace – bass
  • Terry Williams – drums
  • Bob Richards – drums 

Track listing:

  1. Scotch Corner – Micky Jones, Deke Leonard, Morley, Ken Whaley, Terry Williams
  2. Babe, I’m Gonna Leave – Bennett, Anna Bredon, Darling
  3. I Always Thought the Walrus Was Protected – Martin Ace
  4. Dream Away – Deke Leonard
  5. Manillo – Martin Ace
  6. Asylum – Micky Jones
  7. Trying to Get to You – Rose Marie McCoy, Charlie Singleton
  8. Listen to Me, Sister – Deke Leonard
  9. Georgia on My Mind – Hoagy Carmichael, Stuart Gorrell
  10. Sail on Sailor – Tandyn Almer, Ray Kennedy, Van Dyke Parks, Jack Rieley, Brian Wilson
  11. Day and Night – Mickey Jones, Deke Leonard, Ken Whaley, Terry Williams

Wes Montgomery: Down Here On The Ground

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In April 1968, “A&M” label released “Down Here on the Ground”, the 21st Wes Montgomery album. It was recorded December 1967 – January 1968, at “Van Gelder Studio” in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, and was produced by Creed Taylor.

Personnel:

  • Wes Montgomery – guitar
  • Herbie Hancock – piano
  • Ron Carter – bass
  • Grady Tate – drums
  • Ray Barretto – percussion
  • Hubert Laws – flute, oboe
  • George Marge – flute, oboe
  • Romeo Penque – flute, oboe
  • Bobby Rosengarden – percussion
  • Mike Mainieri – vibraphone
  • Gene Orloff – violin
  • Raoul Poliakin – violin
  • George Ricci – cello
  • Emanuel Vardi – viola
  • Don Sebesky – arrangements, conductor
  • Eumir Deodato – arrangements, conductor
  • Rudy Van Gelder – engineer
  • Kevin Reeves – mastering
  • Hollis King – art direction
  • Isabelle Wong – design
  • Sam Antupit – design
  • Pete Turner – photography
  • Andy Kman – production coordinator

Track listing:

  1. Wind Song – Herb Alpert, Nick Ceroli, Neil Larsen, John Pisano, Paul Francis Webster
  2. Georgia on My Mind – Hoagy Carmichael, Stuart Gorrell
  3. The Other Man’s Grass Is Always Greener – Tony Hatch, Jackie Trent
  4. Down Here on the Ground – Lalo Schifrin, Gale Garnett
  5. Up and at It – Wes Montgomery
  6. Goin’ on to Detroit – Wes Montgomery
  7. I Say a Little Prayer for You – Burt Bacharach, Hal David
  8. When I Look in Your Eyes – Leslie Bricusse
  9. Know It All (Quem Diz Que Sabe) – João Donato, Paulo Valle
  10. The Fox – Lalo Schifrin

John Coltrane: Coltrane Jazz

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In February 1971, “Atlantic” label released “Coltrane Jazz”, album by John Coltrane. It was recorded March, November, December 1959 – October 1960, at “Atlantic Studios” in New York City, and was produced by Nesuhi Ertegun.

Personnel:

  • John Coltrane – tenor saxophone
  • McCoy Tyner – piano
  • Wynton Kelly – piano
  • Cedar Walton – piano
  • Paul Chambers – bass
  • Steve Davis – bass
  • Elvin Jones – drums
  • Lex Humphries – drums
  • Jimmy Cobb – drums
  • Tom Dowd, Phil Lehle – engineer
  • Eutemey – cover design
  • Lee Friedlander – photography
  • Zita Carno – liner notes

Track listing:

All tracks by John Coltrane, except where noted.

  1. Little Old Lady – Hoagy Carmichael, Stanley Adams
  2. Village Blues
  3. My Shining Hour – Harold Arlen, Johnny Mercer
  4. Fifth House
  5. Harmonique
  6. Like Sonny
  7. I’ll Wait and Pray – George Treadwell, Jerry Valentine
  8. Some Other Blues

Nina Simone: Nina Simone And Piano

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In January 1969, “RCA Victor” label released “Nina Simone and Piano!”, the 20th Nina Simone album. It was recorded September – October 1968, at “RCA Studios” in New York City, and was produced by Stroud Productions.

Personnel:

  • Nina Simone – vocals, piano, arrangements
  • Ray Hall – engineer
  • Joseph Dylewski – photography

Track listing:

  1. Seems I’m Never Tired Lovin’ You – Carolyn Franklin
  2. It’s Nobody Fault but Mine – Nina Simone
  3. I Think It’s Going to Rain Today – Randy Newman
  4. Everyone’s Gone to the Moon – Jonathan King
  5. Compensation – Paul Laurence Dunbar, Nina Simone
  6. Who Am I – Leonard Bernstein
  7. Another Spring – Angelo Badalamenti, Joh Clifford
  8. The Human Touch – Charles Reuben
  9. I Get Along Without You Very Well (Except Sometimes) – Hoagy Carmichael
  10. The Desperate Ones – Eric Blau, Gérard Jouannest, Mort Shuman

Elmo Hope & Frank Foster: Hope Meets Foster

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In November 1955, “Prestige” label released “Hope Meets Foster”, album by Elmo Hope and Frank Foster. It was recorded in October 1955, at “Van Gelder Studio” in Hackensack, and was produced by Bob Weinstock.

Personnel:

  • Frank Foster – tenor saxophone
  • Elmo Hope – piano
  • Charles Freeman Lee – trumpet
  • John Ore – bass
  • Art Taylor – drums

 Track listing:

All tracks by Elmo Hope except where noted

  1. Wail, Frank, Wail
  2. Zarou – Frank Foster, Elmo Hope
  3. Fosterity – Frank Foster
  4. Georgia on My Mind – Hoagy Carmichael, Stuart Gorrell
  5. Shutout – Frank Foster
  6. Yaho

Lee Konitz: Tranquility

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In November 1957, “Verve” label released “Tranquility”, album by Lee Konitz’s Quartet (14th Lee Konitz album overall). It was recorded in October 1957, in New York City.

Personnel:

  • Lee Konitz – alto saxophone
  • Billy Bauer – guitar
  • Henry Grimes – bass
  • Dave Bailey – drums

Track listing:

  1. Stephanie – Lee Konitz
  2. Memories of You – Eubie Blake, Andy Razaf
  3. People Will Say We’re in Love – Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II
  4. When You’re Smiling – Mark Fisher, Joe Goodwin, Larry Shay
  5. Sunday – Chester Conn, Benny Krueger, Ned Miller, Jule Styne
  6. Lennie Bird – Lennie Tristano
  7. The Nearness of You – Hoagy Carmichael, Ned Washington
  8. Jonquil – Werner Bauer

Aretha Franklin: Laughing on the Outside

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On August 12, 1963, “Columbia” label released “Laughing on the Outside”, the fourth Aretha Franklin studio album. It was recorded in April – June 1963, at “Columbia Recording Studios” in New York and Hollywood, and was produced by Robert Mersey.

Personnel:

  • Aretha Franklin – vocals
  • Robert Mersey – arrangements, conductor
  • Don Arnome, Tommy Tedesco, Billy Strange – guitar
  • Earl Van Dyke, Dave Grusin, Andrew Acker, Leon Russell – piano
  • C. Bosler, Ray Pohlman, Melvin Pollan – bass guitar
  • Hindel Butts, Hal Blaine – drums
  • Plas Johnson – saxophone
  • Jimmy Nottingham – trumpet
  • Robert Ascher – trombone
  • Bernard Eichenbaum, Julius Schacter, Leo Kahn, Berl Senofsky, Felix Gigol, Max Pollikoff, George Ockner, John Rublowsky, Sid Sharp, Tibor Zelig, George Poole, Irving Lipschultz, Irving Weinper, Darrel Terwilliger – violin
  • R. Dickler, Theodore Israel, Jacob Glick – viola
  • Jesse Erlich, Anthony Twardowsky, Joseph Tekula – cello

Track listing:

  1. Skylark – Johnny Mercer, Hoagy Carmichael
  2. For All We Know – Sam M. Lewis, J. Fred Coots
  3. Make Someone Happy – Betty Comden, Adolph Green, Jule Styne
  4. I Wonder (Where Are You Tonight) – Aretha Franklin, Ted White
  5. Solitude – Duke Ellington, Eddie DeLange, Irving Mills
  6. Laughing on the Outside – Bernie Wayne, Ben Raleigh
  7. Say It Isn’t So – Irving Berlin
  8. Until The Real Thing Comes Along – Sammy Cahn, Saul Chaplin, L. E. Freeman
  9. If Ever I Would Leave You – Alan Jay Lerner, Frederick Loewe
  10. Where Are You? – Harold Adamson, Jimmy McHugh
  11. Mr. Ugly – Norman Mapp
  12. I Wanna Be Around – Johnny Mercer, Sadie Vimmerstedt

Lee Konitz: Alto Summit

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In July 1958, “MPS” label released “Alto Summit”, the 22nd Lee Konitz album. It was recorded in June 1968, at “MPS Tonstudio” in Villingen, Black Forest, Germany, and was produced by Joachim E. Berendt.

Personnel:

  • Lee Konitz – alto saxophone
  • Pony Poindexter – alto saxophone
  • Phil Woods – alto saxophone
  • Leo Wright – alto saxophone
  • Steve Kuhn – piano
  • Palle Danielsson – bass
  • Jon Christensen – drums

Track listing:

  1. Native Land – Curtis Amy
  2. Ballad Medley: Skylark/Blue and Sentimental/Gee, Baby, Ain’t I Good to You/Body and Soul – Hoagy Carmichael, Johnny Mercer/Count Basie, Jerry Livingston, Mack David/Andy Razaf, Don Redman/Johnny Green, Edward Heyman, Robert Sour, Frank Eyton
  3. Prompt – Benny Bailey
  4. The Perils of Poda – Phil Woods
  5. Good Booty – Pony Poindexter
  6. Lee O’s Blues – Leo Wright, Lee Konitz
  7. Lee’s Tribute to Bach and Bird – Johann Sebastian Bach/Charlie Parker

Frank Sinatra: In The Wee Small Hours

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On April 25, 1955, “Capitol” label released “In the Wee Small Hours”, the ninth Frank Sinatra studio album. It was recorded March 1954 – February 1955, at “KHJ” in Hollywood, and was produced by Voyle Gilmore.

Personnel:

  • Frank Sinatra – vocals
  • Nelson Riddle – arrangements, conductor
  • John Palladino – engineer

Track listing:

  1. In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning – Bob Hilliard, David Mann
  2. Most Indigo – Barney Bigard, Duke Ellington, Irving Mills
  3. Glad to Be Unhappy – Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart
  4. I Get Along Without You Very Well – Hoagy Carmichael
  5. Deep in a Dream – Eddie DeLange, Jimmy Van Hausen
  6. I See You Face Before Me – Howard Dietz, Arthur Schwartz
  7. Can’t We Be Friends – Paul James, Kay Swift
  8. When Your Lover Has Gone – Einar Aaron Swan
  9. What Is This Thing Called Love? – Cole Porter
  10. Last Night When We Were Young – Harold Arlen, Yip Harburg
  11. I’ll Be Around – Alec Wilder
  12. Ill Wind – Harold Arlen, Ted Koehler
  13. It Never Entered My Mind – Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart
  14. Dancing on the Celling – Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart
  15. I’ll Never Be the Same – Gus Kahn, Matty Malneck, Frank Signorelli
  16. This Love of Mine – Sol Parker, Henry W. Sanicola, Frank Sinatra

The Supremes: The Supremes Sing Country, Western & Pop

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On February 22, 1965, “Motown” label released “The Supremes Sing Country, Western & Pop”, the fourth Supremes (The) studio album. It was recorded 1962 – 1965, at “Hitsville U.S.A.” in Detroit, and was produced by Clarence Paul.

Personnel:

  • Diana Ross, Florence Ballard, Mary Wilson – lead and backing vocals
  • Cranford Nix, Sr. – banjo
  • The Andantes – additional backing vocals
  • Lawrence Horn – co-producer

Track listing:

  1. Funny How Time Slips Away – Willie Nelson
  2. My Heart Can’t Take It No More – Clarence Paul
  3. It Makes No Difference Now – Floyd Tillman
  4. You Didn’t Care – Clarence Paul
  5. Tears in Vain – Clarence Paul
  6. Tumbling Tumbleweeds – Bob Nolan
  7. Lazy Bones – Johnny Mercer, Hoagy Carmichael
  8. You Need Me – Clarence Paul
  9. Baby Doll – Clarence Paul, Stevie Wonder
  10. Sunset – Clarence Paul, Stevie Wonder
  11. The Man With the) Rock and Roll Banjo Band – Clarence Paul, Berry Gordy, Jr.