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Gary McFarland: Tijuana Jazz

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In December 1965, “Impulse!” label released “Tijuana Jazz”, the sixth Gary McFarland album. It was recorded in December 1965, in New York City, and was produced by Bob Thiele.

Personnel:

  • Gary McFarland – marimba, electric piano
  • Joe Newman, Clark Terry – trumpet, flugelhorn
  • Bob Brookmeyer – valve trombone
  • Toots Thielemans – harmonica, guitar
  • Barry Galbraith – guitar
  • Bob Bushnell – electric bass
  • Mel Lewis, Grady Tate – drums

Track listing:

All tracks by Gary McFarland except where noted.

  1. South of the Border – Jimmy Kennedy, Michael Carr
  2. Acapulco at Night
  3. Fantastic, That’s You – George Cates, George Douglas
  4. Limehouse Blues – Philip Braham, Douglas Furber
  5. Tijuana – George Cates, George Douglas
  6. Marcheta – Victor Schertzinger
  7. Granny’s Samba
  8. Soul Bird (Tin Tin Deo) – Gil Fuller, Chano Pozo
  9. Mexicali Rose – Jack Tenney, Helen Stone
  10. Ira Schwartz’s Golden Dream
  11. Mary Jane
  12. Sweet Georgia Brown – Ben Bernie, Kenneth Casey, Maceo Pinkard

Coleman Hawkins: Desafinado

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In November 1962, “Impulse!” label released “Desafinado”, the 49th Coleman Hawkins album. It was recorded in September 1962, at “Van Gelder Studio” in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, and was produced by Bob Thiele.

Personnel:

  • Coleman Hawkins — tenor saxophone
  • Howard Collins, Barry Galbraith — guitar
  • Major Holley — bass
  • Eddie Locke — drums, percussion
  • Tommy Flanagan — claves
  • Willie Rodriguez — percussion
  • Manny Albam — arrangements
  • Rudy Van Gelder – engineer

Track listing:

  1. Desafinado – Antonio Carlos Jobim, Newton Mendonça
  2. I’m Looking Over a Four Leaf Clover (Jazz Samba) – Mort Dixon, Harry M. Woods
  3. Samba Para Bean – Manny Albam
  4. I Remember You – Johnny Mercer, Victor Schertzinger
  5. One Note Samba – Antonio Carlos Jobim, Newton Mendonça
  6. O Pato (The Duck) – Jayme Silva, Neuza Teixeira
  7. Un Abraco No Bonfa (An Embrace to Bonfa) – João Gilberto
  8. Stumpy Bossa Nova – Coleman Hawkins

John Coltrane: Blue World

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On September 27, 2019, “Impulse!” label released “Blue World”, an album by John Coltrane. It contains recordings form June 1964, recorded at “Van Gelder Studio” in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, and was produced by Ken Druker and John Coltrane.

Personnel:

  • John Coltrane – soprano and tenor saxophone
  • McCoy Tyner – piano
  • Jimmy Garrison – double bass
  • Elvin Jones – drums
  • Rudy Van Gelder – recording, mixing, mastering
  • Kevin Reeves – mastering
  • Ashley Kahn – liner notes

Track listing:

All tracks by John Coltrane

  1. Naima (Take 1)
  2. Village Blues (Take 2)
  3. Blue World
  4. Village Blues (Take 1)
  5. Village Blues (Take 3)
  6. Like Sonny
  7. Traneing In
  8. Naima (Take 2)

The Comet Is Coming: Hyper-Dimensional Expansion Beam

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On September 23, 2022, “Impulse!” label released “Hyper-Dimensional Expansion Beam”, the third and final Comet Is Coming (The) studio album. It was recorded in 2022, at “Real World Studios” in Box, Wiltshire, and was produced by Danalogue and Betamax.

Personnel:

  • Danalogue (Dan Leavers) – keyboards, synthesizers, percussion, field recordings, arrangements, mixing
  • Shabaka Hutchings – saxophone, Shakuhachi
  • (Betamax) Max Hallett – drums, percussion, drum machine, electronic drums, synthesizer, arrangements, mixing
  • Kristian Craig Robinson – recording, additional production
  • Daddy Kev – mastering
  • Chris Bellman – lacquer cut
  • Daniel Martin Diaz – artwork
  • Veil Projects – layout
  • Tom Arndt – production coordinator
  • Dahlia Ambach-Caplin – A&R

Track listing:

All tracks by Shabaka Hutchings, Max Hallett and Dan Leavers.

  1. Code
  2. Technicolour
  3. Lucid Dreamer
  4. Tokyo Nights
  5. Pyramids
  6. Frequency of Feeling Expansion
  7. Angel of Darkness
  8. Aftermath
  9. Atomic Wave Dance
  10. The Hammer
  11. Mystik

John Coltrane: Newport ’63

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On July 20, 1993, “Impulse!” label released “Newport ’63”, a live album by John Coltrane. It was recorded  in July 1963, at the “Newport Jazz Festival”, with one track recorded in 1961, at the “Village Vanguard” in New York City, and was produced by Bob Thiele.

Personnel:

  • John Coltrane – soprano and tenor saxophone 
  • Eric Dolphy – alto saxophone
  • McCoy Tyner – piano
  • Jimmy Garrison – double bass
  • Reggie Workman – double bass
  • Roy Haynes – drums

Track listing:

All tracks by John Coltrane, except where noted.

  1. I Want to Talk About You – Billy Eckstine
  2. My Favorite Things – Oscar Hammerstein, Richard Rodgers
  3. Impressions
  4. Chasin’ Another Trane

The Messthetics and James Brandon Lewis: Same

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On March 15, 2024, “Impulse!” label released the self-titled “The Messthetics and James Brandon Lewis” album. It was recorded in 2023, at “Tonal Park” in Washington, D.C., and was produced by Don Godwin, James Brandon Lewis and the Messthetics.

Personnel:

  • James Brandon Lewis – saxophone
  • Anthony Pirog – guitar
  • Joe Lally – bass
  • Brendan Canty – drums
  • Don Godwin – mastering
  • Charlie Pilzer – mastering
  • David Avidan – inner sleeve photography
  • David LaMason – back cover photography
  • David Willingham – cover photography

Track listing:

  1. L’Orso
  2. Emergence
  3. That Thang
  4. Three Sisters
  5. Boatly
  6. The Time Is the Place
  7. Railroad Tracks Home
  8. Asthenia
  9. Fourth Wall

Shabaka and the Ancestors: We Are Sent Here by History

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On March 13, 2020, “Impulse!” label released “We Are Sent Here by History”, the second Shabaka and the Ancestors studio album. It was recorded in 2019, at “Milestone Studio” in Cape Town, South Africa, “Sumo Sounds Studio” in Johannesburg, South Africa, and was produced by Dilip Harris and Shabaka Hutchings.

Personnel:

  • Shabaka Hutchings – tenor saxophone, clarinet
  • Mithunzi Myubu – alto saxophone
  • Mandla Miangeni – trumpet
  • Siyabonga Mthembu – vocals
  • Thandi Ntyuli – piano
  • Nduduzo Makhathini – electric piano
  • Ariel Zamonsky – double bass
  • Tumi Mogorosi – drums
  • Gontse Makhene – percussion
  • Murray Anderson – recording
  • Peter Auret – recording
  • Jethro Harris – recording assistant
  • Tshepo Mothwa – recording assistant
  • Dilip Harris – mixing
  • Guy Davis – mastering
  • Daniela Yohannes – illustration
  • Jacob Lerman – CD design

Track listing:

All lyrics by Siyabonga Mthembu, all music by Shabaka Hutchings.

  1. They Who Must Die
  2. You’ve Been Called
  3. Go My Heart, Go to Heaven
  4. Behold, the Deceiver
  5. Run, the Darkness Will Pass
  6. The Coming of the Strange Ones
  7. Beast Too Spoke of Suffering
  8. We Will Work (On Redefining Manhood)
  9. Til’ the Freedom Comes Home
  10. Finally, the Man Cried

Blue Mitchell: African Violet

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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.

Personnel:

  • Blue Mitchell – trumpet, flugelhorn
  • Herman Riley, Harold Land – tenor saxophone
  • Sonny Burke – electric piano, piano
  • McKinley Jackson, Michael Boddicker – synthesizer
  • Lee Ritenour – electric guitar, guitar
  • Scott Edwards – bass, electric bass
  • Chuck Domanico – electric bass, bass
  • James Gadson, Harold Mason – drums
  • Paulinho Da Costa – congas
  • Eddie “Bongo” Brown – congas, percussion
  • Bob Zimmitti – marimba, percussion
  • Julia Tillman, Luther Waters, Maxine Waters Willard, Oren Waters – vocals
  • The Sid Sharp Strings

Track listing:

  1. Mississippi Jump – Larry Nash
  2. Ojos de Rojo – Cedar Walton
  3. Sand Castles – Dana Kaproff
  4. African Violet – Steve Hulse
  5. As – Stevie Wonder
  6. Square Business – Cedar Walton
  7. Forget – Don Sebesky

Diana Krall: All for You: A Dedication to the Nat King Cole Trio

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On March 12, 1996, “Impulse!” label released “All for You: A Dedication to the Nat King Cole Trio”, the third Diana Krall studio album. It was recorded in October 1995, at “Power Station” in New York City, and was produced by Tommy LiPuma.

Personnel:

  • Diana Krall – lead vocals, piano
  • Russell Malone – guitar
  • Benny Green – piano
  • Paul Keller – bass
  • Steve Kroon – percussion
  • Al Schmitt – recording, mixing
  • Doug Sax – mastering
  • Robin Lynch – art direction, design
  • Laurie Goldman – design
  • Tom Tavee – photography
  • Terry Teachout – liner notes

Track listing:

  1. I’m an Errand Girl for Rhythm – Nat King Cole
  2. Gee Baby, Ain’t I Good to You – Don Redman, Andy Razaf
  3. You Call It Madness – Gladys Dubois, Con Conrad, Russ Columbo, Paul Gregory
  4. Frim Fram Sauce – Joe Ricardel, Redd Evans
  5. Boulevard of Broken Dreams – Al Dubin, Harry Warren
  6. Baby Baby All the Time – Bobby Troup
  7. Hit That Jive Jack – John Alston, Campbell “Skeets” Tolbert
  8. You’re Looking at Me – Bobby Troup
  9. I’m Thru with Love – Matty Malneck, Gus Kahn, Fud Livingston
  10. Deed I Do – Fred Rode, Walter Hirsch
  11. A Blossom Fell – Howard Barnes, Harold Cornelius, Dominic John
  12. If I Had You – Ted Shapiro, Jimmy Campbell, Reg Connelly

Alice Coltrane: Journey in Satchidananda

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In February 1971, “Impulse!” label released “Journey in Satchidananda”, the fourth Alice Coltrane studio album. It was recorded July – November 1970, at “Village Gate”, and Coltrane’s home studio in Dix Hills, New York, and was produced by Ed Michel and Alice Coltrane.

Personnel:

  • Alice Coltrane – harp, piano
  • Pharoah Sanders – soprano saxophone, percussion
  • Cecil McBee – double bass
  • Charlie Haden – double bass
  • Rashied Ali – drums
  • Tulsi Sen Gupta – tanpura
  • Majid Shabazz – bells, tambourine
  • Vishnu Wood – oud

All tracks by Alice Coltrane.

  1. Journey in Satchidananda
  2. Shiva-Loka
  3. Stopover Bombay
  4. Something About John Coltrane
  5. Isis and Osiris