In November 1961, “Prestige” label released “Most Much!”, the seventh Jimmy Forrest album. It was recorded in October 1961, at “Van Gelder Studio” in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, and was produced by Esmond Edwards.
Personnel:
Jimmy Forrest – tenor saxophone
Hugh Lawson – piano
Tommy Potter – bass
Clarence Johnston – drums
Ray Barretto – congas
Esmond Edwards – supervisor
Rudy Van Gelder – engineer
Track listing:
All tracks by Jimmy Forrest except where noted.
Matilda – Norman Span
Annie Laurie – traditional
Autumn Leaves – Joseph Kosma, Johnny Mercer, Jacques Prévert
My Buddy – Walter Donaldson, Gus Kahn
Soft Winds – Benny Goodman
Robbin’s Nest – Illinois Jacquet, Bob Russell, Sir Charles Thompson
On September 28, 2004, “Nonesuch” label released “Brian Wilson Presents Smile”, the fifth Brian Wilson studio album. It was recorded April – July 2004, at “Sunset Sound Recorders”, “Your Place or Mine Recording” in California, and was produced by Brian Wilson.
On September 8, 1958, “Capitol” label released “Frank Sinatra Sings for Only the Lonely”, the fifteenth Frank Sinatra studio album. It was recorded May – June 1958, at “Capitol Studio A” in Hollywood, and was produced by Dave Cavanaugh. “Frank Sinatra Sings for Only the Lonely” won the “Grammy Award for Best Album Cover”.
Personnel:
Frank Sinatra – vocal
Nelson Riddle – conductor, arrangements
Felix Slatkin – conductor
Nick Volpe – cover art
Sammy Cahn And James Van Heusen – liner notes
Track listing:
Only the Lonely – Sammy Cahn, Jimmy Van Heusen
Angel Eyes – Matt Dennis, Earl Brent
What’s New – Bob Haggart, Johnny Burke
It’s a Lonesome Old Town – Harry Tobias, Charles Kisco
Willow Weep for Me – Ann Ronell
Goodbye – Gordon Jenkins
Blues in the Night – Harold Arien, Johnny Mercer
Guess I’ll Hang My Tears Out to Dry – Sammy Cahn, Jule Styne
Ebb Tide – Robert Maxwell, Carl Sigman
Spring is Here – Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart
Gone with the Wind – Allie Wrubel, Herb Magidson
One for My Baby (and One More for the Road} – Harold Arien, Johnny Mercer
On August 15, 2000, “Delmark” label released “Africa N’Da Blues”, the ninth Kahil El’Zabar’s Ritual Trio album. It was recorded in December 1999, at “Riverside Studio” in Chicago, Illinois, and was produced by Robert G. Koester and Kahil El’Zabar.
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:
Skylark – Johnny Mercer, Hoagy Carmichael
For All We Know – Sam M. Lewis, J. Fred Coots
Make Someone Happy – Betty Comden, Adolph Green, Jule Styne
I Wonder (Where Are You Tonight) – Aretha Franklin, Ted White
Solitude – Duke Ellington, Eddie DeLange, Irving Mills
Laughing on the Outside – Bernie Wayne, Ben Raleigh
Say It Isn’t So – Irving Berlin
Until The Real Thing Comes Along – Sammy Cahn, Saul Chaplin, L. E. Freeman
If Ever I Would Leave You – Alan Jay Lerner, Frederick Loewe
Where Are You? – Harold Adamson, Jimmy McHugh
Mr. Ugly – Norman Mapp
I Wanna Be Around – Johnny Mercer, Sadie Vimmerstedt
On July 31, 2007, “Monterey Jazz Festival Records” label released “Live at the 1963 Monterey Jazz Festival”, a live Miles Davis album. It was recorded in September 1963, at “Monterey Jazz Festival”, and was produced by Tim “T-Bone” Jackson and Glen Barros.
Personnel:
Miles Davis – trumpet
George Coleman – tenor saxophone
Herbie Hancock – piano
Ron Carter – bass
Tony Williams – drums
Wally Heider – engineer
Joe Tarantino – mastering
Larissa Collins – art director, design
Greg Allen – art director, design
Ray Avery – photography
Mary Hogan – project assistant
Randy Rood – project assistant
Ben Conrad – project assistant
Stuart Kremsky – project assistant
Jesse Nichols – project assistant
Chris Clough – production assistant
Shawn Anderson – project assistant
Rikka Arnold – editor
Jason Olaine – A&R, digital editor
Simone Giuliani – A&R assistant, digital editor
Track listing:
All tracks by Miles Davis, except where noted.
Waiting for Miles
Autumn Leaves – Jacques Prévert, Johnny Mercer, Joseph Kosma
So What
Stella by Starlight – Ned Washington, Victor Young
On July 26, 2024, “BMG” and “Modern” labels released “MoonDial”, the 55th Pat Metheny album. It was recorded in 2024, at “High Rocks”, and was produced by Pat Metheny:
Personnel:
Pat Metheny – custom built baritone guitar
Track listing:
All tracks by Pat Metheny, except where noted.
MoonDial
La Crosse
You’re Everything – lyrics by Neville Potter, music by Chick Corea
Here, There and Everywhere – John Lennon, Paul McCartney
We Can’t See It, But It’s There
Falcon Love
Everything Happens to Me / Somewhere – lyrics by Tom Adair, Stephen Sondheim, music by Matt Dennis, Leonard Bernstein
Londonderry Air – traditional
This Belongs to You
Shōga
My Love and I – lyrics by Johnny Mercer, music by David Raskin
On July 25, 1960, “Capitol” label released “Nice ‘n’ Easy”, the eighteenth Frank Sinatra studio album. It was recorded March – April 1960, at “Capitol Studio A” in Hollywood, and was produced by Dave Cavanaugh.
Personnel:
Frank Sinatra – vocal
Orchestra Nelson Riddle
Nelson Riddle – orchestra conductor
Track listing:
Nice ‘n’ Easy – Alan Bergman, Marilyn Keith, Lew Spence
That Old Feeling – Lew Brown, Sammy Fain
How Deep Is the Ocean? (How High Is the Sky?) – Irving Berlin
I’ve Got a Crush on You – George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin
You Go to My Head – J. Fred Coots, Haven Gillespie
Fools Rush In (Where Angels Fear to Tread) – Rube Bloom, Johnny Mercer
Nevertheless (I’m in Love with You) – Bert Kalmar, Harry Ruby
(I Got A Woman Crazy For Me) She’s Funny That Way – Neil Moret, Richard A. Whiting
Try a Little Tenderness – Jimmy Campbell, Reginald Connelly, Harry M. Woods
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:
Native Land – Curtis Amy
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
Prompt – Benny Bailey
The Perils of Poda – Phil Woods
Good Booty – Pony Poindexter
Lee O’s Blues – Leo Wright, Lee Konitz
Lee’s Tribute to Bach and Bird – Johann Sebastian Bach/Charlie Parker
In July 1956, “Blue Note” label released “Jimmy Smith at the Organ”, the third Jimmy Smith album. It was recorded in June 1956, at “Van Gelder Studio” in Hackensack, New Jersey, and was produced by Alfred Lion.
Personnel:
Jimmy Smith – organ
Thornel Schwartz – guitar
Donald Bailey – drums
Rudy Van Gelder – recording, mastering
Reid Miles – design
Francis Wolff – photography
Leonard Feather – liner notes
Track listing:
All tracks by Jimmy Smith, except where noted.
Judo Mambo
Willow Weep for Me – Ann Ronell
Lover, Come Back to Me – Oscar Hammerstein II, Sigmund Romberg
Well, You Needn’t – Thelonious Monk
Fiddlin’ the Minors
Autumn Leaves – Joseph Kosma, Johnny Mercer, Jacques Prévert
I Cover the Waterfront – Johnny Green, Edward Heyman
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