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Melanie: Leftover Wine

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On September 26, 1970. “Buddah” label released “Leftover Wine” a live album by Melanie. It was recorded in 1970, at “Carnegie Hall” in New York City, except “Peace Will Come”, which is a studio recording, and was produced by Peter Schekeryk.

Personnel:

  • Melanie – vocals, guitar
  • Al Gorgoni, Sal DiTroia – guitar
  • Ron Frangipane – keyboards
  • Joe Macho – bass
  • Gregg Diamond – drums
  • George Devens – percussion
  • Artie Kaplan – woodwind

Track listing:

All tracks by Melanie Safka.

  1. Close to It All
  2. Uptown Down
  3. Momma Momma
  4. The Saddest Thing
  5. Beautiful People
  6. Animal Crackers
  7. I Don’t Eat Animals
  8. Happy Birthday
  9. Tuning My Guitar
  10. Psychotherapy
  11. Leftover Wine
  12. Peace Will Come (According to Plan)

McCoy Tyner: Counterpoints: Live in Tokyo

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On September 24, 2004, “Milestone” label released “Counterpoints: Live in Tokyo”, a live album by McCoy Tyner. It was recorded in July 1978 at the “Live Under the Sky Festival” in Tokyo, Japan, and was produced by Orrin Keepnews.

Personnel:

  • McCoy Tyner – piano
  • Ron Carter – bass
  • Tony Williams – drums

Track listing:

All tracks by McCoy Tyner, except where noted.

  1. The Greeting
  2. Aisha
  3. Sama Layuca
  4. Prelude to a Kiss – Duke Ellington, Irving Gordon, Irving Mills
  5. Iki Masho (Let’s Go)

The Gregg Allman Band: Uncle Sam

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On September 20. 2024, “Sawrite Records” label released “Uncle Sam”, a live album by Gregg Allman Band (The). It was recorded in July 1983, at “Uncle Sam’s” in Hull, Massachusetts.

Personnel:

  • Gregg Allman – lead vocals, Hammond B-3 organ, acoustic guitar
  • Dan Toler – lead guitar
  • Greg Voorhess – bass
  • Frankie Toler – drums
  • Bruce Waibel – guitar
  • Chaz Trippy – percussion
  • Donn Finney – saxophone, flute
  • Larry Finney – trumpet

Track listing:

  1. Dreams – Gregg Allman
  2. Sweet Feelin’ – Candi Staton, Clarence Carter, Marcus Daniel, Rick Hall
  3. Hot ‘Lanta – Duane Allman, Gregg Allman, Dickey Betts, Jai Johanny Johanson, Berry Oakley, Butch Trucks
  4. Queen of Hearts – Gregg Allman
  5. Trouble No More – McKinley Morganfield
  6. Don’t Keep Me Wonderin’ – Gregg Allman
  7. Melissa – Gregg Allman, Stephen Alaimo
  8. Statesboro Blues – Willie McTell

MIles Davis: Live At The 1963 Monterey Jazz Festival

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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.

  1. Waiting for Miles
  2. Autumn Leaves – Jacques Prévert, Johnny Mercer, Joseph Kosma
  3. So What
  4. Stella by Starlight – Ned Washington, Victor Young
  5. Walkin’ – Richard Carpenter
  6. The Theme

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

Parliament: Live: P-Funk Earth Tour

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On May 5, 1977, “Casablanca” label released “Live: P-Funk Earth Tour”, the first Parliament live album. It was recorded in January 1977, at “Oakland Coliseum Arena” and “Los Angeles Forum”, and was produced by George Clinton.

Personnel:

  • George Clinton, Calvin Simon, Fuzzy Haskins, Raymond Davis, Grady Thomas, Garry Shider, Glenn Goins, Debbie Wright, Jeanette Washington – vocals
  • Garry Shider, Michael Hampton, Glen Goins, Eddie Hazel – guitar
  • Bernie Worrell – keyboards, synthesizers
  • Cordell Mosson, Bootsy Collins – bass
  • Jerome Brailey – drums, percussion
  • Fred Wesley, Maceo Parker, Rick Gardner, Richard Griffith – horns
  • Lynn Mabry, Dawn Silva, Gary Cooper – extra-singing Clones 
  • Michael Hampton – lead snore
  • Bernie Worrell, Fred Wesley – horn arrangements
  • Bootsy Collins, George Clinton – rhythm arrangements

Track listing:

  1. P-Funk (Wants to Get Funked Up)
  2. Dr. Funkenstein’s Supergroovalisticprosifunkstication Medley
  3. Do That Stuff
  4. The Landing (Of the Holy Mothership)
  5. The Undisco Kidd (The Girl Is Bad!)
  6. Children of Production
  7. Mothership Connection (Star Child)
  8. Swing Down, Sweet Chariot
  9. This Is the Way We Funk with You
  10. Dr. Funkenstein
  11. Gamin’ On Ya!
  12. Tear the Roof Off the Sucker Medley
  13. Night of the Thumpasorus People
  14. Fantasy Is Reality

Charlie Haden’s Liberation Music Orchestra: The Montreal Tapes: Liberation Music Orchestra

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In April 1999, “Verve” label released “The Montreal Tapes: Liberation Music Orchestra”. a live album by Charlie Haden’s Liberation Music Orchestra. It was recorded in 1989 at the “Montreal International Jazz Festival”, and was produced by Ruth Cameron.

Personnel:

  • Charlie Haden – bass
  • Ken McIntyre – alto saxophone
  • Ernie Watts, Joe Lovano – tenor saxophone
  • Stanton Davis, Tom Harrell – trumpet
  • Ray Anderson – trombone
  • Sharon Freeman – French horn
  • Joe Daley – tuba
  • Mick Goodrick – guitar
  • Geri Allen – piano
  • Paul Motian – drums

Track listing:

All tracks by Charlie Haden, except as noted.

  1. La Pasionaria
  2. Silence
  3. Sandino
  4. We Shall Overcome – Guy Carawan, Frank Hamilton, Zilphia Horton, Pete Seeger

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young: 4 Way Street

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On April 7, 1971, “Atlantic” label released “4 Way Street”, the first Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young live album. It was recorded June – July 1970, at “Fillmore East” in New York City, “The Forum” in Los Angeles, “Auditorium Theatre” in Chicago, and was produced by David Crosby, Stephen Stills, Graham Nash and Neil Young.

Personnel:

  • David Crosby – vocals, guitar
  • Stephen Stills – vocals, guitar, piano, organ
  • Graham Nash – vocals, guitar, piano, organ
  • Neil Young – vocals, guitar
  • Calvin “Fuzzy” Samuels – bass
  • Johnny Barbata – drums
  • Bill Halverson – engineer
  • Gary Burden – art direction, design, photography
  • Joel Bernstein – photography center squares
  • Henry Diltz – inside sleeve photography
  • David Geffen — direction

Track listing:

  1. Suite: Judy Blue Eyes – Stephen Stills
  2. On the Way Home – Neil Young
  3. Teach Your Children – Graham Nah
  4. Triad – David Crosby
  5. The Lee Shore – David Crosby
  6. Chicago – Graham Nash
  7. Right Between the Eyes – Graham Nash
  8. Cowgirl in the Sand – Neil Young
  9. Don’t Let It Bring You Down – Neil Young
  10. 49 Bye-Byes/America’s Children – Stephen Stills
  11. Love the One You’re With – Stephen Stills

Loreena McKennitt: The Road Back Home

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On March 8, 2024, “Quinlan Road” label released “The Road Back Home”, the eight Loreena McKennitt live album. It was recorded in August 2023, in Goderich, Ontario, “Owen Sound” in Ontario, and was produced by Loreena McKennitt.

Personnel:

  • Loreena McKennitt – vocals, accordion, harp, arrangements
  • James Keelaghan – vocals
  • Pete Watson – guitar, backing vocals
  • Errol Fischer – violin, banjo, mandolin, drums
  • Caroline Lavelle – vocals, cello
  • Miriam Fischer – percussion, accordion, piano, backing vocals
  • Romano DiNillo – bodhrán
  • Cait Watson – whistle, backing vocals
  • The Bookends – arrangements
  • Jeff Wolpert – engineer, mixing, mastering
  • Mark McCauley – production assistant

Track listing:

All tracks by Loreena McKennitt.

  1. Search for Lambs
  2. Mary and the Soldier
  3. On a Bright May Morning
  4. As I Roved Out
  5. Custom Gap
  6. Bonny Portmore
  7. Greystones
  8. The Star of the County Down
  9. Salvation Contradiction
  10. Sí Bheag, Sí Mhór / Wild Mountain Thyme

Duke Ellington Orchetra: Duke Ellington At Fargo, 1940 Live

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In December 1978, “Book of the Month” label released “Duke Ellington at Fargo, 1940 Live”, a live album by the Duke Ellington Orchestra. It was recorded in November 1940, at “Crystal Ballroom” in the “Fargo City Auditorium”, in Fargo, North Dakota, US. In 1980, the album won “Grammy Award for Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album”.

Personnel:

  • Duke Ellington – piano
  • Johnny Hodges, Otto Hardwick – alto saxophone
  • Ben Webster – tenor saxophone
  • Harry Carney – baritone saxophone
  • Barney Bigard – clarinet
  • Rex Stewart – cornet
  • Ray Nance, Wallace Jones – trumpet
  • Tricky Sam Nanton, Juan Tizol, Lawrence Brown – trombone
  • Fred Guy – guitar
  • Jimmy Blanton – bass
  • Sonny Greer – drums
  • Ivie Anderson, Herb Jeffries – vocals

Track listing:

  1. The Mooche
  2. Sepia Panorama (theme)
  3. Ko-Ko
  4. There Shall Be No Night
  5. Pussy Willow
  6. Chatterbox
  7. Mood Indigo
  8. Harlem Air Shaft
  9. The Ferryboat Serenade
  10. Warm Valley
  11. Stompy Jones
  12. Bojangles
  13. You Took Advantage of Me
  14. Rumpus in Richmond
  15. The Flaming Sword
  16. Never No Lament
  17. Clarinet Lament
  18. Slap Happy
  19. Sepia Panorama
  20. Boy Meets Horn
  21. Way Down Yonder in New Orleans
  22. Oh, Babe! Maybe Someday
  23. Five O’Clock Whistle
  24. Rockin’ in Rhythm
  25. Sophisticated Lady
  26. Cotton Tail
  27. Whispering Grass
  28. Conga Brava
  29. I Never Felt This Way Before
  30. Across the Track Blues
  31. Honeysuckle Rose
  32. Wham
  33. Star Dust
  34. Rose of the Rio Grande
  35. St. Louis Blues