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Emmylou Harris: Luxury Liner

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On December 28, 1976, “Warner Bros Nashville” label released “Luxury Liner”, the fourth Emmylou Harris album. It was recorded in 1976, at “Enactron Truck” in Los Angeles, and was produced by Brian Ahem.

Personnel:

  • Emmylou Harris – vocals, acoustic guitar
  • Brian Ahern – acoustic guitar, electric guitar, finger-style acoustic guitar, engineer
  • Nicolette Larson – duet vocals
  • Albert Lee – acoustic guitar, electric guitar, mandolin, backing vocals
  • Rodney Crowell – acoustic guitar, electric guitar, high-strung guitar, backing vocals
  • Rick Cunha – acoustic guitar
  • Hank DeVito – pedal steel guitar
  • James Burton – electric guitar
  • Glen Hardin – piano, electric piano, string arrangements
  • Mickey Raphael – harmonica, bass harmonica
  • Emory Gordy Jr. – bass
  • John Ware – drums
  • Mike Auldridge – dobro
  • Ricky Skaggs – fiddle, mandolin
  • Dianne Brooks – backing vocals
  • Dolly Parton – backing vocals
  • Herb Pedersen – backing vocals
  • Fayssoux Starling – backing vocals
  • Donivan Cowart – engineer
  • Bradley Hartman – engineer
  • Stuart Taylor – engineer
  • Miles Wilkinson – engineer

Track listing:

  1. Luxury Liner – Gram Parsons
  2. Pancho and Lefty – Townes Van Zandt
  3. Making Believe – Jimmy Work
  4. You’re Supposed to Be Feeling Good – Rodney Crowell
  5. I’ll Be Your San Antone Rose – Susana Clark
  6. (You Never Can tell) C’est la Vie – Chuck Berry
  7. When I Stop Dreaming – Ira Louvin, Charlie Louvin
  8. Hello Stranger – A.P. Carter
  9. She – Gram Parsons, Chris Ethridge
  10. Tulsa Queen – Emmylou Harris, Rodney Crowell

Super Black Blues Band: Super Black Blues

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In December 1969, “Blues Time” label released “Super Black Blues”, album by Super Black Blues Band. It was recorded in October 1969, in Los Angeles, and was produced by Bob Thiele.

Personnel:

  • T-Bone Walker − vocals, guitar
  • Joe Turner – vocals
  • Otis Spann − vocals, piano
  • Arthur Wright – guitar
  • Ernie Watts − tenor saxophone
  • George “Harmonica” Smith – harmonica
  • Ron Brown – bass
  • Paul Humphrey – drums

Track listing:

All tracks by T-Bone Walker, except where noted.

  1. Paris Blues
  2. Here Am I Broken Hearted – Buddy DeSylva, Lew Brown, Ray Henderson
  3. Jot’s Blues
  4. Blues Jam

Ella Fitzgerald And Duke Ellington: Ella At Duke’s Place

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In December 1965, “Verve” label released “Ella at Duke’s Place”, album by Ella Fitzgerald and Duke Ellington. It was recorded in October 1965, at “United Recorders” in Los Angeles, and was produced by Norman Granz.

Personnel:

  • Ella Fitzgerald – vocals
  • Duke Ellington – piano, conductor, arrangements
  • Jimmy Jones – arrangements
  • Johnny Hodges – alto saxophone
  • Russell Procope – alto saxophone
  • Paul Gonsalves – tenor saxophone
  • Jimmy Hamilton – tenor saxophone, clarinet
  • Harry Carney – baritone saxophone, bass clarinet
  • Cat Anderson – trumpet
  • Mercer Ellington – trumpet
  • Herb Jones – trumpet
  • Cootie Williams – trumpet
  • Lawrence Brown – trombone
  • Buster Cooper – trombone
  • Chuck Connors – bass trombone
  • John Lamb – bass
  • Louis Bellson – drums
  • Val Valentin – engineer

Track listing:

All tracks by Duke Ellington, except where noted.

  1. Something to Live For – Duke Ellington, Billy Strayhorn
  2. A Flower Is a Lovesome Thing – Billy Strayhorn
  3. Passion Flower – Billy Strayhorn
  4. I Like the Sunrise
  5. Azure – Irving Mills
  6. Imagine My Frustration – Billy Strayhorn, Gerald Stanley Wilson
  7. Duke’s Place – Bill Katz, Ruth Roberts, Bob Thiele
  8. Brown-skin Gal (in the Calico Gown) – Paul Francis Webster
  9. What Am I Here For? – Frankie Laine
  10. Cotton Tail

Oscar Peterson And Nelson Riddle: Oscar Peterson & Oscar Riddle

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In December 1963, “Verve” label released “Oscar Peterson and Nelson Riddle”, album by Oscar Peterson and Nelson Riddle. It was recorded in November 1963, at “Radio Recorders Studio” in Los Angeles, and was produced by Jim Davis.

Personnel:

  • Oscar Peterson – piano
  • Nelson Riddle – arrangements, conductor

Track listing:

  1. My Foolish Heart – Ned Washington, Victor Young
  2. Judy – Hoagy Carmichael, Sammy Lerner
  3. ‘Round Midnight – Thelonious Monk
  4. Some Day My Prince Will Come – Frank Churchill, Larry Morey
  5. Come Sunday – Duke Ellington
  6. Nightingale – Oscar Peterson
  7. My Ship – Ira Gershwin, Kurt Weill
  8. A Sleepin’ Bee – Harold Arlen, Truman Capote
  9. Portrait of Jenny – Gordon Burdge, J. Russel Robinson
  10. Goodbye – Gordon Jenkins

André Previn & His Pals: Modern Jazz Performances of Songs from Pal Joey

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In December 1957, “Contemporary” label released “Modern Jazz Performances of Songs from Pal Joey”, album André Previn & His Pals. It was recorded in October 1957, at “Contemporary Records” in Los Angeles, and was produced by Lester Koenig.

Personnel:

  • André Previn – piano
  • Red Mitchell – bass
  • Shelly Manne – drums

Track listing:

All lyrics by Lorenz Hart, all music by Richard Rodgers.

  1. I Could Write a Book
  2. That Terrific Rainbow
  3. Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered
  4. Take Him
  5. Zip
  6. It’s a Great Big Town
  7. What Is a Man?
  8. I’m Talkin’ with My Pal
  9. Do It the Hard Way

Loggins And Messina: Sittin’ In

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On November 1971, “Columbia” label released “Sittin’ In” is the debut Loggins and Messina studio album. It was recorded in 1971, at “Columbia Studios” in Los Angeles, and was produced by Jim Messina.

Personnel:

  • Kenny Loggins – vocals, rhythm guitar, acoustic guitar, harmonica
  • Jim Messina – vocals, lead guitar, acoustic guitar
  • Jon Clarke – oboe, steel drum, flute, tenor saxophone, baritone saxophone
  • Lester “Al” Garth – violin, recorder, tenor saxophone, viola, alto saxophone, steel drum, backing vocals
  • Larry Sims – bass guitar, backing vocals
  • Merel Bregante – drums, backing vocals
  • Michael Omartian – concertina, keyboards, steel drum
  • Milt Holland – percussion
  • John Fiore – engineer
  • Alex Kazanegras – mixing, mastering
  • David Linderman – artwork
  • Irvin Goodnoff, David Linderman – photography

Track listing:

  1. Nobody But You – Jim Messina
  2. Danny’s Song – Kenny Loggins
  3. Vahevala – Dann Lottermoser, Dan Loggins
  4. Trilogy – Jim Messina, Murray MacLeod, Jim Messina, Kenny Loggins
  5. Ack to Georgia – Kenny Loggins
  6. House at Pooh Corner – Kenny Loggins
  7. Listen to a Country Song – Jim Messina, Al Garth
  8. Same Old Wine – Jim Messina
  9. Rock ’n’ Roll Mood – Kenny Loggins, Michael Omartian

Stephen Stills: Same

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On November 16, 1970, “Atlantic” label released the self-titled, debut Stephen Stills studio album. It was recorded January – July 1970, at “Island Studios” in London, “The Record Plant” and “Wally Heider” in Los Angeles, and was produced by Stephen Stills and Bill Halverson. In 1974, “New Musical Express” magazine ranked it at number 70 on its list of “The Best Albums of All Time.

Personnel:

  • Stephen Stills – vocals, guitars, bass, piano, organ, steelpan, percussion; horn and string arrangements
  • Jimi Hendrix – electric guitar
  • Eric Clapton – electric guitar
  • Booker T. Jones – organ, backing vocal
  • Calvin “Fuzzy” Samuel – bass
  • Conrad Isidore – drums
  • John Barbata – drums
  • Ringo Starr – drums
  • Dallas Taylor – drums
  • Jeff Whittaker – congas
  • Sidney George – flute, alto saxophone
  • Rita Coolidge, David Crosby, Priscilla Jones, John Sebastian – backing vocals
  • Cass Elliot, Claudia Lennear – backing vocals
  • Graham Nash – backing vocals
  • Judith Powell, Larry Steele, Liza Strike, Tony Wilson – backing vocals
  • Sherlie Matthews – backing vocals
  • Arif Mardin – string arrangements
  • Andy Johns – engineer
  • Gary Burden – art direction, back cover photography
  • Henry Diltz – front cover photography
  • Charles John Quarto – sleeve poem

Track listing:

All tracks by Stephen Stills.

  1. Love the One You’re With
  2. Do for the Others
  3. Church (Part of Someone)
  4. Old Times Good Times
  5. Go Back Home
  6. Sit Yourself Down
  7. To a Flame
  8. Black Queen
  9. Cherokee
  10. We Are Not Helpless

Natalie Cole: Thankful

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On November 16, 1977, “Capitol” label released “Thankful”, the fourth Natalie Cole album. It was recorded August – November 1977, at “ABC Studios” in Los Angeles, and was produced by Chuck Jackson and Marvin Yancy.

Personnel:

  • Natalie Cole – lead vocals
  • Criss Johnson – guitar
  • Ray Parker Jr. – guitar
  • Lee Ritenour – guitar
  • Linda Williams – acoustic piano, Fender Rhodes
  • Marvin Yancy – acoustic piano, organ, clavinet
  • Reginald “Sonny” Burke – organ
  • Michael Boddicker – synthesizers
  • Larry Ball – bass guitar
  • James Gadson – drums
  • Donnell Hagan – drums
  • Paul Humphrey – drums
  • Teddy Sparks – drums
  • Alan Estes – percussion
  • Chuck Jackson – handclaps
  • Hal Brooks – handclaps
  • Gene Barge – alto saxophone, arrangements
  • Richard Evans – arrangements
  • The Colettes – backing vocals
  • The “N” Sisters – backing vocals
  • Anita Anderson – backing vocals
  • Yasmine “Sissy” Peoples – backing vocals
  • Barney Perkins – engineer, mixing, mastering
  • Zollie Johnson, Lester Smith – engineer assistant
  • Barney Per – mixing
  • Dean Rod – assistant
  • John Golden – mastering
  • Roy Kohara – art direction
  • Craig Nelson – illustration
  • Gene Barge – co-producer
  • Larkin Arnold – executive producer

Track listing:

All tracks by Chuck Jackson and Marvin Yancy, except where noted.

  1. Lovers – Chuck Jackson, Marvin Yancy, Natalie Cole
  2. Our Love
  3. La Costa – Natalie Cole. Linda Williams
  4. There Ain’t Nothing Stronger Than Love
  5. Be Thankful
  6. Just Can’t Stay Away
  7. Annie Mae – Natalie Cole
  8. Keeping a Light – Natalie Cole

Ornette Coleman: Tomorrow Is The Question!

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In November 1959, “Contemporary” label released “Tomorrow Is the Question!, the second Ornette Coleman studio album. It was recorded January – March 1959, at “Contemporary’s Studios” in Los Angeles, and was produced by Lester Koenig.

Personnel:

  • Ornette Coleman – alto saxophone
  • Don Cherry – trumpet
  • Percy Heath – bass
  • Red Mitchell – bass
  • Shelly Manne – drums
  • Roy DuNann – engineer
  • Nat Hentoff – liner notes

Track listing:

All tracks by Ornette Coleman.

  1. Tomorrow Is the Question!
  2. Tears Inside
  3. Mind and Time
  4. Compassion
  5. Giggin’
  6. Rejoicing
  7. Lorraine
  8. Turnaround
  9. Endless

Coleman Hawkins: Coleman Hawkins Encounters Ben Webster

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In November 1959, “Verve” label released “Coleman Hawkins Encounters Ben Webster”, the 14th Coleman Hawkins album. It was recorded in October 1957, in Los Angeles.

Personnel:

  • Coleman Hawkins – tenor saxophone
  • Ben Webster – tenor saxophone
  • Oscar Peterson – piano
  • Herb Ellis – guitar
  • Ray Brown – double bass
  • Alvin Stoller – drums

Track listing:

  1. Blues for Yolande – Coleman Hawkins
  2. It Never Entered My Mind – Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart
  3. La Rosita – Paul Dupont, Allan Stuart
  4. You’d Be So Nice to Come Home To – Cole Porter
  5. Prisoner of Love – Russ Columbo, Clarence Gaskill, Leo Robin
  6. Tangerine – Johnny Mercer, Victor Schertzinger
  7. Shine On, Harvest Moon – Jack Norworth, Nora Bayes