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Marianne Faithfull: Love In A Mist

On March 2, 1967, “Decca” label released “Love in a Mist”, the fourth Marianne Faithfull studio album. It was recorded in 1966, and was produced by Mike Leander and Andrew Loog-Oldham.


Personnel:

  • Marianne Faithfull – vocals
  • Jon Mark – acoustic guitar, arrangements
  • Big Jim Sullivan – acoustic guitar
  • John McLaughlin – electric guitar
  • Joe Moretti – electric guitar
  • Jimmy Page – electric guitar
  • Nicky Hopkins – piano
  • Eric Ford – bass
  • Alan Weighall – bass
  • Andy White – drums
  • Red Weller – percussion
  • Alan Hakin – percussion
  • Eric Allen – percussion
  • Sidney Sax – string leader
  • Mike Leander – arrangements, mixing
  • Gus Dudgeon – mixing
  • Andrew Batt – mastering
  • Michael Cooper – design, photography

Track listing:

  1. Yesterday – John Lennon, Paul McCartney
  2. You Can’t Go Where the Roses Go – Jackie DeShannon
  3. Our Love Has Gone – Chris Andrews
  4. Don’t Make Promises You Can’t Keep – Tim Hardin
  5. In the Night Time – Donovan
  6. This Little Bird – John D. Loudermilk
  7. Ne Me Quitte Pas – Jacques Demy, Michel Legrand
  8. Counting – Bob Lind
  9. Reason to Believe – Tim Hardin
  10. Coquillages – Marcel Stellman, Michael John Taylor
  11. With You in Mind – Jackie DeShannon
  12. Young Girl Blues – Donovan
  13. Good Guy – Donovan
  14. I Have a Love – Stephen Sondheim, Leonard Bernstein

Bill Evans: From Left To Right

In February 1971, “MGM” label released “From Left to Right”, the 49th Bill Evans album. It was recorded 1969 – 1970, in San Francisco.

Personnel:

  • Bill Evans – Steinway grand piano, Fender-Rhodes electric piano
  • Eddie Gómez – bass
  • Marty Morell – drums
  • Sam Brown – guitar
  • Michael Leonard – conductor, arrangements
  • Unidentified brass, woodwinds, strings

Track listing:

  1. What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life? – Alan Bergman, Marilyn Bergman, Michel Legrand
  2. I’m All Smiles – Michael Leonard, Herbert Martin
  3. Why Did I Choose You? – Michael Leonard, Herbert Martin
  4. Soirée – Earl Zindars
  5. The Dolphin-Before – Luíz Eça
  6. The Dolphin-After – Luíz Eça
  7. Lullaby for Helene – Earl Zindars
  8. Like Someone in Love – Johnny Burke, Jimmy Van Heusen
  9. Children’s Play Song – Bill Evans

Sarah Vaughan: A Time In My Life

In December 1971, “Mainstream” label released “A Time in My Life”, the 35th  Sarah Vaughan album. It was recorded in November 1971, and was produced by Bob Shad.

Personnel:

  • Sarah Vaughan – vocals
  • Albert Vescovo, Joe Pass – guitar
  • Bill Mays – piano
  • Bob Magnusson – bass
  • Earl Palmer – drums
  • Alan Estes, Jimmy Cobb – percussion
  • Jackie Kelso, Jerome Richardson, William Green – saxophone
  • Al Aarons, Buddy Childers, Gene Goe – trumpet
  • Benny Powell, George Bohanon – trombone
  • Ernie Wilkins – arrangements

Track listing:

  1. Imagine – John Lennon
  2. On Thinking It Over – Brian Auger, Alan Gorrie, Jim Mullen
  3. Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler) – Marvin Gaye, James Nyx
  4. Sweet Gingerbread Man – Michel Legrand, Alan and Marilyn Bergman
  5. Magical Connection – John Sebastian
  6. That’s the Way I’ve Always Heard It Should Be – Carly Simon, Jacob Brackman
  7. Tomorrow City – Brian Auger
  8. Universal Prison – Helen Lewis, Kay Lewis
  9. Trouble – Brian Auger, Jim Mullen
  10. If Not for You – Bob Dylan

McCoy Tyner: Prelude And Sonata

In November 1995, “Keystone” and “Milestone” labels released “Prelude and Sonata”, the 62nd McCoy Tyner album. It was recorded in November 1994, at “Clinton Recording Studio” in New York City, and was produced by Makoto Kimata and Todd Barkan.

Personnel:

  • McCoy Tyner – piano
  • Antonio Hart – alto saxophone
  • Joshua Redman – tenor saxophone
  • Christian McBride – double bass
  • Marvin “Smitty” Smith – drums

Track listing:

  1. Prelude in E Minor Op. 28, No. 4 – Frédéric Chopin
  2. Loss of Love – Henry Mancini, Bob Merrill
  3. Contemplation – McCoy Tyner
  4. For All We Know – J. Fred Coots, Sam M. Lewis
  5. I Will Wait for You – Jacques Demy, Norman Gimbel, Michel Legrand
  6. Soul Eyes – Mal Waldron
  7. Smile – Charlie Chaplin
  8. Good Morning Heartache – Ervin Drake, Dan Fisher, Irene Higginbotham
  9. Piano Sonata No. 8 in C Minor – Ludwig van Beethoven

James Ingram: It’s Your Night

On July 27, 1983, “Qwest Records” and “Warner Bros” labels released “It’s Your Night”, the debut James Ingram album. It was recorded 1982 – 1983, at “Westlake” and “Ocean Way” in Los Angeles, and was produced by Quincy Jones. In 1985, the album track “Yah Mo B There” won “Grammy Award” for “Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group”.

Personnel:

  • James Ingram – lead and backing vocals, keyboards, synthesizers, synth bass, arrangements
  • Quincy Jones – African voices, electric piano, arrangements
  • Michael McDonald – lead and backing vocals, synthesizers, arrangements
  • Patti Austin – lead and backing vocals
  • Paul Jackson Jr. – guitars
  • Larry Carlton – guitars
  • George Doering – guitars
  • Greg Phillinganes – acoustic piano, keyboards, synthesizers
  • David Foster – acoustic piano, keyboards, synthesizers, arrangements
  • Robbie Buchanan – keyboards, synthesizers, arrangements
  • Jimmy Smith – organ, synthesizers
  • Michael Boddicker – synthesizers
  • Mark Vieha – synthesizers, arrangements
  • Craig Hundley – synthesizers, synthesizer programming
  • Rod Temperton – synthesizers, arrangements
  • Don Dorsey – synthesizers
  • David Paich – synthesizers, arrangements
  • Ian Underwood – synthesizer programming
  • Steve Porcaro – synthesizer programming
  • Louis Johnson – bass guitar
  • Abe Laboriel – bass guitar
  • Nathan East – bass guitar
  • Harvey Mason Sr. – drums
  • John Robinson – drums
  • Raymond Calhoun – drums
  • Leon “Ndugu” Chancler – drums
  • Paulinho Da Costa – percussion
  • Steve Ray – fingerpopper
  • Ernie Watts – tenor saxophone
  • Larry Williams – saxophone
  • Tom Scott – saxophone, lyricon
  • Gary Grant – trumpet, flugelhorn 
  • Jerry Hey – trumpet, flugelhorn
  • Bill Reichenbach Jr. – trombone
  • Ollie E. Brown – backing vocals
  • Zane Giles – backing vocals
  • Jim Gilstrap – backing vocals
  • Susaye Greene Brown – backing vocals
  • Howard Hewett – backing vocals
  • Bunny Hull – backing vocals
  • David Pack – backing vocals
  • Phillip Ingram – backing vocals
  • Augie Johnson – backing vocals
  • Valerie Johnson – backing vocals
  • Scherrie Payne – backing vocals
  • Luther Vandross – backing vocals
  • Tom Bahler – backing vocals
  • Linda Harmon – backing vocals
  • Edie Lehmann – backing vocals
  • Paulette McWilliams – backing vocals
  • Carmen Twillie – backing vocals
  • Maxine Willard Waters – backing vocals
  • Johnny Mandel – arrangements

Track listing:

  1. Party Animal – James Ingram, Richard Page, Mark Vieha
  2. Yah Mo B There – James Ingram, Quincy Jones, Michael McDonald, Rod Temperton
  3. She Loves Me (The Best That I Can Be) – Jim Photoglo, Brian Francis Neary
  4. Try Your Love Again – Glen Ballard, Brock Walsh
  5. Whatever We Imagine – David Foster, Paul Gordon, Jeremy Lubbock
  6. One More Rhythm – Rod Temperton
  7. There’s No Easy Way – Barry Mann
  8. It’s Your Night – James Ingram, Barry Mann, Cynthia Weil
  9. How Do You Keep the Music Playing – Alan and Marilyn Bergman, Michel Legrand

Marianne Faithfull: Forever Faithfull

In September 1966, “London” label released “Faithfull Forever”, the fifth Marianne Faithfull album. It was recorded in 1966, and was produced by Mike Leander.

Personnel:

  • Marianne Faithfull – vocal
  • Mike Leander – arrangements
  • Gus Dudgeon – engineer 
  • Vic Smith – engineer
  • Jean-Marie Perrier – photography

Track listing:

  1. Counting – Bob Lind
  2. Tomorrow’s Calling – Eric Woolfson
  3. The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face – Ewan MacColl
  4. With You in Mind – Jackie DeShannon
  5. In the Night Time – Donovan
  6. Ne Me Quitte Pas (Love theme from The Umbrellas of Cherbourg) – Jacques Demy, Michel Legrand
  7. Monday, Monday – John Phillips
  8. Some Other Spring – Arthur Herzog, Jr., Irene Kitchings
  9. That’s Right Baby – Michael Farr
  10. Lucky Girl – Barry Mason, Les Reedrtists
  11. I’m the Sky – Norma Tanega
  12. I Have a Love – Leonard Bernstein, Stephen Sondheim

Aretha Franklin: What You See Is What You Sweat

On June 25, 1991, “Arista” label released “What You See Is What You Sweat”, the thirty-third Aretha Franklin studio album. It was recorded in 1990, and was produced by Burt Bacharach, Carole Bayer Sager, David “Pic” Conley, Aretha Franklin, Michel Legrand, Oliver Leiber, Gene Lennon, Bruce Roberts, Joshua Thompson, David Townsend, Luther Vandross, Narada Michael Walden and Elliot Wolff.

Personnel:

  • Aretha Franklin – lead and backing vocals, piano
  • Rick Iantosca – acoustic guitar
  • Paul Jackson Jr. – guitar
  • Dean Parks – guitar
  • Vernon Black – guitar
  • David Townsend – guitar
  • Jean-Marc Benais – guitar
  • Teddy F. White – guitar
  • Al Turner – bass guitar
  • Marcus Miller – bass guitar
  • Dominique Bertram – bass guitar
  • Rudolph Stansfield – piano
  • Thierry Eliez – piano
  • Skip Anderson – keyboards
  • Burt Bacharach – keyboards
  • Oliver Leiber – keyboards, drum programming, guitar
  • Jason Miles – keyboards
  • Louis Biancaniello – keyboards, programming
  • David Foster – keyboards, programming
  • Nat Adderley Jr. – keyboards
  • Bobby Wooten – keyboards, electric piano, drum programming, synthesizer
  • Michael Boddicker – keyboards, programming
  • Hubert Eaves III – keyboards, drum programming
  • Elliot Wolff – keyboards, drum programming
  • Joshua Thompson – keyboards, guitar, synthesizer
  • Peter Schwartz – additional keyboards
  • Charles Scales – synthesizer
  • Michel Legrand – synthesizer
  • Guy Vaughn – drum programming
  • Narada Michael Walden – drums, programming
  • Buster Marbury – drums
  • André Ceccarelli – drums
  • Paulinho da Costa – percussion
  • Larry Fratangelo – percussion
  • Larry Williams – programming
  • Franck Thore – Pan pipes
  • Onita Sanders – harp
  • Candy Dulfer – saxophone
  • David Boruff – saxophone
  • Gene Lennon – programming
  • Cindy Mizelle – backing vocals
  • Jesse Richardson – backing vocals
  • Sandra Feva – backing vocals
  • Brenda Corbett – backing vocals
  • Fonzi Thornton – backing vocals
  • Diane Green – backing vocals
  • Sherry Fox – backing vocals
  • Portia Griffin – backing vocals
  • Margaret Branch – backing vocals
  • Jarvis Barker – backing vocals
  • Nikita Germaine – backing vocals
  • Skyler Jett – backing vocals
  • Jeanie Tracy – backing vocals
  • Tony Lindsay – backing vocals
  • Gwen Guthrie – backing vocals
  • Tawatha Agee – backing vocals
  • Donna Davis – backing vocals
  • Marj Harber – backing vocals
  • Esther Ridgeway – backing vocals
  • Gloria Ridgeway – backing vocals
  • Gracie Ridgeway – backing vocals
  • Clive Davis – executive producer

Track listing:

  1. Everyday people – Sly Stone
  2. Ever Changing Times – Burt Bacharach, Bill Conti, Carole Bayer Sager
  3. What You See Is What You Sweat – David Conley, Derrick Culler, Gene Lennon, Joshua Thompson
  4. Mary Goes Round – Elliot Wolff, Oliver Leiber
  5. I Dreamed a Dream – Alain Boubill, Herbert Kretzmer, Jean Marc Natel, Claude Michel Schonberg
  6. Someone’s Else’s Eyes – Bruce Roberts, Burt Bacharach, Bayer Sager
  7. Doctor’s Orders – Luther Vandross, Hubert Eaves III
  8. You Can’t Take Me for Granted – Aretha Franklin
  9. What You Give – Aretha Franklin
  10. Everyday People (Shep Pettibone Remix) – Sly Stone

Miles Davis: Quiet Nights

On December 16, 1963, “Columbia” label released “Quiet Nights”, the 36th Miles Davis album, and his fourth and final album collaboration with Gil Evans. It was recorded July – November 1962, April 1963, at “Columbia’s 30th Street Studios” in Manhattan, and was produced by Teo Macero and Irving Townsend.

Personnel:

  • Miles Davis – trumpet
  • Gil Evans – arranger, conductor
  • Shorty Baker, Bernie Glow, Louis Mucci, Ernie Royal – trumpets
  • J.J. Johnson, Frank Rehak – trombones
  • Ray Alonge, Don Corrado, Julius Watkins – french horns
  • Bill Barber – tuba
  • Steve Lacy – soprano saxophone
  • George Coleman – tenor saxophone
  • Albert Block – flute
  • Ray Beckenstein, Jerome Richardson – woodwinds
  • Garvin Bushell, Bob Tricarico – bassoons
  • Janet Putnam – harp
  • Victor Feldman – piano
  • Ron Carter – bass
  • Paul Chambers – bass
  • Jimmy Cobb – drums
  • Frank Butler – drums
  • Willie Bobo – bongos
  • Elvin Jones – percussion
  • Fred Plaut – engineer
  • Dan Hunstein – photography

Track listing:

  1. Song No. 2 (a.k.a. Prenda Minha, Brazilian folk song) – Gil Evans, Miles Davis
  2. Once Upon a Summertime – Johnny Mercer, Michel Legrand
  3. Aos Pés da Cruz – Marino Pinto, José Gonçalves
  4. Song No. 1 (a.k.a. Adelita by Francisco Tárrega) – Gil Evans, Miles Davis
  5. Wait Till You See Her – Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart
  6. Corcovado – Antônio Carlos Jobim
  7. Summer Night – Harry Warren, Al Dubin

Jacques Brel: Quand on n’a que l’amour

In April 1957, “Philips” label released “Quand on n’a que l’amour” (When love is all you have), the second Jacques Brel studio album. It was recorded 11 March 1955 – 22 March 1957.

Personnel:

  • Jacques Brel– vocals
  • André Popp– orchestra conductor
  • Michel Legrand– orchestra conductor
  • François Rauber– orchestra conductor
  • Jacques Canetti – executive producer
  • Vénéroni – artwork

Track listing:

All tracks by Jacques Brel, except where noted.

  1. Quand on n’a que l’amour
  2. Qu’avons-nous fait, bonnes gens
  3. Les pieds dans le ruisseau
  4. Pardons – Jacques Brel, Jacques Vigouroux
  5. La bourrée du célibataire
  6. L’air de la bêtise
  7. Saint-Pierre
  8. J’en appelle
  9. Heureux
  10. Les blés
  11. Quand on n’a que l’amour