In April 1961, “Riverside” label released “Movin’ Along”, the third Wes Montgomery studio album. It was recorded in October 1960, at “United Recording Studios” in Los Angeles, and was produced by Orin Keepnews.
Personnel:
Wes Montgomery – guitar, bass guitar
James Clay – flute, tenor sax
Victor Feldman – piano
Sam Jones – bass
Louis Hayes – drums
Track listing:
Movin’ Along – Wes Montgomery
Tune-Up – Miles Davis
Tune-Up (alternate take) Miles Davis
I Don’t Stand a Ghost of a Chance with You – Victor Young, Ned Washington, Bing Crosby
Sandu – Clifford Brown
Body and Soul – Edward Heyman, Robert Sour, Frank Eyton, Johnny Green
Body and Soul (alternate take)Edward Heyman, Robert Sour, Frank Eyton, Johnny Green
On March 15, 1996, “Private Music” label released “Mystery Lady: Songs of Billie Holiday, the 19th Etta James album. It was recorded in 1995, and was produced by John Snyder.
Personnel:
Etta James – vocal
Cedar Walton – piano, arrangements
Josh Sclair – guitar
Tony Dumas – bass
Ealph Penland – drums
Ralph Penland – percussion
Red Holloway – alto and tenor saxophone
Ronnie Buttacavoli – trumpet, flugelhorn
Kraig Kilby – trombone
Jay Newland – engineer
Mark Guilbeault – engineer assistant
Jay Newland – mastering
Lupe DeLeon – executive producer
Track listing:
Don’t Explain – Arthur Herzog Jr,. Billie Holiday
You’ve Changed – Bill Carey, Carl Fischer
The Man I Love – George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin
I Don’t Stand a Ghost of a Chance (With You) – Bing Crosby, Ned Washington, Roger Ramirez
Lover Man (Where Can You Be) – Jimmy Davis, Jimmy Sherman, Roger Ramirez
Embraceable You – George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin
How Deep Is the Ocean – Irving Berlin
(I’m Afraid) The Masquerade Is Over – Allie Wrubel, Herb Magidson
Body and Soul – Edward Heyman, Frank Eyton, John Green, Bob Sour
In March 1964, “ABC” label released “Sweet & Sour Tears”, the 20th Ray Charles album. It was recorded in 1964, and was produced by Sid Feller and Ray Charles.
Personnel:
Ray Charles – vocals, keyboards
Billy Preston – electric organ
Gene Lowell Singers – backing vocals
Calvin Jackson, Sid Feller – arrangements
Bill Putnam, Phil Macy – engineer
Joe Lebow – design
Howard Morehead – photography
Track listing:
Cry – Churchill Kohlman
Guess I’ll Hang My Tears Out to Dry – Sammy Cahn, Jule Styne
A Tear Fell – Eugene Randolph, Dorian Burton
No One to Cry To – Sid Robin, Foy Glenn Willing
You’ve Got Me Crying Again – Isham Jones, Charles Newman
After My Laughter Came Tears – Charles Tobias, Roy Turk
Teardrops from My Eyes – Rudolph Toombs
Don’t Cry Baby – Saul Bernie, James P. Johnson, Stella Unger
Cry Me a River – Arthur Hamilton
Baby, Don’t You Cry – Buddy Johnson, Ned Washington
Willow, Weep for Me – Ann Ronell
I Cried for You – Arthur Freed, Abe Lyman, Gus Arnheim
In January 1961, “ABC Paramount” label released “Dedicated to You”, the 13th Ray Charles album. It was recorded in August 1960, and was produced by Sid Feller.
Personnel:
Ray Charles – vocals, piano, keyboards
Betty Carter – vocals, performer
Marty Paich – arrangements, conductor
Track listing:
Hardhearted Hannah – Jack Yellen, Milton Ager, Charles Bates, Bob Bigelow
Nancy (With the Laughing Face) – Phil Silvers, Jimmy Van Heusen
Margie – Con Conrad, J. Russel Robinson, Benny Davis
Ruby – Mitchell Parish, Heinz Roemheld
Rosetta – Earl Hines, Henri Woode
Stella by Starlight – Ned Washington, Victor Young
Cherry – Ray Gilbert, Don Redman
Josephine – Burke Bivens, Kahn, Wayne King
Candy – Mack David, Alex Kramer, Joan Whitney
Marie – Irving Berlin
Diane – Lew Pollack, Erno Rapee
Sweet Georgia Brown – Ben Bernie, Kenneth Casey, Maceo Pinkard
On September 6, 2019, “BMG Rights Management” label released “Valve Bone Woe”, the second Chrissie Hynde studio album. It was recorded in 2019, and was produced by Marius DeVries and Eldad Guetta.
In August 1984, “Lamborghini Records” label released “Till We Have Faces”, the eighth Steve Hackett album. It was recorded 1983 – 1984, and was produced by Steve Hackett.
In June 1963, “Riverside” label released “Interplay”, the thirteenth Bill Evans album. It was recorded in July 1962, at “Sound Makers Studio” in New York City, and was produced by Orrin Keepnews.
Personnel:
Bill Evans – piano
Freddie Hubbard – trumpet
Jim Hall – guitar
Percy Heath – bass
Philly Joe Jones – drums
Track listing:
You and the Night and the Music – Howard Dietz, Arthur Schwartz
When You Wish upon a Star – Leigh Harline, Ned Washington
I’ll Never Smile Again (take 7; original take) – Ruth Lowe
Interplay – Bill Evans
You Go to My Head – J. Fred Coots, Haven Gillespie
Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams (And Dream Your Troubles Away) – Harry Barris, Ted Koehler, Billy Moll
In May 1968, “Cadet” label released “The Bright, the Blue and the Beautiful”, the 24th Ahmad Jamal album. It was recorded in February 1968, at “Fine Recording Studios” in New York, and was produced by Richard Evans.
Personnel:
Ahmad Jamal – piano
Jamil Sulieman – bass
Frank Gant – drums
The Howard Roberts Choir – vocals
Hale Smith – conductor
Track listing:
Wild Is the Wind – Dimitri Tiomkin, Ned Washington
Ballad for Beverly – Bob Williams
Of Bass I Love – Ahmad Jamal, Jamil Sulieman
Yesterdays – Otto Harbach, Jerome Kern
I Wish I Knew (How It Would Feel to Be Free) – Billy Taylor, Dick Dallas
At Long Last Love – Cole Porter
Never Let Me Go – Jay Livingston, Ray Evans
Gypsies in the Wind – Bob Williams
Lover Man – Jimmy Davis, Ram Ramirez, James Sherman
On February 28, 2020, “Fantasy” label released “American Standard”, the twentieth James Taylor studio album. It was recorded at “The Barn” in Washington, MA, “United Recording Studios” in Hollywood, “Capitol Studios” in Los Angeles, “Treasure Isle Studios” and “Blackbird Studios” in Nashville, TN, and was produced by Dave O’Donnell, John Pizzarelli and James Taylor. “American Standard” won “Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album” at the 63rd “Annual Grammy Awards”.
Personnel:
James Taylor – vocals, acoustic guitar
Kate Markowitz – vocals
Arnold McCuller – vocals
Caroline Taylor – vocals
John Pizzarelli – rhythm guitar
Michael Landau – lead guitar
Larry Goldings – piano, keyboards
Jimmy Johnson – bass
Viktor Krauss – double bass
Steve Gadd – drums
Luis Conte – percussion
Dorian Holley – vocals
Louis Marini, Jr. – saxophones, flute, clarinet
Walter Fowler – trumpets, flügelhorn
Andrea Zonn – vocals, violin
Stuart Duncan – violin
Jerry Douglas – dobro, engineer
Ted Jensen – mastering
Justin Shturtz – mastering assistant
Carrie Smith – art direction, design
Track listing:
My Blue Heaven – Walter Donaldson, George A. Whiting
Moon River – Henry Mancini, Johnny Mercer
Teach Me Tonight – Gene de Paul,, Sammy Cahn
As Easy as Rolling Off a Log – M.K. Jerome, Jack Scholl
Almost Like Being in Love – Frederick Loewe, Alan Jay Lerner
Sit Down, You’re Rockin’ the Boat – Frank Loesser
The Nearness of You – Hoagy Carmichael, Ned Washington
You’ve Got to be carefully Taught – Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II
God Bless the Child – Billie Holiday, Arthur Herzog Jr.
Pennies from Heaven – Arthur Johnston, Johnny Burke
My Heart Stood Still – Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart
Ol’ Man River – Jerome Kern, Oscar Hammerstein II
It’s Only a Paper Moon – Harold Arlen, Yip Harburg, Billy Rose
The Surrey with the Fringe on Top – Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II
On December 18, 1984, “Columbia” label released “Hot House Flowers”, the third Wynton Marsalis album. It was recorded in May 1984, at “RCA Studio A” in New York City, and was produced by George Butler and Steven Epstein. The album won “Grammy Award” for “Best Jazz Instrumental Performance Soloist” in 1985.
Personnel:
Wynton Marsalis – trumpet
Branford Marsalis – soprano and tenor saxophone
Kent Jordan – alto flute
Paul McCandless – oboe, English horn
Andrew Schwartz – bassoon
Peter Gordon – French horn
Tony Price – tuba
Kenny Kirkland – piano
Ron Carter – double bass
Jeff “Tain” Watts – drums
Charles Libove (concertmaster), Ingrid Arden, Peter Dimitriades, Gayle Dixon, Guillermo Figueroa, Winterton Garvey, Harry Glickman, Regis Iandiorio, Ray Kunicki, Patmore Lewis, Diane Monroe, Louann Montesi – violin
Al Brown, Theodore Israel, Mitsue Takayama, Harry Zaratzian – viola
Seymour Barab, Richard Locker, Alvin McCall, Frederick Zlotkin – cello
Bob Freedman – arranger, orchestrator, conductor
Track listing:
Stardust – Hoagy Carmichael, Mitchell Parish
Lazy Afternoon – Jerome Moross, John Latouche
For All We Know – John Frederick Coots, Sam M. Lewis
When You Wish upon a Star – Ned Washington, Leigh Harline
Django – John Lewis
Melancholia – Duke Ellington
Hot House Flowers – Wynton Marsalis
I’m Confessin’ (That I Love You) – Al J. Neiburg, Doc Daugherty, Ellis Reynolds
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