In April 1966, “Atlantic” label released “Money in the Pocket”, the debut Joe Zawinul album. It was recorded in February 1966, at “Atlantic Studios” in New York City, and was produced by Joel Dorn.
On April 27, 2004, “ECM” label released “Promises Kept”, the 28th Steve Kuhn album. It was recorded June – September 2000, at “Edison Studios” in New York City, and was produced by Manfred Eicher.
Personnel:
Steve Kuhn – piano
David Finck – bass
String Ensemble conducted by Carlos Franzetti
Krista Bennion Feeney, Elizabeth Lim-Dutton, Richard Sortomme, Karl Kawahara, Barry Finclair, Helen Kim, Robert Shaw, Carol Pool, Anca Nicolau -violin
Sue Pray, Vince Lionti, Karen Ritscher – viola
Stephanie Cummins, Richard Locker, Joshua Gordon – cello
In April 1957, “Blue Note” label released the self-titled, second Kenny Burrell studio album. It was recorded March – May 1956, at “Audio-Video Studios” in New York City and “Van Gelder Studio” in Hackensack, NJ, and was produced by Alfred Lion.
Personnel:
Kenny Burrell – guitar
Tommy Flanagan – piano
Frank Foster – tenor saxophone
Paul Chambers – bass
Oscar Pettiford – bass
Kenny Clarke – drums
Shadow Wilson – drums
Candido – conga
Andy Warhol – cover art
Track listing:
All tracks by Kenny Burrell except where noted.
Get Happy – Harold Arlen, Ted Koehler
But Not for Me – George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin
Moten Swing – Bennie Moten
Cheetah
Now See How You Are – Woody Harris, Oscar Pettiford
In April 1957, “Columbia” label released “Drum Suite”, album by Art Blakey, side one is the Art Blakey Percussion Ensemble, side two is the Jazz Messengers. It was recorded June – December 1956, February 1957, at “Columbia 30th Street Studio” in New York City, and was produced by George Avakian.
On April 10, 2007, “4AD” label released “23” the seventh Blonde Redhead studio album. It was recorded in 2006, at “The Magic Shop” and “Stay Gold” in New York City, and was produced by Kazu Makino, Amedeo Pace and Simone Pace/
Personnel:
Kazu Makino – vocals, keyboards, rhythm guitar
Amedeo Pace – lead guitar, keyboards, drums
Simone Pace – vocals, bass
Chris Coady – robot voice
Morgan King – French horn
Skúli Sverrisson – bass
Chris Coady – recording
Andy Savours – engineer
Brian Thorn – engineer
Ted Young – engineer
Eddie Jackson – engineer, editing
Alan Moulder – mixing
Rich Costey – mixing
Greg Calbi – mastering
Mitchell Froom – assistance
Alexander Gelman – creative direction
Alex Gross – artwork
David Heasty – art direction
Track listing:
All tracks by Kazu Makino, Amedeo Pace and Simone Pace.
On April 6, 1999, “Atlantic” label released “Utopia Parkway” the second Fountains of Wayne studio album. It was recorded in 1998, at “Stratosphere Sound” in New York City, and was produced by Adam Schlesinger and Chris Collingwood.
Personnel:
Chris Collingwood – lead vocals, rhythm guitar
Jody Porter – lead guitar, backing vocals
Adam Schlesinger – bass, keyboards, backing vocals
On March 29, 2017, “Commons” and “Milan” labels released “async”, the nineteenth Ryuichi Sakamoto studio album. It was recorded April – December 2016, at “The Studio”, “Germano Studios” and “Museum of Arts and Design” in New York City, “Bastyr University Chapel” in Kenmore, Washington, “Gateway Mastering” in Portland, Maine, “Kyoto City University of Arts” in Kyoto, Japan, and was produced by Ryuichi Sakamoto and Mai Yuda. Magazine “Fact” voted “async” the best album of 2017.
Personnel:
Ryuichi Sakamoto – piano,
Christian Fennesz – guitar, computer
N.S.S. – Singing bowls
Ian Antonio, Levy Lorenzo, Ross Karre – triangle
Ko Ishikawa – Shō
Honjoh Hidejiro – shamisen
Ian Antonio, Levy Lorenzo, Ross Karre – percussion
David Sylvian – spoken word
Andri Magnason, Bernardo Bertolucci, Carsten Nicolai, Christine Leboutte, José Lavat, Keyko Nimsay, Priscilla Leung, Sergei Mihailov, Shirin Neshat, Tang Kit Ming – spoken word vocals
Paul Bowles – words
Luca – vocals
Arseny Tarkovsky – words
Simon James – concertmaster
David Sabee – concertmaster
Alex Venguer, Ryan Kelly, John Winters,.Seigen Ono – recording engineer
Jason Staniulis, Matthew Sim, Alec Fellman – engineer assistant
On March 26, 2012, “Honest Jon’s” label released the self-titled, debut and only Rocket Juice & the Moon album. It was recorded 2008 – 2011, at “Studio 13” in London, in Chicago, New York City and Paris.
On March 23, 1999, “Elektra” label released “Inside”, the 20th David Sanborn album. It was recorded in 1998, at “Camel Island” in New Jersey, “Avatar Studios”, “Hiatus Studios”, “Sound On Sound” and “Electric Lady Studios” in New York City, and was produced by Marcus Miller and David Isaac.
Personnel:
David Sanborn – alto saxophone
Marcus Miller – keyboards, Rhodes piano, guitar, bass, drums, clarinet, backing vocals, arrangements, engineer
On March 16, 2012, “ECM” label released “All Our Reasons” the eleventh Billy Hart album. It was recorded in June 2011, at “Avatar Studios” in New York City, and was produced by Manfred Eicher.
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