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Foghat: Tight Shoes

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On May 28, 1980, “Bearsville” label released “Tight Shoes”, the ninth Foghat studio album. It was recorded in 1979, at “Foghat Studios” in Port Jefferson, New York, and was produced by Don Berman, Tony Outeda, Dave Peverett, Rod Price, Craig MacGregor and Roger Earl.

Personnel:

  • Dave Peverett – vocals, rhythm guitar, design concept
  • Rod Price – lead and slide guitar
  • Craig MacGregor – bass guitar
  • Roger Earl – drums
  • Don Berman – engineer, mixing
  • Bob Coffee – engineer
  • Jorge Ripley – engineer assistant
  • Tony Outeda – mixing
  • Bob Ludwig – mastering

Track listing:

All tracks by Dave Peverett.

  1. Stranger in My Home Town
  2. Loose Ends
  3. Full Time Lover
  4. Baby I Can Change Your Mind
  5. Too Late the Hero
  6. Dead End Street
  7. Be My Woman
  8. No Hard Feelings
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Louis Hayes: Serenade for Horace

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On May 26, 2017, “Blue Note” label released “Serenade for Horace” the 18th Louis Hayes album. It was recorded in 2017, at “System Two” in New York.

Personnel:

  • Louis Hayes – drums
  • David Bryant – piano
  • Abraham Burton – tenor saxophone
  • Josh Evans – trumpet
  • Steve Nelson – vibraphone
  • Dezron Douglas – bass
  • Max Ross – mixing
  • Ian Sefchick – mastering
  • Colby Silon – art direction
  • Hayden Miller – layout, design
  • Janette Beckman – photography

Track listing:

  1. Ecaroh
  2. Señor Blues
  3. Song for My Father
  4. Hastings Street
  5. Strollin’
  6. Juicy Lucy
  7. Silver’s Serenade
  8. Lonely Woman
  9. Summer in Central Park
  10. St. Vitus Dance
  11. Room 608

MisterWives: Connect the Dots

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On May 19, 2017, “Photo Finish” and “Republic Records” labels released “Connect the Dots”, the second MisterWives studio album. It was recorded in 2016, at “Rubyred Productions” in California, “DB Studios” in New York, and was produced by Butch Walker and Etienne Bowler.

Personnel:

  • Mandy Lee – lead vocals
  • Marc Campbell – lead guitar, gang vocals
  • Jesse Blum – keyboards, synthesizer, piano, gang vocals
  • William Hehir – bass guitar, gang vocals
  • Butch Walker – keyboards, synthesizer, gang vocals, programming, recording
  • Etienne Bowler – drums, percussion, synthesizer, gang vocals, programming
  • Todd Stopera – recording
  • Neal Avron – mixing
  • Joe Spix – art direction, design
  • Viktoriya Tsoy – design
  • Matt Burnette-Lemon – package production
  • Mary Ellen Matthews – photography

Track listing:

All tracks by Mandy Lee, except where noted.

  1. Machine – Mandy Lee, Etienne Bowler
  2. Chasing This
  3. Only Human
  4. Drummer Boy
  5. Revolution
  6. My Brother
  7. Out of Tune Piano – Mandy Lee, Etienne Bowler
  8. Band Camp – Mandy Lee, Etienne Bowler, Marc Campbell
  9. Let the Light In – Mandy Lee, Etienne Bowler
  10. Coloring Outside the Lines – Mandy Lee, Marc Campbell
  11. Oh Love

Charles Mingus: Mingus Dynasty

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In May 1960, “Columbia” label released “Mingus Dynasty”, the 18th Charles Mingus album. It was recorded in November 1959, at “CBS 30th Street Studio” in New York City, and was produced by Teo Macero. In 1999, the album was inducted in the “Grammy Hall of Fame”.

Personnel:

  • Charles Mingus – bass
  • John Handy – alto sax
  • Booker Ervin – tenor sax
  • Benny Golson – tenor sax
  • Jerome Richardson – baritone sax, flute
  • Richard Williams – trumpet
  • Don Ellis – trumpet
  • Jimmy Knepper – trombone
  • Roland Hanna – piano
  • Nico Bunink – piano
  • Dannie Richmond – drums
  • Teddy Charles – vibes
  • Maurice Brown – cello
  • Seymour Barab – cello
  • Honi Gordon – vocals

Track listing:

All tracks by Charles Mingus, except where noted.                         

  1. Slop
  2. Diane
  3. Song with Orange
  4. Gunslinging Bird (originally titled If Charlie Parker Were a Gunslinger, There’d Be a Whole Lot of Dead Copycats) 
  5. Things Ain’t What They Used to Be – Mercer Ellington
  6. Far Wells, Mill Valley
  7. New Now Know How
  8. Mood Indigo – Barney Bigard, Duke Ellington
  9. Put Me in That Dungeon

John Scofield: Same

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On May 6, 2022, “ECM” label released the self-titled, the 46th John Scofield album. It was recorded in August 2021, at “Top Story Studio: in Katonah, New York, and was produced by Manfred Eicher.

Personnel:

  • John Scofield – electric guitar, loops, liner notes
  • Tyler McDiarmid – engineer
  • Christoph Stickel – mastering
  • Sascha Kleis – design
  • Luciano Rossetti – cover photo
  • Manfred Eicher – executive producer

Track listing:

  1. Coral – Keith Jarrett
  2. Honest I Do – John Scofield
  3. It Could Happen to You – Jimmy Van Heusen, Johnny Burke
  4. Danny Boy – traditional
  5. Elder Dance – John Scofield
  6. Mrs. Scofield’s Waltz – John Scofield
  7. Junco Partner – traditional
  8. There Will Never Be Another You – Harry Warren, Mack Gordon
  9. My Old Flame – Arthur Johnston, Sam Coslow
  10. Not Fade Away – Buddy Holly, Norman Petty
  11. Since You Asked – John Scofield
  12. Trance De Jour – John Scofield
  13. You Win Again – Hank Williams

Vijay Iyer: Uneasy

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On April 9, 2021, “ECM” label released “Uneasy”, album by Vijay Iyer, Linda May Han Oh, and Tyshawn Sorey. It was recorded December 2019, at “Oktaven Audio” in Mount Vernon, New York, and was produced by Manfred Eicher and Vijay Iyer.

Personnel:

  • Vijay Iyer – piano, liner notes
  • Tushawn Sorey – drums
  • Linda May Han Oh – double bass
  • Ryan Streber – engineer
  • Cristoph Stickel – mastering
  • Sascha Kleis – design
  • Rita Dove – liner notes
  • Edward Berenson – liner notes
  • Woong Chul An – cover photography
  • Craig Marsden – liner photography

Track listing:

All tracks by Vijay Iyer, except where noted.

  1. Children of Flint
  2. Combat Breathing
  3. Night and Day – Cole Porter
  4. Touba – Mike Ladd, Vijay Iyer
  5. Drummer’s Song – Geri Allen
  6. Augury
  7. Configurations
  8. Uneasy
  9. Retrofit
  10. Entrustment

Waxahatchee: Saint Cloud

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On March 27, 2020, Merge Records” label released “Saint Cloud”, the fifth Waxahatchee studio album. It was recorded in 2019, at “Sonic Ranch” in Tornillo, Texas, “Long Pond” in New York, and was produced by Brad Cook.

Personnel:

  • Katie Crutchfield – vocals, acoustic guitar, piano, keyboards
  • Bobby Colombo – acoustic and electric guitar, keyboards
  • Bill Lennox – vocals, acoustic and electric guitar, keyboards, percussion
  • Brad Cook – bass, acoustic guitar, piano, keyboards, synthesizer
  • Nick Kinsey – drums, percussion
  • Josh Kaufman – electric guitar, piano, organ, percussion
  • Jerry Ordonez – engineer
  • Jon Low – additional engineering, mixing
  • Brent Lambert – mastering
  • Mike Krol – design
  • Molly Matalon – photography
  • Andreina Byrne – set production

Track listing:

All tracks by Katie Crutchfield, except where noted.

  1. Oxbow
  2. Can’t Do Much
  3. Fire
  4. Lilacs
  5. The Eye
  6. Hell
  7. Witches
  8. War
  9. Arkadelphia
  10. Ruby Falls
  11. Saint Cloud

The Antlers: Green to Gold

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On March 26, 2021, “Anti -” label released “Green to Gold”, the sixth Antlers studio album. It was recorded in “Harrington Road” in New Paltz, and “Lone Pine Road” in Kingston, New York, and was produced by Peter Silberman.

Personnel:

  • Peter Silberman – vocals, guitar, bass, pedal steel, piano, organ, engineer
  • Michael Lerner – drums, percussion
  • Tim Mislock – guitar
  • Dave Harrington – slide guitar
  • David Moore – banjo
  • Kelly Pratt – baritone saxophone, flute, clarinet, French horn
  • Jon Natchez – bass clarinet
  • Will Harvey – violin, viola
  • Brent Arnold – cello
  • Nicholas Principe – mixing
  • Gus Elg – mastering
  • Zan Goodman – art direction, design
  • Landon Speers – cover, additional photography
  • Shervin Lainez – band photography

Track listing:

All tracks by Peter Silberman and Michael Lerner.

  1. Strawflower
  2. Wheels Roll Home
  3. Solstice
  4. Stubborn Man
  5. Just One See
  6. It Is What It Is
  7. Volunteer
  8. Green to Gold
  9. Porchlight
  10. Equinox

Cécile McLorin Salvant: Ghost Song

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On March 4, 2022, “Nonesuch” label released “Ghost Song”, the sixth Cécile McLorin Salvant studio album. It was recorded in 2021, at “The Bunker Studio”, “St. Malachy Roman Catholic Church” in New York, and was produced by Cécile McLorin Salvant, Sullivan Fortner and Paul Sikivie. In April 2022, it was chosen as “Album of the Month” for both performance and sonics by “Stereophile”.

Personnel:

  • Cécile McLorin Salvant – vocal, piano, creative director, illustration
  • Marvin Sewell – guitar
  • James Chirillo – banjo
  • Aaron Diehl – piano, organ
  • Sullivan Fortner – vocal, piano
  • Burniss Travis – bass
  • Paul Sikivie – bass, electric bass, synthesizer
  • Kyle Poole – drums
  • Keita Ogawa – percussion
  • Alexa Tarantino – flute
  • Daniel Swenberg – flute, theorbo
  • Iris McLorin Picot – vocal
  • Violette McLorin Picot – vocal
  • Brooklyn Youth Chorus – choir
  • Todd Whitelock – recording, mixing, associate producer
  • Patrick Dillett – recording
  • Chris Muth – mastering
  • Ben Tousley – art direction, design
  • Shawn Michael Jones – photography
  • Robert Hurwitz – executive producer
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All tracks by Cécile McLorin Salvant, except where noted.

  1. Wuthering Heights – Kate Bush
  2. Optimistic Voices / No Love Dying – Harold Arlen, Yip Harburg, Herbert Stothart
  3. Ghost Song
  4. Obligation
  5. Until – Gordon Sumner
  6. I Lost My Mind
  7. Moon Song
  8. Trail Mix
  9. The World is Mean – Kurt Weil, Berthold Brecht, Marc Blitzstein
  10. Dead Poplar
  11. Thunderclouds
  12. Unquiet Grave – traditional, arranged by Cécile McLorin Salvant

Anais Mitchell: Same

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On January 28, 2022, “BMG Rights Management” label released the self-titled, eighth Anaïs Mitchell studio album. It was recorded in 2021, at “Dreamland Recording Studios” in Hurley, New York, and was produced by Josh Kaufman.

Personnel:

  • Anaïs Mitchell – vocals, acoustic guitar
  • Josh Kaufman – electric guitar, synthesizer, bass, piano, mandolin, organ, harmonica, 12-string guitar, synth bass
  • Aaron Dessner – electric guitar
  • Thomas Bartlett – piano, synthesizer, Wurlitzer, Rhodes piano, Mellotron, organ
  • Michael Lewis – bass, saxophones, clarinet, synthesizer
  • JT Bates – drums, percussion
  • Alex Sopp – flute
  • Nico Muhly – ensemble, string arrangement, arrangement
  • Nadia Sirota – viola
  • Bella Blasko – engineer
  • D. James Goodwin – mixing
  • Greg Calbi – mastering
  • Steve Fallone – mastering

Track listing:

All tracks by Anais Mitchell.

  1. Brooklyn Bridge
  2. Bright Star
  3. Revenant
  4. On Your Way (Felix Song)
  5. Real World
  6. Backroads
  7. Little Big Girl
  8. Now You Know
  9. The Words
  10. Watershed