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The Monkees: More Of The Monkees

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On January 9, 1967, “Colgems” label released “More of the Monkees”, the second Monkees (The) studio album. It was recorded June – November 1966, at “RCA Victor A, B” in Hollywood, “RCA Victor A, B” in New York, “Western Recorders No. 2” in Hollywood, and was produced by Tommy Boyce, Bobby Hart, Carole Bayer Sager, Neil Sedaka, Michael Nesmith, Jeff Barry, Jack Keller, Gerry Goffin and Carole King. The album was certified quintuple platinum in the US by the “RIAA”,

Personnel:

  • Micky Dolenz – lead vocals and backing vocals
  • Davy Jones – lead and backing vocals
  • Peter Tork – lead and backing vocals, guitar
  • Michael Nesmith – lead and backing vocals, steel guitar
  • Wayne Erwin – guitar, backing vocals
  • Gerry McGee – guitar
  • Louie Shelton – guitar
  • Al Gafa – guitar
  • Willard Suyker – guitar
  • Don Thomas – guitar
  • James Burton – guitar
  • Glen Campbell – guitar
  • Al Casey – guitar
  • Mike Deasy – guitar
  • Neil Diamond – guitar
  • Sal DiTroia – guitar
  • Al Gorgoni – guitar
  • Carol Kaye – guitar
  • Norm Jeffries – tambourine
  • Michael Cohen – keyboards
  • Larry Knechtel – keyboards
  • Neil Sedaka – keyboards
  • Michael Cohen – keyboards
  • Larry Knechtel – keyboards
  • Don Randi – keyboards
  • Michel Rubini – keyboards
  • George Butcher – keyboards
  • Stan Free – keyboards
  • Bobby Hart – organ, backing vocals
  • Larry Taylor – bass guitar
  • Russ Savakus – bass guitar
  • Bob West – bass guitar
  • Ray Pohlman – bass guitar
  • Billy Lewis – drums
  • Herbie Lovelle – drums
  • Hal Blaine – drums
  • Buddy Saltzman – drums
  • George Devens – percussion
  • Frank Capp – percussion
  • Julius Wechter – percussion
  • Gary Coleman – percussion
  • Jim Gordon – percussion
  • Louis Haber – violin
  • Irving Spice – violin
  • Louis Stone – violin
  • David Sackson – viola
  • Murray Sandry – viola
  • Seymour Barab – cello
  • Jeff Barry – backing vocals
  • Tommy Boyce – backing vocals
  • Ron Hicklin – backing vocals
  • Don Peake – conductor
  • Artie Butler – string arrangements
  • Don Kirshner – music supervisor
  • Lester Sill – music coordinator
  • Emil LaViola – music coordinator
  • Ernie Oelrich – engineer
  • Henry Lewy – engineer
  • Hank Cicalo – engineer
  • Richie Schmitt – engineer
  • Richard Podolor – engineer
  • Dave Hassinger – engineer
  • Ray Hall – engineer

Track listing:

  1. She – Tommy Boyce, Bobby Hart
  2. When Love Comes Knockin’ (At Your Door) – Carole Bayer Sager, Neil Sedaka
  3. Mary, Mary – Michael Nesmith
  4. Hold on Girl – Billy Carr, Jack Keller, Ben Raleigh
  5. Your Auntie Grizelda – Diane Hildebrand, Jack Keller
  6. (I’m Not Your) Steppin’ Stone – Tommy Boyce, Bobby Hart
  7. Look Out (here Comes Tomorrow) – Neil Diamond
  8. The Kind of Girl I Could Love – Michael Nesmith, Roger Atkins
  9. The Day We Fall in Love – Sandy Linzer, Denny Randell
  10. Sometime in the Morning –Gerry Goffin, Carole King
  11. Laugh – Phil Margo, Mitch Margo, Hank Medress, Jay Siegel
  12. I’m a Believer – Neil Diamond

The Tony Williams Lifetime: Turn It Over

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In December 1970, “Polydor” label released “Turn It Over”, the second Tony Williams Lifetime (The) studio album. It was recorded in July 1970, at “Olmstead Sound Studios” in New York City, and was produced by Tony Williams, Monte Kay and Jack Lewis.

Personnel:

  • Tony Williams – vocals, drums
  • John McLaughlin – vocals, guitar
  • Larry Young – organ
  • Jack Bruce – lead vocals, bass
  • Ray Hall – engineer
  • Sid Maurer – art direction, design

Track listing:

  1. To Whom It May Concern – Them – Chick Corea
  2. To Whom It May Concern – Us – Chick Corea
  3. This Night This Song – Tony Williams
  4. Bog Nick – John Coltrane
  5. Right On – Tony Williams
  6. Once I Loved – Antonio Carlos Jobim, Vinicius de Moraes, Ray Gilbert
  7. Vuelta Abajo – Tony Williams
  8. A Famous Blues – John McLauglin
  9. Allah Be Praised – Larry Young

Jimmy Smith: Hobo Flats

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In April 1963, “Verve” label released “Hobo Flats”, Jimmy Smith’s second album for the company. It was recorded in March 1963, in New York, and was produced by Creed Taylor.

Personnel:

  • Jimmy Smith – Hammond organ
  • Oliver Nelson – arrangements, conductor
  • Val Valentin – director of engineering
  • Bob Simpson – engineer
  • Ray Hall – engineer
  • Chuck Stewart – photography
  • Del Shields – liner notes

Track listing:

  1. Hobo Flats – Oliver Nelson
  2. Blueberry Hill – Al Lewis, Larry Stacks, Vincent Rose
  3. Walk Right In – Erik Darling, Willard Svanoe
  4. Trouble in Mind – Larry Jones
  5. The Preacher – Horace Silver
  6. Meditation – Antonio Carlos Jobim,  Newton Ferreira de Mendonca, Norman Gimbel
  7. I Can’t Stop Loving You – Don Gibson

Rodriguez: Cold Fact

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In March 1970, “Sussex Records” label released “Cold Fact”, the debut studio Rodriguez studio album. It was recorded August – September 1969, in Detroit, and was produced by Mike Theodore and Dennis Coffey.

Personnel:

  • Rodriguez (Sixto Rodriguez) – vocals, acoustic guitar
  • Dennis Coffey – electric guitar, bass
  • Mike Theodore – keyboards, brass and string arrangements
  • Bob Babbitt – bass
  • Andrew Smith – drums
  • Bob Pangborn – percussion
  • Leader Carl Reatz – baritone saxophone, trombone
  • Detroit Symphony (leader Gordon Staples) – strings
  • Friends and family of Joyce Vincent and Telma Hopkins – children’s choir
  • Mike Theodore – arrangements, engineer
  • Dennis Coffey – arrangements
  • Ray Hall – remix
  • Nancy Chester (See/Hear! & How!) – design
  • Ransier and Anderson – photography

Track listing:

All tracks by Sixto Rodriguez, except where noted.

  1. Sugar Man
  2. Only Good for Conversation
  3. Crucify Your Mind
  4. This Is Not a Song, It’s an Outburst: Or, the Establishment Blues
  5. Hate Street Dialogue – Gary Harvey, Mike Theodore, Dennis Coffey
  6. Forget It
  7. Inner City Blues
  8. I Wonder
  9. Like Janis
  10. Gommorah (A Nursery Rhyme) – Gary Harvey, Mike Theodore, Dennis Coffey
  11. Rich Folks Hoax
  12. Jane S. Piddy

Booker Ervin: Booker’n’Brass

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In January 1968, “Pacific Jazz” label released “Booker ‘n’ Brass”, the 18th Booker Ervin album. It was recorded in September 1967, at “Webster Hall” in New York City, and was produced by Richard Bock.

Personnel:

  • Booker Ervin – tenor saxophone
  • Martin Banks, Johnny Coles, Ray Copeland, Freddie Hubbard, Charles Tolliver, Richard Williams – trumpet
  • Garnett Brown, Bennie Green, Britt Woodman – trombone
  • Benny Powell – bass trombone
  • Kenny Barron – piano
  • Reggie Johnson – bass
  • Lenny McBrowne – drums
  • Teddy Edwards – arrangements, conductor
  • Ray Hall – engineer
  • Woody Woodward – art direction
  • Gabor Halmos – design
  • Raymond Ross – cover photography
  • Fred Seligo – liner photography

Track listing:

  1. East Dallas Special – Booker Ervin
  2. Salt Lake City – Johnny Lange, Leon René
  3. Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans? – Louis Alter, Edgar DeLange
  4. L.A. After Dark (Master Take 6) – Teddy Edwards
  5. Kansas City – Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller
  6. Baltimore Oriole – Hoagy Carmichael, Paul Francis Webster
  7. Harlem Nocturne – Earle Hagen, Dick Rogers
  8. I Left My Heart in San Francisco – George Cory, Douglass Cross
  9. St. Louis Blues – W. C. Handy

Stan Getz & Eddie Sauter: Focus

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In January 1962, “Verve” label released “Focus”, album by Stan Getz and Eddie Sauter (the 38th Stan Getz album overall). It was recorded in July 1961, at “Webster Hall” in New York City, September – October 1961, and was produced by Creed Taylor.

Personnel:

  • Stan Getz – tenor saxophone
  • Steve Kuhn – piano
  • John Neves – bass
  • Roy Haynes – drums
  • Alan Martin – violin
  • Norman Carr – violin
  • Gerald Tarack – violin
  • Jacob Glick – viola
  • Bruce Rogers – cello
  • Eddie Sauter – arrangements
  • Hershy Kay – conductor
  • Ray Hall – recording, mastering
  • Pete Turner – photography
  • Dom Cerulli – liner notes

Track listing:

 All tracks by Eddie Sauter.

  1. I’m Late, I’m Late
  2. Her
  3. Pan
  4. I Remember When
  5. Night Rider
  6. Once Upon a Time
  7. A Summer Afternoon

John Denver: Aerie

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On November 28, 1971, “RCA” label released “Aerie”, the fifth John Denver studio album. It was recorded in 1971, and was produced by Milton Okun.

Personnel:

  • John Denver – vocals, 6 and 12-string guitar, arrangements
  • Mike Taylor – guitar, dobro, arrangements
  • Paul Prestopino – banjo, dobro, guitar
  • Eric Weissberg – banjo, fiddle, pedal steel guitar
  • Paul Griffin – piano, organ
  • Toots Thielemans – harmonica
  • Richard Kniss – bass, arrangements
  • Gary Chester – drums, percussion
  • Al Rogers – percussion
  • George Marge – woodwind
  • Kenneth Boaz – vocals
  • Paula Ballan – vocals
  • Diane Kniss – vocals
  • Turnpike Tom – vocals
  • Alec White – vocals
  • Mary Angela White – vocals
  • Barbara Carlson – vocals
  • Andromeda Quasar – vocals
  • Bill Danoff – vocals
  • Keith Lane – vocals
  • Candy Ledbetter – vocals
  • Ron Ledbetter – vocals
  • Elizabeth Lindsay – vocals
  • Steve Mandell – vocals
  • Anne Denver – vocals
  • Taffy Nivert – vocals
  • Jim Crotty – recording
  • Ray Hall – recording, mixing
  • Pat Martin – recording technician
  • Gus Mossler – recording technician
  • Tom Brown – recording technician
  • Joe Stelmach – design
  • Pat Benson – photography

Track listing:

  1. Starwood in Aspen – John Denver
  2. Everyday – Buddy Holly, Norman Perry
  3. Casey Last Ride – Kris Kristofferson
  4. City of New Orleans – Steve Goodman
  5. Friends with You – Bill Danoff, Taffy Nivert
  6. 60 Second Song for a Bank, with the Phrase “May We Help You Today” – John Denver
  7. Blow Up Your TV (Spanish Pipe Dream) – John Prine
  8. All of My Memories – John Denver
  9. She Won’t Let Me Fly Away – Bill Danoff
  10. Readjustment Blues – Bill Danoff
  11. The Eagle and the Hawk – John Denver, Mike Taylor
  12. Tools – John Denver

Nina Simone: Silk & Soul

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In October 1967, “RCA Victor” label released “Silk & Soul”, the thirteenth Nina Simone studio album. It was recorded in 1967, at “RCA Studio B” in New York City, and was produced by Danny Davis.

Personnel:

  • Nina Simone – vocals, piano
  • Eric Gale – guitar  
  • Rudy Stevenson – guitar
  • Ernie Hayes – piano, harpsichord
  • Gene Taylor – bass
  • Bernard Purdie – drums
  • Sammy Lowe – arrangements, conductor
  • Ray Hall – engineer

Track listing:

  1. It Be’s That Way Sometime – Sam Waymon
  2. The Look of Love – Burt Bacharach, Hal David
  3. Go to Hell – Morris Balley Jr.
  4. Love o’ Love – Andy Stroud
  5. Cherish – Terry Kirkman
  6. I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free – Billy Taylor
  7. Turn Me On – John D. Loudermilk
  8. Turning Point – Martha Holmes
  9. Some Say – Charles Reuben
  10. Consummation – Nina Simone

Sonny Rollins: What’s New

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In August 1962, “RCA Victor” label released “What’s New?” the 20th Sonny Rollins album. It was recorded April – May 1962, in New York City, and was produced by George Avakian and John Snyder.

Personnel:

  • Sonny Rollins– tenor saxophone
  • Jim Hall– guitar
  • Bob Cranshaw– bass
  • Ben Riley– drums
  • Denis Charles – percussion
  • Frank Charles – percussion
  • Willie Rodriguez – percussion
  • Candido– percussion
  • Jay Newland – engineer
  • Ray Hall – engineer

Track listing:

All tracks by Sonny Rollins except where noted.

  1. If Ever I Would Leave You – Alan Jay Lerner, Frederick Loewe
  2. Jungoso
  3. Bluesongo
  4. The Night Has a Thousand Eyes – Buddy Bernier, Jerry Brainin
  5. Brown Skin Girl – Norman Span

Bill Evans: Further Conversations with Myself

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In December 1967, “Verve” label released “Further Conversations with Myself”, the 33th Bill Evans album. It was recorded on August 9, 1967, at “Webster Hall” in New York City, and was produced by Helen Keane.

Personnel:

  • Bill Evans- piano
  • Ray Hall – engineer
  • Val Valentin – engineer
  • Acy R. Lehman – design
  • Anthony Wolff – cover photography
  • George Joseph – photography
  • Roberto Polillo – photography

Track listing:

  1. Emily – Johnny Mandel, Johnny Mercer
  2. Yesterdays – Otto Harbach, Jerome Kern
  3. Santa Claus Is Coming to Town – Fred Coots, Haven Gillespie
  4. Funny Man – Bill Evans
  5. The Shadow of Your Smile(Love Theme from “The Sandpiper”) – Johnny Mandel, Paul Francis Webster
  6. Little Lulu – Buddy Kaye, Sidney Lippman, Fred Wise
  7. Quiet Now – Denny Zeitlin