In August 1961, “ABC” label released “Ray Charles and Betty Carter”, album by Ray Charles and Betty Carter. It was recorded August 1960 – June 1961, at “Radio Recorders” in Hollywood, and was produced by Sid Feller.
Personnel:
Betty Carter – vocals
Ray Charles – vocals, keyboards
Hank Crawford – alto saxophone
David Fathead Newman – tenor saxophone
Leroy Cooper – baritone saxophone
Bill Pitman – guitar
Edgar Willis – bass guitar
Mel Lewis, Bruno Carr – drums
The Jack Halloran Singers – backing vocals
Marty Paich – arrangements, conductor
Sid Feller – liner notes
Track listing:
Ev’ry Time We Say Goodbye – Cole Porter
You and I – Meredith Willson
Intro: Goodbye / We’ll Be Together Again – Gordon Jenkins / Carl T. Fischer, Frankie Laine
People Will Say We’re in Love – Oscar Hammerstein II, Richard Rodgers
Cocktails for Two – Sam Coslow, Arthur Johnston
Side by Side – Harry M. Woods, Gus Kahn
Baby, It’s Cold Outside – Frank Loesser
Together – Lew Brown, Buddy De Sylva, Ray Henderson
In August 1956, “Riverside” label released “The Unique Thelonious Monk”, the tenth Thelonious Monk album. It was recorded March – April 1956, at “Van Gelder Studio” in Hackensack, New Jersey, and was produced by Orrin Keepnwews.
Personnel:
Thelonious Monk – piano
Oscar Pettiford – bass
Art Blakey – drums
Rudy Van Gelder – engineer
Gene Gogerty – design
Orrin Keepnews – liner notes
Track listing:
Liza (All the Clouds’ll Roll Away) – George & Ira Gershwin, Gus Kahn
Memories of You – Eubie Blake, Andy Razaf
Honeysuckle Rose – Fats Waller, Andy Razaf
Darn That Dream – Eddie DeLange, James Van Heusen
Tea for Two – Vincent Youmans, Irving Caesar
You Are Too Beautiful – Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart
On August 1, 2001, “Fresh Sound New Talent” label released the self-titled, debut Bad Plus (The) album (also known as Motel). It was recorded in December 2000, at “Creation Audio” in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and was produced by Ethan Iverson, Reid Anderson and David King.
Personnel:
Ethan Iverson – piano
Reid Anderson – acoustic bass
David King – drums
Jordi Pujol – executive producer
Track listing:
Knowing Me, Knowing You – ABBA
Blue Moon – Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart
1972 Bronze Medalist – David King
The Breakout – Reid Anderson
Smells Like Teen Spirit – Kurt Cobain, Dave Grohl, Krist Novoselic
In July 1959, “Blue Note” label released “Bottoms Up!”, the second 3 Sounds (The) studio album. It was recorded September 1958 – February 1959, at “Van Gelder Studio” in Hackensack, New Jersey, and was produced by Alfred Lion.
Personnel:
Gene Harris – piano, celeste
Andrew Simpkins – bass
Bill Dowdy – drums
Rudy Van Gelder – recording, mastering
Reid Miles – design
Francis Wolff – photography
Leonard Feather – liner notes
Track listing:
Bésame Mucho – Consuelo Velázquez
Angel Eyes – Matt Dennis
Time After Time – Sammy Cahn, Jule Styne
Love Walked In – George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin
I Could Write a Book – Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers
Jinne Lou – Gene Harris
Nothing Ever Changes My Love for You – Marvin Fisher, Jack Sega
Falling in Love with Love – Lorzenz Hart, Richard Rodgers
In July 1963, “Pacific Jazz” label released “Catch Me!”, the third Joe Pass album. It was recorded in 1963, at “Pacific Jazz Studios” in Hollywood, and was produced by Richard Bock.
Personnel:
Joe Pass – guitar
Clare Fischer – piano, organ
Ralph Peña – double bass
Albert Stinson – double bass
Colin Bailey – drums
Larry Bunker – drums
Dino Lappas – engineer
Woody Woodward – design, photography
John William Hardy – liner notes
Track listing:
Catch Me – Joe Pass
No Cover, No Minimum – Bill Evans
Just Friends – John Klenner, Sam M. Lewis
Walkin’ Up – Bill Evans
Summertime – George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin, DuBose Heyward
Falling in Love with Love – Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart
Days of Wine and Roses – Henry Mancini, Johnny Mercer
Mood Indigo – Duke Ellington, Irving Mills, Barney Bigard
But Beautiful – Johnny Burke, Jimmy Van Hausen
You Stepped Out of a Dream – Nacio Herb Brown, Gus Kahn
In July 1956, “EmArcy” label released “In the Land of Hi-Fi with Julian Cannonball Adderley”, the fourth Julian Cannonball Adderley album. It was recorded in June 1956, at “Capitol Studios” in New York City.
Personnel:
Cannonball Adderley – alto saxophone
Jerome Richardson – tenor saxophone, flute
Danny Bank – baritone saxophone
Nat Adderley – cornet
Ernie Royal – trumpet
Bobby Byrne, Jimmy Cleveland – trombone
Junior Mance – piano
Keter Betts – bass
Charles “Specs” Wright – drums
Ernie Wilkins – conductor, arrangements
Track listing:
Dog My Cats – Ernie Wilkins
I’m Glad There Is You – Jimmy Dorsey, Paul Mertz
Blues for Bohemia – Julian Cannonball Adderley, Nat Adderley
Junior’s Tune – Junior Mance
Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea – Harold Arlen, Ted Koehler
In June 1962, “Moodsville” label released “The Jazz Version of No Strings”, the 32nd Coleman Hawkins album. It features tracks from the musical drama “No Strings” written by Richard Rodgers. It was recorded March – April 1962, at “Van Gelder Studio” in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, and was produced by Esmond Edwards.
On May 30, 1966, “Reprise” label released “Strangers in the Night”, the 43rd Frank Sinatra album. It was recorded April – May 1966, in Hollywood, and was produced by Jimmy Bowen. At the 1967 “Grammy Awards”, Frank Sinatra won “Record of the Year” and “Best Male Vocal Performance”. Ernie Freeman’s arrangement of the title track won him the “Grammy Award for Best Arrangement Accompanying a Vocalist or Instrumentalist”, and Eddie Brackett and Lee Herschberg’s engineering earned them the “Grammy Award for Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical”. The album was certified Platinum in Us by the “RIIA”.
Personnel:
Frank Sinatra – vocals
The Nelson Riddle Orchestra
Nelson Riddle – arranger, conductor
Glen Campbell, Al Viola – guitar
Artie Kane – Hammond B3 organ
Pete Candoli, Don Fagerquist, Cappy Lewis, Ray Triscari – trumpet
Dick Noel, Tommy Pederson, Tom Shepard – trombone
George Roberts – bass trombone
Chuck Gentry, Bill Green, Justin Gordon, Harry Klee, Ronny Lang – saxophone
Vincent DeRosa, Henry Sigismonti, Gale Robinson, Richard Perissi – French horn
Bill Green, Andreas Kostelas – flute
Sidney Sharp, Lennie Malarsky, William Kurasch, Ralph Schaeffer, Israel Baker, Arnold Belnick, Jerome Reisler, Robert Sushe, John De Voogdt, Bernard Kundell, Tibor Zelig, Victor Amo, Alex Beller, Herman Clebanoff, James Getzoff, Anatol Kaminsky, Paul Shure, Gerald Vinci Gerald Vinci, William Weiss, Harry Bluestone – violin
Harry Hyams, Joseph Di Fiore, Darrel Terwilliger, Alex Neiman, Joseph Saxon, Jesse Ehrlich, Emmet Sargeant, Stanley Harris, Paul Robyn, Armand Kaproff – viola
Justin DiTullio, Elizabeth Greenschpoon, Armand Kaproff – vielle
Bill Miller, Michel Rubini – piano
Alvin Casey, William Pitman, Glen Campbell, Tommy Tedesco – guitar
Chuck Berghofer, Ralph Pefla – bass
Hal Blaine, Irving Cottler – drums
Eddie Brackett Jr., Emil Richards – percussion
Ernie Freeman – arrangements
Donnie Lanier, Nelson Riddle – conductor
Track listing:
Strangers in the Night (from the “Universal” picture “A Man Could Get Killed” – Bert Kaempfert, Charles Singleton, Eddie Snyder
Summer Wind – Heinz Meier, Hans Bradtke, Johnny Mercer
All or Nothing at All – Arthur Altman, Jack Lawrence
Call Me – Tony Hatch
You’re Driving Me Crazy – Walter Donaldson
On a Clear Day (You Can See Forever) – Alan Jay Lerner, Burton Lane
My baby Just Cares for Me – Walter Donaldson, Gus Kahn
Downtown – Tony Hatch
Yes Sir, That’s My Baby – Walter Donaldson, Gus Kahn
The Most Beautiful Girl in the World – Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart
In May 1972, “Impulse!” label released “World Galaxy”, the sixth Alice Coltrane studio album. It was recorded in November 1971, at “The Record Plant” in New York City, and was produced by Ed Michel and Alice Coltrane.
Personnel:
Alice Coltrane – piano, organ, harp, tanpura, percussion, arrangements
Frank Lowe – saxophone, percussion
Leroy Jenkins – violin
Reggie Workman – bass
Ben Riley – drums
Elayne Jones – timpani
Swami Satchidananda – voice
The String Orchestra
David Sackson – concert master
Arthur Aaron
Henry Aaron
Julien Barber
Avron Coleman
Harry Glickman
Edward Green
Janet Hill
LeRoy Jenkins
Joan Kalisch
Ronald Lipscomb
Seymour Miroff
Thomas Nickerson
Alan Shulman
Irving Spice
William Stone
Dan Turbeville – engineer assistant
Dennis Ferrante – engineer assistant
Baker Bigsby – mixing
Peter Max – cover design
Philip Melnick – photography
Track listing:
All tracks by Alice Coltrane, except where noted.
My Favorite Things – Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II
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