Tag Archives: Tom Harrell

Charlie Haden’s Liberation Music Orchestra: The Montreal Tapes: Liberation Music Orchestra

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In April 1999, “Verve” label released “The Montreal Tapes: Liberation Music Orchestra”. a live album by Charlie Haden’s Liberation Music Orchestra. It was recorded in 1989 at the “Montreal International Jazz Festival”, and was produced by Ruth Cameron.

Personnel:

  • Charlie Haden – bass
  • Ken McIntyre – alto saxophone
  • Ernie Watts, Joe Lovano – tenor saxophone
  • Stanton Davis, Tom Harrell – trumpet
  • Ray Anderson – trombone
  • Sharon Freeman – French horn
  • Joe Daley – tuba
  • Mick Goodrick – guitar
  • Geri Allen – piano
  • Paul Motian – drums

Track listing:

All tracks by Charlie Haden, except as noted.

  1. La Pasionaria
  2. Silence
  3. Sandino
  4. We Shall Overcome – Guy Carawan, Frank Hamilton, Zilphia Horton, Pete Seeger

Charlie Haden And The Liberation Music Orchestra: Dream Keeper

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In October 1990, “Blue Note” label released “Dream Keeper”, the fourth Charlie Haden and the Liberation Music Orchestra album. It was recorded in April 1990, at “Clinton Studios” in New York City. “Dream Keeper” was voted “Jazz album of the year” in “Down Beat” magazine’s 1991 critics’ poll.

Personnel:

  • Charlie Haden – double bass
  • Carla Bley – arranger, conductor
  • Ken McIntyre – alto saxophone
  • Dewey Redman – tenor saxophone
  • Joe Lovano – tenor saxophone, flute
  • Branford Marsalis – tenor saxophone, flute
  • Tom Harrell – trumpet, flugelhorn
  • Earl Gardner – trumpet
  • Ray Anderson – trombone
  • Sharon Freeman – French horn
  • Joseph Daley – tuba
  • Juan Lazaro Mendolas – wood flute, pan flute
  • Amina Claudine Myers – piano
  • Mick Goodrick – guitar
  • Paul Motian – drums
  • Don Alias – percussion
  • The Oakland Youth Chorus, Elizabeth Min – director

Track listing:

  1. Dream Keeper – Carla Bley, Langston Hughes, traditional
  2. Dream Keeper Part 1 – Carla Bley
  3. Feliciano Ama – traditional from El Salvador
  4. Dream Keeper Part II – Carla Bley
  5. Canto del Pilon (I) – traditional from Venezuela
  6. Dream Keeper Part III – Carla Bley
  7. Canto del Pilon (II) – traditional from Venezuela
  8. Hymn of the Anarchist Women’s Movement – traditional from Spanish Civil War
  9. Dream Keeper Part IV – Carla Bley
  10. Rabo de Nube – Silvio Rodríguez
  11. Nkosi Sikelel’i Afrika – Enoch Sontonga
  12. Sandino – Charlie Haden
  13. Spiritual – Charlie Haden

Link Wray: Be What You Want To

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In March 1973, “Polydor” label released “Be What You Want To”, the ninth Link Wray album. It was recorded in 1972, at “Wally Heider Studios” in San Francsico, and was produced by Thomas Jefferson Kaye.

Personnel:

  • Link Wray – lead vocals, electric guitar
  • Jerry Garcia – guitar, pedal steel
  • Bobby Black – steel guitar
  • David Bromberg – acoustic and electric guitar
  • Chris Michie – acoustic and electric guitar, backing vocals
  • Peter Kaukonen – electric guitar
  • John McFee – electric guitar
  • Greg Douglass – slide guitar
  • Commander Cody – piano, keyboards
  • Tom Salisbury – organ, piano, clavinet, backing vocals, horn and string arrangements
  • Paul Barlow – bass
  • Kip Maercklein – bass
  • Rick Shlosser – drums
  • Lance Dickerson – drums
  • Andy Stein – fiddle
  • Jules Broussard – alto and tenor saxophone
  • Jack Schroer – baritone saxophone
  • Tom Harrell – trumpet
  • Jules Rowell – valve trombone
  • Nathan Rubin – violin
  • Teresa Adams – cello
  • Bruce Steinberg – harmonica
  • David Coffin, Henry Coleman, Keith Crossan, Frank Demme, Diane Earl, Robert Frost, Zeller Hurd, Carl Johnson, Thomas Jefferson Kaye, Greg Kenney, Barbara Mauritz, Dorothy Morrison, Ralph Payne – backing vocals
  • Mallory Earl, Don Ososke – engineer
  • Mallory Earl – mixing
  • Bruce Steinberg – art direction, design, photography

Track listing:

All tracks by Link Wray, except where noted.

  1. Be What You Want To
  2. All Cried Out – Mann Curtis, Michel Deborah
  3. Lawdy Miss Clawdy – Lloyd Price
  4. Tucson, Arizona
  5. Riverbend
  6. You Walked By
  7. Walk Easy, Walk Slow
  8. All the Love in My Life
  9. You Really Got a Hold on Me
  10. Shine the Light
  11. Morning

Azteca: Same

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In December 1972, “Columbia” label released “Azteca”, the debut Coke Escovedo and Pete Escovedo with their band Azteca. It was recorded in September 1972, and was produced by Coke Escovedo, Pete Escovedo, Ween Haas, Errol Knowles, Neal Schon, Tom Harrell, Paul Jackson, Lenny White and Victor Pantoja.

Personnel:

  • Coke Escovedo – timbales, sleeve notes
  • Pete Escovedo – vocals, arrangements
  • Errol Knowles – vocals
  • Wendy Haas – vocals
  • Neal Schon – guitar
  • Paul Jackson – acoustic bass, electric bass
  • Lenny White III – vocals, drums
  • Victor Pantoja – vocals, congas
  • Tom Harrell – trumpet, arrangements
  • Rico Reyes – vocals
  • James Vincent (Dondelinger) – guitar
  • Flip Nuñez – organ
  • George Moribus – electric piano
  • George DiQuattro – piano, clavinet
  • Melvyn Martin – soprano, tenor and baritone saxophone, flute, piccolo
  • Bob Ferreira – tenor saxophone, piccolo
  • Jules Rowell – valve trombone
  • George Engfer – recording
  • Glen Kolotkin – engineer
  • George Horn – mastering
  • Bruce Steinberg – artwork, design, photography

Track listing:

  1. La Piedra del Sol – Lenny White III, Tom Harrell
  2. Mamita Linda – James Vincent (Dondelinger), Tom Dondelinger
  3. Ain’t Got No Special Woman – Mike Pearson, Rico Reyes, Tom Harrell
  4. Empty Prophet – James Vincent (Dondelinger), Rick Canoff
  5. Can’t Take the Funk Out of Me – Paul Jackson
  6. Oeace Everybody – Pete Escovedo, George DiQuattro
  7. Non Pacem – Flip Núnez
  8. Ah! Ah! – Pete Escovedo, Tito Puente
  9. Love Not Then – Flip Núnez
  10. Azteca – Al Bent
  11. Theme: La Piedra del Sol – Lenny White III, Tom Harrell

Tom Harrell: Infinity

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On March 8, 2019, “High Note” label released “Infinity”, the 34th Tom Harrell album. It was recorded in September 2018, at “Sear Sound” in New York City, and was produced by Angela Harrell and Tom Harrell.

Personnel:

  • Tom Harrell – trumpet, flugelhorn
  • Mark Turner – tenor saxophone
  • Charles Altura – acoustic and electric guitar
  • Ben Street – bass
  • Johnathan Blake – drums
  • Adam Cruz – percussion

Track listing:

All tracks by Tom Harrell.

  1. The Fast
  2. Dublin
  3. Hope
  4. Coronation
  5. Folk Song
  6. Blue
  7. Ground
  8. The Isle
  9. Duet
  10. Taurus

Idris Muhammad: House of the Rising Sun

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On January 14, 1976, “Kudu Records” label released “House of the Rising Sun”, the fourth Idris Muhammad album. it was recorded May – October 1975, at “Van Gelder Studio” in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, and was produced by Creed Taylor.

Personnel:

  • Idris Muhammad – drums
  • Eric Gale – guitar  
  • Joe Beck – guitar
  • Leon Pendarvis – piano   
  • Don Grolnick – piano 
  • Roland Hanna – piano
  • Will Lee, Wilbur Bascomb – bass
  • George Devens – percussion
  • David Sanborn – alto saxophone
  • George Young – tenor saxophone
  • Bob Berg – tenor saxophone
  • Ronnie Cuber – baritone saxophone
  • Tom Harrell- trumpet
  • Barry Rogers – trombone
  • David Matthews – arrangements, conducting
  • Tom Harrell – arrangements

Track listing:

  1. House of the Rising Sun – traditional
  2. Baia (Boogie Bump) – Ary Barroso, Ray Gilbert
  3. Hard to Face the Music – Ashford & Simpson
  4. Theme for New York City (based on prelude No. 41) – Frédéric Chopin
  5. Sudan – Idris Muhammad, Tom Harrell
  6. Hey Pock A-Way – Aaron Neville, Greg Porter, Joseph Modelliste, Leo Nocentelli

Boz Scaggs: My Time

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In September 1972, “Columbia” label released “My Time”, the fifth Boz Scaggs album. It was recorded in 1972, at “Muscle Shoals Sound Studio” in Sheffield, Alabama, and “CBS Studios” in San Francisco, and was produced by Rot Halee and Boz Scaggs.

Personnel:

  • Boz Scaggs – vocals, electric guitar
  • Eddie Hinton– acoustic guitar
  • Jimmy Johnson– electric guitar
  • Pete Carr – electric guitar
  • Barry Beckett– piano
  • Clayton Ivey – organ, keyboards
  • Joachim Young – keyboards
  • David Hood– bass guitar
  • David Brown– bass guitar
  • Roger Hawkins– drums
  • George Rains – drums
  • Charles Chalmers– saxophone, backing vocals
  • Muscle Shoals Horns, Bob Ferreira, Tom Harrell, Mel Martin, Jim Rothermel, Jack Scherer, Jules Broussard – horns
  • Sandra Chalmers – backing vocals
  • Donna Rhodes – backing vocals
  • Dorothy Morrison – backing vocals
  • Linda Tillery– backing vocals
  • Anne Garner – graphics
  • Ethan A. Russell – photography

Track listing:

All tracks by Boz Scaggs, except where noted.

  1. Dinah Flo
  2. Slowly in the West – David Brown
  3. Full-Lock Power Slide
  4. Old Time Lovin’ – Al Green
  5. Might Have to Cry
  6. Hello My Lover – Allen Toussaint
  7. Freedom for the Stallion – Allen Toussaint
  8. He’s a Fool for You
  9. We’re Gonna Roll
  10. My Time

Joe Felds

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On July 12, 2017, Joe Fields died aged 88. He has worked for “London Records”,  “MGM”, “Verve”, “Prestige”, “Sue Records”, and “Buddha Records” (started their jazz division, “Cobblestone Records”), before he started his own label “Muse Records” in 1973. The label featured artists such as Pat Martino, Houston Person, Cedar Walton, Charlie Earland, Larry Coryell and Woody Shaw. In the 80’s Fields acquired “Savoy” and “Landmark Records” labels. “Savoy” owned recordings by Charlie Parker, Miles Davis and Dexter Gordon, among others. In 1997, Joe, and his son Barney, launched “HighNote” and “Savant Records”, labels that features artists such as Kenny Burrell, Houston Person, Wallace Roney, Eric Alexander, Freddy Cole, Tom Harrell and Russell Malone.

Santana: Caravanserai

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Caravanserai

On October 11, 1972, “Columbia” label released “Caravanserai”, the fourth Santana studio album. It was recorded February –May, 1972 at “Columbia Studios” in San Francisco, and was produced by Carlos Santana and Mike Shrieve.

Personnel:

  • Carlos Santana– vocals, lead guitar, guitar, percussion
  • Neal Schon– guitar
  • Douglas Rodrigues– guitar
  • Wendy Haas– piano
  • Gregg Rolie– vocals, organ, electric piano, piano
  • Douglas Rauch– bass, guitar
  • Tom Rutley– acoustic bass
  • Michael Shrieve– drums, percussion
  • José “Chepito” Areas– percussion, congas, timbales, bongos
  • James Mingo Lewis– vocals, percussion, congas, bongos, acoustic piano
  • Armando Peraza– percussion, bongos
  • Hadley Caliman– saxophone intro, flute
  • Rico Reyes – vocals
  • Lenny White – castanets
  • Tom Coster– electric piano
  • Tom Harrell– orchestra arrangement

Track listing:

  1. Eternal Caravan of Reincarnation -Tom Rutley, Neal Schon,  Michael Shrieve
  2. Waves Within – Doug Rauch, Greg Rolie, Carlos Santana
  3. Look Up – Doug Rauch, Greg Rolie, Carlos Santana
  4. Just in Time to See the Sun – Greg Rolie, Carlos Santana, Michael Shrieve
  5. Song of the Wind – Greg Rolie,Carlos Santana, Neal Schon
  6. All the Love of the Universe – Carlos Santana, Neal Schon
  7. Future Primitive – José Areas, Mingo Lewis
  8. Stone Flower – Antonio Carlos Jobim, Carlos Santana, Michael Shrieve
  9. La Fuente del Ritmo – Mingo Lewis
  10. Every Step of the Way – Michael Shrieve