First is the debut solo album by David Gates, released in 1973. Musicians who appeared on the album include Larry Knechtel, Mike Botts, Jimmy Getzoff, Jim Gordon, Jim Horn, John Guerin, Larry Carlton, Louie Shelton and Russ Kunkel. David Ashworth Gates (born December 11, 1940) is an American singer-songwriter, guitarist, musician and producer, frontman and […]
Blues’ Blues is an album by American trumpeter Blue Mitchell recorded in 1972 and released on the Mainstream label Tracks 1 Casa Blues (John Guerin) 08:29 2 Just Made Up (Joe Sample) 07:39 3 Blue’s Blue (Blue Mitchell) 07:08 4 Granite and Concrete (Hadley Caliman) 10:01 5 I Didn’t Ask To Be (George Bohanon) 10:12 […]
Moog Rock is an album by Les Baxter, released in 1969. Leslie Thompson Baxter (March 14, 1922 – January 15, 1996) was an American musician and composer. After working as an arranger and composer for swing bands, he developed his own style of easy listening music, known as exotica. Tracks 1 Borodin – Nocturne 03:352 […]
James Bond Songbook is an album by James Bond, released in 1966. James Edward Bond Jr. (January 27, 1933 – April 26, 2012), known as Jimmy Bond, was an American double bass player, arranger and composer who performed and recorded with many leading jazz, blues, folk and rock musicians between the 1950s and 1980s. Tracks […]
Hot Rats is the second solo album by Frank Zappa, released in October 1969. It was Zappa’s first recording project after the dissolution of the Mothers of Invention. It features the work of several artists in addition to Zappa, including one former member of the Mothers of Invention, Captain Beefheart, and Don “Sugarcane” Harris. Five […]
Pol.Y.Tones is an album by Buddy DeFranco & Tommy Gumina Quartet, released in 1963. Boniface Ferdinand Leonard “Buddy” DeFranco (February 17, 1923 – December 24, 2014) was an Italian American jazz clarinet player. One of few clarinetists playing bebop, DeFranco was described by critic Scott Yanow as the leading American jazz musician on his instrument […]
Pass Me By is a 1965 studio album by Peggy Lee. Tracks 1 Sneakin’ Up On You (Chip Taylor; Ted Daryll) 02:24 2 Pass Me By (Carolyn Leigh; Cy Coleman) 02:25 3 I Wanna Be Around (Johnny Mercer; Sadie Vimmerstedt) 02:30 4 Bewitched (Howard Greenfield; Jack Keller) 02:06 5 My Love, Forgive Me (Gino Mescoli; […]
Stride! is an album by Roger Kellaway, released in 1967 on World Pacific. Roger Kellaway (born November 1, 1939) is an American composer, arranger and pianist. Tracks 1 Sunny (Bobby Hebb) 02:32 2 Hurry, It’s Lovely up Here! (Al Lerner; Bill Lane) 02:50 3 Lazy Sippi Steamer Going Home (Louis Armstrong; Luis Russell; Victor Selsman) […]
Presenting is the second album by Buddy DeFranco & Tommy Gumina Quartet, released in 1961 on Mercury. Tracks 1 When Lights Are Low (Benny Carter; Spencer Williams) 04:07 2 Street Of Dreams (Sam Lewis; Victor Young) 04:00 3 Runaway (Tommy Gumina) 02:51 4 Never On Friday (Tommy Gumina) 02:44 5 Gone With The Wind […]
Mary C Brown And The Hollywood Sign was the fourth solo LP by Dory Previn, released in November 1972. This was a thematic album about Hollywood misfits. The songs were intended for a musical revue that ran briefly in Los Angeles. It was planned to stage it on Broadway, but the previews were poor and […]