The Sea Of Dirac is an album by Jun Fukamachi, released in 1977 on Kitty. Jun Fukamachi (May 21, 1946 – November 22, 2010) was a Japanese jazz fusion composer, arranger, keyboardist, and synthesizer player. Fukamachi played with The Brecker Brothers and Steve Gadd, among others, and released albums on Polydor and Toshiba in the […]
Sky Music is the second solo album by keyboardist Mike Mandel, released in 1978 on Vanguard. Tracks 1 Pyramids (Mike Mandel) 06:00 2 Just The Way You Are (Billy Joel) 05:13 3 Elephant & Castle (Mike Mandel) 05:20 4 Peg (Donald Fagen; Walter Becker) 03:52 5 As Fine As You Are (Mike Mandel) 05:32 […]
Carol Townes & Fifth Avenue is the only album released by the same group in 1976. Carol Lynn Townes is an American soul singer from Warrenton, North Carolina. Hailing from a family of gospel singers, she made her debut singing gospel at age three. She moved to New York in the early 1970s, joining a […]
Naughty is the second solo album by American R&B/funk singer Chaka Khan, released on Warner Bros. Records in 1980. Tracks 1 Clouds (Nickolas Ashford; Valerie Simpson) 04:29 2 Get Read, Get Set (Arthur Jacobson; Bill Haberman; Ellison Chase; Kathy Anderson) 03:44 3 Move Me No Mountain (Aaron Schroeder; Jerry Ragovoy) 04:16 4 Nothing’s Gonna Take […]
Tightrope is the 1977 debut solo album of jazz guitarist Steve Khan. Bob James who just got him signed to Columbia Records produced the album for his own Tappan Zee label, a sub-division of Columbia. Bob James plays a then fashionable Oberheim polyphonic synthesizer. All other musicians were (at some point) members of the Brecker […]
Windjammer is an album recorded in 1976 by jazz trumpeter Freddie Hubbard. It was released on the Columbia label and features performances by Hubbard, Jon Faddis, Michael Brecker, Bob James, George Cables, Steve Khan and Eric Gale. Tracks 1 Dream Weaver (Gary Wright) 05:20 2 Feelings (Loulou Gaste; Morris Albert) 05:49 3 Rock Me Arms […]
The Camera Never Lies is a jazz vocal album by Michael Franks, released in 1987 by Warner Bros. Records Tracks 1 Face To Face (Michael Franks) 04:27 2 I Surrender (Michael Franks) 04:04 3 The Camera Never Lies (Michael Franks) 03:40 4 Lip Service (Michael Franks) 04:15 5 When I Think Of Us (Michael Franks) […]
Sometime Other Than Now is an album by Steve Marcus, released in 1976 on Flying Dutchman. Steve Marcus (September 18, 1939 in New York’s Bronx – September 25, 2005 in New Hope, Pennsylvania) was an American jazz saxophonist. His first album as a leader included an arrangement of the Beatles’ song “Tomorrow Never Knows”. He […]
Rhapsody in Blue is the second album by Walter Murphy, released in 1977 on Private Stock. Walter Anthony Murphy Jr. (born December 19, 1952) is an American composer, arranger, pianist, musician, songwriter, and record producer. He is best known for the instrumental “A Fifth of Beethoven”, a disco adaptation of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony which topped […]
Back To Back is the second album by American jazz fusion group, The Brecker Brothers (Michael Brecker & Randy Brecker). It was released by Arista Records in 1976. Tracks 1 Keep It Steady (Brecker Bump) (David Sanborn; Luther Vandross; Randy Brecker; Steve Khan) 6:29 2 If You Wanna Boogie… Forget It (Don Grolnick; Steve Khan; […]