STUFF
FUSION / N.Y. FUSION 2001
STUFF: NOW!
SKIP RECORDS, SKP 9016-2(CD)
(C)(P)2001 SKIP RECORDS, GERMANY
RECORDED: 1998
RELEASED: 2001, GERMANY
CREDITS (productions) :
Produced by Gordon Edwards for Goryan Productions
- STUDIO RECORDINGS (TRACKS 1-8) -
Recorded at Edison Recording Studio, New York
Engineer: Gary Chester; Assistants: Yvonne Yedibalian, Tommy Civello
Studio Manager: Obie O'Brien
Recorded and mixed at Sabella Studios, Roslyn, New York
Engineer: Jim Sabella; Assistant: Ken Gioia
Technical Advisor: Tom Maguire
- LIVE RECORDINGS (TRACKS 9,10) -
Recorded at the 23rd International Jazzfestival Bern, May 6, 1998
Festival produced by Hans Zurbrügg
Pre-Mastering by Stefan Mertin, Hamburg
Final mastering by Elmar Gillet at Masterlab, Cologne, Germany
Vocal arrangements by Beverley Henshaw Smith
Japanese vocalists assembled by Toshiaki "Tommy" Tomita
String and horn arrangements by Marty Scheller
Artwork: Ehrenberg Werbung, Hamburg, Germany
Production Coordinator for Skip Records: Ludwig Jurgeit
CREDITS (musicians) :
- STUFF -
Gordon Edwards: bass, vocals
Mike Clarke: drums
Cornell Dupree: guitar
Mike Gaffney: guitar (on 1-8)
James Allen Smith: keyboards, vocals
Alex Foster: alto saxophone
- HORN SECTION -
Charlie Brown, Jon Faddis, Ray Gaskins
Howard Johnson, Duke Jones, Victor Lesser
Joe Shepley, George Young
- VOCAL SECTION -
Beverley Henshaw Smith, Beverly Crosby
Jimmy Norman, David Smyrl, Gail Wynters
- STRING SECTION -
Gene Orloff, Alfred Browne, Max Ellen
Harold Kohen, Matthew Ramondi, Mark Schuman
- IN SPIRIT -
Eric Gale, Richard Tee
TRACKS (total time 70:17) :
1. Never on a rainy day (7:12) [Mike Clarke]
2. Same ole Stuff (7:03) [Mike Clarke]
3. Sukiyaki (5:15) [Thomas Garrett, James Cason, Hachidai Nakamura, Takao Ei]
4. Can't win for losing you (6:45) [Robert Byrne, Richard Bowles]
5. Walk that walk (4:35) [Gordon Edwards]
6. Time after time (4:35) [James Allen Smith, Beverley Henshaw Smith]
7. La Suisse (4:48) [Mick Gaffney]
8. The Cauling (5:15) [trad., arr. Gordon Edwards]
9. Mercy, Mercy, Mercy (11:40) [Joe Zawinul]
10. Signed, sealed, delicered (11:30) [Stevie Wonder, Syreeta Wright, Lee Garrett, Lula Mae Hardaway]
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