🎵 AotW AOTW: Gap Mangione - SUITE LADY (SP-4694)

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Captain Bacardi

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Gap Mangione
SUITE LADY

A&M SP-4694

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Released 1978
Peaked at #38 on the Jazz Albums chart (1978)

Format: Vinyl/8-Track/Cassette

Produced by Larry Carlton

Songs:
  • 1. Mellow Out! (Larry Carlton) - 5:39
    2. I Don't Know (Greg Mathieson) - 4:02
    3. Shh (Greg Mathieson) - 5:55
    4. You Can't Cry For Help (Paul Bogush, Jr.) - 3:34
    5. Sister Jo/Time Of The Season (Medley) (Gap Mangione/Rod Argent) - 5:27
    6. King Snake (Larry Carlton) - 6:34
    7. Suite Lady (Gap Mangione) - 7:13
    8. We Three (Scherzando) (Gap Mangione) - 1:29

    Brass & String Arrangements by Larry Carlton except (7, 8 ) - Brass Arrangement by Gap Mangione and (5) - Brass Arrangement by Gap Mangione and Larry Carlton

Musicians:
Gap Mangione - Acoustic and Fender Rhodes Piano, ARP Soloist Synthesizer, Yamaha CS80 Synthesizer
Larry Carlton - Guitars
Robert "Pops" Popwell - Bass
Jeff Porcaro - Drums and Percussion
Joe Porcaro - Congas and Percussion
Greg Mathieson - Acoustic Piano, Fender Rhodes Piano
Chuck Findley - Trumpets
Bill Reichenbach, Jr. - Trombones
Abraham Laboriel - Bass (3, 7)
Peter Donald - Drums (3, 7)
Dan Sawyer - Tenor Sax & Harmonica (4)
Ralph Humphrey - Drums (Opening statement only) (5)
Vincent DeRosa - French Horns (7, 8 )
Gerald Vinci - Concert Master


Recorded and Mixed at "Room 335", Hollywood, California
Engineered and Mixed by Larry Carlton
Second Engineer: Steve Carlton
Strings recorded at Hollywood Sound Recorders, Hollywood, California
Engineered by John Guess
String Personnel Coordinator: Gerald Vinci
Mastered at A&M Recording Studios, Hollywood, California by Bernie Grundman

Art Direction: Roland Young
Design: Phil Shima
Photography: Raúl Vega and Mark Hanauer
Management: Richard Burkhart

"We Three (Playfully)" is for Jason and Ardis Mangione, from their dad.
This album is dedicated to my folks Frank (Miles) and Nancy, my brother Chuck and my sister Jo.





Capt. Bacardi
 
Although fairly well-intended, it hardly brings back the day when this sort'a Jazz was more fun...

An overtly conservatively, truly conventionally and disappointingly bland record, despite Larry Carlton's well-handled, supportive production & putting his good guitar work in the right spots...


Dave
 
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