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May 2025 Album listenings

I think I might have one more month of listening to albums in me. I'm listening to a playlist of songs and bands mentioned in the 2022 memoir Stay True by Hua Hsu. Many classic rock songs, but there are 77 songs and I learned these bands I hadn't heard of. 


5/1 Blind Faith 1969 Blind Faith spotify


5/2 Shonen Knife Our Best Place 2023 spotify


5/3 Sonny Sharrock 1969 Black Woman spotify


5/4 The Raincoats 1979 The Raincoats spotify


5/5 The Vaselines Enter The Vaselines 1992 spotify


5/6 Van Morrison Astral Weeks 1968 spotify


5/7 Harold Land Quintet The Peace-Maker 1968 spotify

Harold Land (tenor sax), 

Bobby Hutcherson (vibes), 

Joe Sample (piano), 

Buster Williams (bass), 

Donald Bailey (drums, harmonica)


5/8 Peter Bernstein Better Angels 2024 spotify

Someone on r/jazz says this album is currently obsessing them, and I take a listen and wow. I quite enjoy it. 


5/9 Peter Bernstein Signs of Life 1995 spotify


5/10 Belle and Sebastian 1996 Tigermilk spotify


5/11 Belle and Sebastian 1998 If You're Feeling Sinister spotify


5/12 Stan Getz Captain Marvel 1974 spotify


5/13 Journey in Satchidananda 1971 by Alice Coltrane


5/14 Kirtan: Turiya Sings 1981/2021 Alice Coltrane


5/15 Buena Vista Social Club 1997 spotify


5/16 Buena Vista Social Club 2015 Lost and Found spotify


5/17 Buena Vista Social Club 1999 Ibrahim Ferrer spotify


5/17 Cesaria Evora 1992 Miss Perfumado spotify


5/18 Buena Vista Social Club 2000 Omara Portuondo spotify


5/19 Johnny Clegg 1993 Heat, Dust & Dreams spotify


5/20 Tom Harrell 2024 Alternate Summer spotify

Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar – Charles Altura (tracks: 2, 3, 5, 7)

Bass – Ugonna Okegwo

Design – Keiji Obata

Drums – Adam Cruz

Electric Piano [Fender Rhodes] – Luis Perdomo (tracks: 1 to 3)

Engineer – Chris Allen (4)

Mixed By, Mastered By – David Darlington

Organ [B-3] – Luis Perdomo (tracks: 5)

Piano – Luis Perdomo (tracks: 4, 6 to 10)

Producer, Photography By – Angela Harrell

Tenor Saxophone – Dayna Stephens (tracks: 4 to 6, 8), Mark Turner (2) (tracks: 1 to 3, 9 to 10)

Trumpet, Producer – Tom Harrell


5/21 Tom Harrell 1998 The Art of Rhythm spotify

Acoustic Guitar – Romero Lubambo (tracks: 1, 2, 6, 8 to 10)

Arranged By, Written-By – Tom Harrell

Art Direction – Aldo Sampieri

Baritone Saxophone – Gary Smulyan (tracks: 3, 4)

Bass – Andy Gonzalez (tracks: 3, 4), David Finck (tracks: 6, 8 to 10), Ugonna Okegwo (tracks: 2 to 5, 7)

Bass Clarinet – Gary Smulyan (tracks: 2, 3)

Bassoon – Makanda Ken McIntyre* (tracks: 7)

Cello – Akua Dixon (tracks: 1)

Clarinet – Greg Tardy (tracks: 1, 3, 6, 8)

Claves – Natalie Cushman (tracks: 4)

Congas – Milton Cardona (tracks: 3, 4)

Congas, Percussion – Valtinho Anastacio (tracks: 6, 8 to 10)

Cowbell – Adam Cruz (tracks: 3)

Drums – Duduka Da Fonseca (tracks: 6, 8 to 10), Leon Parker (tracks: 3 to 5, 7)

Electric Guitar – Mike Stern (tracks: 6, 10)

Engineer – Jay Newland

Executive-Producer – Steven Gates (2)

Flugelhorn – Tom Harrell (tracks: 1, 2, 4, 6 to 10)

Harmonium – Danilo Perez (tracks: 3)

Marimba – Bryan Carrott (tracks: 2)

Mixed By – Jay Newland, Tom MacCluskey

Oboe – David Kassoff (tracks: 6)

Percussion [Gran Cassa] – Leon Parker (tracks: 2)

Photography By – Joanne Savio

Piano – Danilo Perez (tracks: 3, 5)

Producer – John Snyder

Production Manager – Katherine Neubauer

Shaker – Natalie Cushman (tracks: 3, 4)

Snare, Cymbal [Suspended Cymbals] – Yoron Israel (tracks: 2)

Soloist – Bryan Carrott (tracks: 2), Danilo Perez (tracks: 5), David Finck (tracks: 8), David Sanchez (3) (tracks: 6, 9, 10), Dewey Redman (tracks: 3 to 5), Duduka Da Fonseca (tracks: 8), Greg Tardy (tracks: 1, 2, 5 to 8), Mike Stern (tracks: 6, 10), Romero Lubambo (tracks: 2, 6, 8, 9), Tom Harrell (tracks: 1 to 3, 5 to 10)

Soprano Saxophone – David Sanchez (3) (tracks: 6, 9)

Steel Drums – Adam Cruz (tracks: 4)

Tenor Saxophone – David Sanchez (3) (tracks: 10), Dewey Redman (tracks: 3 to 5), Greg Tardy (tracks: 2 to 4, 7)

Trumpet – Tom Harrell (tracks: 3, 5)

Viola – Ron Lawrence (tracks: 1, 7)

Violin – Regina Carter (tracks: 1, 7)


5/22 Adele 19 (2008) spotify


5/23 Akira Ishikawa and Count Buffaloes African Rock (1972) spotify


5/24 Mojave 3 Ask Me Tomorrow spotify


5/25 Mojave 3 Spoon and Rafter spotify


5/26 Slowdive 2023 Everything is alive spotify


5/27 Cowboy Junkies 1992 Black Eyed Man spotify


5/28 Pentangle 1968 Sweet Child spotify


5/29 Mellow Candle 1972 Swadling Songs spotify


5/30 Jaco Pastorius self titled album 1976 spotify


5/31 Joni Mitchell and Jaco Pastorius albums:

"Hejira," 1976

"Don Juan's Reckless Daughter," 1977

"Mingus," 1979

"Shadows and Light" 1979







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