Dizzy Gillespie / The Last Stroke Of Midnight

Digital Crate Digging Continues!! checking out some disco jazz from  Dizzy Gillespie with a track called The Last Stroke Of Midnight. Check out the players and the track…

• Bass – Wilton Felder
• Composed By, Arranged By, Conductor, Keyboards [Electronic], Producer – Lalo Schifrin
• Drums – Eddie Greene*
• Electric Piano, Piano – Sonny Burke
• Flute – Jerome Richardson
• Guitar [Electric] – Lee Ritenour, Melvin “Wah Wah” Watson, Ray Parker Jr.
• Percussion – Paulinho Da Costa
• Saxophone – Ernie Watts
• Saxophone, Flute – James Horn*
• Trombone – Lew McCreary
• Trumpet – Jack H. Laubach, Oscar Brashear
• Trumpet [Solo] – Dizzy Gillespie

Ernie Watts ‎– Valdez In The Country

Digital Crate Digging Continues; we’re checking out some of this jazz / funk from   Ernie Watts ‎– with his version of Valdez In The Country composed By  Donny Hathaway. Check out the all star players and the track!!

• Bass – Neil Stubbenhaus
• Drums – John Robinson
• Electric Piano – Richard Tee
• Guitar – Carlos Rios
• Percussion – Paulinho Da Costa
• Piano – Michael Omartian
• Producer – Quincy Jones
• Recorded By, Mixed By – Bruce Swedien
• Synthesizer – Ian Underwood
• Tenor Saxophone – Ernie Watts

Billy Cobham / Nickels and Dimes

Digital Crate Digging Continues…checking out drummer Billy Cobham  with his track  Nickels and Dimes. He must know about my cash flow!! anyway…check out the players and the track…

Bass – John Williams (8) Drums – Billy Cobham Guitar – John Scofield Keyboards – Dawilli Gonga Trombone – Julian Priester Trumpet – Randy Brecker Trumpet, Flugelhorn – Jimmy Owens Woodwind – Ernie Watts, Michael Brecker Xylophone, Marimba – Ruth Underwood

Bill Summers – Straight To The Bank

……..everybody’s talking about going to the bank……………..

Digital Crate Digging Continues…still on some jazz / funk / disco….checking out this classic from Bill Summers….talking about going Straight To The Bank…I’m with it!! I could use a few dollars…anyway!

Check out the players and the track…..

• Arranged By [Horns]  Reggie Andrews
• Arranged By [Rhythm] – Bill Summers & Summers Heat, Leon Ndugu Chancler
• Bass – Fred Washington*
• Drums – Leon Ndugu Chancler Guitar – Ray Obiedo
• Lead Vocals –Bill Summers    Leo Miller, Virginia Ayers
• Producer – Leon Ndugu Chancler
• Producer [Produced In Association With], Percussion – Bill Summers
• Reeds – Ernie Watts, Bill Green*
• Synthesizer [Synthesizer Programming] – Bob Robitaille
• Timbales – Darryl Munyungo Jackson*
• Trombone – Benny Powell, Dick “Slyde” Hyde*, George Bohanon
• Trumpet, Flugelhorn – Jerry Hey, Oscar Brashear, Ray Brown

Bobby Lyle – Night Breeze

Digital Crate Digging Continues…checking out multi-instrumentalist Bobby Lyles with his version of Night Breeze…made famous by a cat he played with…Ronnie Laws…check out the players and the track…

Bass – Don Beck*            Drums – Steve Gutierrez          Electric Piano [Fender Rhodes], Synthesizer [Arp String], Composed By – Bobby Lyle               Guitar – Roland Bautista           Soloist, Trumpet – Oscar Brashear               Tenor Saxophone – Ernest Watts*