29/08/2025

Sonny Criss "Warm Sonny" (1976) -Soul Jazz-



Label : ABC Impulse Records

 
États-Unis Side A

01 - Cool Struttin' (Ray Bryant)
02 - The Way We Were (Alan & Marylin Bergman, Marvin Hamlisch)
03 - That's The Way Of The World (Maurice White & Charles Stepney)
04 - Bumpin' (Wes Montgomery)

Side B

01 - Sweet Summer Breeze (Phillip Wright)
02 - Memories (Jeffrey Bowen, Donald Baldwin & Kathy Wakefield)
03 - Blues For Willie (Sonny Criss)


Personnel :
"Cool Struttin'", "Memories"*, "Sweet Summer Breeze"*
Alto Saxophone : Sonny Criss
Keyboards : Clarence McDonald
Guitars : Lee Ritenour plus Melvin 'Wah Wah' Ragin (*)
Bass : Scott Edwards
Drums : James Gadson
Percussion Eddie 'Bongo' Brown

"The Way We Were", "Bumpin'", "That's The Way Of The World"*, "Blues For Willie"*
Alto Saxophone : Sonny Criss
Keyboards : Sonny Burke
Guitars : Dennis Budimir plus Melvin 'Wah Wah' Ragin (*)
Bass : Chuck Domanico
Drums : James Gadson
Percussion : Eddie 'Bongo' Brown

Strings & Horn Sections :
Concert Master : Charles Veal
Violins : Marcia Van Dyke, Janice Gower, Kenneth Yerke, Harris Goldman, Carl LaMagna, William Henderson, Karen Jones, Winterton Garvey
Violas : Pamela Goldsmith, Paul Polivnick, Rollice Dale, David Campbell
Cellos : Dennis Karmazyn, David Speltz, Ronald Cooper
Harp : Dorothy Ashby
Acoustic Bass : Susan Ranney or Richard Feves
Trumpet & Flugelhorn : Paul Hubinon, Chuck Findley, Bud Brisbois
Trombone : George Bohannon
Bass Trombone : Lew McCreary
French Horn : Vincent DeRosa
Tenor Saxophone & Flute : Buddy Collette
Bass Saxophone & Flute : Bill Green

Produced by Esmond Edwards
Arranged by Wade Marcus
Recording & Remix Engineer : Barney Perkins
Mastering Engineer : Lois Walker
Recorded & Mixed at ABC Recording Studios, Inc., Los Angeles, CA