Montreux "Sign Language (Spain, Windham Hill Records/RBA, 74321 729412)"

Montreux was an American fusion band, specializing in the blend of jazz and bluegrass, with jam elements. The band was active from approximately 1982 until 1990, and recorded on Windham Hill Records. The name of the band came from the jazz festival in Switzerland of the same name, at which an early version of the band was formed under a different name.

Sign Language, is their first album under the name Montreux, released in 1987. Windham Hill recognized the group as the All Star band of the record label. Montreux's style became distinctive and unique, and by this time they adopted their band name. They also picked up Anne-Marie Martins as their agent and manager, who led them to become one of the most successful Windham Hill bands live.

Tracklist:

1. Skywriting   Mike Marshall  4:08
2. Sign Language   Michael Manring   4:57
3. Sweet Intentions   Barbara Higbie   4:27
4. Jacob Do Bandolim   Mike Marshall  5:30
5. In The Shadow Of The Blimp    Mike Marshall   5:55
6. To Be    Barbara Higbie   3:38
7. Grant Wood    Darol Anger   5:32
8. Circular Birds   Michael Manring   4:33
9. Just Walking   Darol Anger   6:31

Recording information:

Recorded January - February 1987. 

Mixed to a Mitsubishi X80 Digital 2-Track Machine

Produced & mixed by Montreux.

Enginereed by Kay Hopper

Chicago "Live In Toronto 1969"

In 1969, Chicago appeared at the Toronto Rock and Roll Revival, the same one day rock festival that produced John Lennon's Live Peace in Toronto 1969. (Also appearing at the Festival were Alice Cooper, Bo Diddley and Chuck Berry - whose performances of the event were also issued on albums.) Since 1978, there have been innumerable unauthorized LP, Cassette and CD releases of the same poor-quality recording of this performance.

There were eight songs recorded at the gig, seven from Chicago Transit Authority plus the then unreleased "25 or 6 to 4." Almost all of these releases include only seven of the songs; "Beginnings" is nearly always omitted, its title often being wrongly given to the first track "Introduction". "South California Purples" is often listed as "Purples," "Purple Song" or "South Carolina Purples", and sometimes given an incorrect writing credit—i.e., to composer Carl Michalski or "John Gunner/J.Marks".

The one song in the set not to appear previously on any official live album is "Liberation", which is frequently edited or faded early and whose correct total runtime is approximately 16:05. On some versions, all the songs are faded early. Some LP versions include talking between songs, most notably Lamm pointing out that "25 or 6 to 4" was a brand new song.

Despite its shortcomings, some reviewers have regarded the recording quite positively. For example, the 1984 LP release Chicago: Toronto Rock 'n' Roll Revival 69 by Design Records is considered by reviewer Doug Stone to be a "choice concert souvenir...captur(ing) the group in its live prime. Supporting the Chicago Transit Authority debut, before mastering wedding material, Chicago was a rock & roll force to be reckoned with." A reviewer of an earlier version of same recording, entitled Toronto Rock 'n' Roll Revival 1969, Volume 1 (Accord, 1981) considers that "...there's certainly nothing wrong with the performance. In some ways, the at times fuzzy sound works in the album's favor, giving Chicago a garage-y edge rarely found on their studio works."

Robben Ford "Talk To Your Daughter"

Talk to Your Daughter is a blues rock album by Robben Ford, released in 1988. The album's cover version of the Albert King classic "Born Under a Bad Sign" was used as a supporting soundtrack in the Clint Eastwood movie Pink Cadillac.

Track listing

1. "Talk to Your Daughter" (J. B. Lenoir) – 4:06
2. "Wild About You (Can't Hold Out Much Longer)" (Walter Jacobs) – 3:46
3. "Help the Poor" (Charles Singleton) – 5:37
4. "Ain't Got Nothin' but the Blues" (Duke Ellington, Larry Fotine, Don George) – 4:34
5. "Born Under a Bad Sign" (William Bell, Booker T. Jones) – 3:45
6. "I Got Over It" (Ike Turner) – 3:22
7. "Revelation" (Russell Ferrante, Lorraine Perry) – 6:21
8. "Getaway" (Robben Ford) – 4:17
9. "Can't Let Her Go" (Ford) – 5:36

Scott Ferguson – producer

Robben Ford – producer

Jeff Hendrickson – mixing, overdub engineer

Toby Wright – mixing

Mark Creamer – mixing, tracking engineer, overdub engineer

Geoff Gillette – mixing

Howie Weinberg – mastering

David Hentschel – tracking engineer, overdub engineer

Shep Lonsdale – tracking engineer, overdub engineer

Duncan Aldridge, Hal Sacks, Rick Slater, John Slattery – overdub engineers

Bob Fuojinski, Bob Levy, Larry Mah, Micajah Ryan, Bret Swain – assistant engineers

Joan Parker – production coordinator

Timothy White, Mike Russ – photography

Gino Vanelli "Slow Love"

Slow Love is the thirteenth album by Gino Vanelli, released in 1998.

Track list:

1. Slow Love
2. Lost & Found
3. Words Can Kill
4. Down With Love
5. Cry Baby
6. Tierras De Amores Y Sombras
7. My Oh My It's A Miracle
8. Alive By Science
9. A Woman Crossed In Love
10. Constantly Constantine

© 1998 PolyGram Records, Inc.

Manufactured & marketed by Verve Records, a division of PolyGram Classics & Jazz, a division of PolyGram Records, Inc.

Recorded and mixed at Inka Studios, Portland, Oregon, 1997

Mastered at Grundman Mastering, Hollywood

Additional mastering at Super Digital Mastering, Portland, Oregon

Gino Vanelli "Yonder Tree"

Yonder Tree is the twelfth album by Canadian singer Gino Vanelli, released in 1995.

Track list:

1. Walter Whitman Where Are You
2. Fallen In Love
3. You Owe It To Yourself
4. A Little Bit Of Judas
5. Unbearably Blue
6. Jehovah And All That Jazz
7. None So Beautiful
8. I Die A Little More Each Day
9. Come To The Well
10. Moon Over Madness

℗ © 1995 PolyGram Records, Ibc.

This album was recorded at Inka Studios in Portland, Oregon with additional recording at Blue Moon Studio, Agoura Hills, CA

It was also mixed at Blue Moon Studio using "Optifile Tetra Automation System".

The face on the cover comes from a Tom Edgerton painting.

Gino Vanelli "Live In Montreal"

Live In Montreal is a live album by Canadian singer Gino Vanelli, released in 1991.

Tracklist:

1. Brother To Brother     Written-By – Gino Vannelli     7:44 
2. Living Inside Myself     Written-By – Gino Vannelli    4:34
3. Wild Horses    Written-By – Gino Vannelli, Roy Freeland    4:36
4. Crazy Life     Written-By – Gino Vannelli    3:14
5. In The Name Of The Money  Written-By – Gino Vannelli, Joe Vannelli, Ross Vannelli, Roy Freeland    4:26
6. Hurts To Be In Love    Written-By – Gino Vannelli     4:46
7. Something Tells Me     Written-By – Gino Vannelli, Roy Freeland    3:04
8. People Gotta Move     Written-By – Gino Vannelli    4:27
9. If I Should Lose This Love   Written-By – Gino Vannelli, Roy Freeland    6:25
10. Black Cars    Written-By – Gino Vannelli, Roy Freeland    5:06
11. I Just Wanna Stop     Written-By – Gino Vannelli    4:27
12. Where Am I Going    Written-By – Gino Vannelli      7:55 
13. Black And Blue    Written-By – Gino Vannelli    4:54

Concert recorded at "Le Spectrum", Montreal, Canada - November 18, 1990

Vie Records ℗1991 Romantique Productions, Inc. (Agoura Hills, CA)

Vie Records is manufactured and Distributed in the USA by Sin-Drome Records, Ltd.

Gino Vanelli "Inconsolable Man"

Inconsolable Man is the tenth album by Canadian singer Gino Vanelli, released in 1990.

Track list:

1. Rhythm of Romance
2. If I Should Lose This Love
3. Shame
4. Sunset on L.A.
5. Moment to Moment
6. Cry of Love
7. The Time of Day
8. Bound to Cry
9. The Joker's Wild
10. Inconsolable Man