Skate Board Park
Encyclopedia
Skate Board Park is a jazz
album
by Joe Farrell
on the Xanadu Records
label. It was recorded in January 1979.
Jazz
Jazz is a musical style that originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States. It was born out of a mix of African and European music traditions. From its early development until the present, jazz has incorporated music from 19th and 20th...
album
Album
An album is a collection of recordings, released as a single package on gramophone record, cassette, compact disc, or via digital distribution. The word derives from the Latin word for list .Vinyl LP records have two sides, each comprising one half of the album...
by Joe Farrell
Joe Farrell
Joseph Carl Firrantello , known as Joe Farrell, was an American jazz saxophonist and flutist. He is best known for a series of albums under his own name on the CTI record label and for playing in the initial incarnation of Chick Corea's Return to Forever.-Biography:Farrell was born in Chicago...
on the Xanadu Records
Xanadu Records
Xanadu Records was a jazz music record label specializing in bebop throughout the 1970s and 1980s founded by Don Schlitten, recording and issuing recordings by some legendary names in jazz music.-Discography:...
label. It was recorded in January 1979.
Track listing
- "Skate Board Park" (Joe Farrell) – 5:24
- "Cliche Romance" (Farrell) – 6:58
- "High Wire -- The Aerialist" (Chick Corea) – 6:17
- "Speak Low" (O. Nash, K. Weill) – 5:44
- "You Go to My Head" (J. F. Coots, H. Gillespie) – 6:39
- "Bara-Bara" (Farrell) – 6:24
Personnel
- Chick CoreaChick CoreaArmando Anthony "Chick" Corea is an American jazz pianist, keyboardist, and composer.Many of his compositions are considered jazz standards. As a member of Miles Davis' band in the 1960s, he participated in the birth of the electric jazz fusion movement. In the 1970s he formed Return to Forever...
– piano, electric piano - Joe FarrellJoe FarrellJoseph Carl Firrantello , known as Joe Farrell, was an American jazz saxophonist and flutist. He is best known for a series of albums under his own name on the CTI record label and for playing in the initial incarnation of Chick Corea's Return to Forever.-Biography:Farrell was born in Chicago...
– tenor sax - Bob MagnussonBob MagnussonBob Magnusson is a bassist best known for his jazz and studio work and has a personal discography in excess of 150 albums and CDs.-Career:...
– bass - Larance MarableLarance MarableLarance Marable is a West Coast jazz hard bop drummer born in Los Angeles, California, probably best known today for his work with Charlie Haden in his Quartet West. However, Marable also had a strong career first as a bop musician in the 1950s working with the likes of Dexter Gordon and Charlie...
– drums
Recording credits
- Arne Frager – engineer
- Paul GoodmanPaul Goodman (sound engineer)Paul Goodman is a Grammy award-winning sound engineer, with awards in 1983 for Mahler: Symphony No. 7 in E Minor , in 1985 for Prokofiev: Symphony No. 5 in B Flat, Op. 100, and in 1987 for Horowitz - The Studio Recordings, New York 1985...
– mixing - Joe Farrell – liner notes
- Don SchlittenDon SchlittenDon Schlitten was an American jazz record producer.Schlitten founded the label Signal Records in 1955 alongside Harold Goldberg and Jules Colomby. His credits for Signal included work with Duke Jordan, Gigi Gryce, and Red Rodney. Signal was sold to Savoy Records in the late 1950s, and after this...
– design, photography, producer