Voicings
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Voicings was the last recording by the Minneapolis jazz vocal group Rio Nido
. The album was one of the early recordings to feature live "direct to digital" recording techniques.
Rio Nido
-Band history:Rio Nido was a jazz vocal trio that began as part of the Minneapolis West Bank music scene in the early 1970s. The first incarnation of the group consisted of Prudence Johnson on vocals, Tim Sparks on vocals and guitar, and Tom Lieberman on guitar and vocals...
. The album was one of the early recordings to feature live "direct to digital" recording techniques.
Track listing
- "Northern Lights" (D. Karr, L. Ball)
- "I'm So Lonesome I Could CryI'm So Lonesome I Could Cry"I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry" is a song written and recorded by American country music singer-songwriter Hank Williams in 1949. The song about loneliness was largely inspired by his troubled relationship with wife Audrey Sheppard...
" (Hank Williams) - "In a Mellow Tone" (Duke EllingtonDuke EllingtonEdward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington was an American composer, pianist, and big band leader. Ellington wrote over 1,000 compositions...
) - "Lost and Found" (T. Sparks, M. Jackson)
- "Since I Fell For You" (B. Johnson)
- "You and I" (Stevie WonderStevie WonderStevland Hardaway Morris , better known by his stage name Stevie Wonder, is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer and activist...
) - "Auld Lang SyneAuld Lang Syne"Auld Lang Syne" is a Scots poem written by Robert Burns in 1788 and set to the tune of a traditional folk song . It is well known in many countries, especially in the English-speaking world; its traditional use being to celebrate the start of the New Year at the stroke of midnight...
" (Trad.) - "Flying Home" (L. Hampton)
Personnel
- Prudence JohnsonPrudence JohnsonPrudence Johnson is an American jazz and folk vocalist.-Biography:Prudence Johnson grew up in a musical family in Moose Lake, Minnesota. In the early 1970s, Prudence was a co-founder with Tim Sparks of the vocal jazz group Rio Nido...
- vocals - Tim SparksTim SparksTim Sparks is an American acoustic guitar player, singer, arranger and composer.- Biography:Raised in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, he was given his first guitar when a bout of encephalitis kept him out of school for a year...
- vocals, guitar - Roger Hernandez - vocals
- Tom Lewis - bass
- Dave Birget - guest vocalist, bass
- Jimmy Hamilton - piano
- Bill Carrothers - piano
- Phil Hey - drums
- Marc Anderson - percussion
- Gary "Ice Man" Berg - tenor sax, chromatic harmonica
- Dave Karr - tenor sax
- Kathy Jensen - tenor sax, flute
- Dave Jensen - trumpet, flugelhorn
- Pete Emblom - trombone, arranger