Name: Performance (CTI Records 40th Anniversary Edition) by Esther Phillips
Brand: Esther Phillips
SKU: 886443104129
Price: 7.92 USD
Availability: OnlineOnly
Rating: 3 (56 reviews)

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I Feel the Same

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Performance

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Doing Our Thing

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Disposable Society

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Living Alone (We're Gonna Make It)

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Such A Night

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Can't Trust Your Neighbor with Your Baby

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Mr. Bojangles

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Texas-born Esther Phillips had a gift for interpreting songs and bestowing upon a lyric the sound and temperament of a wounded heart. She suffered addictions and personal setbacks, which fueled that voice, but record companies had trouble marketing her talents. Performance is her unheralded 1974 funky soul-jazz masterpiece, the fourth of seven albums she did for the Kudu label. Here, Phillips is at once commanding yet fragile, sassy yet vulnerable: On Dr. John’s “Such a Night” and Eugene McDaniels’ ahead-of-its-time “Disposable Society,” she sounds incontestably spirited despite subtexts of sadness, and the results are as breezy as they are beautiful. Allen Toussaint’s foreboding title tune finds the singer gracefully holding back like Billie Holiday—which only makes a line like “As I watch you fall down to your knees/They don’t know that you’re praying to please” all the more poignant. On Chris Smithers’ “I Feel the Same,” with its back-alley guitar and spare urban funk, Phillips sounds almost too comfortable telling us that there’s no easy way to say goodbye.

1. I Feel the Same

by Esther Phillips

Alto Saxophone: Jerry Dodgion; Performer
Baritone Saxophone: Pepper Adams; Performer
Flugelhorn: Marvin Stamm
John Gatchell
Jon Faddis; Performer
Flute: Hubert Laws; Performer
Guitar: Jon Sholle
Charlie Brown; Performer
Percussion: Ralph Macdonald
Pee Wee Ellis; Performer
Arranger: Pee Wee Ellis; Composer
Composer: Chris Smither; Composer
Lyricist: Chris Smither; Composer
Conductor: Pee Wee Ellis; Conductor
Drums: Bernard Purdie; Performer
Performer: Esther Phillips; Performer
Piano: Richard Wyands; Performer
Trombone: Urbie Green; Performer
Trumpet: Jon Faddis
Marvin Stamm
John Gatchell; Performer
Engineer: Rudy Van Gelder; Production
Vocals: Esther Phillips; Performer
Primary Artist: Esther Phillips; Main Performer
Producer: Pee Wee Ellis
Creed Taylor; Production

2. Performance

by Esther Phillips

Alto Saxophone: Jerry Dodgion; Performer
Background Vocals: Lani Groves
J. Denise Williams
Patti Austin; Performer
Baritone Saxophone: Pepper Adams; Performer
Arranger: Pee Wee Ellis; Composer
Conductor: Pee Wee Ellis; Conductor
Drums: Bernard Purdie; Performer
Engineer: Rudy Van Gelder; Production
Flugelhorn: John Gatchell
Marvin Stamm
Jon Faddis; Performer
Flute: Hubert Laws; Performer
Guitar: Jon Sholle
Charlie Brown; Performer
Percussion: Ralph Macdonald
Pee Wee Ellis; Performer
Piano: Richard Wyands; Performer
Steel Guitar: Eric Weissberg; Performer
Trombone: Urbie Green; Performer
Trumpet: John Gatchell
Marvin Stamm
Jon Faddis; Performer
Composer: Allen Toussaint; Composer
Vocals: Esther Phillips; Performer
Primary Artist: Esther Phillips; Main Performer
Producer: Pee Wee Ellis
Creed Taylor; Production

3. Doing Our Thing

by Esther Phillips

Alto Saxophone: Jerry Dodgion; Performer
Background Vocals: Tasha Thomas
Robin Clark
Carl Carldwell; Performer
Baritone Saxophone: Pepper Adams; Performer
Drums: Bernard Purdie; Performer
Flute: Hubert Laws; Performer
Guitar: Jon Sholle
Charlie Brown; Performer
Percussion: Ralph Macdonald
Pee Wee Ellis; Performer
Piano: Richard Tee
Richard Wyands; Performer
Trombone: Urbie Green; Performer
Trumpet: Jon Faddis
John Gatchell
Marvin Stamm; Performer
Arranger: Pee Wee Ellis; Composer
Composer: Clarence Carter
A. Lee
Clemmi Mccants; Composer
Conductor: Pee Wee Ellis; Conductor
Engineer: Rudy Van Gelder; Production
Flugelhorn: Jon Faddis
John Gatchell
Marvin Stamm; Performer
Vocals: Esther Phillips; Performer
Primary Artist: Esther Phillips; Main Performer
Producer: Pee Wee Ellis
Creed Taylor; Production

4. Disposable Society

by Esther Phillips

Alto Saxophone: Jerry Dodgion; Performer
Baritone Saxophone: Pepper Adams; Performer
Bass: Gary King; Performer
Flugelhorn: Jon Faddis
John Gatchell
Marvin Stamm; Performer
Flute: Hubert Laws; Performer
Guitar: Charlie Brown
Richie Resnicoff
Jon Sholle; Performer
Percussion: Ralph Macdonald; Performer
Arranger: Gary King; Composer
Composer: Eugene Mcdaniels; Composer
Lyricist: Eugene Mcdaniels; Composer
Conductor: Gary King; Conductor
Drums: Steve Gadd; Performer
Performer: Esther Phillips; Performer
Piano: Bob James
Richard Wyands; Performer
Tenor Saxophone: Mike Brecker; Performer
Trombone: Urbie Green; Performer
Trumpet: John Gatchell
Marvin Stamm
Jon Faddis; Performer
Engineer: Rudy Van Gelder; Production
Vocals: Esther Phillips; Performer
Primary Artist: Esther Phillips; Main Performer
Producer: Creed Taylor
Eugene Mcdaniels; Production

5. Living Alone (We're Gonna Make It)

by Esther Phillips

Alto Saxophone: Jerry Dodgion; Performer
Background Vocals: Tasha Thomas
Robin Clark
Carl Carldwell; Performer
Baritone Saxophone: Pepper Adams; Performer
Drums: Steve Gadd; Performer
Flute: Hubert Laws; Performer
Guitar: Jon Sholle
Charlie Brown; Performer
Percussion: Ralph Macdonald
Pee Wee Ellis; Performer
Piano: Bob James
Richard Wyands; Performer
Trombone: Urbie Green; Performer
Trumpet: Jon Faddis
John Gatchell
Marvin Stamm; Performer
Arranger: Pee Wee Ellis; Composer
Composer: Lynn
Neil Barnes
Pendarvis; Composer
Conductor: Pee Wee Ellis; Conductor
Engineer: Rudy Van Gelder; Production
Flugelhorn: Jon Faddis
John Gatchell
Marvin Stamm; Performer
Vocals: Esther Phillips; Performer
Primary Artist: Esther Phillips; Main Performer
Producer: Eugene Mcdaniels
Creed Taylor; Production

6. Such A Night

by Esther Phillips

Alto Saxophone: Jerry Dodgion; Performer
Baritone Saxophone: Pepper Adams; Performer
Cello: Charles Mccracken
George Ricci; Performer
Drums: Steve Gadd; Performer
Arranger: Don Sebesky
Pee Wee Ellis; Composer
Conductor: Pee Wee Ellis; Conductor
Engineer: Rudy Van Gelder; Production
Flugelhorn: Jon Faddis
John Gatchell
Marvin Stamm; Performer
Flute: Hubert Laws; Performer
Guitar: Jon Sholle
Charlie Brown; Performer
Percussion: Ralph Macdonald
Pee Wee Ellis; Performer
Piano: Richard Tee
Richard Wyands; Performer
Trombone: Urbie Green; Performer
Trumpet: Marvin Stamm
Jon Faddis
John Gatchell; Performer
Viola: Harold Coletta
Manny Vardi
Al Brown; Performer
Violin: Charles Libove
Manny Vardi
Max Ellen
Paul Gershman
David Nadien
Matthew Raimondi
Emanuel Green; Performer
Composer: Mac Rebennack; Composer
Vocals: Esther Phillips; Performer
Primary Artist: Esther Phillips; Main Performer
Producer: Pee Wee Ellis
Creed Taylor; Production

7. Can't Trust Your Neighbor with Your Baby

by Esther Phillips

Alto Saxophone: Jerry Dodgion; Performer
Baritone Saxophone: Pepper Adams; Performer
Bass: Gordon Edwards; Performer
Flugelhorn: Marvin Stamm
John Gatchell
Jon Faddis; Performer
Flute: Hubert Laws; Performer
Guitar: Charlie Brown
Jon Sholle; Performer
Percussion: Ralph Macdonald
Pee Wee Ellis; Performer
Arranger: Pee Wee Ellis; Composer
Composer: Isaac Hayes
David Porter; Composer
Lyricist: Isaac Hayes
David Porter; Composer
Conductor: Pee Wee Ellis; Conductor
Drums: Bernard Purdie; Performer
Performer: Esther Phillips; Performer
Piano: Richard Wyands; Performer
Trombone: Urbie Green; Performer
Trumpet: John Gatchell
Marvin Stamm
Jon Faddis; Performer
Engineer: Rudy Van Gelder; Production
Vocals: Esther Phillips; Performer
Primary Artist: Esther Phillips; Main Performer
Producer: Pee Wee Ellis
Creed Taylor; Production

8. Mr. Bojangles

by Esther Phillips

Alto Saxophone: Jerry Dodgion; Performer
Baritone Saxophone: Pepper Adams; Performer
Drums: Bernard Purdie; Performer
Flute: Hubert Laws; Performer
Guitar: Jon Sholle
Charlie Brown; Performer
Percussion: Ralph Macdonald
Pee Wee Ellis; Performer
Piano: Richard Wyands; Performer
Trombone: Urbie Green; Performer
Trumpet: John Gatchell
Marvin Stamm
Jon Faddis; Performer
Arranger: Pee Wee Ellis; Composer
Composer: Jerry Jeff Walker; Composer
Conductor: Pee Wee Ellis; Conductor
Engineer: Rudy Van Gelder; Production
Flugelhorn: Marvin Stamm
John Gatchell
Jon Faddis; Performer
Vocals: Esther Phillips; Performer
Primary Artist: Esther Phillips; Main Performer
Producer: Creed Taylor
Pee Wee Ellis; Production

Technical Specifications

Volume

1 volume only

Tracks

8 tracks available

Type

ALBUM

Format

Digital Media

Duration

39 minutes and 16 seconds

Explicit

None

Coverart

Available and up to 672x672 px

Booklet

Not available

Max Quality

CD Quality (Lossless)

16bit / 44.1 kHz

Stereo

Audio Extension

Lossless: FLAC, M4A, WAV, WV, AIFF

Lossy: AAC, MP3, M4A, MP4, OGA, OGG, OPUS, WMA

Archive Format

Available in these formats: ZIP, TAR, RAR

Lyrics

Only 1/8 tracks has lyrics

Synchronized Lyrics

No synced lyrics found

Genres

Jazz, Soul, R&B

Label

Masterworks Jazz

Music Distribution Service

Sony

Country

United States

Language

English (United States)

Popularity

Release Date

Oct 3, 2011

Track Preview

Available

Delivery Charge

Free

Delivery Method

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UPC

886443104129

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Performance (CTI Records 40th Anniversary Edition)

1. I Feel the Same

2. Performance

3. Doing Our Thing

4. Disposable Society

5. Living Alone (We're Gonna Make It)

6. Such A Night

7. Can't Trust Your Neighbor with Your Baby

8. Mr. Bojangles

Technical Specifications

Performance (CTI Records 40th Anniversary Edition)

Product information

Release options

1. I Feel the Same

2. Performance

3. Doing Our Thing

4. Disposable Society

5. Living Alone (We're Gonna Make It)

6. Such A Night

7. Can't Trust Your Neighbor with Your Baby

8. Mr. Bojangles

Technical Specifications