Mountain Greenery

©1997 – Featuring:

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Track List

Las Vegas, April, 1997

This project blossomed after a summer concert by Laura Taylor in the Government Center, the high point of which was Laura’s arrangement of the Porgy and Bess Medley, which received a roaring reception and was a foundation for the added string and horn arrangements by her good friend, guitarist Joe Lano. Jack Sheldon and Red Holloway were the headliners in the concert, and graciously brought their talented (and world famous) chops to the efforts already in progress. When the fabulous Candoli brothers, Pete and Conte, were coming back for one of their many engagements here, they also consented to add their unique and fabled talents! Laura’s jazz mentor, Alan Grant provided the venue for all these jazz greats to venture to Las Vegas, not only through the summer jazz concerts. but through his legendary award-winning show and radio broadcast, Alan Grant’s Monday Night Jazz. The rest is not yet history. From the awesome pool of talent that Las Vegans share came the special contributions of her trio from the concert and John Abraham’s dynamite arrangement of the Jobim classic, One Note Samba. Charles McLean provided encouragement, moral support, valuable technical critique, and an incredible sound on his reeds. Add to this the fine talents of Joey Singer, Chris Gordon, Brace Philips. and the very talented string and horn sections and history! -dm

Joe, Laura

Laura, Red

Red, Laura, Jack, David

Charles, Laura, David

Conte, David, Pete

Credits

• Produced by David Mulkey & Laura Taylor
• Executive Producer: David Mulkey
• Concepts: Laura Taylor
• Rhythm track arrangements: Joe Lano-Laura Taylor
• (except:
• Mountain Greenery-Laura Taylor, Bob Rozario
• Cottontail-I’ve Got Rhythm-Laura Taylor, Ray Price, Dave Pike
• One Note Samba-John Abraham)
• String and Horn arrangements: Joe Lano
• Recorded at Sonsong Studio. Engineer: T-Bone Demman
• Mixed by: T-Bone, Laura Taylor, Joe Lano
• Digital Mastering: Joe Sidore-Warner Bros Records
• Cover Concept: Laura Taylor
• Landscape Photographs: Sarah Miller
• Photograph of Laura Taylor: Mark Lewis
• Graphics: Digital Images – Bobbi Burgie

Rhythm Section

Tracks 1, 2, 3, 11

• Joe Lano – guitar
• John Abraham – drums
• Chris Gordon – bass

Tracks 4, 5

• Joe Lano – guitar
• John Abraham – drums
• Brace Philips – bass

Track 6

• John Abraham – drums
• Joey Singer – piano
• Chris Gordon – bass
• Charles McLean – soprano sax
• Jack Sheldon appears courtesy of Butterfly Records

Special thanks and love to all who helped make this project possible…

This album is dedicated to…

Dr. DAVID MULKEY… hello love!