The Best Smooth Jazz …Ever!

~ Release by Various Artists (see all versions of this release, 4 available)

Tracklist

1▶CD
2▼CD
#TitleArtistRatingLength
1Cantaloop
Us33:45
2Work Song
Nina Simone2:36
3Ain't No Sunshine
recording engineer:
Bill Halverson (in 1971) and Bill Lazarus (in 1971)
producer:
Booker T. Jones
mixer:
John Golden (mastering engineer)
acoustic guitar:
Stephen Stills (in 1971)
drums (drum set):
Al Jackson, Jr. (Booker T & The MGs drummer) (in 1971)
electric bass guitar:
Donald “Duck” Dunn (US bass guitarist, session musician, record producer & songwriter) (in 1971)
lead vocals:
Bill Withers (in 1971)
strings arranger:
Booker T. Jones
phonographic copyright (℗) by:
Columbia Records (Columbia Records, Inc., not for release label use! company owned by Sony Music Entertainment, only use for manufacturing/distribution and copyright holding) (in 1972)
part of:
BILLIONS CLUB, Billboard: The 500 Best Pop Songs (as of October 2023) (number: 179), Rolling Stone: 500 Greatest Songs of All Time (as at 2016-06-10) (number: 280) and Rolling Stone: 500 Greatest Songs of All Time: 2021 edition (number: 309)
recording of:
Ain’t No Sunshine (in 1971)
lyricist and composer:
Bill Withers
publisher:
EMI Music (do not use as release label! this is a music publisher), EMI Music Publishing Ltd. (PRS‐affiliated) and EMI Songs Ltd.
Bill Withers4.52:05
4We Have All The Time In The World
Louis Armstrong3:15
5One Day I'll Fly Away
Randy Crawford4:22
6Save The Children
Marlena Shaw4:10
7Stay
Mica Paris3:58
8Down That Road
Shara Nelson3:45
9Midnight At The Oasis
The Brand New Heavies4:08
10Every Generation
Ronnie Laws5:53
11Mystic Voyage
Ronny Jordan & Roy Ayers4:16
12Theme From M.A.S.H.
Bobby Hutcherson4:29
13Just My Imagination
Donald Byrd4:39
14Bali Run
Fourplay5:35
15Sleepwalk
Larry Carlton4:37
16My Funny Valentine
Chet Baker2:57
17I'm Just A Lucky So And So
Duke Ellington & Louis Armstrong3:07
18Me And Mrs Jones
Ronnie Foster4:25
19Brown Sugar
recording of:
Brown Sugar (D’Angelo song)
writer:
D’Angelo (US soul singer, songwriter & producer) and Ali Shaheed Muhammad
publisher:
1200 Music, Ah Choo Music Publishing, Jazz Merchant Music (Publishing company related to Q-Tip), Universal Music–Z Tunes LLC and Universal PolyGram International Publishing, Inc. (existed only since ca. 1998)
D’Angelo34:02

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Release group

part of:The Best …Ever! (order: 1)
Discogs:https://www.discogs.com/master/419805 [info]
Wikidata:Q954750 [info]