Roles (Joe Sample album)
{{Infobox album
| name = Roles
| type = studio
| artist = Joe Sample
| cover = Joe Sample - Roles.jpg
| alt =
| released = 1987
| recorded =
| venue =
| studio =
- Baby'O Recorders and Soundcastle (Hollywood, California)
| genre = Jazz
|length = 47:51
| label = MCA
| producer =
- Wilton Felder
- Joe Sample
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{{Album ratings
|rev1 = AllMusic
|rev1Score = {{Rating|2|5}}{{cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/roles-mw0000188716|title=Joe Sample: Roles|publisher=Allmusic|website=allmusic.com}}
}}
Roles is a studio album by American pianist keyboardist Joe Sample, released in 1987 on MCA Records.{{cite work|title=Joe Sample: Roles|date=1987|publisher=MCA Records}} The album peaked at No. 8 on the Billboard Contemporary Jazz Charts.{{cite web|url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/joe-sample/chart-history/jcr/|title=Joe Sample (Roles (Contemporary Jazz Albums)|publisher=Billboard|website=billboard.com}}
Track listing
{{Tracklist
|title1 = Woman You're Drivin' Me Mad
|writer1 = Joe Sample
|length1 = 5:09
|title2 = The Gifted
|writer2 = Joe Sample
|length2 = 4:47
|title3 = Friends and Lovers
|writer3 = Joe Sample
|length3 = 5:44
|title4 = Ego Mania Mambo
|writer4 = Joe Sample
|length4 = 5:05
|title5 = Fortune Hunter
|writer5 = Joe Sample
|length5 = 6:25
|title6 = Ship of Fools
|writer6 = Joe Sample
|length6 = 5:59
|title7 = Passionist
|writer7 = Joe Sample
|length7 = 7:33
}}
Personnel
Production
- Joe Sample – producer
- Wilton Felder – producer
- F. Byron Clark – engineer, mixing
- Glenn Kurtz – assistant engineer
- Liz Cluse – mix assistant
- Bernie Grundman – mastering at Bernie Grundman Mastering (Hollywood, California)
- Ceferino "Sonny" Abelardo – production coordinator
- Pamela Hope Lobue – production coordinator
- Kathleen Covert – art direction, design
- Mindas – cover photography
Musicians
- Joe Sample – acoustic piano, electronic keyboards
- Dr. George Shaw – synthesizer programming
- Dean Parks – guitars
- Rick Zunigar – guitar solo (6)
- Abraham Laboriel – bass
- Sonny Emory – drums
- Lenny Castro – percussion
- Bobby Hutcherson – marimba solo (4), vibraphone (7)
- Bill Green – flute (2, 3), reeds (5, 6)
- Plas Johnson – flute (2, 3), reeds (5, 6)
- Ronald Brown – reeds (5, 6)
- Bill Reichenbach Jr. – trombone (5, 6)
- Gary Grant – flute (2, 3), trumpet (5, 6)
- Sal Marquez – trumpet (2, 3, 5, 6), muted trumpet (2), trumpet solo (5)
- Kathy Brown, Voncielle Faggett, Jim Gilstrap and Michael Tompkins – voices (1)
References
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