A Beautiful Friendship (The Kudu Anthology 1971–1976)

Tracklist

• CD 1: Home Is Where the Hatred Is
• 1
  Home Is Where the Hatred Is
  3:25
• 2
  From a Whisper to a Scream
  4:23
• 3
  That’s All Right With Me
  3:17
• 4
  ’Til My Back Ain’t Got No Bone
  6:10
• 5
  Baby, I’m for Real
  4:17
• 6
  Scarred Knees
  6:18
• 7
  How Blue Can You Get?
  5:08
• 8
  A Beautiful Friendship
  4:53
• 9
  Use Me
  3:51
• 10
  I Don’t Want to Do Wrong
  4:16
• 11
  Let Me in Your Life
  3:37
• 12
  I’ve Never Found a Man (to Love Me Like You Do)
  3:24
• 13
  Alone Again (Naturally)
  3:19
• 14
  Georgia Rose
  5:03
• 15
  Cherry Red (live)
  4:54
• 16
  God Bless the Child (live)
  6:51
• CD 2: I Haven’t Got Anything Better to Do
• 1
  Justified
  5:35
• 2
  Black‐Eyed Blues
  6:11
• 3
  Too Many Roads
  4:35
• 4
  You Could Have Had Me, Baby
  7:28
• 5
  Tangle in Your Lifeline
  4:53
• 6
  Can’t Trust Your Neighbor With Your Baby
  3:55
• 7
  I Feel the Same
  8:26
• 8
  Disposable Society
  5:19
• 9
  What a Diff’rence a Day Makes (single edit)
  3:10
• 10
  You’re Coming Home
  3:22
• 11
  Turn Around, Look at Me
  3:58
• 12
  Pure Natural Love
  5:18
• 13
  Fever
  3:35
• 14
  All the Way Down (single edit)
  3:25
• 15
  Boy, I Really Tied One On
  3:48
• 16
  Magic’s in the Air
  2:55
• 17
  I Haven’t Got Anything Better to Do
  3:39

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Release credits

• Airto Moreira
  percussion [1, 5-6]
• Alan Shulman
  cello [1, 5-6]
• Alvin Rogers
  violin [1, 5-6]
• Arthur Jenkins
  percussion [1-2]
• Barbara Massey
  vocal [1, 5-6]
• Bernard “Pretty” Purdie
  drums (drum set) [2.6-7, 1.1, 1.5-6]
• Bob James
  electric piano [8]
• Boz Burrell
  bass [1-5]
• Charles Libove
  violin [1, 5-6]
• Charles McCracken
  cello [1, 5-6]
• Cornell Dupree
  guitar [1, 5-6]
• Creed Taylor
  producer [1.1, 1.5-14, 2.1-8, 2.10-11]
• David Liebman
  baritone saxophone [1, 5-6], flute [1, 5-6]
• Dick Griffin
  trombone [1, 5-6]
• Don Sebesky
  strings [1, 5]
• Eric Gale
  guitar [1, 5-6]
• Esther Phillips
  lead vocals [1, 5-6], vocal [2.1-8, 2.10-11, 1.7-14]
• Frank Vicari
  flute [1, 5-6], tenor saxophone [1, 5-6]
• Gary King
  arranger [8], bass [6-8], conductor [8]
• Gordon Edwards
  bass [1, 5-6]
• Guy Lumia
  violin [1, 5-6]
• Hank Crawford
  alto saxophone [1, 5-6]
• Harold Coletta
  viola [1, 5-6]
• Harry Zaratzian
  viola [1, 5-6]
• Hilda Harris
  vocal [1, 5-6]
• Ian Wallace
  membranophone [1-5]
• Jack Wilson
  additional [6]
• Jack Zayde
  violin [1, 5-6]
• Jerry Dodgion
  alto saxophone [6-8]
• Jo Armstead
  vocal [1, 5-6]
• John Eckert
  flugelhorn [1, 5-6], trumpet [1, 5-6]
• John Gatchell
  brass [6-8], flugelhorn [1, 5-6], trumpet [1, 5-6]
• Jon Faddis
  brass [6-8]
• Jon Sholle
  guitar [6-7], solo [6-7]
• Leo Kahn
  violin [1, 5-6]
• Louis St. Louis
  vocal [1, 5-6]
• Margaret Ross
  harp [1, 5-6]
• Marvin Stamm
  brass [6-8]
• Max Hollander
  violin [1, 5-6]
• Max Pollikoff
  violin [1, 5-6]
• Michael Brecker
  solo [8], tenor saxophone [8]
• Michael Comins
  violin [1, 5-6]
• Paul Winter
  violin [1, 5-6]
• Pee Wee Ellis
  arranger [2.1-7, 1.1, 1.5-14], conductor [1.1, 1.5-6, 2.1-7]
• Pepper Adams
  baritone saxophone [6-8]
• Ralph MacDonald
  percussion [6-8]
• Richard Tee
  organ [1, 5-6], piano [2.6, 1.1, 1.5-6]
• Richie Resnicoff
  guitar [8]
• Rudy van Gelder
  engineer [1.1, 1.5-14, 2.1-8, 2.10-11]
• Sam Burtis
  trombone [1, 5-6]
• Steve Gadd
  drums (drum set) [8]
• Tasha Thomas
  vocal [1, 5-6]
• Tim Hinkley
  piano [1-5]
• Urbie Green
  trombone [6-8]
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Issues

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  A Beautiful Friendship (The Kudu Anthology 1971–1976)

  2x CD
  7 July 2017