Roles (Joe Sample album)
Roles is a studio album by American pianist keyboardist Joe Sample, released in 1987 on MCA Records. The album peaked at No. 8 on the Billboard Contemporary Jazz Charts.
Track listing
Adapted from album's text.Personnel
Adapted from album's text.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
- Ceferino "Sonny" Abelardo – production coordinator
- Pamela Hope Lobue – production coordinator
- Kathleen Covert – art direction, design
- Mindas – cover photography
- Joe Sample – acoustic piano, electronic keyboards
- Dr. George Shaw – synthesizer programming
- Dean Parks – guitars
- Rick Zunigar – guitar solo
- Abraham Laboriel – bass
- Sonny Emory – drums
- Lenny Castro – percussion
- Bobby Hutcherson – marimba solo, vibraphone
- Bill Green – flute, reeds
- Plas Johnson – flute, reeds
- Ronald Brown – reeds
- Bill Reichenbach Jr. – trombone
- Gary Grant – flute, trumpet
- Sal Marquez – trumpet, muted trumpet, trumpet solo
- Kathy Brown, Voncielle Faggett, Jim Gilstrap and Michael Tompkins – voices