Who Is This Bitch, Anyway?
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| Studio album by Marlena Shaw | ||||
| Released | 1975 | |||
| Recorded | June 12 and December 3-6, 1974 The Record Plant, Los Angeles |
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| Genre | Jazz | |||
| Length | 39:07 | |||
| Label | Blue Note BN-LA397-G |
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| Producer | Bernard Ighner | |||
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Who Is This Bitch, Anyway? is an album by American vocalist Marlena Shaw recorded in 1974 and released on the Blue Note label.[1]
Reception
The Allmusic review by Jason Ankeny awarded the album 4½ stars stating "A record as fierce and blunt as its title portends, Who Is This Bitch, Anyway? vaults Marlena Shaw into a brave new world of feminism and funk, updating the sophisticated soul-jazz approach of her previous records to explore a fast-changing musical, political, and sexual landscape... Not only Shaw's best-selling Blue Note release, Who Is This Bitch, Anyway? represents her creative apex as well".[2]
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Track listing
- "You, Me and Ethel / Street Walking Woman" (Marlena Shaw / Loonis McGlohon, Byron Olson) - 6:20
- "You Taught Me How to Speak in Love" (Molly Ann Leiken, Art Munson) - 3:52
- "Davy" (Bernard Ighner) - 5:26
- "Feel Like Makin' Love" (Eugene McDaniels) - 5:00
- "The Lord Giveth and the Lord Taketh Away" (Shaw) - 1:05
- "You Been Away Too Long" (Ighner) - 3:07
- "You" (Shaw) - 3:45
- "Loving You Was Like a Party" (Ighner) - 4:17
- "A Prelude for Rose Marie" (Olson) - 1:56
- "Rose Marie (Mon Cherie)" (Wilma Callender, Ighner) - 4:19
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- Recorded on June 12 (tracks 3 & 5), December 3 (tracks 2 & 8), December 4 (tracks 6 & 7), December 5 (tracks 1 & 4) and December 6 (tracks 9 & 10), 1974.
Personnel
- Marlena Shaw - vocals
- Bernard Ighner - piano, flugelhorn, arranger
- Mike Lang, Bill Mays - piano
- Larry Nash - electric piano, synthesizer
- Dennis Budimir, Larry Carlton, David T. Walker - guitar
- Chuck Domanico - bass
- Chuck Rainey - electric bass
- Harvey Mason - drums, wind chimes
- Jim Gordon - drums
- King Errison - conga
- Dale Oehler, Byron Olson - arranger
- Unidentified strings, horns and woodwinds
References
- ↑ Blue Note Records discography, accessed January 14, 2010.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Ankeny, J. Allmusic Review accessed January 14, 2011
