Sergio Mendes Trio - "In The Brazilian Bag" [Tower stereo LP '66] Piano trio + guests Wanda de Sah vocals, Rosinha de Valenca guitar (fantastic playing), Bud Shank flute & alto sax. A gorgeous samba record originally released on parent label Capitol the year before.
Edmundo Ros & His Orchestra - "Rhythms Of The South" [London FFSS stereo LP '57]
Sonny Stitt Quartet - "The Hard Swing" [Verve stereo LP '60]
McCoy Tyner - "...Plays Ellington" [Impulse! mono promo LP '64] Trio with the Coltrane rhythm section of Jimmy Garrison and Elvin Jones. What a perfectly mesmerizing album.
Quincy Jones - "The Lost Man" O.M.P. Soundtrack [Uni promo LP '69]
Traffic - "Mr. Fantasy" [U.A. LP '68] Outside of "Dear Mr. Fantasy" and to a lesser extent "Paper Sun", most of the rest of this psyche-foolery really doesn't hold up all that well
The Allman Brothers Band - "At Fillmore East" [Capricorn 2LP '71]
Nilsson - "...Sings Newman" [RCA Victor LP '70] Songs and piano by Randy Newman
Robin Gibb - "Robin's Reign" [Atco LP '70] Probably one of the first, if not the first, art-pop album to make extensive use of an electronic rhythm box as a sonic-seasoning effect
The Bee Gees - "Trafalgar" [Atco LP '71]
Stairsteps - S/T [Buddah LP '70] AKA The 5 Stairsteps as they were formerly (and continued to be best) known, this album included their biggest hit "O-o-h Child" but also leads off with two mystifyingly pointless, though quite okay, Beatles covers (Lennon's "Dear Prudence" and "Getting Better"), in that the original arrangements are barely changed, while the style is hardly the Stairsteps' own.
