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A New Dimension

Willie Bobo

Recorded	Dec 1968
Label	Verve Records
Released	1968
Personnel	22 credited players
Discogs	master 253154

The record

December 1968 brought Bobo into thicker company -- flutes, cellos, English horn -- softening the percussion battery into something closer to mood music with a pulse. A crowded, arranger-heavy session trading the timbale-driven grit of earlier dates for orchestral sheen.

Session personnel

Stan Webb — alto flute
Phil Bodner — alto flute, english horn, clarinet
Chuck Rainey — bass
Johnny Rodriguez — bongos, cowbell
Alan Shulman — cello
Seymour Barab — cello
Victor Pantoja — congas
Osvaldo Martinez — cowbell, percussion
Freddie Waits — drums
Felix Wilkins — flute
Sonny Henry — guitar
Jack Jennings — mallets, percussion
Kenny Rodgers — tenor saxophone, alto saxophone
Willie Bobo — timbales, vocals
Jimmy Owens — trumpet, flugelhorn
Charles Libove — violin
Harry Glickman — violin
Lewis Eley — violin
Max Pollikoff — violin
Raoul Poliakin — violin
Sylvan Shulman — violin
Tosha Samaroff — violin

Contemporary reception

No period review located yet. The vintage-press pipeline searches DownBeat, Cash Box, and Billboard for this session.

Pressings

1969	Verve Records · V6-8772 — Vinyl, LP, Album earliest on file · deep groove
1969	Verve Records
1969	Verve Records · V6-8772 — Vinyl, LP, Promo
1969	Verve Records · V6-8772 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Promo, Stereo
1969	Verve Records · V6 8772 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo
1999	Verve Records · POCJ 2780 — CD, Album
2002	Verve Records · 314 519 897-2 — CD, Album, Reissue, Remastered
2002	Verve Records · 519 897-2 — CD, Album, Limited Edition, Reissue, Remastered
—	Verve Records · LEX-9314 — Vinyl, LP