''Bing, Bing, Bing!'' is a 1995 album by

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guitarist

Charlie Hunter Charlie Hunter (born May 23, 1967) is an American guitarist, composer, and bandleader. First coming to prominence in the early 1990s, Hunter plays custom-made seven- and eight-string guitars on which he simultaneously plays bass lines, chords, a ...

. This was his first album for the

Blue Note Records Blue Note Records is an American jazz record label owned by Universal Music Group and operated under Capitol Music Group. Established in 1939 by Alfred Lion and Max Margulis, it derived its name from the blue notes of jazz and the blues. Or ...

and features his

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. The cover is an homage to

Horace Parlan Horace Parlan (January 19, 1931 – February 23, 2017) was an American pianist and composer known for working in the hard bop and post-bop styles of jazz. In addition to his work as a bandleader Parlan was known for his contributions to the Char ...

's 1960 album, ''Speakin' My Piece''. The neon sign, 500 Club, is a bar in San Francisco's

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, a few blocks from the Elbo Room nightclub where the trio made a name for themselves.

Track listing

#"Greasy Granny" – 4:34 #"Wornell's Yorkies" – 3:58 #"Fistful of Haggis" – 6:44 #" Come as You Are" (

Cobain Kurt Donald Cobain (February 20, 1967 – April 5, 1994) was an American musician who served as the lead vocalist, guitarist and primary songwriter of the rock band Nirvana. Through his angst-fueled songwriting and anti-establishment persona ...

) – 6:08 #"Scrabbling for Purchase" – 4:49 #"Bullethead" – 5:34 #"Bing, Bing, Bing, Bing!" – 7:56 #"Squiddlesticks" – 4:03 #"Lazy Susan (with a client now)" – 6:15 #"Elbo Room" – 5:58

Personnel

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* Dave Ellis – tenor saxophone *

Jay Lane Jay Lane (born December 5, 1964) is an American drummer. He is a founding member of Bob Weir's RatDog, with Weir and Rob Wasserman, Wolf Bros, Furthur, Golden Gate Wingmen and Alphabet Soup. He was the 7th drummer to play in Primus, playing ...

– drums * Jeff Cressman – trombone on tracks 5 and 9 *

Ben Goldberg Ben Goldberg is an American clarinet player and composer. Career In the early 1990s, Ben Goldberg performed alongside electric bassist Dan Seamans and percussionist Kenny Wollesen as the New Klezmer Trio. They went on to produce three albums an ...

– clarinet on tracks 5 and 9 * David Phillips – pedal steel guitar on tracks 3 and 7 * Scott Roberts – percussion on tracks 2 and 3 Production *

Lee Townsend Lee Townsend is an American independent music producer, curator, artist manager and co-owner of Songtone (Songline/Tone Field Productions), specializing in recordings of singer-songwriters, contemporary composers, improvising musicians, and cross ...

– producer *

Judy Clapp Judith A. Clapp (born 1930) is a computer scientist who began her career at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and subsequently moved to the Lincoln Laboratory and then to MITRE, where she was a leader in the Semi-Automatic Ground E ...

– mixing engineer * Oliver DiCicco – engineer * Christian Jones – engineer *

Greg Calbi Gregory Calbi (born April 3, 1949) is an American mastering engineer at Sterling Sound, New Jersey. Biography Greg Calbi was born on April 3, 1949, in Yonkers, New York, and raised in Bayside, Queens, New York. He graduated in 1966 from Bisho ...

– mastering

References

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