''The Atlantic Family Live at Montreux'' is a live recording made at the 1977

Montreux Jazz Festival The Montreux Jazz Festival (formerly Festival de Jazz Montreux and Festival International de Jazz Montreux) is a music festival in Switzerland, held annually in early July in Montreux on the Lake Geneva shoreline. It is the second-largest annual ...

. It featured the

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Orchestra together with the Average White Band and guest musicians. It was originally released as a

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on vinyl.

Track listing

LP1 side A #" Bahia (Na Baixa Do Sapateiro)" (16:32) LP1 side B #"Jadoo" (10:34) #"Everything Must Change" (6:21) LP2 side A #"McEwan's Export" (8:58) #"One To One" (9:10) LP2 side B #" Pick Up the Pieces" (21:40)

Personnel

* Ben E. King - lead vocals * Sonny Fortune - alto sax * David "Fathead" Newman - alto sax * Roger Ball - alto sax * Herbie Mann - flute *

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- tenor sax * Molly Duncan - tenor sax *

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- tenor sax * Michael Brecker - tenor sax *

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- saxophone *

- trumpet * Gilman Rathel - trumpet * Lew Soloff - trumpet * Randy Brecker - trumpet * Alan Kaplan - trombone *

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- trombone * Richard Tee - electric piano * Jim Mullen - guitar *

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- guitar * Rafael Cruz - percussion *

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- percussion *

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- bass *

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- drums * Onnie McIntyre - guitar Backing Vocals: * Alfa Anderson * Diane Sumler * Diva Gray *

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* Peter Cox *

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Other credits: * Engineer -

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* Producer - Arif Mardin

References

*''The Atlantic Family Live at Montreux'' at Allmusic.com {{DEFAULTSORT:Atlantic Family Live at Montreux, The Albums produced by Arif Mardin Albums recorded at the Montreux Jazz Festival 1978 live albums Atlantic Records live albums