Roles (Joe Sample album)

Roles
Studio album by Joe Sample
Released	1987
Studio	Baby'O Recorders and Soundcastle (Hollywood, California)
Genre	Jazz
Length	47:51
Label	MCA
Producer	Wilton Felder Joe Sample

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]

Roles is a studio album by American pianist keyboardist Joe Sample, released in 1987 on MCA Records. ^[2] The album peaked at No. 8 on the Billboard Contemporary Jazz Charts. ^[3]

Track listing

Adapted from album's text. ^[2]

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Woman You're Drivin' Me Mad"	Joe Sample	5:09
2.	"The Gifted"	Joe Sample	4:47
3.	"Friends and Lovers"	Joe Sample	5:44
4.	"Ego Mania Mambo"	Joe Sample	5:05
5.	"Fortune Hunter"	Joe Sample	6:25
6.	"Ship of Fools"	Joe Sample	5:59
7.	"Passionist"	Joe Sample	7:33

Personnel

Adapted from album's text. ^[2]

Production

• Joe Sample – producer
• Wilton Felder – producer
• F. Byron Clark – engineer, mixing
• Glenn Kurtz – assistant engineer
• Liz Cluse – mix assistant
• Bernie Grundman – mastering at Bernie Grundman Mastering (Hollywood, California)
• Ceferino "Sonny" Abelardo – production coordinator
• Pamela Hope Lobue – production coordinator
• Kathleen Covert – art direction, design
• Mindas – cover photography

Musicians

• Joe Sample – acoustic piano, electronic keyboards
• Dr. George Shaw – synthesizer programming
• Dean Parks – guitars
• Rick Zunigar – guitar solo (6)
• Abraham Laboriel – bass
• Sonny Emory – drums
• Lenny Castro – percussion
• Bobby Hutcherson – marimba solo (4), vibraphone (7)
• Bill Green – flute (2, 3), reeds (5, 6)
• Plas Johnson – flute (2, 3), reeds (5, 6)
• Ronald Brown – reeds (5, 6)
• Bill Reichenbach Jr. – trombone (5, 6)
• Gary Grant – flute (2, 3), trumpet (5, 6)
• Sal Marquez – trumpet (2, 3, 5, 6), muted trumpet (2), trumpet solo (5)
• Kathy Brown, Voncielle Faggett, Jim Gilstrap and Michael Tompkins – voices (1)

References

1. "Joe Sample: Roles". allmusic.com. Allmusic.
2. Joe Sample: Roles. MCA Records. 1987.
3. "Joe Sample (Roles (Contemporary Jazz Albums)". billboard.com. Billboard.