Shelly Berg Blackbird CD

Blackbird Music

List Price	$10.98 (You save $0.59)
Category	Rock/Pop Albums, Jazz CDs, Jazz Instrument, Enhanced CD
Label	Concord Jazz
Orig Year	2005
All Time Sales Rank	45125
CD Universe Part number	6810593
Catalog number	2216
Discs	1
Release Date	Jan 25, 2005
Studio/Live	Studio
Mono/Stereo	Stereo
Producer	Shelly Berg; Chuck Berghofer; Gregg Field
Engineer	Les Williams
Personnel	Gregg Field - bass instrument Chuck Berghofer - drum Shelly Berg - piano

Shelly Berg Blackbird Songs

	1.	All My Tomorrows
	2.	Estate
	3.	Blackbird
	4.	I Hear a Rhapsody
	5.	Question and Answer
	6.	Flower Is a Lovesome Thing, A
	7.	All the Things You Are
	8.	Hot It Up
	9.	Blame It on the Sun
	10.	She's Always a Woman
	11.	If I Should Lose You
	12.	Julia

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