Roles (Joe Sample album)

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

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

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic

Track listing

Adapted from album's text.

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.

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)