The UC Irvine Libraries support the Chancellor's Distinguished Fellows Series by providing a bibliography of the works of each Fellow. The bibliographies are available in print at the Langson and Science Libraries and at each public event.
UC Irvine Chancellor's Distinguished Fellow
A Selective Bibliography: The UC Irvine Libraries
February 2, 2001Lorelei Tanji, Arts Bibliographer
The UC Irvine LibrariesTake 6 (Present Artists): Alvin Chea, Cedric Dent, Joey Kibble, Mark Kibble, Claude V. McKnight III, and David Thomas.
All recordings distributed by Reprise Records:
Take 6 (1988)
So Much 2 Say (1990)
He is Christmas (1991)
Join the Band (1994)
Best of Take 6 (1995)
Brothers (1996)
We Wish You a Merry Christmas (1999)
Take 6 Greatest Hits (1999)
So Cool (1999)
Take 6 Live (April 2000)
Take 6 (and its individual members) have also contributed music to:
1988: Spread Love - Best Jazz Vocal Performance, Duo or Group
1988: Take Six - Best Soul Gospel Performance by a Duo, Group, Choir or Chorus
1989: Time After Time (The Savior is Waiting) - Best Gospel Performance by
a Duo, Group, Choir or Chorus
1990: So Much 2 Say - Best Contemporary Soul Gospel Album
1991: He Is Christmas - Best Jazz Vocal Performance
1994: Join The Band - Best Contemporary Soul Gospel Album
1997: Brothers - Best Contemporary Soul Gospel Album
1988: Take 6 - Best New Artist
1989: Like The Whole World's Watching - Best Jazz Vocal Performance, Duo
or Group
1992: I'm Always Chasing Rainbows - Best Jazz Vocal Performance
1995: Biggest Part Of Me - Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group
1995: All I Need (Is A Chance) - Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group
with Vocal
1997: When You Wish Upon A Star - Best Pop Performance By A Duo Or Group
With Vocal
1997: When You Wish Upon A Star - Best Instrumental Arrangement With Accompanying
Vocal(s)
1999: So Cool - Best Contemporary Soul Gospel Album
1989: Group of the Year
1989: New Artist of the Year
1989: Take Six - Contemporary Gospel Album of the Year
1989: If We Never Needed the Lord Before (Take Six) - Contemporary Gospel
Song of the Year
1991: I L-O-V-E U (So Much 2 Say) - Contemporary Gospel Song of the Year
1991: So Much 2 Say - Contemporary Gospel Album of the Year
1992: He Is Christmas - Contemporary Album of the Year
1993: Handel's Messiah - A Soulful Celebration - Contemporary Gospel Album
(various artists)
1995: Join The Band - Gospel Album of the Year
1997: Tribute - The Songs of Andrae Crouch - Special Event Album (various
artists)
1988: Take 6 Greatest Hits - Outstanding Contemporary Gospel Artist
1993: Handel's Messiah: A Soulful Celebration - Outstanding Gospel Artist,
Various Artists
1989: Take 6 - Best Gospel Album
Cronin, Peter. "They're Playing My Song." Billboard 106, no.
32 (August 6, 1994):21 (1 pages).
Langson Library Location: Current Periodicals Room [Microfilm] S 000507
Croom, Phyllis. "Take 6: Coolin' Out." Jazz Times - America's Jazz Magazine, February 1999, 40-42, 121.
Handler, Michael. "Take 6: Songs of Joy." Down Beat 57, no.
2 (February 1990):28-29.
Langson Library Call Number: ML 1 D68
Long, James. "Take 6 Takes Off." Christianity Today, 14 July
1989, 67-68.
Langson Library Location: Current Periodicals Room
Nathan, David. "Take 6 Takes 5 From A Cappella." Billboard 106,
no. 22 (May 28, 1994):16.
Langson Library Location: Current Periodicals Room [Microfilm] S 000507
Ostling, Richard N. "Evangelism and All That Jazz: Take 6 Puts Seventh-day
Adventism on the Charts." Time 133, no. 12 (March 20, 1989):76.
Langson Library Call Number: AP 2 T37
Paige, Earl "NARM Attendees Get Positive Word on Gospel's Potential
(National Assn. of Recording Merchandisers)." Billboard 105,
no. 14 (April 3, 1993):63.
Langson Library Location: Current Periodicals Room [Microfilm] S 000507
Reynolds, J.R. "Reprise's Take 6 Eyes Mainstream." Billboard 106,
no. 33 (August 13, 1994):1.
Langson Library Location: Current Periodicals Room [Microfilm] S 000507
"Take 6: Gifted Sextet Serves Up Contemporary Gospel With A Cappella
Jazz." Ebony 44, no.5 (March, 1989):74.
Langson Library Call Number: AP 2 E165
"Tunes of glory (Take 6; David Sanborn; Chris Isaak)." Esquire 111,
no. 3 (March, 1989):116.
Langson Library Call Number: AP 2 E845
[Winners List], New York Times, 22 February 1991, Section C,
page 22, col. 5.
Langson Library Location: Current Periodicals Room
[Winners List], USA Today, 2 March 1995, 2D.
Langson Library Location: Current Periodicals Room
Aubigny, Benoit L'Ensemble vocal a cappella dans la musique contemporaine.
(1948-1988): Technique et esthetique. [Translated: The vocal
a cappella ensemble in contemporary music (1948-1988): Method and
Aesthetics. ] These, U. de Paris IV [Paris-Sorbonne], 1992.
Author's abstract: "Includes a list of works for a cappella vocal ensemble
from the period 1949-88 and a survey of the genre, with remarks and discography
for five important ensembles (Groupe Vocal de France, Singcircle, Ars Nova,
Harmonic Choir, and Take 6)."
Dent, Cedric Carl. The Harmonic Development of the Black Religious
Quartet Singing Tradition. PhD diss., Music theory: U. of Maryland,
College Park, 1997. 266 p.
Author's abstract: "Examines the harmonic development of black religious
a cappella quartet singing, a subgenre of black gospel music�. The investigation
identifies three styles of black religious quartet singing: folk, jubilee,
and gospel�.A recent trend, represented by a performance of Mary (1988) by
the group Take 6, is identified and labeled neojubilee."
Take 6 Official Site
http://www.take6.com/
Under Construction.
Das, David. "Take 6 Central."
http://home.earthlink.net/~ddas/take6.html
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Discography - 1/12/98
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