The Process (Jon Batiste, Chad Smith and Bill Laswell album)

{{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox album | name = The Process | type = Album | artist = Chad Smith, Bill Laswell, Jon Batiste | cover = Theprocessalbum.jpg | alt = | released = November 4, 2014 | recorded = 2013 | venue = | studio = | genre = jazz-funk, hip-hop, avant-garde jazz | length = | label = M.O.D. Technologies | producer = Bill Laswell | chronology = Bill Laswell | prev_title = The Dream Membrane | prev_year = 2014 | next_title = | next_year = }}

'''''The Process''''' is a 2014 album recorded by a supergroup<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.jazziz.com/jon-batiste-chad-smith-bill-laswell/|title=The Process: Jon Batiste, Chad Smith, Bill Laswell|first=John Frederick|last=Moore|date=9 January 2015|via=Jazziz Magazine}}</ref> of musicians that consists of Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Chad Smith, bassist/producer Bill Laswell and jazz pianist Jonathan Batiste. The album was recorded in 2013 as a musical score for a film that had yet to be written and never ended up being made.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://vimeo.com/107069322|title=THE PROCESS, with Bill Laswell, Jon Batiste, and Chad Smith|first=Jay|last=Bulger|date=24 September 2014|access-date=16 April 2018|via=Vimeo}}</ref> The album also features guest appearances by Tunde Adebimpe of TV on the Radio, Wu-Tang affiliate Killah Priest, avant-garde jazz musician Peter Apfelbaum, and avant-garde jazz trumpeter Toshinori Kondo, among others.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mod-technologies.com/|title=Bill Laswell Presents: M.O.D. Technologies|website=www.mod-technologies.com|access-date=16 April 2018}}</ref>

==Track listing==

# "B1" # "Drop Away" # "Timeline" # "Haunted" # "B2" # "Turn on the Light/Ascent" # "Black Arc" # "Spiral" # "B3" # "Time Falls" # "The Drift"

==Personnel== Taken from information on the <ref>[https://modtechnologies.bandcamp.com/album/the-process album listing on Bandcamp]</ref> ;Musicians * Jon Batiste – piano, electric piano, Hammond organ, electronic keyboards, harmonaboard, percussion * Chad Smith – drums, percussion * Bill Laswell – basses, guitar, electronics ;Additional Personnel * Tunde Adebimpe – vocals on "Drop Away" * Killah Priest – vocals on "Turn on the Light/Ascent" * Garrison Hawk – vocals on "Turn on the Light/Ascent" * Toshinori Kondo – trumpet on "Haunted" * Peter Apfelbaum – flute & tenor saxophone on 6 & soprano saxophone on "The Drift" * Dominic James – guitar on "Black Arc" and "The Drift"

==References== {{Reflist}}

== External links == *{{Facebook|pages/Jon-Batiste-Chad-Smith-Bill-Laswell/320087268175376}} *[https://www.discogs.com/Jon-Batiste-Chad-Smith-Bill-Laswell-The-Process/master/776814 The Process - Discogs Entry] *[https://modtechnologies.bandcamp.com/album/the-process The Process on Bandcamp]

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