Indispensable (Michael Franks album)

Indispensable
Compilation album by
ReleasedJune 30, 1988 (1988-06-30)
Recorded1976 (1976) – 1987 (1987)
Genre
Length1:08:58
LabelWarner Bros.
Michael Franks chronology
The Camera Never Lies
(1987)
Indispensable
(1988)
Blue Pacific
(1990)

Indispensable is a jazz vocal album by Michael Franks released only in markets outside of the U.S.A. in 1988 by Warner Bros. Records.[1] It is Franks' twelfth album, and his first of four compilation releases with the label.

The compilation contains a selection of tracks spanning eleven years, from The Art of Tea in 1976, to The Camera Never Lies in 1987.[2]

Franks has since released eight more studio albums, rendering this compilation a fairly representative sample of his earlier work; of note his collaborations with the Tommy LiPuma and Al Schmitt production team, and later with Rob Mounsey.

  1. ^ "Discography in Order of Release". MichaelFranks.com. Retrieved 2012-02-23.
  2. ^ Indispensable: The Best of Michael Franks – Michael Franks at AllMusic. Retrieved 2012-02-23.