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.

Track listing
Adapted from album's text.

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)