Good Move!

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Good Move!
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Studio album by Freddie Roach
Released 1963
Recorded November 29 & December 9, 1963
Studio Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ
Genre Jazz
Length43:02
Label Blue Note
BST 84158
Producer Alfred Lion
Freddie Roach chronology
Mo' Greens Please
(1963)		Good Move!
(1963)		 Brown Sugar
(1964)

Good Move! is the third album by American organist Freddie Roach recorded in 1963 and released on the Blue Note label. [1]

Freddie Roach was a soul jazz Hammond B3 organist born in the Bronx, New York. He was one of a handful of legendary jazz organists that made history in the 1960s, the golden era of the Hammond organ. Roach made his record debut in 1960 with saxophonist Ike Quebec on the albums Heavy Soul and It Might as Well Be Spring and played with Willis Jackson. From 1962-64 he recorded 5 albums as a leader for the Blue Note Records label and also recorded with Donald Byrd on the album I'm Tryin' to Get Home. Roach's original writing, steady basslines, and highly musical fleet-fingered right hand set him apart. From 1966-67 he recorded three more albums as a leader for Prestige Records, which are in a more commercial vein than his Blue Note dates. He left the music business in 1970 and became involved in theater, playwriting and film. Reportedly, he moved to California to the film industry, where he suffered a heart attack and died in 1980.

Blue Note Records American record label

Blue Note Records is an American jazz record label that is owned by Universal Music Group and operated with Decca Records. Established in 1939 by Alfred Lion and Max Margulis, it derives its name from the blue notes of jazz and the blues. Originally dedicated to recording traditional jazz and small group swing, from 1947 the label began to switch its attention to modern jazz. Although the original company did not record many of the pioneers of bebop, significant exceptions are Thelonious Monk, Fats Navarro and Bud Powell.

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The Allmusic review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine awarded the album 4 stars and stated "Laid-back and loosely swinging, Good Move captures organist Freddie Roach near the peak of his form. Roach never leans too heavily on his instrument, preferring a calmer, tasteful attack, yet he is never boring because he has a strong sense of groove". [2]

Track listing

All compositions by Freddie Roach except where noted

  1. "It Ain't Necessarily So" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) - 5:02
  2. "When Malindy Sings" (Oscar Brown Jr., Paul Laurence Dunbar) - 5:20
  3. "Pastel" (Erroll Garner) - 4:31
  4. "Wine, Wine, Wine" - 6:31
  5. "On Our Way Up" - 6:20
  6. "T'ain't What You Do (It's the Way That You Do It)" (Sy Oliver, Trummy Young) - 4:58
  7. "Lots of Lovely Love" (Richard Rodgers) - 4:59
  8. "I.Q. Blues" - 5:21

Recorded on November 29 (1, 3, 6 & 8) & December 9 (2, 4, 5 & 7), 1963.

Personnel

Blue Mitchell American musician

Richard Allen "Blue" Mitchell was an American jazz, rhythm and blues, soul, rock and funk trumpeter, and composer, who recorded many albums as leader and sideman for Riverside, Blue Note and Mainstream Records.

Trumpet musical instrument with the highest register in the brass family

A trumpet is a brass instrument commonly used in classical and jazz ensembles. The trumpet group contains the instruments with the highest register in the brass family. Trumpet-like instruments have historically been used as signaling devices in battle or hunting, with examples dating back to at least 1500 BC; they began to be used as musical instruments only in the late 14th or early 15th century. Trumpets are used in art music styles, for instance in orchestras, concert bands, and jazz ensembles, as well as in popular music. They are played by blowing air through nearly-closed lips, producing a "buzzing" sound that starts a standing wave vibration in the air column inside the instrument. Since the late 15th century they have primarily been constructed of brass tubing, usually bent twice into a rounded rectangular shape.

Hank Mobley American saxophonist

Henry "Hank" Mobley was an American hard bop and soul jazz tenor saxophonist and composer. Mobley was described by Leonard Feather as the "middleweight champion of the tenor saxophone", a metaphor used to describe his tone, that was neither as aggressive as John Coltrane nor as mellow as Stan Getz, and his style that was laid-back, subtle and melodic, especially in contrast with players like Sonny Rollins and Coltrane. The critic Stacia Proefrock claimed he is "one of the most underrated musicians of the bop era."

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References

  1. ↑ Blue Note Records discography accessed November 2, 2010
  2. 1 2 Erlewine, S. T. Allmusic Review accessed November 2, 2010
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