Got a Good Thing Goin'

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Got a Good Thing Goin'
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Studio album by
Released1966
RecordedApril 29, 1966
Studio Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ
Genre Jazz
Length36:43
Label Blue Note
BST 84229
Producer Alfred Lion
Big John Patton chronology
Let 'em Roll
(1965)
Got a Good Thing Goin'
(1966)
That Certain Feeling
(1966)

Got a Good Thing Goin' is an album by American organist Big John Patton recorded in 1966 and released on the Blue Note label. [1]

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Reception

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The AllMusic review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine awarded the album 4½ stars and stated "Fans of hard bop may find the songs a little too simple, but hot, up-tempo soul-jazz rarely comes any better than it does on Got a Good Thing Goin'." [2]

Track listing

All compositions by John Patton and Grant Green except where noted

  1. "The Yodel" – 8:19
  2. "Soul Woman" – 7:44
  3. "Ain't That Peculiar" (Warren "Pete" Moore, Smokey Robinson, Marv Tarplin, Ronald White) – 6:48
  4. "The Shake" (Sam Cooke) – 7:48
  5. "Amanda" (Duke Pearson) – 6:08

Personnel

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References

  1. Blue Note Records discography accessed November 5, 2010
  2. 1 2 Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. Big John Patton: Got a Good Thing Goin' – Review at AllMusic . Retrieved April 25, 2020.
  3. Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 1134. ISBN   978-0-141-03401-0.