Houston Express (album)

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Houston Express
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Studio album by
Released1971
RecordedApril 8 & 9, 1971
Studio Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ
Genre Jazz
Length38:23
Label Prestige
PR 10017
Producer Bob Porter
Houston Person chronology
Person to Person!
(1970)
Houston Express
(1971)
Broken Windows, Empty Hallways
(1972)

Houston Express is the ninth album led by saxophonist Houston Person. It was recorded April 8 & 9, 1971 and released on the Prestige label. [1] [2] [3] To date, it has only been re-released on Compact Disc in South Africa. [4]

Contents

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
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Allmusic awarded the album 4½ stars stating "As period soul-jazz goes, this is considerably above the average. It's funky, but not in the bland crossover sense; there's a sense of jazz ensemble discipline to the arrangements, but it's still R&B-based enough to groove to". [5]

Track listing

  1. "Young Gifted and Black" (Nina Simone, Weldon Irvine) - 5:15
  2. "The Houston Express" (Horace Ott) - 5:48
  3. "Enjoy" (Ott) - 4:55
  4. "Give More Power To The People (For God's Sake)" (Eugene Record) - 3:40
  5. "Chains of Love" (A. Nugetre) - 7:30
  6. "Just My Imagination" (Norman Whitfield, Barrett Strong) - 5:35
  7. "Lift Every Voice" (James Weldon Johnson, John Rosamond Johnson) - 5:40

Personnel

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References

  1. Prestige Records discography accessed April 15, 2013
  2. Payne, D, A Houston Person discography, June 7, 2009.
  3. Enciclopedia del Jazz: Person, Houston, accessed February 16, 2018
  4. "Houston Person - Houston Express". Discogs . 2007.
  5. 1 2 Unterberger, R. Allmusic listing accessed April 15, 2013