Introducing the Fabulous Trudy Pitts

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Introducing the Fabulous Trudy Pitts
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Studio album by Trudy Pitts
Released 1967
Recorded February 15 & 21, 1967
Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey
Genre Jazz
Label Prestige
PR 7523
Producer Cal Lampley
Trudy Pitts chronology
Introducing the Fabulous Trudy Pitts
(1967)		 These Blues of Mine
(1967) These Blues of Mine1967

Introducing the Fabulous Trudy Pitts is the debut album by jazz organist Trudy Pitts which was recorded in 1967 and released on the Prestige label. [1]

Gertrude E. "Trudy" Pitts was an American soul jazz keyboardist from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She was known primarily for playing the Hammond B3 organ.

Prestige Records American jazz record label

Prestige Records is a jazz record company and label founded in 1949 by Bob Weinstock in New York City. The company recorded hundreds of albums by many of the leading jazz musicians of the day, sometimes issuing them under subsidiaries. In 1971, the company was sold to Fantasy, which was later absorbed by Concord.

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Reception

Professional ratings
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Allmusic awarded the album 3 stars stating "A strong debut from Trudy Pitts, divided between covers of pretty mainstream standards and gutsier straight soul-jazz". [2]

Track listing

All compositions by Bill Carney except as indicated

  1. "Steppin' in Minor" - 4:30
  2. "The Spanish Flea" (Julius Wechter) - 4:20
  3. "Music to Watch Girls By" (Sid Ramin) - 4:35
  4. "Something Wonderful" (Oscar Hammerstein II, Richard Rodgers) - 3:25
  5. "Take Five" (Paul Desmond) - 4:28
  6. "It Was a Very Good Year" (Ervin Drake) - 3:45
  7. "Siete" - 4:00
  8. "Night Song" (Lee Adams, Charles Strouse) - 3:56
  9. "Fiddlin'" - 3:55
  10. "Matchmaker, Matchmaker" (Jerry Bock, Sheldon Harnick) - 4:13

Personnel

Hammond organ electric organ

The Hammond organ is an electric organ, invented by Laurens Hammond and John M. Hanert and first manufactured in 1935. Various models have been produced, most of which use sliding drawbars to specify a variety of sounds. Until 1975, Hammond organs generated sound by creating an electric current from rotating a metal tonewheel near an electromagnetic pickup, and then strengthening the signal with an amplifier so it can drive a speaker cabinet. Around two million Hammond organs have been manufactured. The organ is commonly used with, and associated with, the Leslie speaker.

Pat Martino Italian-American jazz guitarist and composer

Pat Martino is a jazz guitarist and composer within the post-bop, fusion, mainstream jazz and soul jazz idioms. He is noted for his mathematical approach to the instrument and advanced knowledge of music theory.

Guitar fretted string instrument

The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that usually has six strings. It is typically played with both hands by strumming or plucking the strings with either a guitar pick or the finger(s)/fingernails of one hand, while simultaneously fretting with the fingers of the other hand. The sound of the vibrating strings is projected either acoustically, by means of the hollow chamber of the guitar, or through an electrical amplifier and a speaker.

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References

  1. ↑ Prestige Records discography accessed May 8, 2013
  2. 1 2 Unterberger, R. Allmusic listing accessed May 8, 2013
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