Keep Your Soul Together

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Keep Your Soul Together
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Studio album by
Released1974
RecordedOctober 1973
Studio Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey
Genre Jazz fusion
Length38:35
Label CTI
Producer Creed Taylor
Freddie Hubbard chronology
In Concert Volume Two
(1973)
Keep Your Soul Together
(1974)
Polar AC
(1974)
Professional ratings
Review scores
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Keep Your Soul Together is an album recorded in 1973 by jazz trumpeter Freddie Hubbard. It was his fifth studio album released on Creed Taylor's CTI label, and features performances by Hubbard, Junior Cook, George Cables, Aurell Ray, Kent Brinkley, Ron Carter, Ralph Penland and Juno Lewis.

Contents

Reception

Eric Kriss gave the album 5 stars in his DownBeat review. [3] Kriss wrote of the album, "It’s represen­tative of the music Hubbard is playing live and it illustrates why his influence has been so deeply felt". [3] Kriss also singled out the contributions of Cables and Cook. [3]

Track listing

  1. "Brigitte" - 9:10
  2. "Keep Your Soul Together" - 9:55
  3. "Spirits of Trane" - 9:10
  4. "Destiny's Children" - 10:20
  5. "Keep Your Soul Together" - 14:20 [CD bonus track]
All compositions by Freddie Hubbard.

Personnel

References

  1. Keep Your Soul Together at AllMusic. Retrieved 2011-06-17.
  2. Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 106. ISBN   0-394-72643-X.
  3. 1 2 3 4 Kriss, Eric (March 28, 1974). "Review "Keep Your Soul Together"". DownBeat . 41 (6): 30.