Mocha Motion!

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Mocha Motion!
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Studio album by Freddie Roach
Released July 1967 [1]
Recorded January 5, 1967
Studio Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ
Genre Soul jazz
Length36:35
Label Prestige
PRLP 7507
Producer Ozzie Cadena
Freddie Roach chronology
The Freddie Roach Soul Book
(1966) The Freddie Roach Soul Book1966
Mocha Motion!
(1967)
My People (Soul People)
(1967) My People (Soul People)1967

Mocha Motion! is an album by American organist Freddie Roach released on Prestige in 1967.

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.

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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Track listing

All compositions tracks by Freddie Roach, unless otherwise noted

  1. "Samba de Orfeu" (Bonfá) - 5:24
  2. "(Good) Morning Time" - 5:35
  3. "Money (That's What I Want)" (Bradford, Gordy) - 4:25
  4. "Stinky Fingers" - 4:01
  5. "Here Comes the Mocha Man" - 5:19
  6. "Johnnie's Comin' Home No More" - 5:17
  7. "Warning Shot" (Goldsmith) - 6:34

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