Money in the Pocket (Joe Zawinul album)

Money in the Pocket
Studio album by Joe Zawinul
Released	April 1966
Recorded	February 7, 1966
Studio	Atlantic Studios, NYC
Genre	Jazz
Length	38:33
Label	Atlantic SD 3004
Producer	Joel Dorn
Joe Zawinul chronology
Soulmates (1963) Money in the Pocket (1966) The Rise and Fall of the Third Stream (1968)

Money in the Pocket is the debut studio album led by jazz fusion keyboardist Joe Zawinul released on the Atlantic label in 1966. ^[1]

Reception

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[2]
All About Jazz	[3]
The Guardian	[4]

The Allmusic review awarded the album 3 stars. ^[2] All About Jazz awarded the album 3½ stars, stating, "Money In The Pocket is a remarkable album—remarkable in that it gives absolutely no hint of the shape shifts that would transform Zawinul's work a few years later. The first of three albums he recorded for Atlantic, it's a conventional mix of mid-1960s hard bop and soul jazz". ^[3] The Guardian's John Fordham noted, "this session reflects the driving grooves of that popular soul-jazz style – so there are a lot of backbeats, repeating riffs, horn-harmony wailing and stagey stop-time breaks". ^[4]

Track listing

All compositions by Joe Zawinul except as indicated

1. "Money in the Pocket" - 4:46
2. "If" (Joe Henderson) - 3:47
3. "My One and Only Love" (Guy Wood, Robert Mellin) - 3:52
4. "Midnight Mood" - 6:06
5. "Some More of Dat" (Sam Jones) - 6:02
6. "Sharon's Waltz" (Rudy Stevenson) - 5:06
7. "Riverbed" - 5:09
8. "Del Sasser" (Jones) - 3:45

Personnel

• Joe Zawinul – piano
• Blue Mitchell – trumpet (tracks 1, 2, 4, 5 & 7)
• Clifford Jordan (track 1) – tenor saxophone
• Joe Henderson (tracks 2, 4, 5 & 7) – tenor saxophone
• Pepper Adams (tracks 2, 4, 5 & 7) – baritone saxophone
• Bob Cranshaw (track 1) – bass
• Sam Jones (tracks 2 & 4–8) – bass
• Roy McCurdy (track 1) – drums
• Louis Hayes (tracks 2 & 4–8) – drums

References

1. Atlantic Records Catalog: 8800, 3000 series accessed October 7, 2015
2. Allmusic listing accessed October 7, 2015
3. May, C., All About Jazz Review, February 4, 2010
4. Forham, J., The Guardian review, February 12, 2010