My Hour of Need

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My Hour of Need
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Studio album by
Dodo Greene accompanied by the Ike Quebec Quintet
Released1963
RecordedApril 2 & 17, 1962
Studio Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ
Genre Jazz
Length58:31CD reissue with additional tracks
Label Blue Note
BLP/BST 9001
Producer Alfred Lion
Dodo Greene chronology
Ain't What You Do
(1959)		My Hour of Need
(1963)
Ike Quebec chronology
Easy Living
(1962)		My Hour of Need
(1962)		 Soul Samba
(1962)

My Hour of Need is an album by jazz vocalist Dodo Greene featuring performances accompanied by the Ike Quebec Quintet recorded in 1962 and released on the Blue Note label. [1] [2] The 1996 Connoisseur Series limited edition CD reissue features another six previously unissued tracks recorded at later sessions for a proposed follow-up album. [3]

Contents

Reception

The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow stated: "This set was a very unusual release for Blue Note. Greene's mixture of R&B and soulful blues in a voice very reminiscent of late-period Dinah Washington is much more pop and blues-oriented than the music on any other Blue Note release from the period. ... In reality, the main reason to acquire the relaxed set is for the warm tenor of Ike Quebec (who is perfect in this setting) and the occasional guitar of Grant Green. A true obscurity". [4]

Track listing

  1. "My Hour of Need" (Ira Kosloff) – 4:54
  2. "Trouble in Mind" (Richard M. Jones) – 4:45
  3. "You Are My Sunshine" (Jimmie Davis, Charles Mitchell) – 3:00
  4. "I'll Never Stop Loving You" (Nicholas Brodszky, Sammy Cahn) – 4:01
  5. "I Won't Cry Anymore" (Al Frisch, Fred Wise) – 3:45
  6. "Lonesome Road" (Nathaniel Shilkret, Gene Austin) – 4:13
  7. "Let There Be Love" (Lionel Rand, Ian Grant) – 3:28
  8. "There Must Be a Way" (David Saxon, Sammy Gallop) – 3:29
  9. "Down by the Riverside" (Duke Jordan) – 4:06
  10. "Little Things Mean a Lot" (Carl Stutz, Edith Lindeman) – 4:06

Bonus tracks on 1996 CD reissue:

  2. "You Don't Know Me" (Cindy Walker, Eddy Arnold) – 2:44
  3. "Not One Tear" (Johnny Bell) – 3:03
  4. "I Hear" (Irvin Duke) – 3:37
  5. "Time After Time" (Jule Styne, Sammy Cahn) – 3:32
  6. "Everybody's Happy But Me" (Jeannie Cheatham, Mattie Fields) – 3:10
  7. "Jazz in My Soul" – 2:38

Personnel

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References

  1. ↑ Jazzdisco: Blue Note Records Catalog: Vocal 9000 series (12 inch LP) accessed December 10, 2018
  2. ↑ Ike Quebec discography accessed December 10, 2018
  3. ↑ Jazzdisco: Dodo Greene Discography accessed December 10, 2018
  4. ↑ Yanow, Scott. Dodo Greene: My Hour of Need – Review at AllMusic . Retrieved December 10, 2018.
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