| Old Feeling | ||||
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| Studio album by | ||||
| Released | 1991 | |||
| Studio | Clinton Recording | |||
| Genre | Jazz | |||
| Label | Somethin' Else/Blue Note | |||
| Producer | Kazunori Sugiyama | |||
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Old Feeling is an album by the American musician George Adams. [1] [2] It was released by Somethin' Else and Blue Note Records. [3] [4] Adams played the tenor sax; he also sang on some tracks. [2] [5]
The album was produced by Kazunori Sugiyama. [6] It contains versions of Charles Mingus's "Better Git Hit in Yo' Soul" and Billy Joel's "Just the Way You Are". [7] Jean-Paul Bourelly played guitar on Old Feeling; Hannibal Marvin Peterson played trumpet. [8] [9]
| Review scores | |
|---|---|
| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [10] |
| The Buffalo News |  [8] |
| The Encyclopedia of Popular Music | [5] |
| The Indianapolis Star | [11] |
| MusicHound Jazz: The Essential Album Guide | [12] |
The Chicago Tribune wrote that "a rollicking, raucous spirit energizes this recording." [13] The Toronto Star deemed the album "a rough-and-tumble vintage blast." [7] The Lawrence Journal-World admired the opening track, writing that "Adams wails with a manic spark oscillating somewhere between James Brown r&b and the 'free thing' explosiveness of the 1960s black, avant garde." [3]
The Indianapolis Star stated: "A lapse of intensity comes with the finale, Billy Joel's 'Just the Way You Are', which reverses another cliche—that good jazzmen always redeem cheap tunes." [11] The Buffalo News called Old Feeling "one of the great jazz albums of the year," and praised Adams's "marvelously outsized, earthy gestures." [8] USA Today labeled the band "wild, woolly, roaring, precise, funny, sometimes quite tender and always on fire, no matter the tempo." [14]
AllMusic noted that, "unlike some other avant-gardists who seem to lose their personality and purpose when they play standard material, Adams turns even overplayed songs into his own inventive devices." [10] MusicHound Jazz: The Essential Album Guide considered the album "delightfully strange but potent." [12]
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Better Git Hit in Yo' Soul" | |
| 2. | "That Old Feeling" | |
| 3. | "The Wanderer" | |
| 4. | "As Time Goes By" | |
| 5. | "Melody for Monet" | |
| 6. | "The Cry" | |
| 7. | "Teamwork" | |
| 8. | "Just the Way You Are" |
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