Scotch & Soul

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Scotch & Soul
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Studio album by
Released1966
RecordedApril 6 & 29, 1966
New York City
Genre Jazz
Label Atlantic
SD 3006
Producer Joel Dorn
Rufus Harley chronology
Bagpipe Blues
(1965)
Scotch & Soul
(1966)
A Tribute to Courage
(1968)

Scotch & Soul is the second album by piper and saxophonist Rufus Harley recorded in 1966 and released on the Atlantic label. [1]

Contents

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
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Allmusic awarded the album 4½ stars stating "The bagpipes tend to be a drone instrument and Harley cannot surmount the problem of cutting off notes quickly, but he plays his main instrument as well as anyone and is thus far the only jazz bagpipe player". [2]

Track listing

All compositions by Rufus Harley except as indicated

  1. "Feeling Good" (Leslie Bricusse, Anthony Newley) – 7:22
  2. "If You Could See Me Now" (Tadd Dameron, Carl Sigman) – 6:13
  3. "Taurus the 20th" – 6:56
  4. "Scotch & Soul" – 5:09
  5. "Passing the Cup" – 4:02
  6. "A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square" (Eric Maschwitz, Manning Sherwin) – 5:01
  7. "Sufur" – 4:48

Personnel

Technical

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References

  1. Atlantic Records Catalog: 8800, 3000 series accessed October 8, 2015
  2. 1 2 Yanow, Scott. Scotch & Soul – Review at AllMusic . Retrieved October 8, 2015.