Shirley's Sounds

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Shirley's Sounds
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Studio album by
ReleasedEarly June 1961 [1]
RecordedMay 23, 1958 (#1–3, 5–7)
October 23, 1958 (#8)
Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack
April 8, 1960 (#4)
Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs
Genre Jazz
Label Prestige
PRLP 7195
Producer Bob Weinstock
Shirley Scott chronology
Misty
(1960)
Shirley's Sounds
(1961)
The Shirley Scott Trio
(1958–60)

Shirley's Sounds is a studio album by organist Shirley Scott recorded mainly in 1958 for Prestige but not released until 1961 as PRLP 7195. [2]

Contents

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [3]
DownBeat Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [4]

The contemporaneous DownBeat reviewer, Leonard Feather, praised the playing, while observing that there was little to distinguish the album from the large volume of other LPs by Hammond players. [4] The AllMusic review stated "it's superior early organ jazz, full-sounding but streamlined owing to the trio format". [3]

Track listing

  1. "It Could Happen to You" (Johnny Burke, Jimmy Van Heusen) - 4:32
  2. "Summertime" (George Gershwin, DuBose Heyward) - 4:00
  3. "There Will Never Be Another You" (Harry Warren, Mack Gordon) - 3:24
  4. "Bye Bye Blackbird" (Ray Henderson, Mort Dixon) - 6:38
  5. "S'Posin'" (Paul Denniker, Andy Razaf) - 4:20
  6. "Baby Won't You Please Come Home" (Charles Warfield, Clarence Williams) - 4:04
  7. "Indiana" (Ballard MacDonald, James F. Hanley) - 3:25
  8. "I Can't See for Lookin'" (Nadine Robinson, Dok Stanford) - 4:11

Personnel

References

  1. Billboard June 19, 1961
  2. SC discography
  3. 1 2 Unterberger, R. Allmusic Review accessed June 28, 2012
  4. 1 2 Feather, Leonard (August 17, 1961). "Shirley Scott: Shirley's Sounds". DownBeat . Vol. 28, no. 17. p. 34.