Soul Food (Bobby Timmons album)

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Soul Food
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Studio album by Bobby Timmons
Released 1966
Recorded September 30 & October 14, 1966
Studio Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ
Genre Jazz
Length38:49
Label Prestige
Producer Orrin Keepnews
Bobby Timmons chronology
The Soul Man!
(1966) The Soul Man!1966		Soul Food
(1966)		 Got to Get It!
(1967) Got to Get It!1967

Soul Food is an album by American jazz pianist Bobby Timmons recorded in 1966 and released on the Prestige label. [1]

Bobby Timmons American pianist

Robert Henry Timmons was an American jazz pianist and composer. He was a sideman in Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers for two periods, between which he was part of Cannonball Adderley's band. Several of Timmons' compositions written when part of these bands – including "Moanin'", "Dat Dere", and "This Here" – enjoyed commercial success and brought him more attention. In the early and mid-1960s he led a series of piano trios that toured and recorded extensively.

Prestige Records American jazz record label

Prestige Records is a jazz record company and label founded in 1949 by Bob Weinstock in New York City. The company recorded hundreds of albums by many of the leading jazz musicians of the day, sometimes issuing them under subsidiaries. In 1971, the company was sold to Fantasy, which was later absorbed by Concord.

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Reception

The Allmusic review awarded the album 3 stars. [2]

Professional ratings
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Track listing

All compositions by Bobby Timmons except as noted

  1. "Souce Meat" - 4:06
  2. "Turkey Wings" - 5:35
  3. "Cracklin' Bread" - 4:55
  4. "Make Someone Happy" (Betty Comden, Adolph Green, Jule Styne) - 6:33
  5. "Giblets" - 6:11
  6. "Angel Eyes" (Earl Brent, Matt Dennis) - 5:44
  7. "Stolen Sweets" (Wild Bill Davis, Dickie Thompson) - 5:45
  • Recorded at Rudy Van Gelder Studio in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey on September 30 (tracks 2, 3, 5 & 6) and October 14 (tracks 1, 4 & 7), 1966.

Personnel

Piano musical instrument

The piano is an acoustic, stringed musical instrument invented in Italy by Bartolomeo Cristofori around the year 1700, in which the strings are struck by hammers. It is played using a keyboard, which is a row of keys that the performer presses down or strikes with the fingers and thumbs of both hands to cause the hammers to strike the strings.

Mickey Bass is an American bassist, composer, arranger, and music educator. He was born Lee Odiss Bass III. He has played with Chico Freeman, John Hicks, and Kiane Zawadi.

Double bass Acoustic stringed instrument of the violin family

The double bass, or simply the bass, is the largest and lowest-pitched bowed string instrument in the modern symphony orchestra.

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References

  1. ↑ Bobby Timmons discography, accessed February 18, 2011
  2. 1 2 Allmusic Review, accessed February 18, 2011
  3. ↑ Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 191. ISBN   0-394-72643-X.
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