Total Response

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Total Response
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Studio album by
ReleasedApril 1972 [1]
RecordedNovember 15, 1970 (#1, 2, 6, 9)
January 29, 1971 (#3-5, 7, 8)
Studio Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ
Genre Jazz
Length40:47
Label Blue Note
BST 84368
Producer Francis Wolff, George Butler
Horace Silver chronology
That Healin' Feelin'
(1970)
Total Response
(1972)
All
(1972)
Professional ratings
Review scores
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Total Response (subtitled The United States of Mind Phase 2) is an album by jazz pianist Horace Silver released on the Blue Note label in 1972 featuring performances by Silver with Cecil Bridgewater, Harold Vick, Richie Resnicoff, Bob Cranshaw and Mickey Roker, with vocals by Salome Bey and Andy Bey. [3] In 2004, it was included as the second of a trilogy of albums compiled on CD as The United States of Mind . [4]

Contents

Reception

The Allmusic review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine awarded the album 2 stars, and called the album a "sprawling, incoherent, and just plain weird mess of funk, fusion, soul-jazz, African spirituality, and hippie mysticism". [5]

Track listing

All compositions by Horace Silver

  1. "Acid, Pot or Pills" - 4:26
  2. "What Kind of Animal Am I" - 3:38
  3. "Won't You Open up Your Senses" - 3:56
  4. "I've Had a Little Talk" - 3:46
  5. "Soul Searching" - 4:15
  6. "Big Business" - 5:22
  7. "I'm Aware of the Animals Within Me" - 3:45
  8. "Old Mother Nature Calls" - 6:17
  9. "Total Response" - 5:22

Personnel

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References

  1. Billboard Apr 29, 1972
  2. Allmusic Review
  3. Horace Silver discography accessed November 24, 2009.
  4. West, Michael J. (24 September 2021). "JazzTimes 10: Essential Horace Silver Recordings". JazzTimes. Retrieved 2022-03-14.
  5. Erlewine, S. T. Allmusic Review, accessed November 24, 2009.