You Ought to Think About Me

You Ought to Think About Me
Studio album by Jimmy McGriff
Released	1990
Recorded	March 1 and 2, 1990
Studio	Clinton Recording Studios, NYC
Genre	Jazz
Length	57:52
Label	Headfirst A 379-2
Producer	Bill Easley
Jimmy McGriff chronology
On the Blue Side (1989) You Ought to Think About Me (1990) In a Blue Mood (1991)

You Ought to Think About Me is an album by organist Jimmy McGriff recorded in 1990 and released on the Headfirst label. ^{[1] [2]}

Reception

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[3]

Allmusic's Scott Yanow said: "Although Jimmy McGriff temporarily switched labels from Milestone to Headfirst in 1990, his brand of swinging funk and blues-oriented jazz was virtually unchanged ... The results are predictably excellent". ^[3]

Track listing

All compositions by Jimmy McGriff except where noted

1. "The Way You Look Tonight" (Jerome Kern, Dorothy Fields) – 6:01
2. "You Ought to Think About Me" – 4:15
3. "America the Beautiful" (Samuel A. Ward, Katharine Lee Bates) – 3:13
4. "One O'Clock/C-Jam" (Count Basie/Duke Ellington) – 7:11
5. "Over the Rainbow" (Harold Arlen, Yip Harburg) – 5:13
6. "Ain't No Mountain High Enough" (Nickolas Ashford, Valerie Simpson) – 3:54
7. "McGriff's Blues" (Rodney Jones) – 4:44
8. "One Minute 'Til Six" (Bill Easley) – 8:56
9. "Evita" – 5:17
10. "Goin' Home" (Jones) – 9:10

Personnel

• Jimmy McGriff – Hammond/Goff organ, piano
• Stanton Davis – trumpet
• Dennis Wilson – trombone
• Bill Easley – alto saxophone, tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone
• Rodney Jones – guitar, Roland GR-50 strings, bass, effects
• David Jackson, Jr. – bass
• Bernard Purdie − drums

References

1. Payne, D. Jimmy McGriff Discography, accessed October 22, 2018
2. Jazzlists: album info, accessed October 22, 2018
3. Yanow, Scott. Jimmy McGriff: You Ought to Think About Me – Review at AllMusic . Retrieved October 22, 2018.