These Blues of Mine

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These Blues of Mine
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Studio album by
Released1967
RecordedSeptember 21 & 25, 1967
Studio Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey
Genre Jazz
Length39:11
Label Prestige
PR 7538
Producer Cal Lampley
Trudy Pitts chronology
Introducing the Fabulous Trudy Pitts
(1967)
These Blues of Mine
(1967)
A Bucketful of Soul
(1968)

These Blues of Mine is the second album by jazz organist Trudy Pitts, recorded in 1967 and released on the Prestige label. [1]

Contents

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
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Allmusic awarded the album 3 stars stating "Better than expected soul-jazz interpretations of contemporary rock and pop songs stand alongside jazz originals... It works best when they cut to straight, burning soul-jazz groovers". [2]

Track listing

All compositions by Bill Carney except as noted

  1. "Organology" - 4:00
  2. "The House of the Rising Sun" (Traditional) - 3:39
  3. "Just Us Two" - 5:05
  4. "Eleanor Rigby" (John Lennon, Paul McCartney) - 2:51
  5. "Count Nine" (Trudy Pitts) - 4:15
  6. "Man and a Woman" (Chuck Calhoun) - 4:20
  7. "A Whiter Shade of Pale" (Gary Brooker, Keith Reid, Matthew Fisher) - 3:10
  8. "Teddy Makes Three" - 3:03
  9. "These Blues of Mine" (Bill Carney, Sonny Truitt) - 5:25
  10. "What the World Needs Now" (Burt Bacharach, Hal David) - 3:23

Personnel

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References

  1. Prestige Records discography accessed May 8, 2013
  2. 1 2 Unterberger, R. Allmusic listing accessed May 8, 2013