Rarity - Sealed
Guitar – Boogaloo Joe Jones
Drums – Bernard Purdie
Electric Bass – Jimmy Lewis
Organ, Electric Piano – Sonny Phillips
Tenor Saxophone – Grover Washington, Jr.
Organ – Butch Cornell (B1, B3)
Written by Jones (A1, B3), Lewis (A2), Carmichael (A3), Gorrell (A3), Cornell (B1), Gordy (B2), West (B2), Davis (B2), Hutch (B2)
1LP, standard sleeve
Limited Edition
Original analog Master tape : YES
Heavy Press : 180g
Record color : black
Speed : 33 RPM
Size : 12'’
Stereo
Studio
Record Press : GZ Media
Label : VMP- Vinyl Me Please Classics series
Original Label : Prestige
Recorded November 23, 1970 at Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey
Recorded by Rudy Van Gelder
Produced by Bob Porter
Lacquer cut by Ryan Smith at Sterling Sound
Plated at Record Technology Incorporated
Originally released in 1971
Reissued in 2022
Tracks:
Side A
- No Way
- If You Were Mine
- Georgia On My Mind
Side B
- Sunshine Alley
- I'll Be There
- Holdin' Back
Review :
« Grover Washington, Jr. (tenor sax) and Bernard Purdie (drums) are the key accompanists on a set of pretty funky early-'70s soul-jazz. The covers of fairly straight pop numbers ("Georgia on My Mind," the Jackson 5's "I'll Be There") are kind of undistinguished. Better are the originals "No Way" and "Holdin' Back" (by Jones) and "Sunshine Alley" (by organist Butch Cornell), which have a more convincing groove. "No Way" is the toughest, with funk guitar lines betraying some influence from James Brown; "Holdin' Back" sounds a bit like a jazzy instrumental treatment of the kind of songs Marvin Gaye used to record in his early Motown days. » AllMusic Review by Richie Unterberger
Ratings :
AllMusic : 3 / 5 ; Discogs : 4.47 / 5