You Ought to Think About Me
1990 studio album by Jimmy McGriff
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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 | ||||
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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
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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
- "The Way You Look Tonight" (Jerome Kern, Dorothy Fields) – 6:01
- "You Ought to Think About Me" – 4:15
- "America the Beautiful" (Samuel A. Ward, Katharine Lee Bates) – 3:13
- "One O'Clock/C-Jam" (Count Basie/Duke Ellington) – 7:11
- "Over the Rainbow" (Harold Arlen, Yip Harburg) – 5:13
- "Ain't No Mountain High Enough" (Nickolas Ashford, Valerie Simpson) – 3:54
- "McGriff's Blues" (Rodney Jones) – 4:44
- "One Minute 'Til Six" (Bill Easley) – 8:56
- "Evita" – 5:17
- "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
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- t
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- The Big Band (1966)
- A Bag Full of Soul (1966)
- Cherry (1966)
- A Bag Full of Blues (1967)
- I've Got a New Woman (1967)
- Honey (1968)
- The Worm (1968)
- Step 1 (1969)
- A Thing to Come By (1969)
- The Way You Look Tonight (1969)
- Electric Funk (1970)
- The Dudes Doin' Business (1970)
- Soul Sugar (1970)
- Something to Listen To (1971)
- Groove Grease (1971)
- Let's Stay Together (1972)
- Fly Dude (1972)
- Giants of the Organ Come Together (1973)
- The Main Squeeze (1974)
- Stump Juice (1975)
- The Mean Machine (1976)
- Red Beans (1976)
- Tailgunner (1977)
- City Lights (1981)
- Movin' Upside the Blues (1982)
- The Groover (1982)
- Countdown (1983)
- Skywalk (1984)
- State of the Art (1985)
- Soul Survivors (1986)
- The Starting Five (1987)
- Steppin' Up (1987)
- Blue to the 'Bone (1988)
- On the Blue Side (1990)
- You Ought to Think About Me (1990)
- The Dream Team (1997)
- Road Tested (1997)
- Straight Up (1998)
- Crunch Time (1999)
- McGriff's House Party (2000)
- Feelin' It (2001)
- McGriff Avenue (2002)
- Black Pearl (1971)
- Concert: Friday the 13th – Cook County Jail (1973)
- Giants of the Organ in Concert (1973)