Joe Zawinul • Money In The Pocket

 

Review from All About Jazz (by Chris May):
Recorded in late 1965, while keyboard player Joe Zawinul was still a member of saxophonist Cannonball Adderley's band, Money In The Pocket is a remarkable album -- remarkable in that it gives absolutely no hint of the shape shifts that would transform Zawinul's work a few years later. The first of three albums he recorded for Atlantic, it's a conventional mix of mid-1960s hard bop and soul jazz. "Money In The Pocket" itself, one of three Zawinul originals, made with tenor saxophonist Clifford Jordan and trumpeter Blue Mitchell, is classic Blue Note hard bop in everything but record label. Four other tracks recorded with a three-horn frontline -- tenor saxophonist Joe Henderson, baritone saxophonist Pepper Adams and Mitchell, with bassist Sam Jones and drummer Louis Hayes from the Adderley band -- take in bop and soul jazz. Jones' "Some More Of Dat" is a dead ringer for contemporaneous Adderley or pianist Horace Silver. All these tracks are good, but even by the standards of the time they are pretty ordinary. Zawinul's modal-flavored "Riverbed," though hardly radical, is the disc's most singular composition. There are, however, two ballad readings of note: "My One And Only Love" performed solo by Zawinul, and "Sharon's Waltz" with Jones and Hayes -- lyrical and just the right side of rococo, Zawinul's solos are delightful. Reissued as part of Warner Jazz's Atlantic Masters series, it isn't to be confused with the Adderley band's album of the same title.
https://www.allaboutjazz.com/money-in-the-pocket-joe-zawinul-review-by-chris-may

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Resena de All About Jazz (por Chris May):
Grabado a fines de 1965, mientras el pianista Joe Zawinul era todavia miembro del grupo del saxofonista Cannonball Adderley, Money In The Pocket es un album notable -- notable porque no da absolutamente ninguna pista de las transformaciones que cambiarian el trabajo de Zawinul pocos anos despues. El primero de tres albums que grabo para Atlantic, es una mezcla convencional de hard bop y soul jazz de mediados de los sesenta. El propio "Money In The Pocket", uno de los tres originales de Zawinul, realizado con el saxofonista tenor Clifford Jordan y el trompetista Blue Mitchell, es hard bop clasico al estilo Blue Note en todo menos en el sello discografico. Cuatro tracks mas grabados con una primera linea de tres cuernos -- el saxofonista tenor Joe Henderson, el saxofonista baritono Pepper Adams y Mitchell, con el bajista Sam Jones y el baterista Louis Hayes de la banda de Adderley -- transitan por el bop y el soul jazz. "Some More Of Dat" de Jones es casi indistinguible del Adderley o el pianista Horace Silver contemporaneos. Todos estos temas son buenos, aunque incluso para los estandares de la epoca resultan bastante ordinarios. El "Riverbed" de Zawinul, con sabor modal aunque no especialmente radical, es la composicion mas singular del disco. Sin embargo, hay dos lecturas de baladas notables: "My One And Only Love" interpretada en solitario por Zawinul, y "Sharon's Waltz" con Jones y Hayes -- liricas y justas en su preciosismo, las improvisaciones de Zawinul son deliciosas. Reeditado como parte de la serie Atlantic Masters de Warner Jazz, no debe confundirse con el album homonimo de la banda de Adderley.
https://www.allaboutjazz.com/money-in-the-pocket-joe-zawinul-review-by-chris-may

Tracks:
1 - Money In The Pocket
2 - If
3 - My One And Only Love
4 - Midnight Mood
5 - Some More Of Dat
6 - Sharon's Waltz
7 - Riverbed
8 - Del Sasser


Credits:
Tracks 1 (Money In The Pocket):
Joe Zawinul - Piano
Blue Mitchell - Trumpet
Clifford Jordan - Tenor Saxophone
Bob Cranshaw - Bass
Roy McCurdy - Drums

Tracks 2, 4, 5, 7 (If, Midnight Mood, Some More Of Dat, Riverbed):
Joe Zawinul - Piano
Blue Mitchell - Trumpet
Joe Henderson - Tenor Saxophone
Pepper Adams - Baritone Saxophone
Sam Jones - Bass
Louis Hayes - Drums

Track 3 (My One And Only Love):
Joe Zawinul - Piano (solo)

Tracks 6, 8 (Sharon's Waltz, Del Sasser):
Joe Zawinul - Piano
Sam Jones - Bass
Louis Hayes - Drums

Production:
Supervised by Joel Dorn
Engineered by Phil Iehle
Cover by Fuentes/McCann
Recorded late 1965

Label: Atlantic SD 3004
Country: US
Released: 1966
Genre: Jazz
Style: Hard Bop, Soul Jazz, Bop
Duration: 36:30

Sources:
https://www.allmusic.com/album/money-in-the-pocket-mw0000878968
https://www.allaboutjazz.com/money-in-the-pocket-joe-zawinul-review-by-chris-may
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Money_in_the_Pocket_(Joe_Zawinul_album)

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