Down_Home_(Sam_Jones_album)

<i>Down Home</i> (Sam Jones album)

Down Home (Sam Jones album)

1962 studio album by Sam Jones

Down Home is the third album by the double bass player and cellist Sam Jones, recorded in 1962 and released on the Riverside label.[1][2]

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Reception

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Scott Yanow of AllMusic wrote: "This is excellent hard bop-based music."[3] The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings wrote that Jones "improvises against the grain of the orchestra to telling effect."[5] Billboard called the album "a fine showcase for Jones."[6]

Track listing

All compositions by Sam Jones except as indicated

  1. "Unit 7" - 4:49
  2. "Come Rain or Come Shine" (Harold Arlen, Johnny Mercer) - 4:05
  3. "'Round Midnight" (Thelonious Monk) - 5:31
  4. "O.P." - 5:07
  5. "Thumbstring" (Ray Brown) - 4:31
  6. "Down Home" - 4:08
  7. "Strollin'" (Horace Silver) - 4:12
  8. "Falling in Love With Love" (Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers) - 7:03

Personnel

References

  1. [1]
    Riverside Records discography. Retrieved September 17, 2012
  2. [2]
    Larkin, Colin (2006). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Vol. 4. MUZE. p. 696.
  3. [3]
    Yanow, S. AllMusic review.Retrieved September 17, 2012
  4. [4]
    Down Beat, March 28, 1963 vol. 30, no. 8
  5. [5]
    The Penguin Guide To Jazz Recordings (Ninth ed.). Penguin Books. 2008. pp. 798–799.
  6. [6]
    "Jazz LP'S". Billboard: 26. December 8, 1962.
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