Bobby Timmons - Sweet & Soulful Sounds / Born To Be Blue

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Bobby Timmons - Sweet & Soulful Sounds/Born To Be Blue [2012]
Original Release / Universal Music Classics & Jazz / 06007 5340499 / CD

CD (Item 635848) Riverside/Universal (Germany), 1962/1963
Remastered by Arnold Kasar (Eastside Mastering Studios Berlin)

Pure piano magic from Bobby Timmons – a pair of great albums from his years at Riverside Records! First up is Sweet & Soulful Sounds – a wonderful mellow trio session from Bobby – done with a spare, relaxed approach that's a nice contrast to the recordings he was making for Prestige around the same time – but which still has the same deep, soulful approach to the piano that makes those records so great! Half a dozen trio numbers with Sam Jones and Roy McCurdy are rounded out with two piano solos, "God Bless The Child" and "Spring Can Really Hang You Up The Most" – both of which present Bobby in an especially introspective mode, one you don't hear that often on record! Remaining trio tunes include "The Sweetest Sounds", "Turn Left", "You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To", "Another Live One", "Alone Together", and "Why Was I Born". Born To Be Blue is one of Bobby Timmons' most obscure trio sessions from the early years – recorded at the tail end of the Riverside years, which is probably why the album disappeared so quickly! The set's in a similar format to some of Bobby's other records for Riverside – a trio set with either Sam Jones or Ron Carter on bass, and Connie Kay on drums – but it's different in that Bobby's a bit more introspective – "blue", if you will – working in less of the gutbucket soul jazz mode than before, and really hitting some lyrical magic on the keys! The album includes the original tunes "Know Not One", "Often Annie", and "The Sit In" – plus a great reading of Tom McIntosh's "With Malice Towards None". © 1996-2013, Dusty Groove, Inc.


1.The Sweetest Sounds (Sweet & Soulful Sounds)
2.Turn Left (Sweet & Soulful Sounds)
3.God Bless The Child (Sweet & Soulful Sounds)
4.You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To (Sweet & Soulful Sounds)
5.Another Live One (Sweet & Soulful Sounds)
6.Alone Together (Sweet & Soulful Sounds)
7.Spring Can Really Hang You Up The Most (Sweet & Soulful Sounds)
8.Why Was I Born? (Sweet & Soulful Sounds)
9.Born To Be Blue (Born To Be Blue)
10.Malice Towards None (Born To Be Blue)
11.Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child (Born To Be Blue)
12.Know Not One (Born To Be Blue)
13.The Sit-In (Born To Be Blue)
14.Namely You (Born To Be Blue)
15.Often Annie (Born To Be Blue)