You Ought to Think About Me
| You Ought to Think About Me | ||||
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| Studio album by | ||||
| 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
| Review scores | |
|---|---|
| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic |    [3] |
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
- ^ Payne, D. Jimmy McGriff Discography, accessed October 22, 2018
- ^ Jazzlists: album info, accessed October 22, 2018
- ^ a b Yanow, Scott. Jimmy McGriff: You Ought to Think About Me – Review at AllMusic. Retrieved October 22, 2018.