Got to Get It! explained

Got to Get It!
Type:	Album
Artist:	Bobby Timmons
Cover:	Got to Get It!.jpg
Released:	1967
Recorded:	November 20 & 21 and December 4, 1967
Genre:	Jazz
Length:	37:32
Label:	Milestone
Chronology:	Bobby Timmons
Prev Title:	Soul Food
Prev Year:	1966
Next Title:	Do You Know the Way?
Next Year:	1968

Got to Get It! is an album by American jazz pianist Bobby Timmons recorded in 1967 and released on the Milestone label.^[1]

Reception

The Allmusic review by Jason Ankeny awarded the album 3 stars stating "Purists may blanch, but Bobby Timmons' Milestone label debut Got to Get It! is an otherwise incendiary soul-jazz date informed by an irresistible freewheeling wit, absent from the pianist's more conventionally noteworthy efforts".^[2]

Track listing

All compositions by Bobby Timmons except as indicated

1. "If You Ain't Got It (I Got to Get It Somewhere)" (Tom McIntosh) - 3:14
2. "Up, Up and Away" (Jimmy Webb) - 4:06
3. "Travelin' Light" (Jimmy Mundy, Trummy Young, Johnny Mercer) - 5:06
4. "Come Sunday" (Duke Ellington) - 3:02
5. "One Down" - 4:42
6. "So Tired" - 2:54
7. "Here's That Rainy Day" (Johnny Burke, Jimmy Van Heusen) - 3:22
8. "Straight, No Chaser" (Thelonious Monk) - 6:04
9. "Booker's Bossa" (Walter Booker, Cedar Walton) - 5:02

• Recorded at Plaza Sound Studios, New York City on November 20 (tracks 1, 4 & 6), November 21 (tracks 2 & 8), and December 4 (tracks 3, 5, 7 & 9), 1967.

Personnel

• • Bobby Timmons - piano Jimmy Owens - trumpet, flugelhorn (tracks 1, 2, 4, 6 & 8)
• Hubert Laws - flute (tracks 1, 2, 4, 6 & 8)
• Joe Farrell, James Moody - flute, tenor saxophone (tracks 1, 2, 4, 6 & 8)
  • George Barrow - baritone saxophone Joe Beck (tracks 3, 5, 7 & 9), Howard Collins (tracks 2 & 8), Eric Gale (tracks 1, 4 & 6) - guitar
  • Ron Carter - bass Jimmy Cobb (tracks 2, 3, 5 & 7-9), Billy Higgins (tracks 1, 4 & 6) - drums
• Tom McIntosh - arranger, conductor (tracks 1, 2, 4, 6 & 8)
• Unidentified voices (tracks 1, 4 & 6)

Notes and References

1. http://www.jazzdisco.org/bobby-timmons/catalog/#milestone-msp-9011 Bobby Timmons discography
2. Ankeny, J. Allmusic Review accessed February 18, 2011