| Money in the Pocket | |
| Type: | Studio |
| Artist: | Joe Zawinul |
| Cover: | Money in the Pocket (Joe Zawinul album).jpg |
| Released: | April 1966 |
| Recorded: | February 7, 1966 |
| Studio: | Atlantic Studios, NYC |
| Genre: | Jazz |
| Length: | 38:33 |
| Label: | Atlantic SD 3004 |
| Producer: | Joel Dorn |
| Chronology: | Joe Zawinul |
| Prev Title: | Soulmates |
| Prev Year: | 1963 |
| Next Title: | The Rise and Fall of the Third Stream |
| Next Year: | 1968 |
Money in the Pocket is the debut studio album led by jazz fusion keyboardist Joe Zawinul released on the Atlantic label in 1966.[1]
The Allmusic review awarded the album 3 stars.[2] All About Jazz awarded the album 3½ stars, stating, "Money In The Pocket is a remarkable album—remarkable in that 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".[3] The Guardians John Fordham noted, "this session reflects the driving grooves of that popular soul-jazz style – so there are a lot of backbeats, repeating riffs, horn-harmony wailing and stagey stop-time breaks".[4]
All compositions by Joe Zawinul except as indicated