Sweet and Soulful Sounds explained

Sweet and Soulful Sounds
Type:	Album
Artist:	Bobby Timmons
Cover:	Sweet and Soulful Sounds.jpg
Released:	1962
Recorded:	June 18 & 19, 1962
Genre:	Jazz
Length:	39:34
Label:	Riverside
Producer:	Orrin Keepnews
Chronology:	Bobby Timmons
Prev Title:	In Person
Prev Year:	1961
Next Title:	Born to Be Blue!
Next Year:	1963

Sweet and Soulful Sounds is an album by American jazz pianist Bobby Timmons recorded in 1962 and released on the Riverside label.^[1]

Reception

The AllMusic review by Stewart Mason awarded the album 4 stars stating: "Sweet and Soulful Sounds, from 1962, is a most atypical record for Bobby Timmons. Long thought of only as a funky piano player in the style that Ramsey Lewis would later make commercially successful, Timmons could also play prettily, as he does on this ballad-heavy set... This is an unusual record for Bobby Timmons, but a great one".^[2]

Track listing

All compositions by Bobby Timmons except as indicated

1. "The Sweetest Sounds" (Richard Rodgers) – 4:56
2. "Turn Left" – 5:26
3. "God Bless the Child" (Arthur Herzog, Jr., Billie Holiday) – 5:01
4. "You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To" (Cole Porter) – 4:35
5. "Another Live One" – 4:10
6. "Alone Together" (Howard Dietz, Arthur Schwartz) – 5:59
7. "Spring Can Really Hang You up the Most" (Fran Landesman, Tommy Wolf) – 3:38
8. "Why Was I Born?" (Oscar Hammerstein II, Jerome Kern) – 5:49

• Recorded at Plaza Sound Studio in New York City by Ray Fowler on June 18, 1962 (tracks 3, 4 & 7) and June 19, 1962 (tracks 1, 2, 5, 6 & 8).

Personnel

• • • Bobby Timmons – piano Sam Jones – bass Roy McCurdy – drums

Notes and References

1. http://www.jazzdisco.org/bobby-timmons/catalog/#riverside-rlp-422 Bobby Timmons discography
2. Mason, S. AllMusic Review accessed February 8, 2011