You Ought to Think About Me explained

You Ought to Think About Me
Type:	Album
Artist:	Jimmy McGriff
Cover:	You Ought to Think About Me.jpg
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
Chronology:	Jimmy McGriff
Prev Title:	On the Blue Side
Prev Year:	1989
Next Title:	In a Blue Mood
Next Year:	1991

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

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".

Track listing

All compositions by Jimmy McGriff except where noted

1. "The Way You Look Tonight" (Jerome Kern, Dorothy Fields) – 6:01
2. "You Ought to Think About Me" – 4:15
3. "America the Beautiful" (Samuel A. Ward, Katharine Lee Bates) – 3:13
4. "One O'Clock/C-Jam" (Count Basie/Duke Ellington) – 7:11
5. "Over the Rainbow" (Harold Arlen, Yip Harburg) – 5:13
6. "Ain't No Mountain High Enough" (Nickolas Ashford, Valerie Simpson) – 3:54
7. "McGriff's Blues" (Rodney Jones) – 4:44
8. "One Minute 'Til Six" (Bill Easley) – 8:56
9. "Evita" – 5:17
10. "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

Notes and References

1. Payne, D. Jimmy McGriff Discography, accessed October 22, 2018
2. http://www.jazzlists.com/jz/You_Ought_To_Think_About_Me.htm Jazzlists: album info