🎷 AotW: Kudu Esther Phillips: Alone Again, Naturally (Kudu Records KU-09)

Kudu Records Album of the Week
1673460259573.pngEsther Phillips: Alone Again, Naturally

Kudu Records KU-09
Released 1972
  • A1: Use Me /3:50
  • A2: I Don't Want To Do Wrong /4:15
  • A3: Let's Move & Groove /3:40
  • A4: Let Me In Your Life /3:35
  • A5: Cherry Red /4:30
  • B1: I've Never Found A Man (To Love Me Like You Do) /3:25
  • B2: Alone Again (Naturally) /3:21
  • B3: Do Right Woman, Do Right Man /3:25
  • B4: You & Me Together /3:18
  • B5: Georgia Rose /5:00
Alto Saxophone – Hank Crawford
Arranged By [String Arrangements] – Don Sebesky
Arranged By, Conductor – Pee Wee Ellis
Baritone Saxophone – Cecil Payne
Bass – Gordon Edwards, Ron Carter
Design [Album] – Bob Ciano
Drums – Bernard Purdie, Billy Cobham
Engineer [Recording] – Rudy Van Gelder
Guitar – Cornell Dupree, Eric Gale, George Benson
Lacquer Cut By – RVG*
Lead Vocals – Esther Phillips
Organ, Piano – Richard Tee
Percussion – Ralph MacDonald
Photography By – Mort Mace
Piano – Richard Wyands
Producer – Creed Taylor
Tenor Saxophone – Maceo Parker
Trombone – Sam Burtis
Trumpet, Flugelhorn – John Eckert, John Gatchell
Vocals – Carl Carldwell*, Lani Groves, Tasha Thomas

Recorded at Van Gelder Studios - July, September, October 1972.


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100% stylist. Another very competent singer with excellent command of her abilities, just not the sort of thing I'm into. On the other hand, I really liked the band -- particularly the guitar and organ. Given my druthers, I'd swap out Esther the orchestrations for a lead trombone!
 
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