🎷 AotW: Kudu Grover Washington, Jr.: All the King's Horses (Kudu Records KU-07)

Grover Washington, Jr.: All the King's Horses

Kudu Records KU-07
Released 1972

• A1 - No Tears, In The End 3:50
• A2 - All The King's Horses 3:43
• A3 - Where Is The Love 5:10
• A4 - Body And Soul (Montage) 3:02
• B1 - Lean On Me 4:23
• B2 - Lover Man 6:55
• B3 - Love Song 1700 4:50

Alto Saxophone, Flute, English Horn, Oboe, Recorder – George Marge
Arranged By, Conductor – Bob James
Baritone Saxophone – Pepper Adams
Baritone Saxophone, Flute – Arthur Clarke
Bass – Ron Carter, Gordon Edwards (track A1 only)
Cello – Charles McCracken, George Ricci
Congas – Ralph MacDonald
Design [Album] – Bob Ciano
Drums – Bernard Purdie (tracks A1-A3, B1) / Billy Cobham (tracks A4, B2-B3)
Electric Piano, Harpsichord – Bob James
Engineer – Rudy Van Gelder
Flute – Arthur Clarke
French Horn – Brooks Tillotson, Donald Corrado, Fred Klein, Ray Alonge
Guitar – Cornell Dupree, David Spinozza, Eric Gale (tracks: A1 to B1, B3), Gene Bertoncini
Harp – Margaret Ross
Organ – Richard Tee
Percussion – Airto*
Photography By [Album] – Pete Turner (4)
Producer – Creed Taylor
Tenor Saxophone, Alto Saxophone – Grover Washington, Jr.
Trombone – Paul Faulise, Tony Studd, Wayne Andre
Trumpet, Flugelhorn – Alan Rubin, Ernie Royal, John Frosk, Marky Markowitz, Marvin Stamm, Snooky Young
Viola – Emanuel Vardi, Richard Dickler
Violin – Alexander Cores*, Bernard Eichen, David Nadien, Emanuel Green, Gene Orloff, Harold Kohon, Harry Lookofsky, Irving Spice, Joe Malin, John Pintaualle*, Max Ellen, Paul Gershman

Recorded at Van Gelder Studios in May & June 1972.



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[Rudy]

This one is a decent album, but not as adventurous as a couple of his upcoming Kudu sets. On this one, it's more like a rundown of current hits or well-known melodies, with Washington allowed a little room for stretching out. This album is definitely more planted in soul than jazz, and in all it's not a bad debut the label. I like his treatments of "Lean on Me," "Body and Soul (Montage)" and "Lover Man" here.

 

[JOv2]

Definitely more pop than a jazz -- and this is in keeping with some of what Creed was doing with Wes, Cal, Kai, et al back at Verve. It's just that 1972 is musically a much different world than 1965 so, it's not for my ears. In any event, it's surely well played and produced, I just wish the soloist would just make more of it, you know? (Yes, but perhaps that's not the point. After all, not everyone's LP is gonna come off like Lee Morgan or Hank Mobley.)

 

[Rudy]

I agree--I like Grover's playing, but his approach is different in style and more soul- or pop-oriented than others, especially on this record. This album is unlike some of his others, like Soul Box (coming up in I think four or five weeks) where seven songs stretch across two full LPs, and he has more room to stretch. He's also the soloist on "Stand" from the Lonnie Smith Mama Wailer album.

 

[JOv2]

He's also the soloist on "Stand" from the Lonnie Smith Mama Wailer album.

Yeah, I like what Grover's up to there.