🎷 AotW: Kudu Johnny Hammond: Wild Horses Rock Steady (Kudu Records KU-04)

Johnny Hammond: Wild Horses Rock Steady

Kudu Records KU-04
Released 1972

• A1 - Rock Steady 6:55
• A2 - Who Is Sylvia? 7:27
• A3 - Peace Train 4:28
• B1 - I Don't Know How To Love Him 7:30
• B2 - It's Impossible 5:25
• B3 - Wild Horses 6:20

Arranged By, Conductor – Bob James
Bass – Ron Carter
Drums – Billy Cobham (A2, A3, B1-B3), Bernard Purdie (A1)
Engineer – Rudy Van Gelder
Guitar – Bob Mann, Eric Gale, George Benson, Melvin Sparks
Organ, Electric Piano – Johnny Hammond
Percussion – Airto Moreira, Omar Clay
Producer – Creed Taylor
Saxophone [Alto, Tenor] – Grover Washington, Jr., Harold Vick
Saxophone [Baritone] – Pepper Adams
Trombone – Wayne Andre
Trumpet, Flugelhorn – Al DeRisi, Snooky Young
Violin – Emanuel Green, Gene Orloff, Harry Katzman, Joe Malin, Julius Brand, Julius Held, Max Pollikoff, Paul Gershman

Recorded at Van Gelder Studios, October, November, 1971


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[JOv2]

Oh, yes, we're definitely moving deeper into the early '70s on this one. The LP is OK, but it's moving away from those musical elements that make it for me. I'll take Breakout in a heartbeat over this follow-up.

 

[Rudy]

That is true of many of the Kudu albums--they drift further into soul and funk and sometimes don't resemble Creed Taylor's style all that much. But it's probably a means of distancing the styles of the two labels from each other.

A few core CTI musicians appear on the Kudu albums (like Ron Carter and Airto) but later on, there are regulars for each label.

 

[JOv2]

Thanks to Rudy's AotW, I now have these gems. The 2-fers are all '60s Riverside or Prestige -- need to get the goods on this guy: man, is he on it! By the way, these were all SS and all for about $15 a throw.

 

[Rudy]

Good score!

I've discovered a lot by doing these AotWs. Some of them? But others are albums I wish I had found decades ago.