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Help Me Make It Through the Night (Hank Crawford album)

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Released
  
1972

Artist
  
Hank Crawford

Producer
  
Creed Taylor

Genre
  
Jazz

Length
  
33:02

Release date
  
1972

Label
  
CTI Records

Recorded
  
August 1971 and January 1972 at Van Gelder Studio in Englewood Cliffs, NJ

Help Me Make It Through the Night (1972)
  
We Got a Good Thing Going (1972)

Similar
  
Hank Crawford albums, Jazz albums

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Help Me Make It Through the Night is the twelfth album led by saxophonist Hank Crawford and his first released on the Kudu label in 1972.

Contents

Reception

AllMusic awarded the album 4 stars stating "This 1972 set by Crawford is an exemplary portrait of his movin' and groovin' style".

Track listing

  1. "Help Me Make It Through the Night" (Kris Kristofferson) - 5:40
  2. "Brian's Song" (Michel Legrand) - 3:25
  3. "Uncle Funky" (Hank Crawford) - 5:32
  4. "In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning" (John Moon Elliott, Inez James) - 2:48
  5. "Go Away Little Girl" (Gerry Goffin, Carole King) - 4:20
  6. "Imagine" (John Lennon) - 4:05
  7. "Ham" (Pee Wee Ellis) - 3:07
  8. "The Sun Died" (Hubert Giraud, Pierre Delanoë, Ray Charles, Ann Gregory) - 4:05

Personnel

  • Hank Crawford - alto saxophone
  • Al DeRisi, Snooky Young - trumpet (track 7)
  • Wayne Andre - trombone (track 7)
  • Grover Washington, Jr. - tenor saxophone (track 7)
  • Pepper Adams - baritone saxophone (track 7)
  • Richard Tee - piano, electric piano, organ
  • Cornell Dupree (tracks 1-6 & 8), Eric Gale (track 7) - electric guitar
  • Ron Carter - bass, electric bass
  • Phil Kraus - vibraphone (tracks 1, 4 & 5)
  • Idris Muhammad (track 7), Bernard Purdie (tracks 1-6 & 8) - drums
  • Airto Moreira - percussion (track 7)
  • Bernard Eichen, Felix Giglio, Emanuel Green, Harold Kohon, Harry Lookofsky, Joe Malin, Gene Orloff, Max Polikoff, Rlliot Rosoff - violin (tracks 1-6 & 8)
  • Alfred Brown, Theodore Israel, Emanuel Vardi - viola (tracks 1-6 & 8)
  • Charles McCracken, George Ricci - cello (tracks 1-6 & 8)
  • Pee Wee Ellis (track 7), Don Sebesky (tracks 1-6 & 8) - arranger, conductor

    • References

    Help Me Make It Through the Night (Hank Crawford album) Wikipedia
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